The year is 1979. Arcades are consistently packed, electronic gaming as a pastime is more popular than its ever been, and with Pac-Man a year away from release, the medium rests on the verge of a cultural explosion. At this point, the Atari 2600 home video game console has been on the market in North … Continue reading Letter to an Easter Egg →

  Journey is not the best video game I've ever played. But it might be the most perfect.   If you're at all familiar with that game company, wryly named "ThatGameCompany", this probably isn't a controversial statement. The Santa Monica-based developer is like the Stanley Kubrick of the medium: a relatively modest-sized body of work, … Continue reading A Desert Flower →

There's any number of real-life archetypes of kids we've all known in school: the guy who was the class clown; the girl who was amazing at sports; the nerd, the bully, the cheerleader, the loner, etc. It's of course narrow-minded to view people purely through the lens of these labels, but no matter how concerted … Continue reading The Quintessential Video Game →

I have been considering starting a blog for quite a while. Though, as is often the case with any creative project, the question of where to actually begin has loomed over me for many months. Inspiration, however, can strike at any time it seems, and thus I finally have my first topic at hand: If … Continue reading Majora’s Mask: Ranking the Obtainable Masks →