Once upon a time, Tales from the Crypt was the scariest thing on TV, fake Alien Autopsies made for prime time and gaming consoles looked like this:
Not some overgrown iPod designed by the Stay Puft Marshamallow Man.
The days where wet dreams were laying in a pile of gray brick game cartridges are over. The time when getting close to the ground and blowing into your console fixed bugs have faded into the memories of the many 20-something year olds fapping to DOA 7: Beach Volley Ball Bikini Mud Wrestling Battle to the Death!
Nostalgia has a way of blurring the truth of the past. I had the unfortunate accident of replaying and old favorite: Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkatron! and realized it was the worst side-scroller ever made. This incident led to ask the most obvious questions of all:
Was Chrono Trigger really the best game ever made?
Was Secret of Mana really the best Multi-player RPG of its time?
So this is my mission statement boys and girls: to answer these questions for all those wondering if the golden years were really golden or some awful off-white color that matched the stains on their sheets during those tender years of discovery?
This will not be a game review blog! Yes games will be reviewed, but more importantly the foundations of our generation will be revisited!
Is it possible that this part of our RPG gaming souls is only warm and fuzzy because we wish it to be? Or is there real merit in these games that shaped our glorious e-peens into the MMORPG playing, Mountain Dew Drinking, Night-Elf fucking machines they are today?
We shall see!
