Another year is nearly at an end. This is the third anniversary (minus a day or two) of this site, and it was a good year for Video Games Are Rad; readership has doubled again for the third year straight, and I couldn’t be happier. In fact, the page views …
I haven’t posted any finds or additions to my collection recently, as I have been preoccupied with the 12 Days of Famicom series I ran through-out the last month, but I have been adding to the collection at a steady rate. This will probably be the last pick-up post of …
I am without a doubt a “retro” (for lack of a better term) game collector and player, but I do play some new games. I am especially fond of my PS3, PSP, and DS. I mostly play RPGs for these newer consoles, and I also write about them occasionally. I …
Similar to the Famicom Box (which is the original Japanese version of the famed Nintendo M82 system), the Super Famicom Box was a device manufactured by Nintendo of Japan in the early nineties for use in hotels. The device originally had a coin mechanism that could be attached to the …
Zelda: A Link to the Past Famicom is one of the most interesting Famicom pirates I have ever come across. It is certainly the most faithful to the game from which it borrows (ie: rips-off). You wouldn’t know to look at the anime-flavored artwork, but this is indeed a complete …
Look at all those Famicom games! My collection of Famicom games has blossomed to this beautiful array of radness from my initial 10 cart lot I bought around 3 years ago. Amongst this ocean of 60-pin carts are some of my most cherished components of my collection. Soem of my …
Co-developed by Nintendo, Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation, and released by Nintendo in June of 1984, Family BASIC was an early attempt by Nintendo to sway computer users over to their newly released console. Famicom BASIC was a programming platform for a version of the BASIC programming language branded HuBASIC …
Released for the Famicom on Christmas Eve 1988, five months after the Japanese release of the groundbreaking movie on which it’s based, Akira has garnered a distinct reputation in the ensuing years. That reputation, which suits no other game quite as well, is that it’s a really awesome game that …
When PCs become a popular gaming platforms in the mid 1980s, piracy was not far behind it. Copying a PC game in those early days was as easy as copying the contents off the disk onto another disk, whether that be the your hard drive, a 5.25″ floppy, or a …
Just after I started of Video Games Are Rad nearly 3 years ago, I posted scans of some of the promo posters that were included with my CIB Famicom Disk System. Those original Rapidshare files are long gone by now, but I still get requests from time to time from …