The year was 1993. I distinctly remember being in a local Zellers store and seeing a strange sight in the glass display case. It was familiar and completely alien all at the same time. The design queues and packaging matched my oh so familiar Nintendo Action Set I had received five …
Of every video game console I have ever own or played, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is my absolute favorite, and with good reason. The SNES has multiple-dozens of fantastic and innovative games, many of which are still referenced even today in best-of lists and retro sections of video game …
There are very few games were I actually go out of my way to purchase toys or figurines; the only other toys/figurines/action figures that I own are Final Fantasy related. That I am a huge Persona fan is no secret, so when I saw this amazing little Teddie (Kuma, in Japan) …
This weekend is Thanksgiving, and unlike our American friends to the south we Canadians don’t put nearly the same emphasis on the holiday. We also celebrate it a month earlier, but that’s beside the point. Sure, on Thanksgiving we still get together with our families and eat Turkey, cranberry sauce …
Fear not, Video Games Are Rad is still very much alive. As is the usual routine, I took most of August and September off. I have been adding to the collection at a steady rate and have a bunch of awesome things to talk about, but not quite yet. Things …
There is a plague of confusion that surrounds Super Mario Bros. 2, which I am going to attempt to clear up, accompanied by some pictures of my latest get, a CIB copy of Super Mario USA for the Famicom. The game the non-Japanese world knows as Super Mario Bros. 2 …
This is a price sticker that I was removing from a copy of Animal Crossing I picked up at a local thrift store. The sticker is from an EB Games (owned in Canada by the lovely assholes at GameStop). What really baffles me here is the original price. $69.99 for …
Over the past 5 years, I have been holding retro video game parties that I have dubbed the “Video Game Concourse”. I only do it a couple times a year, mainly because it takes me about 6 hours to set up and another 8 hours to put my basement back …
I have been looking for a copy of Die Hard for the NES for ages. Unlike most movie-based Nintendo games, Die Hard is actually pretty hard to come by and loose usually fetches around $60 when they do show up on Ebay. You can imagine my ecstasy when a loose copy …
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal” -Pablo Picasso Shortly after after I posted my article about this year’s Famicase exhibition, in which I showcased a Japanese art exhibition that shows Famicom carts for fake games, I started talking with Alana from RetroGamerGirl.com. Since we actually live in the same city in …