[Originally Posted on Nintendowned.com, April 2006] 

I'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy playing devils advocate. Because I do. I love it. However, in this particular instance I'm not. Anything but, as a matter of fact. On the other hand, I'm not claiming that what I'm saying here is fact, or a representation of what my own beliefs. It's simply an idea. We all need ideas. And we all need to think for ourselves. That's the important part.

[Article Originally Posted On Nintendowned.com]

 So I'm sitting here consuming vast quantities of caffeine in an attempt to reach the state of mental breakdown required to actually complete a coin-op, when it suddenly hits me. I'm sitting here playing retro games, and I'm wasting so much potential. I have hundreds of games, good and bad, fun and boring, worth writing about and worthy of throwing in the bin. And some of them, not all, but some, are beginners of series. So read on, dear reader, as I tell you of some of the wonders you may have missed. The great games that will forever have a place in the hearts of those of us who enjoyed them at the time. Whether you're too young to have played them or just didn't come across them for whatever reason, these games are ones you should hunt down. Now! And if you played them at the time, maybe you'll enjoy revisiting them from an interesting perspective.

Now, I don't want to try preaching here. I'm not gonna explain to you that Street Fighter II was one of the most influential games of it's era and all that junk, oh no. Street Fighter II was and still is a bloody amazing game, plain and simple. But then, I'm not going to talk about Street Fighter II today, oh no. To start with, we're going to the amusement arcade. The box we're looking for? A little thing called splatterhouse.