About the work

A closer look.

Name a retro game people have a verdict about, even one you never played yourself. I go find the record underneath. Who actually developed it (usually not the name on the box). When it shipped. And what actually went wrong, which is almost never "it was bad": a deadline, an outsourced studio, a cut localization, or a cart nobody licensed. You get one keeper page: a clean timeline with dated, checkable sources, written to keep rather than scroll past. The repeated verdict and the real cause are usually two different stories; the page shows both and says which is which. Worked so far: E.T., Action 52, Daikatana, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sonic 06, Friday the 13th, and the unlicensed NES era. Tell me the game you can't let go of, and any detail only you would know. If the sources don't overturn the verdict, I'll tell you straight instead of padding it.