2015 has been a hell of a year for me. I was a finalist in the 2015 Nintendo World Championships via winning the Chicago regional. One of the spoils of my victory was getting to share a panel stage with the 1990 Nintendo World Champion, Thor Aackerlund at the…
Hello Skirmish Frogs. I had an idea. This is how it’s going to work: basically I’ll ask my fellow frogs here a question, it can be related about a game or something of that nature. And since Skirmish Frogs is focused on retro gaming classics, there will be…
My name is Josh, and I’ve been playing video games, in some form, since I was 5 years old. I first experienced the thrill of video games at the ripe young age of 5, at a family get together. My uncle brought his Atari 2600 console, and between…
How many lives does it take to make it through a demonic dungeon filled with treasures? Is the experience well-spent, or doomed to be cheap?
I first discovered speed runs back in 2008. I was bored at work (the usual reason I discover things) and managed to stumble across SpeedDemosArchive’s videos of Super Metroid. Having always loved that game, I was blown away to see how quickly people could move through it. Some…
What better game to discuss on Halloween, than a weird ass obscure NES gem full of monsters?
Players: 1 Genre: Action We live in strange times. On the one hand we have a bizarre cultural fetish for 8-bit video game aesthetics, while on the other we often deride the actual 8-bit titles themselves (unless they are one of the safe, untouchable few.) A good example…
I just recently acquired this Famicom Box that is designed to be a coin operated NES for hotels or other establishments, and this is the video showing it off. Enjoy!
The “third times a charm” magic exists and this game is one great example. When Revolution Software released Lure of the Temptress in 1993, they greatly upset the point and click adventure games dichotomy that was split between the LucasArt and Sierra. The Revs were the new devs…
Well, as my inaugural post here at Skirmish Frogs (SkirmishFrogs? Skirmishfrogs?), I thought a little about what I could write about. And I thought a little more. And a little more than that. I didn’t get very far. But I’m not going to let that stop me. I don’t…
We had a great Launch Day here at Skirmish Frogs HQ. To quote something I kept hearing as a murmur that rippled through Twitter on October 28th 2015: #TheFroggening is real. I can already see the sort of positive community interaction that I wanted to see in retro…
While the final few seconds of my fifteen minutes of relatively obscure video game fame tick away, Eric Bailey, a man whose Dad-pun skills surpass mine, sent a Direct Message to me on Twitter asking if I would like to write for new classic/retro/old video game blog. The…
The thing about platforming is that it can be difficult, very difficult. As the old adage goes, NES hard. You think you’re getting good at it when you’ve defeated the likes of Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden 2, Castlevania and Ghosts n’ Goblins. Unfortunately, as a team, Sean and…
In my first video with Skirmish Frog, I take a look at Gyromite for the NES without all that ROB nonsense.
We’re here to cure the leprous games of our youth, bepixled abominations that defy logic, reason and a sense of decent goodness. But you’re not ready yet. You’re unprepared to stare full-on into the heart of darkness and salvage the light. So in this first installment, we’re not…
Japanese Retro Game Center here. I’m feeling froggy so here’s my introductory post. I started playing video games with the NES I received for Xmas in 1988, and continue to play today. I now live in Japan collecting and selling retro games. My goal is to collect every Famicom,…
I didn’t grow up with an SNES. I was a Genesis kid, but back in the early 2000s, while attending university, I decided to finally play some of the games I’d missed out on. I bought an SNES, got my hands on some games, and played a bunch…
This is who the Ghost is and this is whom the Ghost will forever be: A Half-Life fanboy (and not even ashamed to admit it) this guy ditched his wire-frame glasses – courtesy of countless Rescue Rover and SkyRoads marathons – and fashioned for himself a more thick-bodied…
In the United States the Nintendo Entertainment System was king. However in many other countries across the globe the title was held by the Sega Master System. In my attempt to dive deeper into the Master System library I decided to put it to the test. Several games…
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong! That’s the Universal Greeting. I suppose introductions are in order. Hello, I’m known as Captain N here at Skirmish Frogs. A little background about my name. As you can tell by the name, I love Nintendo. I love their games and the characters.…
So I guess we’re introducing ourselves, huh? Well, I’m Retrodude and I like retro games. Big surprise, huh? They’re not all that I play of course, but they’re some of my favorites, and that’s reason enough for me to want to talk and write about them. My most…
Seeing as it’s the 30th anniversary of both Super Mario Bros. and the NES, I’d make this my first entry.
So, my name is Jesse. Hi. I’ve been writing my retro-entertainment blog Retro Revelations since October 2012, so this is in fact more or less the third year anniversary of my bloggitory activities. I would have started years before I did, but for one crazy reason or another,…
Hello, you don’t know me and i don’t know you. Let’s be friends. I am a British type person who likes games. I currently write for Playstation Country which is a site dedicated to news and reviews for recently released and some older Playstation titles. But you and i both…
Curaga (ケアルガ, Kearuga?), also known as Cure3 and Cure 3, is a recurring spell from the Final Fantasy series. It is a more powerful form of Cure and Cura, which is used to restore a large amount of Hit points. – Final Fantasy Wikia There’s a darkness in…
Like so many, I too am a kid who never grew up. I know everyone says this, but I feel like my formative years were during the best decade (the 80’s). The music, movies, Saturday Morning Cartoons… even Wrestling was better back then. I was hooked on video…
I was honored to host a panel at the prestigious Portland Retro Gaming Expo this year. If you missed my panel or couldn’t attend, here’s the video.
Hello everyone. My name’s Edward Varnell and I’m glad you’re here and have show interest for the love of retro games. These games have been my foundation in video games and starting from the Atari 7200 to modern games of today, there continues to be skills that need…
Everything is egg-shaped right now. British gamers will be familiar with the white egg with red boxing gloves known as Dizzy, the star of a series of cartoon adventures from the Oliver Twins, Phillip and Andrew. This is a very British tale of a talking egg who must…
Hi everyone, I’m the VG Dad. Everyone calls me Dad, or VG. I play retro games with my 5-year-old daughter. It’s not a traditional let’s play, in that there are lots of edits and we typically only play for 20-40 minutes (depending on the game) and I edit…
So as I have been covering the Retro VGS console, we have come to the point where their failed Indiegogo campaign is now ending. The campaign can’t be ended and refunds given, but a nice viewer of mine pointed out that this is the rules on Indiegogo. So…
Genre: Adventure Players: 1 Its always best to start how you mean to go on isn’t it? How fitting, then, that the first GX4000 game we examine is one of the old CPC ports that dominated the GX4000’s library. Originally Released in 1988, Barbarian II was the sequel to…
Hello everyone! I’m not terribly good at introductions, so I thought I’d just get to the point. Bullet points, to be exact: Hello, I’m Fatnick! I’m a (predominantly Zx Spectrum and Sega-orientated) retro gamer. I make EXCITING (normally videogame-themed) music you can listen to on Spotify. I write…
Hello toads and toadettes! Is toadettes a word? :-/ My name is the Pickyoldgamer and I am proud to be a member of Skirmishfrogs. Who is the Pickyoldgamer? Well as my bio will state, I am kind of old (not that old now) and I am more on…
So I’ve got two things to say. To those of you who followed Game Overkill in the past and have been asking if I was going to continue the series and, if so, where, here are your answers: yes and right here. I mean, that should be pretty…
Hello Retro Gamers! That’s something I’ve been saying on the camera for about two years now and hopefully I will continue to keep it coming. I am honored to have been asked by our illustrious overlord to be involved with SkirmishFrogs and plan on doing my best to…
“Gamer” has long been the status quo label for those of us who partake in the past time of electronic leisure. And no, I don’t mean vibrators. Video games came about at a time when they were thought of as toys. Much like other artistic pursuits of other…
Move aside, Mario! Stanley the Gardener protects his flowers from the mischievous ape, but is the overall experience a buggy one?
