GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As part of the September Nintendo Direct, Nintendo made an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Rebooting the original Actraiser is not exactly a straightforward ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Arguably one of the finest games of the 90s was the original ...

If it's leftfield announcements you're after, how about this one? Cult-classic Super Nintendo game Actraiser is getting the remaster treatment, and you won't have long to wait to play it - it's out ...

Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs – a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno, Nev. – and ...

SNES classic Actraiser gets a surprise remake that is closer to a full reboot, but does the weird mix of god game and platformer still work? Whenever anyone talks about 16-bit games they’d like to see ...

These two two distinct styles of gameplay were tied together with Yuzo Koshiro's fantastic soundtrack. The famed composer's music from the game and some unreleased pieces are getting a lovely vinyl re ...

Some game series stand the test of time, seeing new, high quality releases every generation, sucking back in old fans while gaining new ones. However, for every Mario, Zelda, and Sonic, there are ...

Beloved SNES game ActRaiser is 30 years old this week and its composer thinks a new sequel is still a possibility. It may not be the most famous SNES game ever made but ActRaiser was certainly one of ...

The mobile arena is subject to a high volume of retro ports. Sometimes, when a console or arcade favorite of yesteryear goes wireless, the result can be quite satisfying, such as in recent cases of ...