Author Archives: Paul Werkema

A while ago, I picked up the game BurgerTime Party on the Nintendo Switch. This game is the latest installment in the long running BurgerTime series which started as an arcade game. It’s a very simple single screen game. The only goal is to get the high score. The game itself is a little strangeContinue reading “BurgerTime Party!”

A few years ago, I heard about graded video games. I also heard about the sealed collectors, and how the prices of retro games had gone up. This surprised me, mostly because I had stopped collecting video games in 2015. I had most of what I wanted, and I had been priced out of theContinue reading “Wata and the State of Video Game Collecting”

Shadow of the Colossus is a very interesting game. I didn’t play of when it first came out. It was one of the many games I missed out on for a variety of reasons. Once I read Nick Suttner’s book, I wanted to give the game a try. I wasn’t sure what I was playing,Continue reading “Shadow of the Colossus book review”

Nintendo released another way for people to play The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, and Link’s Awakening this fall when they released a new Game & Watch. The previous one, Super Mario and Super Mario the Lost Levels, was okay, but not something I can spend a lot of time playing. For me,Continue reading “Remembering the Legend of Zelda, and the Game & Watch version”

During 2020 and 2021, I found myself looking at some of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games which I didn’t play while I was growing up. The five I wanted to highlight are Fantasia, Dick Tracy, Alien Storm, Forgotten Worlds, and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. Some of these are arcade ports, and others were designed by westernContinue reading “Exploring the Sega Genesis Library”

Final Fantasy V was one of the many games I first played on an emulator. This was around the time I found out about the Final Fantasy games we didn’t get in the US. There are a few things I miss about that time, and many things I’m glad we don’t have to deal withContinue reading “Final Fantasy V Reflections”