After pressing start: Mother 3's saddest day

I’ve written about the first chapter of Mother 3 before, back when this was a proto-blog gasping for air in the cold vacuum of the internet. Quite frankly, the game stands as one of the greatest achievements in video games.

Ness and the Space Invaders

If I was forced to make a list of my favorite games, I wouldn’t pick Earthbound, but I’d really want to. Even after sixteen years, Earthbound is the strangest game in my collection. Even its sequel, the incomparable Mother 3,