Late to the Game(s) - Retro! Reissued! Remastered! Oh my!

Exploring the myths and legends of India Some games are hard to put down. You know you have work to do. You know you have limited time to finish it. But you want to try just one more time to take down that boss before you take a break.  Raji: An Ancient Epic is one of those games. Available now on the Nintendo Switch , and launching later this year on other major platforms , Raji is one of the more compelling button smashers I've played in a while. It tells the story of our eponymous hero, the acrobat Raji, and her brother Golu, a puppeteer. The carnival performers are in the midst of celebrating the feast of Rakhsha Bandhan when the story Golu has been telling, about the rise and  fall of a race of demons, comes to life. Golu, wearing a demon mask to startle the other children watching his puppet show, finds himself swept up by actual demons who are stealing away the children for an as yet unnamed purpose. It's then that our heroine is chosen by the goddess Durga to fight ...

I might have a bit of a video game problem. That problem is too many games, not enough time.  I first bought this domain almost a year ago. I'd gotten a code for a game - Second Hand: Frankie's Revenge - through my day job at the time as a newspaper writer (more about that later) and figured if my paper couldn't use it, or our big sister paper didn't want it for their entertainment section, I might go ahead and review it anyway and put it up on this new blog I had been mulling over. See, I play a lot of video games. Or, at least, I played a lot of video games before my son was born. Now I start a lot of video games, and then stop them when he requires my attention, until I finish the game weeks or months after starting it or a new game grabs my attention. One of the things I've noticed over the past several years, which I'm sure most of you who have been playing games for a while have noticed as well, are the preponderance of "retro" styled gam...