Infinity Retro

Cosmic Fantasy is a series I’ve always been really interested in. Unfortunately out of four installments only the second one was ever localized. Until now. Thanks to the Cosmic Fantasy Collection on the Nintendo Switch I could finally see what the series is all about. I went in knowing that the original game was archaic. If you’ve stuck around this blog for a while then you k...

Sometimes developers get everything right with a sequel except for its name. That’s the case with Super C. Besides the singular letter there’s very little indication that this is the sequel to Contra. When I was a kid I had no idea one even existed. All thanks to a stupid naming convention. I assume I’m not the only one. Regardless, Super C hit the scene in 1990 and made a pr...

Kid Icarus was one of the more infamous NES releases. It was a game many people owned, but almost none of them ever reached the second area of. I remember trying my hand at it and giving up immediately in frustration. Even now, fresh after completing it, Kid Icarus had me questioning my skills as a gamer. With that out of the way it’s fair to say that the game has amassed a g...

You wouldn’t know it now but Hudson Soft used to be a big name developer. With classic franchises like Bomberman, Bonk’s Adventure, and Star Soldier most retro gamers are going to be pretty familiar with them even if they don’t realize it. Of their many series Adventure Island has always held a soft spot in my heart. These games never got the attention that they deserved. For...