Infinity Retro

I have never had a more difficult time writing an article as I did with this list of the Top 100 Best RPGs of all time. There were too many to pick from, and narrowing it down was actually painful. It hurt my soul to omit specific games. Really it did. I’ve been playing role playing games ever since I can remember. It is, and always has been, my favorite genre of video games....

Conker’s Bad Fur Day was wild. This late Nintendo 64 release transformed what was planned to be a kid friendly platformer into a raunchy mature themed romp. Nintendo fans ate it up. This led to rampant speculation about a sequel. New consoles were on the horizon after all. No one could have imagined that Conker would completely skip the Gamecube, and instead would land on the...

I had a long running love/hate relationship with Earthbound. Fans raved about it over the years. I tried my best to get into the game but it was just too, well, weird. Then one day it just randomly clicked. I loved Earthbound. So much that I consider it to be one of the best RPGs of all time. Mother 2 (as it’s known in Japan) was the follow up to an equally strange Famicom RP...

Donkey Kong Land III was a pleasant surprise. The Game Boy was no stranger to scaled down ports. Since the 90s third party developers have been big on multiplatform releases. The Game Boy had an audience that was too big to ignore. The thing is the hardware lacked the extra oomph of 16-bit consoles. Because of this the developers had to significantly scale down their titles, ...

I’ve never been a fan of Final Fantasy X. I’m sure some readers are checked out after that statement but bear with me. This was the first in the series to be released on PS2. It had a massive amount of hype driving it. While critics and fans alike fell in love with the game I was more of a series purist at the time. Several classic conventions were dropped during the developm...