Retro Gaming – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com Twenty Years of Gaming. Still Arguing About Halo. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:03:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.breakmanx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-Favicon-32x32.webp Retro Gaming – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com 32 32 Our Favorite Video Game Box Art and Manuals of All Time https://www.breakmanx.com/favorite-video-game-box-art-manuals/ https://www.breakmanx.com/favorite-video-game-box-art-manuals/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:03:39 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17846 This week The Game Show gets into the packaging. Not the games themselves, but the boxes they came in and the manuals that used to be inside them. Break makes the case for Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy. The gold Zelda cartridge, the manual maps, the Amano art on the Final Fantasy boxes. Jess brings [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/nes-restoration-1988-nesrgb-v5/feed/ 0 Retro Gaming Archives | BreakmanX.com nonadult GameCube Retrospective: The Best Console Nobody Bought https://www.breakmanx.com/gamecube-retrospective/ https://www.breakmanx.com/gamecube-retrospective/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:09:52 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17547 November 18, 2001. Five in the morning, a Target parking lot, coffee going cold in the car. I camped out with my girlfriend (now Breakwoman X) and Richie, who would go on to co-host The Game Show with me, all of us waiting on a purple cube with a handle. This GameCube retrospective is the [...]

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