Nerd Central
John MurphyA running commentary on a lifetime spent with video games—celebrating the classics, questioning modern trends, and reflecting on what keeps the medium compelling decades later.
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How I Got Into Video Games - Part 3
A wife, kids and more collecting
In this final part of my story and relationship with video games, we will be discussing how I really got into collecting and all of the ups and downs that came along with that. Actually I may do a Part 4 ab...
Darksiders Genesis - Thoughts
Darksiders Genesis was released for PC and Google Stadia(yeah, that thing) on December 5, 2019, before coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on February 14, 2020. Developed by Airship Syndicate and published by THQ Nordic,...
Are Physical Video Games Dead?
image: Medium
I wasn’t planning on writing this post. Or, to put it another way, I wasn’t planning on writing this article so soon. But here we are, on July 1, 2026 and I am writing this sentence: Sony announced that they will no longer pr...
How I Got Into Video Games - Part 2
College life and becoming an adult
When we last left off, I was graduating high school and setting off to be a “responsible” adult in college. The college I attended was about an hour and a half from my home town. I won’t lie I was scared...
Batman Returns - Thoughts
Batman Returns was released for the Super Nintendo in 1993, following Tim Burton’s 1992 film of the same name. Developed and published by Konami, the SNES version was not a direct port of the other Batman Returns games released around the s...
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