If any video game character has the right to be angry, it's oft-maligned platformer hero Bubsy. Thanks to the power of ROM hacking, the bobcat mascot finally has an appropriate outlet for his righteous rage.

There have been many great first-person shooters in the last couple of decades, but what really makes shooters work — multiplayer-centric ones especially — is the quality of the levels.

WiseHacker was first out of the gate yesterday, and he was the first one right. The drawing was from the classic Monopoly, although I used the icon from the original board game rather than any particular digital version. (The guess about the Mafia series was pretty funny, though.)

But it's a new day. Let's see how you go with this one.

Whether you're playing retro games through an emulator on Windows, Mac or a custom-built Raspberry Pi console, you need a controller. We tested some of the most popular options, from simple Xbox controllers to retro replicas and expensive Bluetooth-enabled gamepads, to figure out which are worth your money.

If you're a Final Fantasy fan, there are far worse ways to spend a few hours than to watch this wonderful AGDQ speedrun of the first game on NES.

"Why not" was probably the thought process for this magical collaboration.

Mega man 4 was the first game in the series to let you charge up your shots. Capcom called this new ability the Mega Buster, an upgraded version of Mega Man's blaster that was first introduced into the world 25 years ago today.

Bit of a delayed ScribbleTaku today, so my bad on that. But hopefully this will be reminiscent enough a game to make up for it.

In terms of preserving gaming history, we live in a fortunate era of the internet and cheap, expansive storage. 20, 30 years ago that wasn't the case and if no one had the presence of mind to make loads of backups, it was easy for the original source code and assets of a game to disappear forever. We get lucky sometimes though, as is the case with one recent discovery by YouTube channel SiliconClassics.

Nobody managed to pick up yesterday's game, which was Civilization: Call To Power. People are pretty familiar with all of the Sid Meier games, but the Activision-produced titles - which really weren't bad for the time, even though Alpha Centauri was something special - often get forgotten.

The icons were from the bottom right of the HUD, in case you're wondering. But that was yesterday. It's time for a new scribble!

A lot of people had a crack at yesterday's scribble, but sadly everyone was well wide of the mark. Let's see how you go again today.

Running for three seasons in the early '80s, Starcade was a US game show in which players with excellent hair competed on arcade machines while the host tried to keep up. Now the pop culture preservationists at Shout Factory have the rights to Starcade, and they plan to bring it back.

Congratulations Ashigaru! He finally broke yesterday's game: it was Battlefield 1942. The scribbles were taken from the radio commands at the very top of the UI, where you hit the function keys to issue commands or respond to teammates/the AI.

Well done, mate. But it's a new day, and time for a new scribble.

Part of the fun of emulators is you can make games look the way they really should.

Nobody managed to get yesterday's game, so it's time for round two.

The Trance Vibrator came out on January 7, 2002 packaged with special versions of Rez for the PS2. The USB device was supposed to pulse in time with the music. It even came with a protective pouch so gamers could sit on top of it while they played.

Diablo III's anniversary update delivers some good, clean old-school fun, but one of its reward pets, the Royal Calf, suggests our trip to Old Tristram may have been the reason the series' bovines have been so damn angry for the past two decades.

It took until the second day, but Gemini finally divined Friday's scribble. It was indeed Pharaoh, the Egyptian-themed reskin of the Caesar strategy game from the 90's.

But I'm back in the country now. So it's time for my scribbles. Prepare yourselves.

It's an age-old question: what exactly was going on when you laid waste to cartoon ducks with the Nintendo Zapper? The 8-Bit Guy is here to exhaustively explain exactly how this beautiful little accessory worked its magic.