Welcome to RetroGrade, a feature wherein we track a particular concept through the annals of gaming history, visiting one prominent example of the said concept per console generation from today all the way back to the 8-bit era (that’s five if Wikipedia is to be believed).
In short, this is an excuse for me to talk about games I want to talk about across multiple hardware generations using a gimmicky theme to loosely tie them all together. But I digress…