I was pretty happy to see Joe & Mac: Retro Collection added to Red Art Games’ growing assortment of classic redistributions, since the original Joe & Mac was a very special game to me growing up. I’ve mentioned before how I grew up in a Nintendo household, but my cousins, whom I visited frequently, had the Sega Master System and Genesis. I also failed to mention that they had a Super Nintendo, and one of the few games they had on it was Joe & Mac. 

My cousins kept their Super Nintendo at their house, which we didn’t go to very often—the Genesis and Master System were at my grandmother’s, who was only a few minutes away. So any chance we got, we would sit down and play that goofy arcade side-scroller—bonking cavemen and dinosaurs, trying to save our cave-babes from an evil demon. In all those years, I don’t think we ever made it past the fourth or fifth level, but we loved it all the same. 

“If you were a fan of the original games, then the Joe & Mac: Retro Collection may be

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