As a special treat for hitting 2,000 fantastic profiles on Retrogamer.net, our talented IT guys have put together a fantastic new website for you. The Retro Gamer Face-Off has been specifically designed so that you can choose your favourite titles from the 2,000+ profiles that are now available.

All you need to do is head on over thttp://www.retrogamer.net/retrofaceoff/ and you’ll be presented with two available profiles. Choose your favourite and you’ll be given two more to decide on. Choose those and… well, you get the idea. In addition to choosing your favourite profiles, you can also chart the most popular choices by genre, or the overall top 20. So if you want to find out if the rest of the readership love Strider as much as I do, it’s now really easy to find out.

So what would you choose between The Way of the Exploding Fist and Final Fantasy V?

Anticipation is a bit of a NES curio; it’s a board game you can play on your console. Which begs the question, why not just play a board game? Anyway, after looking at this box for all of six minutes the answer should be clear: apparently this game has the power to make you and your badly dressed friends pull excitable face expressions at the hit of a start button. The game is basically a board game of ‘join up the dots’ and the ‘anticipation’ comes from of knowing what easily distinguishable object you are going to asked to draw and then seeing your jerky friends act like jerks while they guess the answer. Brilliant. Check out the guy at the front who looks a little like Garry Shandling, he is taking a simple game of ‘join the dots’ far too seriously? Oh and why’s that girl in the middle waving at the television screen? Ignoring her hair and attire for a moment, perhaps she is a prophet bringing us a message that in the future people will be able to play games of this type by simply waving their arms and performing wild hand signals? Oh and why is it there always seems to be a blonde guy in red spectacles pulling a goofy face in these types of images? Anyway, that’s all we have to say about Anticipation.