Marcus Webb
Senior Editor & Lead Reviewer
Console Codex · Retro Gaming Specialist since 2014
About Marcus
Marcus Webb has spent over a decade cataloguing, reviewing, and writing about classic video games. He grew up with a NES in the living room and a Game Boy in his pocket, and that early obsession never faded — it just became a career.
At Console Codex, Marcus serves as Senior Editor and lead reviewer, personally responsible for the analysis framework used across all 592+ game reviews on the site. His methodology combines technical evaluation — examining game feel, control responsiveness, level design logic — with historical context, always asking what made a game significant in its era, not just how it plays today.
He specialises in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras: the NES library, the SNES golden age, and the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive rivalry. His deep knowledge of platformer mechanics, action-RPG design, and the competitive fighting game scene of the early 1990s informs Console Codex's approach to every review in those categories.
Before Console Codex, Marcus wrote about retro gaming for several enthusiast publications and ran a speedrunning community for classic Capcom titles. He has verified cheat codes on original hardware for over 150 games and maintains that the Konami Code is the greatest piece of video game history ever encoded.
Areas of Expertise
Review Philosophy
Classic games deserve to be evaluated on their own terms, not held to the standards of modern game design. A review of Mega Man 2 should ask "is this a great 1988 action platformer?" — not "does it hold up against 2025 releases?"
Every Console Codex review scores games across five dimensions: Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, Replayability, and Historical Significance. That last category is unique to us — it captures what made a game matter beyond its immediate quality, its influence on the games that followed, and its place in the cultural moment that produced it.