The impact that Street Fighter II had on the industry can’t be understated. It jump started a genre, and soon, the pretenders started crowding in. The market was swamped with 1v1 fighting games, and it […]
The original Twisted Metal has been something of a mystery to me. A friend of mine used to own a PS1, but the rental store we frequented only carried the sequel in perpetuity. I have […]
Oh, I was so totally pumped for the Gameboy Advance release. A total Nintendo fangirl at the time, I was drooling over the new handheld, as well as the impending Gamecube. When release came, I […]
The initial run of the cartoon adaptation of The Legend of Zelda ended in 1989 after one season as the special Friday edition of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Both Link and Zelda would […]
It’s easy to make fun of 3DO for their extremely prevalent Army Men series, but that makes it easy to forget that the company was made up of some talented people. Mostly EA alumni who […]
Back in the 8-bit era of video games, a lot of imagination was required to fill the gaps between a game’s box art, and the low-detail, pixelated mess that was on screen. Even the box […]
It’s hard to believe that it wasn’t so long ago that I didn’t think I could possibly get through a late 8-bit JRPG without, I don’t know, lapsing into a coma from boredom. I wasn’t […]
The NES library is rather cluttered with obscure, Metroid-like sidescrollers contained within interconnected worlds, from Goonies 2 to Rygar, and I’m still surprised by how often I turn over a rock and come across a […]
Every once and a while, you may hear me gush about Japanese developer Treasure, creators of such treats as Gunstar Heroes and Ikaruga. None of their games crack the loose inventory of my favourite games, […]
While we got some decent Konami games over here in North America, we didn’t get to see the sort of brand unity that they had in Famicom. We really got ripped off, not seeing a […]
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