When I was a kid, I used to get most of my gaming from playing at department store kiosks. This is a reason I may not qualify for a true retro gamer, though this was really beyond my control. My parents probably saw video games as a distraction… though they [Read More]
December 20th will be see the release of the third movie in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It’s still amazing that there even is a franchise for the long-running video game franchise considering it started with a very, very poorly received trailer. The first movie ended up being a surprise [Read More]
Edutainment games can be a tricky thing to create. A company can’t just slap this year’s popular character on a title, add a little educational material, and expect to get game of the year. This, of course, hasn’t stopped some from trying, as the existence of both Mario is Missing! and Sonic’s Schoolhouse [Read More]
Warning! This article may contain spoilers! As you may remember, 1999 was when I was introduced to Earthbound. Right around this time, development was in full swing for the sequel tentatively titled Earthbound 64. Details about the project were fairly scarce, though there were mentions of a pig-like army, dinosaur-like creatures, [Read More]
An ordinary high school student named Marty Hall has a dream one night where the evil General Hood, a parody of G.I. Joe’s Cobra Commander, abducts his crush Samantha. After a devastating defeat at the hands of both Hood and his lackeys, Marty receives aid from the mysterious Wizard in [Read More]
With only six games to its name, Star Fox is one of Nintendo’s lesser developed franchises. The series started with a rail shooter with revolutionary graphics for its time before experiencing a reboot with a game that might be one of the best Nintendo 64 games. While there have been a [Read More]
I was in high school and suffering from a minor James Bond obsession when I was introduced to Remington Steele. Pierce Brosnan was currently playin Bond, so my parents introduced me to the series that put him on the map through a couple of episodes on VHS. Since I grew [Read More]
I used to spend my Thursday nights at a friend’s place to play Dungeons & Dragons with the crew. We’d stand in a dark room around a pentagram drawn on the floor, dressed in blood-red robes, chanting ominously in Latin. Adam would walk into the center of the pentagram where [Read More]
Most games in the RPG genre require players to level their characters up in order to make actual progress. A majority of the time, this requires going out and looking battles, through either random encounters like most Final Fantasies or scripted encounters like Earthbound. Nothing is ever really said about [Read More]
When Archie Comics acquired the rights to Capcom’s Mega Man franchise, I knew that it was very likely they’d produce a crossover with their long-running adaptation of Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog. It really made sense considering Sonic and Mega Man were both blue video game icons who fought the robotic [Read More]
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