Reviews

Ever play a game that was so great when you were a child only to come back to it and not have as fond of a memory of it years later? Well, that’s not the case with DuckTales, an NES title which should’ve easily been the usual “slap the license …

We didn’t start the fire… It was always burning… Since the world’s been turning… That’s the way I feel about “New” Super Mario Bros. Such an emphasis had gone toward turning everything into three dimensions that the classic 2-D side-scrolling platformer appeared to be lost in the shuffle. Then, in …

I often say I’m surprised by games at the least likely of moments. Thus, is the case with Mega Man 7, the first true sequel of the Mega Man series of games on the Super Nintendo. While it’s true that the Mega Man X games came out first on the …

While I was knocking Electronic Arts for screwing up other gaming franchises, I had totally forgotten about a true contender as a Goldeneye successor: Agent Under Fire. While stumbling with its first foray into the Bond franchise, after acquiring the 007 license with the N64’s The World Is Not Enough, …

Beat’em up games were all of the rage growing up, but for the life of me I don’t know how I not only avoided the Double Dragon series, but how it was ever popular either! Honestly, these games are for the birds. I understand the palette swap, repeating the same …

The Yoshi’s Island series originally spun-off of the sequel to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, with a mechanic where Yoshi eats enemies and then shoots eggs while protecting Baby Mario throughout six worlds filled with various traps. That original game used a special graphics chip to pull off a …

Have you ever given any thought as to why you never hear much about the original Street Fighter? I hadn’t, until the game was recently included as part of anniversary editions issued by Capcom, featuring the umpteen editions of Street Fighter II. That got me to thinking: where the heck …

With my recent luck in finding good to decent TMNT games, I continued my quest to play through all of the titles based on the series: which led me to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue for Game Boy. Let me tell you, I really struggled with how to …

The 1990’s were full of TMNT shovel ware. The Game Boy was the basic dumpster where these titles reside, aimed toward kids on the go with hardware that forced many games to be oversimplified graphically to fit on the small screen. That’s a harsh representation of this game, which actually …

The box art doesn’t lie: “Hard to Beat” is legit! The original Ninja Gaiden was stupid hard. So naturally, the developers at Tecmo must’ve called the Mega Man design team to ask for tips on how to make the game even more difficult! Their suggestions: add more fire, spikes, a …

For whatever reason, the original Killzone is a game that flew off of my radar even when it was initially released for the PlayStation 2 back in 2004. I’m not sure why, either, because I have a love for First-Person-Shooters: at least decently good ones, that is. Killzone is centered …

With a newly reimagined remake for the Nintendo Switch recently released, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the first “reimagining” of a classic Legend of Zelda game: Link’s Awakening. Originally released in 1993 for the Nintendo Game Boy, Link’s Awakening was the first handheld game …

Holy-cowza Batman! Anyone who knows me knows how much I loved Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the second game I ever owned as a kid, and first-ever purchase, aside from the pack-in Super Mario Bros. that came with the NES. Little did I know that this launch title for …

I feel really bad saying this, but I thought this game was much better the way I remembered it. The obligatory upgraded everything with “Super” attached, Super Punch-Out!! took the game to the next level graphically, but the gameplay leaves something to be desired. The NES original was a classic …

One of the first games I ever owned for the original Game Boy, this TMNT version was light years ahead of the first NES game and way more faithful as a beat’em up in vein to arcade game. Or was it? Yes and no: that’s because of crude Game Boy …

I used to get terribly made fun of as a kid for many reasons. One of those was being the owner of a Super Nintendo while all of the “cool kids” owned a Sega Genesis. For a period of time, that meant no cool games for poor little Joe. No …

It certainly feels strange acknowledging this as a “retro game”, however, it’s even stranger to think this game is already ten years old! Is a decade long enough to call something “retro”? Well, it doesn’t matter, because this title was a modern-era remake of Konami’s classic second TMNT entry in …

The second of the two Sega Mega Man titles, this one will also seem as obscure as the Game Gear title because it was only released in Japan and Europe as a cartridge: with the American release being available exclusively via The Sega Channel… Remember that service? Wow, that could’ve …