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Just 5 More Minutes: Tecmo Super Bowl
On draft day, a lot of prospects were compared to the great football players of yesteryear. When we talk about the greatest football games of all time, nothing compares to Tecmo Super Bowl, a game released just a little over 20 years ago. Simple is best Tecmo Super Bowl is the gold standard when it comes [...]
I Learned Something Today: Lone Survivor
Sometimes you wake up and realize the world around you has changed. Whether it’s a freak natural disaster, the election of a new public official or the effects of a fast spreading disease, things that were once familiar and safe are now foreign and perhaps even dangerous. You could wait around until things go back to normal, but inaction has [...]
Counter Gaming: The Game Industry Needs Focus
Doombringers and naysayers are littering the forums and game journalism resources because no one really knows what’s going to become of the game industry. It seems the majority is focusing on what publishers, developers, media sources, and even gamers are doing wrong to prevent the game industry from creating stability and a welcoming consumer environment. [...]
I Confess: The Legend of Zelda
I made a pact with myself recently. I was going to go back and play through all the main The Legend of Zelda games that I haven’t beaten. Since one of my friends was nice enough to buy me The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for my birthday last month, that pact started off [...]
Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Infectonator 2, An Indirect PSA on Hand Washing
Being a sequel can be pretty tough, especially when you happen to be the second installment of MY favorite browser game of all time. Toge Productions could have broken under the pressure, but fortunately they did not. I’m happy to report that Infectonator 2 not only brings back the incredibly addicting zombie contagion themed antics of the [...]
How You Play the Game: My Passion for Poison
When I was a young boy, I remember helping my mom clean up the house and noticing strange stickers on all of the cleaning supplies. They were a very distasteful shade of bright green and featured a simply illustrated black frowning face sticking its tongue out. Being the inquisitive youth I was, I asked her [...]
I Learned Something Today: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
I don’t travel much. It’s not that I’m afraid to get out on the open water, it’s more like I don’t necessarily have the skills for travel. I tend to be a homebody but I’d love to go to distant lands. I’m a walking dichotomy. I know I need to get out in the world and [...]
You Fools! You Trusted a Bad Guy
The ancient tower loomed over Granseal. During a powerful storm, Slade the Thief removed two jewels from the ancient shrine within. What came next could have been avoided but required heroic feats from a young lad to save Grans Island, and the world, from the Devil King and invading forces of Zeon. Sound familiar? That’s [...]
Do We Need New Video Game Consoles?
There has been a ton of speculation about what each new video game console will bring to the table when released. Speculation can be fun and it seems to dominate the internet, especially when it comes to technology. Instead of the useless endeavor of trying to figure out what the tech specs of the new [...]
Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Super Villainy and Its Lustful Upgrades
I’m not going to attempt to describe Super Villainy as a complicated game because it isn’t, but for one reason or another I found myself locked to my computer screen playing it despite my AAA backlog. What I realized is that Super Villainy scratched an itch that I’d like to think I don’t possess but [...]
Today’s Single Player DLC Doesn’t Stand a Chance
The endless value potential of downloadable content (DLC) was one of the most promising features for this generation of video games. Games were finally able to take advantage of online connectivity, but it’s a well stated consensus that the overall quality level of DLC this generation has been quite underwhelming. While the multiplayer side of [...]
Closet Competitiveness: My Secret Affair with High Scores
Our own EIC Justin Lacey wrote an excellent article a few weeks back about his difficulty with dedicating time to competitive gaming despite his competitive nature. It was a very well written article but in all honesty it didn’t speak to me on a personal level because frankly, I’m scared to death of competition. Conflicting [...]
I Learned Something Today: Legend of Grimrock
I get overwhelmed very easily when I venture outside of my comfort zone. It can get very stressful for me when I’m forced to go somewhere I have never been before. This anxiety has started to take a toll on my social life. Luckily, I have a new tricks that have proved useful when attending [...]
Remake It So: Friday the 13th: The Video Game
Friday the 13th is the kind of day in which you triple-lock your doors, avoid ladders, run away from any stray black cats, and be vigilant for crazed maniacs in hockey masks wielding machetes. That last one is probably the most prominent problem on this unholiest of days. Rather than fearing the inevitable at the [...]
Characters That Games Forgot: Maria Renard of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania games usually put you in control of the most interesting character. You want to know what happens to Simon, Richter, Alucard, and sometimes Grant DaNasty. I have always wanted to know what happened to one of the worst voice acted characters in Castlevania history: Maria Renard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I did [...]
