Tag archive: SNES [ 35 ]

Hey! Watch! You Forgot to Hit Pause, SNES Idle Animation Montage

Do you remember the first time your video game character got annoyed with you? Idle animations that break down the 4th wall are one of my favorite small touches in video games. I’m guessing YouTube user TropicalContactHigh probably agrees with me as he/she put together a stellar video featuring just about every idle animation you can think of from the SNES: Of course some game characters weren’t lucky enough to go into their idle animation as your laziness just left [...]

I Learned Something Today: Final Fantasy VI

07/06/2012
No Comments
by Cole Monroe in: Editorials

I’ve been known to go on many adventures. My wife always refers to the next adventure as my final one. However, for my latest adventure I had a trick up my sleeve. I would name it two different things to help in the confusion. Is this the third adventure or the sixth? She couldn’t keep it straight. That is until my seventh adventure. But I have a few years until I embark on that journey. Thanks to the lessons I [...]

Hey! Buy! SNES Controller for Wii

ThinkGeek introduces another reason to dust off your Wii that, let’s face it, falls in line with why you really bought it for yourself. As great as those Virtual Console titles are they still play a bit weird even on the Wii’s Classic Controller. How would you like a proper SNES controller for the Wii? ThinkGeek has you covered with the Classic Super Famicom Controller. Looks like home doesn’t it? All the right face buttons in the right places and [...]

Hey! Look! SNES Arcade Cabinet

Constructing the perfect arcade machine is a pipe dream for a lot of gamers. Reddit user Echoobrain shared this goal, but wanted to make his cabinet a little bit different. Instead of refurbishing a classic machine or building a custom MAME cabinet, Echoobrain wanted the ability put cartridges directly into the dashboard rather than loading ROM files (via RipTen). The result became an incredible SNES arcade cabinet. As a former owner of an arcade machine that I did not have [...]

You Fools! Why Didn’t We Buy Earthbound?

04/11/2012
4 Comments
by Justin Lacey in: Editorials

While I experienced a plethora of games and genres in my 16-bit days, the RPG’s always stand out as the genre where I spent most of my time in that era. Strangely one of my favorite RPG experiences took place with a game I never owned. It is part of a Nintendo franchise that probably has the most dedicated fan following of any of their franchises. Unfortunately for the Mother franchise, these loyal fans did not have the numbers to [...]

Remake It So: Zombies Ate My Neighbors

03/13/2012
2 Comments
by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

After making a big deal about horror games not being scary anymore, I’m going to sound like a huge hypocrite when I talk about why I’d love to see Zombies Ate My Neighbors remade but my affinity for that series has absolutely nothing to do with being scared. To me, the original Zombies Ate My Neighbors was all about teaming up with your bros against a who’s who of B-movie grade baddies and I want to relive that feeling again, [...]

Spider-man & Venom: Maximum Carnage Retro Review: Don’t Spawn Your Symbiote

02/23/2012
6 Comments
by Justin Gifford in: Retro, Reviews

Some things are better left to history. Cartridge games and Topher Grace playing Venom are probably two of them, but 3/4 view beat-em-ups and awesome soundtracks aren’t, particularly when they’re coupled together. When you consider a game from 1994 whose “awesome soundtrack” was written by Green Jellÿ (no, seriously, go watch that video), what seemed like damn near every Marvel character out there available for summoning as a power-up, and (most importantly) that you could play as the hulking, badass Venom, not [...]

Gaming Regrets: Throwing Out the Old

01/26/2012
No Comments
by Cole Monroe in: Editorials

For many of us, the current generation of consoles is just the latest in a long line of video game platforms that we’ve owned. In the near feature, our current systems will be replaced for the new kid on the block. 20 years from now we might look back with fond memories of all the great games we played (and wrote about). It’s been 20 years since I sold my first console to buy my next. I’ve had to give [...]

Gaming Regrets: Lil Advice – The Horrible Show #302

01/25/2012
2 Comments
by Horrible JDevL in: Podcasts, The Horrible Show

Justin, Ethan, Cole, and Josh channel Lil’ Justin, Ethan, Cole and Josh to give them some cold, hard advice about their video game choices over past console generations. Give Sega a try, buy a Game Boy, give up on Final Fantasy, and other words to live by. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. Throughout January, Horrible Night will be featuring articles on Gaming Regrets. Rage Friendly [...]

Remake It So: Rock n’ Roll Racing

Ever since Gran Turismo on the PS One and the original Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit I can’t find a racing game that can grab my attention for more than a couple play sessions. Recently, I was looking through my library of older games and came across Rock n’ Roll Racing. I wasted many days of my youth battling aliens in awesome cars while listening to Black Sabbath, and I believe now is as good a time as ever to reintroduce [...]