You like multiple playable characters in games, right? Especially when those characters each have their own unique abilities? Of course you do, multiple playable characters make games more diverse, fun, interesting and replayable. Except when they don’t.
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For 007 fans who also happened to be gamers, James Bond video games were kind of a must.
From The Duel to Goldeneye to Agent Under Fire, From Russia With Love and beyond, we had to try them out and, more often than not, they ended up being pretty darn entertaining. Not always perfect, granted, but generally good enough to warrant a playthrough.
Nightfire was one of the few games I personally played and completed on the original X-Box and, since I recently played it all again on the PS2 this time, I thought it would be a good one to bring the table while it’s still fresh in my mind.
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It’s that time again. The time that we all sit down for another edition of Raising A Gamer. As interesting as it might be to see my 4 year old’s take on a classic beat em up or shooter, we are in for…you guessed it, another Disney related movie game! Hey, I said I would let her pick the games so this should have been expected. Now don’t get discouraged yet because on the surface this game looks reminiscent of another very enjoyable Genesis title.
Red Bull, of all people, have launched a videogame series focusing on Japanese videogame music.
I’m not usually one to dabble into controversy, but sometimes, the subject is too important to ignore. There’s only one thing in gaming news worth fussing about these days and it’s the Super Smash Bros. roster. NOTHING ELSE! Indeed, I think Nintendo fans all around the world can agree that nothing can even dream of reaching the impact of a Super Smash Bros. announcement, leak and/or joke related to said leak.
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A prototype has been found of everyone’s favourite game staring Dash Rendar.
How do you follow something like Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit?
With a (not sarcastically) good Sega Genesis game of course!
Yes, Blades Of Vengeance is actually decent!
In many ways, it’s even better than decent: it’s pretty darn great.
For one thing, it’s called Blades Of Vengeance, which sounds either like a late sequel to that ice-skating Will Ferrell movie or some low-level metal band your dad would look at you weird for enjoying.
Or, of course, a random Steven Seagal film about some dude punching other dudes into paper-thin walls.
Quite simply: it sounds amazing.
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Pierre here,
If you’re one of the thousands of people who grew up wishing they could one day work for GMZ, you’re in luck because we’re hiring! Now, you too can enjoy all the perks of being a member of one of the world’s foremost news teams: no pay, confusing and contradictory demands from your supervisors, no health benefits, sarcasm, free enemas, mandatory midiclorian testing, surprise enemas, severe risk of Englebert Humperdink syndrome, and reverse transversal Dorititis of the elbows.
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The fact that a typewriter and ink ribbon would have a prominent place in video game history is certainly strange. Such an antiquated technology would seem to have no place in a modern entertainment medium; leave it to Resident Evil, the harbinger of survival horror games, to make saving your game progress as difficult and annoying as using a mechanical typing machine.
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The words “classic” and “awesome” are tossed around a lot when people speak about their favourite retro games.
Super Mario World this, Legend Of Zelda that.
How “awesome” is Tetris?
Pac-Man is a true “classic”!
Yeah well all that may be true but it appears that some games are just too good, too special to be mentioned in top 100 lists (or top 1000 lists) of greatest games ever. And that’s just wrong, sad and wrong.
Games like Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit always get left out and I’m personally saddened by that thought on a level so high that Donkey Kong only dreams of ever reaching that kind of vertical distance.
This game’s so good, you guys.
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If you were a fan of the classic DOS Kart Racer, you’ll be happy to know a sequel is in the works.
Hello again 1 More Castlers, other lurkers and people who don’t want to be identified as being an entity dependent on or associated with a website! Some of you may follow me on Twitter (shameless plug) and, if that’s the case, you probably know that I have recently completed for the first time in my adult life both games in the Chrono “Series”(Link to the Chrono Trigger review is in order). How you can call two games a “series” is a mystery, but that’s not why we’re here.
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Prior to writing this, I had never played the Atari 2600, but have always admired the system from afar. My father-in-law, upon learning that I have been contributing to a retro gaming site, let me adopt his 2600 that had been sitting in his garage for at least two decades. I hit the retro gaming jack pot on this one! This unit I inherited came with twenty plus games, extra joysticks and extra paddles. The 2600 fits all that extra hardware in a deliciously 70’s “Tele-Games Center”. The build quality of the 2600 is stellar, the faux wood grain and polished switches still feel great and the click when sliding in a game cart is more satisfying than any other cartridge based system I have ever played. The Atari 2600 has to be one of the most attractive pieces of video game hardware ever mass-produced. But this entry of my Raising a Gamer series isn’t about attractive hardware with the build quality of the Great Wall of China…it’s about introducing my four year old daughter, Mae, to amazing retro games. Read More
Special guest reporter Bailey here with a red-hot exclusive scoop. Stop the presses: In the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, CEO Satoru Iwata announced a new title that should usher in a new era of crossovers for the big N systems. Gamers everywhere are reeling from the news, as unbelievable as it sounds, and as ridiculously awesome as it seems – with the release of official company screenshots, there seems little room for doubt. It is coming. It is Super Smash Kart Pokémon Vs Tekken Ware Dream Snap Party Star Turbo.
It is the nineties, and there is time for 8-mega power! In the latest episode of Generation 16 we explore the biggest cartridge game to date, Tengen’s debut on the Genesis, and the first game produced by Sega of America. All that and the launch of the Mega Drive in the UK!
The following is part of a series about my past experiences with arcade games and running them in MAME. I will only write about games I remember playing in an actual arcade, not games I only discovered through MAME. Read More