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The Fair Shake

Enduro Racer: Sega Master System

So here we are, a little over a year into my weekly column where I have a personal space to present some games I think you should try. If you flip through my previous highlights, you’ll see they are heavily Nintendo-centric. For every ‘other’ system’s release or port I discuss, there’s a piece on a Nintendo or Super Nintendo game. Not intentional, but I guess it follows how I spent my time playing games in my youth. I did dabble in a Sega Master System, but with a few exceptions, it collected dust until I unceremoniously sold it. One game that saw heavy use was Enduro Racer.

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The Retro Critic

Bart vs. The Space Mutants

A fan of The Simpsons growing up, there were three games I owned and played constantly back in the day.

One of them was, of course, Krusty’s Fun House, the other was Bart’s Nightmare and finally, there was Bart vs. The Space Mutants, a game so cryptic that the more you played it, the dumber you felt.

And I played it A LOT.

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RetroHate

A Wild Random Encounter Appears!

I’ve talked before about my love/hate relationship with RPGs & JRPGs, but there’s one aspect I think deserves closer & more precise hating: Random Encounters.

If you’ve ever played an RPG you know what exactly I’m talking about. There you are, alone or a small band of adventurers, wandering the vast and empty plains of whatever fantasy land the game dropped you in. Then suddenly, VWOOSH!! Out of nowhere you’re in combat mode, waving a stick or vibrating fiercely at a monster that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. This is what we call in the gaming world, Random Encounters; Monsters that “randomly” pop out of the ether to attack you or your party. Sometimes these encounters will be scripted, but most of the time it’s a roll of the dice whether you encounter an enemy in the next two steps or not. Of course they always “randomly” appear at the most inopportune times, like when you/your party is bleeding out and you’re trying to drag yourself back to a village to heal. Other times the “randomness” is so random that you’ll have multiple enemy encounters in rapid succession, making a three foot journey take 5-10 minutes and a dozen health potions.

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Atari Poop

Atari Poop – Pole Position

Pole Position, or Stripper Pole Position as it was known in Japan. It is one of the rare (I can think of no other) sex games released for the 2600 that was actually made by a real video game company (Namco, to be precise), and, unlike those terrible “Swedish Erotica” games made Mystique,this game is kinda fun and has decent graphics.
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The Completist

The Completist Presents: Batman and the Bullies of Gotham

A gentle breeze whisked through my hair. The sun hit my face like a kaleidoscope of warmth, shifting through the gently blowing leaves all around me. I was 50 feet high, at the top of a giant oak tree which sat in the front of my friend Bryan’s heavily wooded lot. Like Batman on his dark Gotham spire, I was perched atop my tower, watching for the half baked criminals of my neighborhood to wander from their dark corners and into my sight. I was Batman and I was ready to pounce. Or so I thought. Because honestly, when your 10 years old, you are a super hero in your own mind.

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Starfox (SNES)

2 Decades Late

Starfox

Welcome to another edition of 2 Decades Late, where I review Super Nintendo games after playing them for the first time all these years later. Today, I have chosen a game that is a prequel of sorts for me. Let me explain. I adore Starfox 64. It’s one of my favorite N64 titles. So, I thought that naturally, Starfox on the SNES would have an automatic place in my heart as well. As it turns out, there is no such thing as an automatic place in my heart.

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The Fair Shake

The Adventures of Lolo

Ever have one of those lazy Sundays? Not a Chronicles of Narina Sunday, but a really lazy ‘I can barely keep my eyes open because I’m so tired and it’s rainy and dark out and blahhhhh’ kind of Sunday? I just did. Like any other Nintendophile would do in this situation, I fired up the NES. I dug out, of all things, THE ADVENTURES OF LOLO. Say wha? I did say it was a lazy Sunday didn’t I?

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The Retro Critic

Captain Comic

The first time I heard the title Captain Comic, I expected something truly badass.

Either this was going to be a superhero game or something closer to Comix Zone, with a comic book theme to it.

Turns out that this was a little harmless side-scroller about a dude who walks around with a helmet, shooting birds in the face and jump-cutting to the Moon. For an old DOS game, it was actually decent enough: the graphics were colourful, the gameplay was straight-forward and as annoying as all those erratic floating sprites were, Captain Comic was still a likeable game.

You can see/hear me struggling to play it here:

Then came the NES version.

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1 More Countdown

Top 10 Favorite LJN Games

Thanks to a certain Angry Video Game Nerd, the game publishing company LJN has become synonymous with terrible video games. Does LJN deserve the reputation and hatred directed towards them? Absolutely! Some of the LJN games are putrid piles of puke that should have never seen the light of day. Other games aren’t so bad.

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Bitter Without Continues

When Dudebuilding cannot save your crappy game.

It’s been hectic times over here. Between industriousness of all shapes and sizes, and a job I’m trying to convince my corporate benefactors that “I’m the absolute best choice for.” – I have had zero time for games, until a couple of days ago.

I went through my shelf of things old and new and was rifling through the large quantity of games left “Unplayed.”

I saw something – a collection of something – and thought, this would make a great question for the column. Do you own any games that you really thought you would have liked, have no reason to not like them, and yet, here you are, making a scowling face every time you see the box on your shelves?

I certainly do. And it’s called EVERY. FREAKIN. ARMORED CORE. GAME.

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Atari Poop

Atari Poop – The Game That Could Not Be Pooped

Listen, let me get something out of the way right from the start.  This will not be a typical Atari Poop. Look, I tried, I really did: conspiracy theories, alternate realities, inspired by something stupid before it, inspired something ridiculous that came after it. I also had a list of random celebrities I could possibly shoehorn into the article, but alas, it’s like everything I threw at it just wouldn’t stick, like the game is Poop-proof! I tried to write an Atari Poop article on Pitfall!

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RetroHate

What’s Your Wallet Size?

Wallets, pouches, purses, no matter what you call them, the thing you hold money in is an invaluable accessory. This is especially true in video games where often your wallet is tied to your very survival. Need potions? Better armor? Stronger weapons? Need to save your game at an inn? It all costs money. Money that you won’t be able to collect unless you have a wallet.

About that wallet…

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