1 More Castle - For Dummies
Jonathan Hallée
A Farewell Message from the 1MoreCastle Contributors
Daniel Lamplugh
Retro Power: Goodbye, 1 More Castle
Alex Weiss & Valerie Minnich

The Retro Critic

Rampage

Monsters are cool.

Video games are also cool so you can imagine how cool Rampage is.

Unless you’ve played it, in which case you already know.
Read More

Game Overkill

Game Overkill – Faxanadu

I first played Faxanadu as a kid, likely during the first year it was released, so in 1989 or 1990. One of my aunts had rented it when I came over to visit. I immediately loved the game, despite the fact that it is impossible to kill the first enemy in the game. That might not sound like a big deal, but I probably died twice trying to kill that slow-moving spike-covered bastard, figuring there’s no way a video game would throw you in front of an enemy you can’t kill as soon as it starts. Right? RIGHT?! I’m starting to think I might have a thing for games that are a dick to the player: (e.g., Zelda II, Simon Quest).
Read More

Top Shelf

Maniac Mansion

Tentacles and meteors and hamsters, oh my!

For Review A Great Game Day I looked at one of the original classic graphic adventures – Maniac Mansion. This Lucasfilm game is smart, funny, irreverent, and influenced a generation of point-and-click adventure games. As the first adventure game I ever played, this one will always hold a special place in my heart and be something I consider one of the greats.

Read More

D-ported

D-Ported Putt Putt Saves the Zoo

Putt Putt Saves the Zoo is a great game. But how does the Android port stack up? Would a modern kid enjoy this point and click classic? All will be revealed. Special thanks to Chris Swartz and his daughter Mae for helping with the Android version of the game. Follow him @ChrisASwartz & stay up to date with this channel by following @dportedshow

Read More

Nintendo Legend

River City Ransom

Many classic video games have a certain level of charm to them; a particular sort of whimsy, or an extravagant splurge on emotive flourishes. When developers go the extra mile to put these heart-plucking extra bits of details into their releases, gamers notice. Players care. It is no coincidence that such distinctive, unique, zany, rich, full-of-character games like Earthbound and Maniac Mansion have attained a legendary status.

Read More

The Retro Critic

Tomb Raider

Review A Great Game Day is back!

Which is why today I’ll be looking at one of my favourite games: the original Tomb Raider.

No bows and arrows, no crisp, cinematic graphics, no fancy movie-length cut-scenes, just handguns, good old pixels and pointy-looking people with rectangular hands.

The way it should be.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary? That’s for suckers.
Read More

GMZ

GMZ – Review a Great Game Day Edition

The Art of Gaming with Theodore Ipecac Effete III – Tetris

By Theodore Ipecac Effete III

The Odyssey, Icelandic sagas, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Tetris. The Faerie Queene, Animal Farm, Gulliver’s Travels, and Tetris. No, this isn’t a Sesame Street’s “one of these things is not like the other.” I shall describe to you how Tetris, especially for the NES, is the contemporary world’s greatest epic and allegory, a multilayered work of art with more meaning packed into it than anything that has come before it or after.
Read More

My Two Gils

Easter Eggs For Dummies

Easter was just around the corner, time to resurrect Holiday themed columns, right? Wrong. Eggs had started to invade us for a while now, from chocolate to painted plastic. However, with the influx of retro-style indie games and the upcoming Pixels movie, it seems Easter Eggs’ other meaning is attempting a barbaric invasion as well. With so many people trying to shove references in our faces, xenomorph style, and so many other begging for them, the gaming scene is quickly turning into a Royal Rumble, make that a Royal Scramble-(d eggs). It’s a shame so many are missing the mark more often than duck hunters on an LCD screen. Few are the ones who were able to cook up a rock solid recipe for references and Easter Eggs. I’m not saying I’m an expert on the matter, but if you have some time, stay a while and listen.
Read More

Retro Power

Retro Power: Issue 5

Thank you, dear readers for the excellent, amazing, and spectacular feedback you have given to our question of the month. We say it every month, but we really appreciate you all and could not do this without you. We’re hoping that the discussions started here can lead to further conversation and even friendships across the internet. After all isn’t that the power of retro gaming?

-Alex & Valerie
Read More

Pixel Gallery

Astal

Retro Platforms: Sega Saturn

Platform Reviewed: Sega Saturn

Although many games tell stories with realistic graphics, it’s definitely possible to have an entrancing game take place within a fantasy world. Some of my favorite games have art styles that showcase the more beautiful sides of nature, and they convey relaxing areas while still having exciting calls to adventure. I love seeing dark explorations of our world, but sometimes I just want to escape into a breathtaking setting that has its own rules and creatures. Astal, an ambitious sprite-based side-scroller that manages to have a lot of presentation variety, is really lively, and its crystal theming and natural diversity certainly help it be a cheerful experience. But how are the game’s other aspects like its story and gameplay, and is there enough originality here to keep things interesting?
Read More

N64 Connoisseur

Remastered Review: N64 Review #5- Magical Tetris Challenge

[Original review date: July 21, 2013]

Tetris has been around for almost as long as consoles have and seemingly continues to grow in popularity. Disney has been around longer than most people who will read this review and they have never lost a step, either. So what happens when you get Capcom to take the two entities and combine them? You get Magical Tetris Challenge for the Nintendo 64. Originally, people were super pissy about this game because it took Capcom forever to break onto the N64 and this is what they came with, a 2D Tetris game. Let’s see who’s laughing now. Read More

Page 7 of 65« First...56789...203040...Last »
Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!