See the rest of the Review a Great Game Day entries at Review A Great Game Day.com! It is a fairly well known fact that movie/TV show based video games are almost exclusively garbage. Rarely did a blockbuster movie, or hit TV show have a videogame counterpart that could match …
There are very few games were I actually go out of my way to purchase toys or figurines; the only other toys/figurines/action figures that I own are Final Fantasy related. That I am a huge Persona fan is no secret, so when I saw this amazing little Teddie (Kuma, in Japan) …
It’s August 8th! You know what that means… Review A Bad Game Day! Head over to the Review A Bad Game Day’s site for a full list of reviewers participating in the event and see the links to all the bad reviews. The horror! Speaking of horror, the game I …
When discussing the topic of quality NES third party developers, you often hear the same names repeated ad nauseum; companies such as Capcom and Konami are perennial favourites, and for good reason; they made some fantastic and highly influential games. Other companies such as Hudson Soft, Tecmo, and Irem may also enter …
For the dawn of the new millennium, Square took it upon themselves to re-release their biggest PS1 games complete with special edition packaging and tons of goodies. Fittingly, these titles were released under the banner “Square Millennium Collection”. All of Square’s prestige titles got the deluxe treatment (with the exception of …
I have been waiting to get my hands on one of these things since I first saw it demoed at E3 last year. The portable Super Nintendo has long been a dream of mine, and many other video game fans. Sure, there was that FC-16, but from most accounts I …
I recently came into a bit of a windfall when I sold an Ebay score for 20 times what I paid. I spent an entire day trying to decide exactly what from my long and storied Ebay watch list I would finally move on, and in the end I decided …
As a kid I never actually own a Game Boy. I was one of the “turncoats” who went straight from the NES to the SEGA Genesis in Sonic the Hedgehog’s brilliant blue wake. That is not to say that I didn’t ever play any Game Boy games at the time. …
Undoubtedly, the 8-bit Nintendo era was the perfect casual crossroads in videogame technology- think of it as the iPhone of it’s day. Let me explain: At the time of it’s release NES was far more cost efficient than a computer, with the savings far out-weighing what those computers could offer the …
A popular theme in many manga (mangi?) and anime flicks is the retconning of World World II. Games, manga and anime such as Valkyria Chronicles, Operation Darkness, and Pumpkin Scissors all take the setting, esthetic and look of 1940′s Europe and each add their own twist, whether that be mechs, steampunk technology, …