Nintendo games are hard. It’s a fact. Pictured: hard fucking games A lot of old Nintendo games are, as a matter of principal, really hard… but let’s be honest here. Video games these days for the most part are moronically easy. There are exceptions to this rule, but the rule remains. Challenging …
This is a newish feature. Myself and group of like-minded retro gamers participate in group reviews under the name Ultra Review Roundtable. Each of us adds our own thoughts to an overall review piece, which then gets syndicated across all of the participant’s sites. Enjoy! Thanks goes to Jeff at …
Nintendo’s Vs. arcade hardware, released in the mid 80′s, was truly unique at the time of it’s release. Nintendo took what they did with their earlier dual screen Game and Watch releases and their 1984 arcade release Punch Out! and designed an entire arcade hardware configuration based on dual screens. …
What have I been playing this month? Okay, you twisted my arm. I’ll tell you everything, I swear! I have been playing the shit out of this game, and it’s absolutely brilliant. I have never played this game up until now because I had a hell of a time finding …
I won the banner contest over at Fuck Yeah Famicom! Thanks to everyone who voted for my design! My prize is a cart from the editor’s personal collection! I still don’t know what I am going to get yet, but as soon as I have it I will post it! …
I’ll level with you, I might just like Castlevania:Bloodlines, Konami’s lone Genesis Vampire outing, a little bit more than I like Super Castlevania 4. Perhaps it’s because I didn’t play Castlevania: Bloodlines until much later. Maybe I was able to understand and appreciate the game to a greater degree playing …
I have got a whopper for you today kids. Not only did I find one of the rare-elite and most sought-after North American SNES games, but this is a game that I have wanted for a really long time. It is also totally awesome that I found it for a …
Pictured: from top left: Friday the 13th (NES), A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES), Night Trap (Sega CD/32X), Corpse Killer (Sega CD/32X), Resident Evil Director’s Cut (PS1), Resident Evil 2 (PS1), Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (Sega Genesis), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Sega Genesis),Silent Hill (PS1), Resident Evil (PS1), Splatterhouse 3 (Sega Genesis), …
Ah! Finally I am writing a follow up to one of the first articles I put up on the blog. Once again, I am going to give you four solid titles for SEGA’s 16-bit wonder that prove it can hold it’s weight against both the NES and Super NES. The …