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Woo Hoo for ‘Mario 2′

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Maybe three or four years ago, I started to see a new acronym pop up on the Internet:  QFT.  As I understand it, this stands for ‘Quoted for Truth.’  It gets used when somebody on a forum scoops up another person’s words and re-posts them in order to demonstrate their own agreement.  It’s like a [...]

‘The Scariest Video Game Character of All Time’

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Move aside, Pyramid Head–the gaming world has spoken, and there’s a new Scariest Game Character in town.  Just in time for Halloween, blogger Chad Concelmo introduces us to the gaming baddie he fears above all others:  Phanto, from Super Mario Bros. 2.  Since this was my Mario game of choice as a kid, I’m inclined [...]

How to Spend Your Internet Channel Rebate

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Now that Nintendo has made the Wii Internet Channel available to all its users, it’s given those who paid for the service a free NES game on the Virtual Console.  How nice!  My Wii’s back home, but I think I’m one of those people, so I’ll be excited to pick up a classic game free [...]

‘FPS Conventions That Need to Die’

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

My, my, if the blogopshere isn’t alive with critics these days!  All over the place, gamers are questioning long-held beliefs and calling out inane or dated traditions in the medium.  With all this healthy debate, I daresay our industry must be in the middle of a virtual Renaissance!
All right, now that the flowery language is [...]

Revenge! ‘Captain America and the Avengers’

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Revenge! comes to you a bit late this week, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less intense.  Today, we’re looking at another beat ‘em up and another constant troublemaker in my game-shoebox:  Captain America and the Avengers!
This game was born for co-op.  As an arcade carry-over, Captain America almost expected you to have a buddy [...]

FireCore Offers Plug-and-Play Genesis Experience

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

It may sound like a Nicholas Cage disaster movie, but in reality, FireCore is a plug-and-play game system that comes pre-loaded with thirty Genesis titles.  More importantly, however, it can also play all the Genesis cartridges slumbering near the Furby in your basement:
While Innex and AtGames’ Firecore Classic Console is pre-loaded with 30 Genesis games [...]

‘Goldeneye’ Port Halted

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Although I’m more of a SNES partisan, I’ve gotta give some hearty respect knuckles to the N64.  Maybe it had trouble fending off the classier PS1, and maybe it spent too much time playing host to third-party trash, but in its element, the N64 was a generation-defining system.  Its catalog of games is littered with [...]

Revenge! ‘Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls’

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Our tale of Revenge! for this week starts in a shoe store, many years ago.  It was there that my dad met Paul, ass-kicking karate instructor / shoe salesman extraordinaire.  Aside from teaching me the two, count ‘em, two karate combos I still know today, Paul deserves the credit for introducing my dad to the [...]

Good Old Games At It Again with ‘Might and Magic’ Deal

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Earlier this week, I showed some love for all you Gameologists by alerting you to a great deal on Interplay titles over at digital retailer Good Old Games.  Well, my friends, one good turn deserves another–or maybe six more.  Good Old Games is now selling six titles from the landmark RPG series Might and Magic [...]

Revenge! ‘Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage’

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I like to think I was a pretty hardcore kid.  I was never a huge asset on the soccer field, and I can’t shoot a marble to save my life, but when I had a controller in my hands, boy, I was going places.  I wasn’t a prodigy or anything, but I knew what I [...]