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One Man’s Quest to Review Every 16-Bit Game
I’ve played, reviewed, and documented my thoughts about every single game that was released in North America during the 16-bit era. Crazy, right? That’s 716 Super Nintendo, 704 Sega Genesis, and 95 TurboGrafx-16 games, for a grand total of 1,515 fourth-generation titles. Obviously, this begs two questions: Why would you do such a thing? My…
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Collecting retro Nintendo doesn’t have to be expensive, actually.
Greedy doodoo-heads seem determined to make my favorite hobby unaffordable. It’s been a little while since DKOldies started popping off on social media, but their legacy of severely overpriced retro games still lives on. For now, at least. Astute readers already know where I’m headed. Yes, this post exists in large part to promote the…
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16 Underrated NES Games
The Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most successful and most enduring video game consoles ever invented. Following the North American console crash, the NES emerged not only as the dominating force in home gaming, but as a pop culture icon so ubiquitous as to be almost unmatched in its ubiquitatious ubiquitosity! Mario, Metroid,…
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Final Fantasy vs Dragon Warrior pt 1: A deep dive into JRPGs for the NES
…in the Japanese version…a woman offers to sell puff-puff – a Japanese onomatopoeia for a girl rubbing her breasts in someone’s face, or juggling her own breasts. In the North American version, the woman sells tomatoes.
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The 15 Best Sega Dreamcast RPGs
Sega’s systems have had plenty of great RPGs, but like Rodney Dangerfield, they get no respect. Sega Dreamcast was a very intriguing system that never lived up to its full potential. Despite having internet connectivity and good graphics, the Dreamcast lacked the sales to keep up with the competition. Remember, the system suffered from the…
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Hands-On with PowerA’s Fusion Fightpad
After a long hiatus from fighting games, I recently got back into Street Fighter V and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. I had just upgraded my ghetto PC with a new GPU and liquid cooler and was looking to test it out on games that push high-end graphics as fast as possible. I figured these fit…
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This Game is Not Fun – Little Adventure on the Prairie Review
Little Adventure on the Prairie is a hack and slash adventure game where you follow a young man with an insatiable appetite for destroying anything that gets in his way. Little Adventure on the Prairie was developed and published by Infinite Madaa. I believe this was Infinite Madaa’s first game and it shows. It was…
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How Diablo IV Should Be Influenced By Diablo I
Making the fourth game in a series is tough, and Diablo IV must tread carefully to make their fans happy. Just ask Bioware about Mass Effect: Andromeda. Aside from needing to develop a story that justifies a sequel, Blizzard has to bring back parts of the series that people liked while trimming elements that were…
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Philips CD-i Review: Dark Castle
Dark Castle for the CD-i is simply not fun. This doesn’t even qualify as a “so bad it’s good” kind of experience. I bought this game on sale at a thrift store for less than $1 and I still paid too much for it.
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Leap until you Puke with Jump King – for Switch, PS4, and XBox
If you think you’re good at games, try Jump King. There’s a Smoking Hot Babe at the top! The promotional email I received for Jump King promised “a comically vicious vertical platformer.” My thought was, “Oh, I love platformers. Watch me eat this little game for breakfast.” But in the end, I was the breakfast.…
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Why Bioware should kill Mass Effect after Andromeda
The original Mass Effect games were incredible. Does that mean we should look past the mediocre Andromeda entry and hope for a potential Mass Effect 5? Playing the Mass Effect trilogy was amazing, and I can proudly say I loved 99% of it. The gameplay was fun, the story was incredible, and the characters were…
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Review – Why fans hate Zelda 2 and why they are dead wrong
Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link on NES is the most divisive in the series. Let’s review this game and see why so many fans are so wrong. I should probably be out front with this: I love Zelda 2. Zelda 2 was the first Zelda game I ever played. It was actually one of…
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Little Briar Rose Switch Review
Little Briar Rose is an adventure game that based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty. The game follows the story of Prince Stephen I, or a variety of other princes, depending on your puzzle solving skills, as he journey’s to a cursed kingdom to save Princess Aurora. This game was developed and published by Elf…
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Why the Diablo II Remaster is Bound to Disappoint
Now, there are rumors that a Diablo II remaster is on the way, and I honestly don’t think Blizzard should bother.
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Review: Fusion Wired Gaming Headset from PowerA
PowerA does a fine job packing their products. Especially compared to some other headsets I’ve seen at this price point. The box arrived in all its green glory, with the headset packed in a fitted-plastic tray with a cover to prevent chafing during shipment. The microphone was fitted into a slot on the tray, as…
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Endzone: A World Apart Review
Following an apocalyptic nuclear incident, the few surviving humans are forced to live in underground facilities called “endzones.” The game takes place 150 years later, as humans are emerging from the endzones and back onto the surface to begin… well, you know: city-building.
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Dragon Warrior Monsters: How A Top Game Boy Color RPG Went Practically Unnoticed
Dragon Warrior Monsters (DWM) is a Game Boy Color RPG that had all the makings of a masterpiece, but it never got the international success of similar titles. Why? Well, it was going head to head with the juggernaut that is Pokémon.