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  • One Man’s Quest to Review Every 16-Bit Game

    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…

  • 16 Underrated NES Games

    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,…

  • Final Fantasy vs Dragon Warrior pt 1: A deep dive into JRPGs for the NES

    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.

  • The 15 Best Sega Dreamcast RPGs

    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…

  • The Top 20 SNES RPGs Everyone Should Play

    The Top 20 SNES RPGs Everyone Should Play

    The SNES RPGs continued older franchises and introduced new ones. Together, the series developed on this system would attract new fans and dominate the global market. In fact, many of the major series are still alive and kicking today!

  • Bigger is NOT Better: Halo Infinite and Open World Games

    Bigger is NOT Better: Halo Infinite and Open World Games

    Since its announcement, much speculation has surrounded Halo: Infinite, the seventh main installment in Microsoft’s flagship franchise. Among the most common questions was whether the newest Halo would be an open-world game. In a recent article published by Destructoid, it was revealed that while the game does appear to encompass most, if not all, of its…

  • How Final Fantasy XVI can do the impossible and please its pickiest fans

    How Final Fantasy XVI can do the impossible and please its pickiest fans

    Final Fantasy XVI is going to face a lot of scrutiny. While FF7R probably slaked the thirst of RPG fans, players went into the game knowing what they were getting, more or less. Now, following the positively received FFXV, Square Enix has the impossible task of trying to please the players and critics. Do they do…

  • Why I’m Recklessly Optimistic About World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (You Should Be Too)

    Why I’m Recklessly Optimistic About World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (You Should Be Too)

    The World of Warcraft: Shadowlands beta is here, and that means we are staring down the barrel of a new expansion. Now that Battle for Azeroth is waning (to put it nicely) and so much new information about the next expansion has emerged, I’m starting to feel very excited.  While some people might not be…

  • Get these 5 PS3 Games While They’re Still Cheap (ish)

    Get these 5 PS3 Games While They’re Still Cheap (ish)

    The predictions here are based strictly on reading the value curve of these games, along with supplementary research to see how many copies were printed, how well they sold and that sort of thing.

  • Deliriant Game Review

    Deliriant Game Review

    Deliriants are defined as a class of hallucinogen. The term was introduced by David F. Duncan and Robert S. Gold to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics and dissociatives, such as LSD and ketamine respectively, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid states produced by such other hallucinogens as…

  • World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is already dead to me

    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is already dead to me

    “World of Warcraft: Shadowlands,” will be released before the end of this endless year, bringing players of the 16-year-old MMO to Azeroth’s realm of death. Players will meet the spirits of heroes and villains long departed from the world of the living, pursue after Sylvanas Windrunner as she continues to be pushed harder than Roman…

  • Grueling Careers that Video Games Made Fun

    Grueling Careers that Video Games Made Fun

    As a kid, it didn’t even occur to me that some of the games I was playing were based on real careers. Now, I look at a game and marvel at the fact that video games can make even the most mundane tasks fun. At least, that’s what people claim to be having when they’re…

  • PS3 Games to Collect Now (Prices are Already Rising)

    PS3 Games to Collect Now (Prices are Already Rising)

    If you’ve been searching the Google for articles on this topic, you’ve no doubt come across several that discuss the “rarest and most expensive PS3 games.” That’s not what we’re doing here.This post aims to find lower-cost PS3 games that are likely to become collectable over the next few years.

  • Remembering some of the worst Playstation 1 Games

    Remembering some of the worst Playstation 1 Games

    Today, the gaming world is moving at a healthy place. From the rise of esports to the growth of gamers streaming online, the offerings in this space have never been so good. Retro gaming is making a comeback too, alongside newer, more sophisticated releases on more technologically advanced consoles. The options are endless. We’re used…

  • Buy these Wii U and Vita games before prices skyrocket!

    Buy these Wii U and Vita games before prices skyrocket!

    Gamesradar called it “one of the deepest, most engrossing RPGs in history” and “its best incarnation is on the PS Vita.” It was their number-one best PS Vita game. The Persona series is incredibly popular among gamers, and with this being released on a less-popular system it’s all but assured to have a smaller run.…

  • The Price of PS2 Games is Exploding

    The Price of PS2 Games is Exploding

    . The price of PS2 games is exploding before our very eyes, and if you want some of these games, you’d better get them now before they get any more expensive.