Hardware Review

  • 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…

  • How Diablo IV Should Be Influenced By Diablo I

    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…

  • Philips CD-i Review: Dark Castle

    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.

  • Leap until you Puke with Jump King – for Switch, PS4, and XBox

    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.…

  • Why Bioware should kill Mass Effect after Andromeda

    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…

  • Review – Why fans hate Zelda 2 and why they are dead wrong

    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…

  • Little Briar Rose Switch Review

    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…

  • Why the Diablo II Remaster is Bound to Disappoint

    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.

  • Review: Fusion Wired Gaming Headset from PowerA

    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…

  • Endzone: A World Apart Review

    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.

  • Dragon Warrior Monsters: How A Top Game Boy Color RPG Went Practically Unnoticed

    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.

  • Alien Scumbags brings 8 bits of carnage to Steam

    Alien Scumbags brings 8 bits of carnage to Steam

    Monster Finger Games has mashed up your favorite franchises into a horror parody platformer. Alien Scumbags packs an impressive amount of content into a shiny little package. It’s a 2D, 8-bit platformer with cheeky nods to classic action, horror, and sci fi franchises like DOOM, Duke Nukem, Halo (the main protagonist is Master Chef), Aliens,…

  • A Biased Opinion on Spider Man 2018 (PS4)

    A Biased Opinion on Spider Man 2018 (PS4)

    “With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility” Those who follow me on Twitter have probably seen my posts about this game and how much I love it. I can’t hide the bias I have for Spider-Man and Spider-Man games but I will try to remain objective. Spider-Man was released in 2018 by Insomiac games. The game…