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Review – The Museum of Anything Goes
I’m not sure if I can adequately prepare you for how bizarre The Museum of Anything Goes is. Let me first take you back to 1995. While the operating system was superseded that year, the important thing to know about Windows 3.1 was that it wasn’t a platform for video games. At the time, most games ran natively on DOS.…
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Review – Blood: Fresh Supply
I love Ken Silverman’s Build Engine. I toyed around with it when I was a kid, and I recall a period in early adulthood where I dove into its inner workings, as well as Silverman’s other projects. It is the perfect 2.5D engine, with the right balance of limitations and sophistication. But I only really played Duke Nukem 3D. Well,…
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Review – WCW vs. nWo: World Tour
I've been watching old WCW, usually in another window while I write. If nothing else, it adds a lot of context to AKI's first two N64 wrestling games. Now I know who all these muscular people are.
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Review – Suikoden I HD
I have no nostalgia for Suikoden. I grew up hearing it was a good game (or, really, its sequel), so I was very intrigued at the idea of jumping into an HD remaster. The Suikoden games have quite the legacy behind them (even more so if you follow Aidan Moher on social media), but I never knew how much of…
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Review – Rendering Ranger: R2 Rewind
A ridiculously rare Super Famicom game is given new life in Rendering Ranger R2 Rewind. Well, not "new" life, but if you haven't played it, it's new, right?
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Book Cudgel – Worlds of Power: Bases Loaded II: Second Season
If you're like me, you might be wondering how Bases Loaded II: Second Season, a baseball game about baseball, could be adapted to a children's book. Well, the same as any normal baseball novel, I suppose. But the surprising part is that it's far better than a story about a killer robot.
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Book Cudgel – Worlds of Power: Mega Man 2
The first entry in a possibly ongoing series of articles looking at video game novelizations. To start off, we're looking at Scholastics young reader adaptation of Mega Man 2, a game that leaves some possibilities for storytelling. However, the author here seems to have taken most things literally and taken liberties in weird ways.
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Review – Clock Tower: Rewind
It's nice to have an official release of Clock Tower. I was hyped, but slept on its initial re-release. Having circled back around, I can finally scratch this classic Japanese horror title off my list. I really hate writing these excerpts because I don't know what information will get you to click.
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Review – Undercover Cops (Arcade)
Ever dream of a beat-'em-up by the Metal Slug crew? That actually happened. Undercover Cops was developed by Meeher, Akio, Susumu, and friends. You can totally tell. But while it absolutely looks the part and features their signature ridiculousness, it is, unfortunately, not the Metal Slug of belt-scrolling brawlers.
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Review – Vigilante 8
After Twisted Metal 2, the series went into a nosedive with the departure of Singletrac. There was no one to where the car combat crown. That is until Luxoflux stepped up with Vigilante 8, a game that is a lot like Twisted Metal but funkier and with dumber objectives.
