• Review,  Video Games

    Review – Super 3-D Noah’s Ark

    On the ashes of Atari, Nintendo forged an empire in the late 80’s through a mix of good games and evil business practices. Nintendo of America’s early days were marked with anti-competitive practices that broke down in the 90’s under the weight of how illegal they were. That’s a topic for another day, but suffice to say that Nintendo held…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Lost Kingdoms II

    I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy Lost Kingdoms as much as I did. It’s a game that isn’t talked about very often, and even at the time it was released, seems to have been buried. Strangely, there was a sequel to it, released a year after the original. Lost Kingdom II comes from the very same team at FromSoftware as…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – The Sims 2 (Console)

    When EA launched The Urbz: Sims in the City, they had hopes for it to become the next big Sim franchise for them. It’s just too bad that game sucks out loud. They were so optimistic that they allegedly began work on The Urbz 2 five months before completion of the first game. Sales still managed to exceed 2 million…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Lost Kingdoms

    I first encountered Lost Kingdoms as a rental way, way back in my adolescent years, during that post-console launch drought that followed the GameCube’s release. I found it interesting because it had a female protagonist back when the market was moving swiftly away from them, and it had a dark, grim atmosphere without descending into horror. It stuck with me,…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – The Urbz: Sims in the City

    I grew up in a small rural town, population somewhere below 2000 (the signage was never quite clear on the number). The pervasive boredom of growing up in an area with no consistent social scene is probably the greatest factor in my embracing of video games as a hobby. It also meant that I’d perpetually be envious of city living,…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – The Sims Bustin’ Out (GBA)

    The Sims on PC was a massive success, selling somewhere past the 10 million mark. That’s still pretty impressive today, but was incredible back in 2000. Electronic Art was eager to cash in on their new hit series, so by 2003, the tap had been turned on and the ports and spin-offs had begun to flow. There were two separate…

  • Miscellaneous

    Happy 1 Year Anniversary!

    My first full year of running what was then called the Game Complaint Department. It's actually kind of painful to reach back that far into my memory, as that's right before my life got really tumultuous. Also before I started doing this professionally. So, I was still writing this on someone else's time.