• Review,  Video Games

    Review – Duck Tales (NES)

    I have a pretty outstanding memory when it comes to video games. It reaches all the way back as far as my memory goes. In those far, misty regions of my brain is the distinct memory of playing Duck Tales on the NES with my cousins. I remember being fascinated by the concept of “short cuts” in the Transylvania stage…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Dragon Warrior III

    It’s hard to believe that it wasn’t so long ago that I didn’t think I could possibly get through a late 8-bit JRPG without, I don’t know, lapsing into a coma from boredom. I wasn’t a fan of the genre at its best, so I certainly wasn’t going to be able to get through a game from a more archaic…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

    While the Game Boy was released in 1989 to near-instant popularity, it would take developers a few years to actually come to grips with the little grey brick’s eccentricities. Early games on the handheld tended to be either single screen puzzle or arcade games, and attempts at porting the gameplay of existing NES licenses. This resulted in games like Castlevania:…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Gargoyle’s Quest

    Nintendo’s first cartridge based handheld, the Gameboy, was many things. It was influential, popular, long-lived, and absolutely ubiquitous. It was not, however, a very powerful system. Consider that the Atari Lynx was released later in the same year — a handheld with a full colour display and better graphical capacity — and you’ll see that the Gameboy lagged behind in…