When Ridley Scott unleashed Alien onto unsuspecting film fans way back in 1979, no one probably thought that the film would spawn a franchise that would take over the media landscape. Today, the franchise is still going strong, having conquered the box office, comics, novels, board games, action figures, and of course, video games. With […]
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So, Mortal Kombat took the fighting game (and video game world, in general) by storm, and made it a worthy opponent to Capcom’s Street Fighter II. The obvious question after that is: How do you follow up that success? The obvious answer came in November 1993 with Mortal Kombat II. Was it more of the […]
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Let’s be honest: It was a bummer when Limited Run Games announced the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection, and the Sega Genesis games were absent from the announced titles. Thankfully, Limited Run Games has rectified that glaring omission, announcing this afternoon that Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition have now been added to the […]
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Times and tastes have obviously changed since LucasArts’ Zombies Ate My Neighbors hit the scene back in 1993, but the cult classic Run n’ Gun still endures for many fans. The wizards at LucasArts took the simple concept of Gauntlet, blended together 90s pop culture with B-movie horror, and topped it all with the carefully-crafted […]
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Seeing as it’s the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg‘s iconic Jurassic Park this year, Limited Run Games has once again dipped into the nostalgia pool in a collaboration with Universal Games and Digital Platforms for the new Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. The collection packages together the NES, Game Boy and SNES versions of Ocean […]
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All the talk of BillyTime!Games‘ ROM hack of Ghostbusters on the Sega Genesis got us thinking of other horror-themed ROM hacks that you may not be aware of. Obviously, the topics of ROM hacking and video game emulation are reserved for a different website, but that shouldn’t stop us from touching on them for this […]
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He did it before with Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, and he’s doing it again with Super Castlevania IV. YouTuber Lord Kayoss is back again with another mini-doc/playthrough, this time going over Konami’s 1991 classic for the Super Nintendo. As before with his other videos, Kayoss runs through Super Castlevania IV in a full walkthrough, sprinkling […]
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It was only last month that we looked back on the original Castlevania, which after 35 years, still remains one of the Konami’s best NES games. And, after a sequel that, while initially maligned, laid the groundwork for what was to come for the franchise, and a third entry that is still praised as one […]
Really, what more can anyone say about the Super Nintendo, which has now hit the big 3-0 here in North America? The successor to the NES was the best-selling console of its era, went toe-to-toe with the Sega Genesis in the “console wars” of the 90s, and for many remains the most-cherished Nintendo console of […]
Part classic 80s action film, part social satire (that sadly has become reality with each passing year), the RoboCop franchise has done capitalism right from toys, TV shows, comic books, cartoons, and of course, video games. And as is the norm, the video game adaptations run the gamut in quality, much like the later film […]