By Indy1988 Whenever a first game of a series is released and is successful, it gives the company that created the game more time and money to figure out how to improve the experience and possibly learn from their mistakes. Capcom did just so with its Breath of Fire series…
Author: Indy1988 In this age of violence and action, even in the SNES era, nobody thought that a farming game would work so well. Sure, there’s games like SimFarm for the PC. But it didn’t really catch on until Yasuhiro Wada came up with a farming idea after he visited…
By Indy1988 When the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series (or Dragon Warrior to some people) were released to the public, they defined what makes a role-playing game. These games went beyond pencil-and-paper stats and long hours of leveling up a wizard or warrior. Video games made this possible…
Author: Indy1988 Any retro gamer may remember Bomberman. He is the little blue and white robot that blasted his way onto many a multiplayer battle that has probably killed many a friendship almost as bad as Mario Kart or Halo. Bomberman hasn’t been as active as he used to…
By Indy1988 HAL Laboratory is perhaps most famous for its Kirby series. The little pink puff has gobbled and scarfed his way to our hearts with his simple but charming adventures. And he is a mainstay in the Nintendo company along with Mario, Link, and Pikachu. In spite of…
By Indy1988 Introduction Sometimes a gamer will come across a game that will deliberately do something different. For instance, nobody thought a farming game like Harvest Moon would actually catch on. And there’s another game that does things in its own way that works. It’s called The Firemen, created…
Author: Indy1988 This review will probably be the most irregular review I have ever made. The reason? I’m reviewing a game that doesn’t have any official physical copies existing, and I don’t do reviews for prototypes. The game I’m talking about is Star Fox 2. It’s a game that…
Author: Indy1988 I was looking around in a flea market booth when I began talking to the owner about some Super Famicom games. He mentioned that he had this one baseball game where it had cute critters but it was in Japanese. He had no idea what the story…
Author: Indy1988 For every Super Mario Bros. or Legend of Zelda, there always seems to be a game that gets brushed off in favor for more popular franchises. To worsen the situation is the fact that the game may actually be good! ActRaiser is such a game. Every SNES fan…
Author: Indy1988 Introduction Yuji Horii is arguably one of the most important pioneers in the video game industry known chiefly for the Dragon Quest series, originally known as Dragon Warrior in North America. In addition to redefining the RPG genre into what it is now with companies modeling their games…