Author: John Legendoffzelda Mickey Mania was Sony Imagesoft and Disney’s gift to Mickey Mouse, a belated present for the guy’s 65th anniversary. I can’t speak for anyone else, but if I were Mickey, I would have preferred that they didn’t get me anything at all. This game is…
Author: RushDawg While the Super Nintendo library has a big variety of quality titles, one well-known weakness is the shooter genre (also known as a shoot ‘em up or shmup). Shmups were most popular in the early ‘90s, right around when the SNES was launching. As a result, the…
Author: jrsupermoore Taking you all the way from the “Land Down Under” to the “City that Never Sleeps”, Top Gear 2 (TG2) offers everything a dyed-in-the-wool racing fan needs: turbulent and challenging courses, stellar upgrade opportunities, screeching crashes and magnificent landscapes. The one or two-player Championship Circuit is such…
Author: Mongonzoo It’s a sad fact that some games do not deserve the hand that they are dealt, and of these titles Demon’s Crest has to be at the top of the list. This spiritual successor of the Gargoyle’s Quest games once again stars Firebrand of Ghouls and Ghosts…
Author: John Legendoffzelda Donald Duck received about the worst treatment of the three main Disney characters in the 1980s and 1990s. Consider his peers; Mickey Mouse was able to introduce himself to an entire new generation with three new short features between 1983 and 1995, plus a startling…
Author: Mongonzoo Things tend to have a way of always bouncing back the way they came. As the video game console is a direct descendant of arcade games, it is only natural that developers and gamers pay homage to pinball tables (which in turn are the forerunners to…
Author: GhostSweeper Hey, What Happened to the Table? Capcom made the beat-em-up scene a favourite among gamers back in the 90’s. It’s a genre made famous thanks to the legendary Final Fight, but what of Capcom’s other works you might well wonder. In 1994 they decided to port their…
Author: jrsupermoore There’s something to be said for an atmosphere of passion in athletics. Most team sports games out there take place in the context of a particular league where the real-life players are playing for a paycheck. On the contrary, the pride of international competition is heavily displayed…
Author: Mongunzoo Back in 1994, an old friend was re-invented in a big way in the form of Mega Man X. By updating the gameplay and giving the story a more mature edge, they managed to revitalize a floundering franchise just in time for the SNES. So it was…
Author: RushDog Tetris & Dr. Mario delivers on what it promises; 16-bit versions of both Tetris and Dr. Mario on the same cartridge. While compilation style games are very common today, having multiple games on the same cartridge was relatively new when the game was released in 1994. In…