Author: sull56ivan2010 Out of all the licenses Konami ever had, Tiny Toon Adventures is one of their best ones. Konami games on NES, Genesis, and Game Boy all had solid efforts put into them. On SNES, it was no different. Buster Busts Loose is an excellent game. The last of…
Author: John Legendoffzelda By the time of Whizz, Titus and Flair Software’s isometric puzzle-platformer about a rabbit in a magician’s dapper tux, the gaming community had already entered the dregs of the Super Nintendo days. The Nintendo 64 and its intense three-dimensional capabilities had been on the market for a…
Author: John Legendoffzelda For all the edge and shimmering visuals apparent throughout Castlevania: Dracula X, you can still see its creators reinstating the series’ strict roots and doing so with relative panache. No swinging from hooks, no whipping in a direction that isn’t directly in front of you, and…
Author: John Legendoffzelda How much moving around is there in the Super Nintendo video game of Animaniacs? The Warner brothers (and the Warner sister) go into their idle animations, a dance where they shake their behinds in unison, not two seconds after the player leaves them still – that’s how…
Author: John Legendoffzelda He may be “the baddest opossum to ever strap on a rocket pack”, but the title character of Konami’s Sparkster is still caught in a strange position with his sole outing on the Super Nintendo. Sparkster’s debut, the 1993 Sega Genesis game Rocket Knight Adventures,…
Author: John Legendoffzelda Someone on the Twitter account of Internet personality Egoraptor detrimentally called Konami’s Super Nintendo beat-em-up games “quarter munchers”. Okay, they aren’t wrong, but that person kind of misrepresents a key idea about the way Konami made games back then. Konami wasn’t like Nintendo or Capcom back…
Author: Mongunzoo Ah, Batman: The Animated Series. My childhood would have been a lesser one without you. There was nothing like getting home from school and tuning into another one of the Dark Knight’s superbly written adventures. It was always amazing. Heck, the intro alone was better than most…
Author: Mongunzoo Who doesn’t love a good campy horror flick every now and then? With Lucas Art’s Zombies Ate My Neighbors, you may never have to watch another one! Just look at the premise of the game: Monsters are running amok in the neighborhood and it is up…
Author: Masamune If you were a child of the early 90s, chances are likely you’ve heard of the Tiny Toons TV series. If not, here’s a glimpse of this classic from my childhood: Tiny Toons cartoon show. This was one of my favorite shows when I was a…
Author: Mongunzoo I may be a SNES fanboy, but that does not mean that I can’t recognize greatness across the aisle when I see it. So let’s face it; when it comes to the shoot-em’ up genre, the ball was not in Nintendo’s court during the 16-bit generation … A…