Author: John Legendoffzelda A regular game design company may not think there could be anything much to a video game about Goof Troop. But when Capcom was making Disney games for the Super Nintendo, they weren’t just any regular game design company. They figured that adapting a 1990s TV update…
Author: RushDawg R-Type III marks the first entry in the series to be developed specifically for a home console. It was also the last SNES shoot ‘em up to receive a North American release way back in 1994. By designing this sequel specifically for the SNES hardware, was…
Author: RushDawg Electronic Arts’ NHL Hockey series is one of the longest running sports video game franchises. While the original 1991 release, NHL Hockey, was a Genesis exclusive, its sequel saw a release for both of the mainstream 16-bit consoles. Oddly enough, EA lost the NHL license…
Author: John Legendoffzelda Ms. Pac-Man is a classic, solid golden oldie of video games. But for a lot of people it may seem a little odd that it has an official version on the Super Nintendo, and the original Pac-Man does not. For other people this oddity is offset…
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: jrsupermoore I have a pleasantly nostalgic association with watching Major League Baseball (MLB) in its native environment, the ball park. Those long walks from car to stadium my brothers, dad and I took to save a few bucks on parking was as much a gameday ritual as…
Author: Mongunzoo Have you ever been spelunking? No, not those guided cave walks for the tourists! I’m talking about “wild caving’”, where you leave the tourists behind with their walkways and large areas and enter a world that few will ever see. A world of dark passages and underground rivers.…
Author: Mongunzoo The year was 1995 … I remember it as if it were yesterday. After a busy day at school, it was off to the local Toys R Us to celebrate being chosen as Student of the Month. It was there that I saw the gigantic box…
Author: marktheshark Just a few days ago, I got this game from a friend for free since he had an extra copy. Before that, I didn’t really know much about Actraiser 2. I first heard about it a few years ago when I read about Actraiser 1 on some…
Author: Mongunzoo It was winter when I began my journey through the Secret of Mana. I will never forget renting it from the local Mom ‘n Pop and losing myself for hours as I bashed Rabbites, explored beautiful realms, and conversed with a talking cat! My only regret was that…