From the NES of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
There was a time when Bandai, before it became better known as the other half of Namco Bandai, didn’t have that great of a reputation in North America when it […]
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From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus
What caught my eye on this ad was the really great artwork of Cerberus that appears here as well as on the cover of the game. Look at that thing. […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Omnitrend’s Universe
Elite is considered by many as the grandaddy behind the kind of space-based sandbox trading/combat that later titles would update from Origin’s Privateer to Digital Anvil’s Freespace. But prior to […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Wing Commander
As great as X-Wing was, I had always had a soft spot in my heart for Wing Commander and its sequel. X-Wing was a great first step for Lucasarts, but […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Polarware
In ’86, this ad ran for Polarware’s games featuring them as “Interactive Novels” and boasted of they having been created with “The Graphics Magician” which was probably their version of […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Recently, Michael Bay had received a lot of flack for a comment he had made on the upcoming TMNT movie he’s producing. Specifically, on making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles […]
Hitting the sandbox in L.A. Noire like an old adventure game
L.A. Noire was a very cool experience. It’s a solid game, but I can see how not everyone might like it. One thing that jumped out at me is that […]
More No More Heroes HD
Andriasang has news on a new effort being made to bring No More Heroes to HD complete with sexy boxart. Heroes’ Paradise brought the assassin-slaying game to the Xbox 360 […]
Only in Japan – A cat RPG
I did some surfing on Nico Nico and found footage of an RPG where you play a cat – but not just any ordinary cat. You don’t earn experience from […]
Elevator Action is a…gun game?!
Remember Elevator Action from the arcades? I dumped a lot of tokens into that game growing up and had a blast playing a “secret agent” guy that had to go […]
