I agree with our friend from England about mobile games as a new badlands. Since the barrier for entry is very low to get a mobile game going, and the downside of having a bad game is low, some percentage are just going to be poorly made. The flip side is that like rule 34, if you can think of somet...

Why are gamers okay with this? Its a $200 luxury upgrade - it triggers a comparison to the Genesis 32x. Its adds a few bells and whistles, and will play a small library of additional games beyond what your existing 3DS, or 3DS XL, or 2DS already plays. That it lacks a charger demonstrates that like ...

[QUOTE=Oltobaz]Deathtrap Dungeon is originally a Ian Livingstone gamebook, and one of the best ones there is at that. Too bad the the video game translation doesn't live to its standards.[/QUOTE]<br /><br />The Deathtrap Dungeon review did not get much attention because it was a double feature with ...

Since we had a thread on generating some love for the early polygon period, I wanted to bring this up.   Usually, when I am shopping for a kids mobile game, I encounter  a lot of sprite 2D art styles to look retro, or neo-retro.   Today I had this artstyl...

"People who were still playing consoles and hadn't moved on to playing games on home computers found games cheap and plentiful. Games that used to be $40 were $5, and even then most people didn't care because they were playing games on home computers or had moved on to playing Trivial Pursuit, Laser...

[QUOTE=videogamecritic]I think the instructions are especially vital to Atari 2600 games, not only because it explains what the game is all about, but because you can see what the variations are...find them in my reviews where it says "recommended variation".[/QUOTE] I agree whole heartedly. I will ...

<p>Here is my review up so far.   <br /><br />Remember reading Steve Kent's Ultimate History of Video Games.  How its got quotations and references and footnotes and you can speak about as a reference text?   This is not like that. <br /><br />Its much more like a conversati...

[QUOTE=Sut] I put it to the jury that the 32/64 bit generation is the best generation for light gun games.[/QUOTE]<br /><br />I agree, although even with that list its a pretty shallow niche compared to other niche markets like JRPGs.    The Zapper and Duck Hunt, as simplistic as they...

[QUOTE=LS650][QUOTE]I think you will find someone here to champion every console, and even most games. Go Odyssey 2![/QUOTE]<br /><br />Hey, don't be making fun of the O2.  It's got some really decent games: the KC games, UFO!, Killer Bees, Turtles!, and a few others.  <br />The O2 also ha...

Guess we should include Virtual Boy and 3DO in here too as part of the "early polygon" era. @Herschie I think you are spot on. This generation begins modern gaming. We see it now as transitional, where we compare the best games like Goldeneye to its modern analog FPSers. Maybe its like cars. A model...