• Power Gig: Ghosts of the Six String

    Ghosts of E3 Past – Power Gig

    Over promising and under delivering isn't new at trade shows, but it takes a very special game to be rendered completely dead-on-arrival at E3. Power Gig was that game. ...

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    Diary of a Red Ring Survivor

    Wednesday, May 18 2011, 23:26 It’s been fifteen days. Fifteen days spent in this grim hell. I’m starting to feel the true horror of the situation kick in. My mind ...

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    Foreign Treasures: Sutte Hakkun

    Sutte Hakkun is an “action puzzle” game in which you play as “Hakkun”, a transparent creature that vaguely resembles a kiwi bird.  It doesn’t take long after booting it up ...

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    Retrospective: Zelda Clones

    Nintendo’s Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy (for the Famicom Disk System, later released in cartridge format on the NES under the simplified moniker of “The Legend of Zelda”) was ...

  • F-Zero X Expansion Kit

    Foreign Treasures: F-Zero X Expansion Kit

    Before the Nintendo 64 was even released, Nintendo planned an expansion for the platform called the “Nintendo 64DD”.  The “DD” stood for “disk drive”, since games for the add-on would ...

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    For A Good Time, Call Edna

    Maniac Mansion vaulted the adventure genre from the obtuse and painful to intuitive and fun. How did an eccentric mad scientist and his family work their ways into our hearts and minds? ...