Month: April 2025
Shining in the Darkness (Genesis)
For some time now, I’ve considered migrating my gaming backlog to an online management tool. Based on feature set, I’m currently leaning towards Infinite Backlog, although it’s certainly not the only available option. Presently I manage a sizable backlog of unplayed games by means of an Excel spreadsheet, a method just as old and outmoded…
Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Halo: CE Anniversary (PC/Steam)
Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary sure is helluva a verbose title isn’t it? All those colons! So! Our first order of business here is to make that word salad a bit more palatable. For the remainder of the review I’m just going to refer to the game by its original working…
Alpha Mission (NES)
I’ve mentioned before on the blog how on that fateful Christmas morning in 1987, I received the legendary NES Action Set along with The Legend of Zelda which, at the risk of sounding completely overdramatic, was a bit of a life changing experience (I mean … here we are nearly 40 years later, and I’m…
Batman: The Video Game (GB)
MERCHANDING! One of my favorite things about this game is that the publishers, in a bit of Spaceballs-ian marketing strategy, appended ‘The Video Game’ to the title of … the video game. I suppose if they had just printed ‘Batman’ on the box (along side the prominent Game Boy logo), it might not have been…
