Author: nullPointer
Zenji (ColecoVision)
(Review archived from November 22, 2014) Ultimately, Zenji would be the last game selected as part of the Random Gaming Review Project, and as such it will be the last “archived content” review I’ll be posting for a while. Next time I go on vacation, I’ll actually need to have fresh articles written in advance…
Syndicate (Jaguar)
(Review archived from October 8, 2014) This is the second in a series of resurrected “archived content” style reviews which were originally part of a Random Game Review Project I participated in a number of years ago. I’m on vacation during mid-July, so raising these moldy-oldies from the dead seemed like a good (i.e. lazy)…
Horse Racing (Arcadia 2001)
(Review archived from September 30, 2014) Remember a few months ago when I said, “the blog has grown … and nowadays the articles appearing here are exclusive to the blog itself“? Well as of this post, that statement will have been a lie. I’ll be on vacation over the next couple of weekends, and rather…
Captain America and the Avengers (Arcade)
Have you ever wondered how the Avengers got their name? Like … what exactly are they avenging? Do they just sit around in Avengers Tower waiting for some perceived slight that can subsequently be avenged? And for that matter, isn’t the act of avengement reactive in nature? I mean … these are Earth’s Mightiest Heroes©;…
LEGO Marvel’s Avengers (PC/Steam)
C-C-C-Combo Breaker! I had been keeping up with weekly articles for a few months, but LEGO Marvel’s Avengers turned out to be the game that broke the streak. Basically this boils down to the fact that I only review games I’ve beaten, and I don’t necessarily beat a game every week. I’m sure my devoted…
Phantasy Star II (Genesis)
As retro-gamer gamers, we often scoff at the idea the idea that a game “has aged poorly”. One typical response is to point out how many modern games ‘coddle the player’, and ‘hold their hand’ through every tiny challenge, free of any repercussion from failure. In short, we retro-gamers from upon our highest of horses…
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered (PC/Steam)
It seems to me that we humans have some kind of natural affinity for the number three. If we can figure out a way to apply some variation of a “Rule of Three” to our lives, we’ll have already done it before you can count to … oh dang, I almost did it. From the…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (GB)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan was released for Game Boy in 1990, the same year that the live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released to theatres. So while the Heroes in a Half Shell were still riding high in the cultural zeitgeist, this is right around the time that…
Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū (Famicom)
(English Translation by Spinner 8 and Friends) Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū (roughly translated as, “Go For It, Goemon! A Tricky Journey”) is the first home console entry in the beloved, long running Ganbare Goemon series. Being that this is the first time I’ve talked about Goemon on the blog, I should probably mention Ishikawa Goemon…
