Tag: Genre: Platform Shooter
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…
Mega Man 6 (NES)
(Review archived from April 20, 2023*) Ah Mega Man 6, the Blue Bomber’s swan song on the 8-bit system that brought him into our living rooms. Our boy was growing up. Upon the U.S. release date of Mega Man 6 however (November 5, 1993), what ‘growing up’ really meant for Mega Man is that we…
Mega Man (NES)
(Review archived from January 27, 2015) Mega Man was the first game that I ever heard about via word of mouth. Bear in mind that this was before the internet, before orchestrated video game advertising campaigns, and largely before journalistic media coverage of console gaming was officially a ‘thing’ (this would have been somewhere around…
