In the spirit of Halloween I thought I would really dig into on of my favorite little import gems, a quirky horror-based RPG called Sweet Home. Sweet Home has a fascinating history unto itself, not to mention the impact it had on the formulation and development of the Resident Evil franchise and to the survival horror genre [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Halloween Special: Sweet Home
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged capcom, classic, nes, nintendo, repro, reproduction, retro, rpg, survival horror, sweet home on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Must Read: RetroGamer Collection Vol. 3
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, Reviews, tagged books, classics, konami, magazine, nes, retro, retrogamer, Sega, video games, zelda on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I picked this up just today from my local Chapters bookstore. If you are a fan of RetroGamer magazine, then you will be familiar with this. The RetroGamer Collection series is basically the best of RetroGamer magazine condensed into one volume, and free of ads. This thing the amazing, and at a hefty 256 beautifully printed [...]
Vagrant Story
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged final fantasy 12, final fantasy tactics, ivalice, playstation, ps1, Reviews, rpg, square, square-enix, squaresoft, vagrant story, yasumi matsuno on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yasumi Matsuno’s second Square effort, Vagrant Story, deserves every bit of praise it has accrued since it’s initial release in February of 2000. Like Matsuno’s Final Fantasy Tactics before it (and Final Fantasy 12 after), Vagrant Story broke new ground within it’s genre. with Final Fantasy Tactics, Matsumo added a level of customization and depth of story and character [...]
Chasing Carts: All Zelda CIB (Update #3)
Posted in Featured Article, finds, tagged classic, collection, finds, game boy advance, game boy color, Gameboy, nes, nintendo, the legend of zelda, video games, zelda on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a reoccurring feature here were I provide updates in my quest to own all of the Zelda games complete-in-box. Play catch up on my progress by checking out my flagship entry, the first update, and the second update. I have cleared a couple more hurtles on the handheld front. Most exciting for me personally, is [...]
Hero’s Quest
Posted in Reviews, tagged adventure game, hero's quest, pc gaming, quest for glory, retro, review, rpg, seirra on October 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Oh, my dearest Hero’s Quest. My first ever experience with a non-Commodore PC was some old IBM beast my grandfather had that ran Windows 3.1. I remember at the time that he got it it was state-of-the-art, cutting edge stuff. I have a fairly close (and large) family and I can remember my brother, myself, [...]
New Game Room Addition (Rad Arcade Content)
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, tagged arcade, collecting, finds, game room, JAMMA, konami, retro, the simpsons, video games on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The above photograph portrays the swath of destruction I carved through my game room on Sunday night. Why would I intentionally have created such chaos in my normally tidy and uber-organized temple of doom? For probably the best reason of all; an arcade machine. Having owned an arcade cab in the past (Rygar), and having [...]
Review: Famicom Dojo Season 1 DVD
Posted in Reviews, tagged 4 color rebellion, dvd, Famicom, famicom disk system, nintendo, powet tv, Reviews, twin famicom on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Released by: www.powet.tv, 4 color rebellion Release Date: September, 2009 Price: $15.95 Order from: www.famicomdojo.tv Number of Discs: 1 Special Features: Wii Day Launch Special, Tokyo Game Show 2007 Special, website promos, convention tour 2008 special, bloopers, out takes, and alternate takes, DVD rom content, and more. In a sea of angry gamers yelling and bitching about the same rogue’s galley of [...]
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