I tend to slant more toward the button mashing side of things when it comes to fighting games, but that doesn’t mean that I still don’t love me some over-the-top, all-hell-breaking-loose, screen-flashing, anime-sprayed insanity. Enter Arcana Heart 3, which hit the spot nicely. A few complaints here and there, but over all pretty great. Read [...]
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Non Retro Review: Arcana Heart 3
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged anime, arcana heart, arcana heart 3, fighting, girl, japanese, moe, non retro review, ps3, review on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ultra Review Roundtable: Kid Dracula
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged castlevania, game boy, kid dracula, portable, retro, review, ultra review roundtable, urr on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a newish feature. Myself and group of like-minded retro gamers participate in group reviews under the name Ultra Review Roundtable. Each of us adds our own thoughts to an overall review piece, which then gets syndicated across all of the participant’s sites. Enjoy! Thanks goes to Jeff at VGMastersClub.com for putting this all [...]
Retro Review
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged 8-bit, game sugar, gamesugar, nes, net, nintendo, puzzle games, Rare, snake rattle and roll on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I know it been a while since I have updated, but in the recent melt (after a record snow fall) my basement took on some serious water, so I have been dealing with that lately. Thankfully the game room survived unscathed, save for a small wet spot in one corner. Updates around here will be [...]
Non Retro Review
Posted in Reviews, tagged game sugar, gamesugar, jikandia: the timeless, psp, review, umd on April 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s time for you. the faithfully rad, to venture beyond the walls of Video Games Are Rad and check out my latest review over at GameSugar. This time I went through the PSP title Jikandia: The Timeless Land with a fine-toothed comb, and what can I say? It was totally fantastic. I highly recommend it [...]
Mighty Final Fight
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged capcom, chibi, cib, Famicom, family computer, final fight, haggar, mighty final fight, nintendo, review, super deformed on April 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Released in June 1993 in Japan, only a month after Final Fight 2 for the Super Famicom, Mighty Final Fight was CAPCOM’s entry into the pool of 8-bit chibi/super deformed Japanese franchise spin-offs. Like Konami’s chibi Castlevania title Akumajō Special: Boku Dracula-kun and Namcot’s Splatterhouse: Wanpku Graffiti before it, Mighty Final Fight created a super [...]
Final Fantasy XIII – European Collector’s Edition
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged 13, collector's edition, final fantasy, final february, lightning, square, squareenix, XIII on February 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Final Fantasy XIII was an incredible game- there I said it. It divided fans and critics alike, but to be fair, I would bet my video game collection that a high percentage of the game’s detractors have never even played the game, let alone gave it enough time to grasp it’s complexities. The issue of [...]
Non-Retro Review!
Posted in News and Updates, Reviews, tagged new games, non-retro reviews, psp, Reviews, video games on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another one of my reviews went up over at Game Sugar. It’s for a little NIS game called *draws in breath*… Z.H.P.: The Unlosing Ranger Vs. Darkdeath Evilman for the PSP. It was actually one of the best new games I played all last year (fuck the haters, Final Fantasy 13 is unquestionably #1 with [...]
New Games?(!)
Posted in News and Updates, Reviews, tagged current gen, game sugar, new games, ps3, Reviews, video games on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am without a doubt a “retro” (for lack of a better term) game collector and player, but I do play some new games. I am especially fond of my PS3, PSP, and DS. I mostly play RPGs for these newer consoles, and I also write about them occasionally. I do my new game writing [...]
Super Famicom Box
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Featured Article, Reviews, tagged all stars, classic, console, famicom box, japan, M82, nintendo, Rare, retro, sfc, snes, star fox, super famicom box, super mario collection, super mario kart, super nintendo, video game on December 25, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Similar to the Famicom Box (which is the original Japanese version of the famed Nintendo M82 system), the Super Famicom Box was a device manufactured by Nintendo of Japan in the early nineties for use in hotels. The device originally had a coin mechanism that could be attached to the right-hand side. The machine was [...]
Family BASIC
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Featured Article, Reviews, tagged Famicom, family BASIC, family computer, Hudson Soft, keyboard, nintendo, peripherals, Sharp Corporation on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Co-developed by Nintendo, Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation, and released by Nintendo in June of 1984, Family BASIC was an early attempt by Nintendo to sway computer users over to their newly released console. Famicom BASIC was a programming platform for a version of the BASIC programming language branded HuBASIC which was created specifically for [...]
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