Archive for Author: Zach Rich

  • Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii)

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    In 2007, the great and wonderful folks at Valve made every single one of us dirty, dirty consumer pigs feel like we just blew up the ferris wheel at the Toys"R"Us in NYC and made off with five spectac

  • Pokémon Pinball (GBC)

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    Spinoffs are a fickle thing. Sometimes, they lead to some extraordinary franchises, like the Mario Kart series, or the Mario Tennis/Golf series. Sometimes, they lead to unfortunate nightmares riddle

  • Math Sniper 3D (X360-XBLI)

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    Math Sniper 3D could have saved my life when I was in third grade, but it just had to fall into my lap twelve years too late.

  • Snowboard Kids 2 (N64)

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    I've become a different person in the span of two years. Where I was once a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed high school youngling, I've now matured into a smart, wise, and generally handsome college student

  • Dear Readers: Six Things Zach Demands to See Implemented in the GameCola Re-launch That May or May Not Happen Before His Death in 2020

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    I miss you all. I really do. This hiatus is as hard on me as it is on you. I wasn’t there for you during the final hours of the magazine format because I was spending the better part of June preparing to wear a frilly gown while crossing a stage, stopping in the middle of the stage to shake the hand of some guy I’ve never met, and receiving a piece of paper proclaiming my emancipation from a horrid jail cell I’d been cooped up in for the past four years.

  • Things Zach Rich Demands to See Before He Dies in 2020

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    When writing a prediction column like this, it's always fun to look back and see just how right your predictions were. Therefore, as we start every edition of "TZRDTSBHDI2020," we'll first look back a

  • The GameCola Interview: Matthew Taranto

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    Zach Rich interviews Matthew Taranto, creator of the webcomic Brawl in the Family.

  • Things Zach Rich Demands to See Before He Dies in 2020

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    You know how I keep talking on the ol' GameCola Podcast about how I plan to start writing my own column here on the ‘Cola? Welp, here it is! This is "Things Zach Rich Demands to See Before He Dies

  • Scene It? Box Office Smash (X360)

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    I wish my couch could fly. I mean, think about it. You're on your couch, chillin' out with your buddies, but suddenly you run out of beer. You can't just sit around and play your movie trivia game sob

  • Mega Man Xtreme (GBA)

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    (Editor's note: This article was originally published in the March 2009 issue of GameCola, back when GameCola was published in a monthly online magazine format.) GameCola Faithful, I am outraged. I am