• Faxanadu (NES)

    ...orange or pink and blinking really fast while they talk only to completely stop moving once they’ve finished. A lot of the people are also creepily symmetrical, so maybe they...

  • Resident Evil 4 HD (PSN)

    ...Perhaps “a few” is an understatement. Capcom still plans on riding the RE4 wave for another six years or so, so they’ve sent us a review code so we can...

  • Puzzle Agent 2 (PC)

    ...these were easy to code—that all it took was a graphical switchover and some slight rejiggering. The story now travels completely linearly. If someone doesn’t give you the clues you...

  • Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past (DS)

    ...fights—or, at least, I never did, and I’m not very good at videogames. The second thing this game does that Phoenix doesn’t is that it has many ham-fisted secret code...

  • Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus (PS1)

    ...after Abe’s Oddysee‘s success, gamers wanted more Abe, and Oddworld Inhabitants responded with this—essentially a spruced-up Oddysee. They called it a Bonus Game, and claimed each game in the quintology...

  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (GBA)

    ...you haven’t a chance of winning the battle. It’d be a lot nicer if the bonus damage were more of a bonus than a requirement, but sadly, this game makes...

  • Love and Death: Bitten (PC)

    ...is a solid adventure game, trapped inside a not-so-solid hidden object game. It comes from the same publisher as Emerald City Confidential, and if I gave that game bonus points...

  • Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Tolerable Japan

    ...which you can do so. And as an added bonus, walking and biking everywhere makes you healthier and more energetic. It gives me the extra power I need to sit...

  • Pajama Sam’s Lost and Found

    ...a minigame if you collect all six bonus puzzle pieces. There are three minigames in total, and you can have fun unlocking, then playing them. Yes, there are minigames in...

  • Child of Eden (X360)

    ...raising your right hand when playing with the Kinect hardware. This highlights up to ten enemies at once, and can then be detonated for a large score bonus. The other...