• Avenging Spirit (ARC)

    ...popular. It only appeared in a small number of arcades in the U.S., and then vanished in a puff of smoke. Like a ghost often will. Jaleco published Avenging Spirit,...

  • [NSFW] Deathsmiles (X360)

    ...individuality with a number of SHMUP gimmicks. First, after your starting level, you get to determine much of your own path from there by getting to select many levels as...

  • The Mystery of Monkey Island

    ...and must defeat this evil villain yet again. The Curse of Monkey Island came out a number of years after the original two, as is clearly evidenced by the extreme...

  • [NSFW] Mighty Final Fight (NES)

    ...The only parts that should give you any difficulty at all are the later bosses that are fucking cheap. As for the look and sound of the game, it’s about...

  • EarthBound for Disaster

    ...the implacable critic in me was pleasantly surprised by the superb learning curve, the number of concessions made in favor of the player, and the absolutely unnecessary little touches that...

  • Cooking Mama (DS)

    ...for screwing up. The minigames range from the mind-numbingly simple (like typing in the correct number on a numeric keypad/cooking timer) to some that require good timing (tapping different ingredients...

  • Tekken 6 (X360)

    ...level. Cheap as chips, David Dickinson would say. Back onto the list of flaws, there’s the camera. The dodgy farkin’ camera. You can’t move the blasted thing when it’s in...

  • Swordquest: WaterWorld

    ...WaterWorld invoked the same “find and place items” style of gameplay as its two predecessors, with the only notable difference being a marginal decrease in the number of items and...

  • Q&AmeCola: Your First Game

    ...up to the screen. Wasn’t that just a generic romp through Nostalgia World? (Jeff is the author of “Gamera Obscura.”) Christian Porter Number Magic The year was 1984. I was...

  • Gamera Obscura: Lamers

    ...duty is to kill them instead. SAY WHAT? Yup. In each level, you are given a limited number of ways to kill them: a specified amount of bombs, gunshots, land...