• GameCola’s Most Essential/Influential Games of All Time (E-K)

    ...game and a mild obsession: my AIM screen name at the time was MrSaturn (and some numbers I forgot); I have on several occasions almost gotten an EarthBound tattoo (until...

  • Q&AmeCola: Erase Which Console?

    ...the tech support number from your cell phone? This month’s question comes from staff member Michael Gray who asks: If you could erase one console from existence, which one would...

  • Space Quest: Incinerations (PC)

    ...accidentally kills your grandfather with a phone booth, and now the planet Vulcan is going to implode and annihilate the apes that have overrun it. Obviously, you made the wrong...

  • [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...

  • Snobow Kids Plus (PSX)

    ...you go sliding down the streets of a small ninja-themed village. Each race consists of a predetermined number of laps. During a race, you and the other three combatants can...

  • Cheat Codes for Life

    ...that. When selling games, you have a number of options. You could sell them to game shops, like E B Games or GameStop, but you’re going to get ripped horribly,...

  • Submissions (September 2007)

    ...the game utilizes the microphone function and has you repeat quotes from the movie ad nauseum. If that’s how you play then, from what I’ve seen, most of the Internet...

  • 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...

  • [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...

  • 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...