• Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    ...parts.” Those are the pudding games of Indie Games, and I want to talk about the ones that aren’t. Dear Readers, Hello, and welcome to GameCola.net: the number one website...

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    Dear Readers: What is an RPG?

    ...definition of a role-playing game really is. After looking back at all of the RPGs that I’ve beaten, I realized that the number of such games is embarrassingly small, and...

  • Taz-Mania (SNES)

    ...the Tasmanian outback, scarfing up a set number of tiny yellow grounded birds in each of the game’s fifteen levels. After you’ve eaten your assigned number of birds (ranging from...

  • Preserving the Plastic: Game Storage

    After amassing a large number of media, whether it be books, CDs, or pornography, the age-old question arises: “Where do I put this crap?” The same goes for video games....

  • Preserving the Plastic: Connecting Multiple Systems

    ...to your TV or require RCA connections. Once you find one with the connection you are looking for and the right number of connections on the back, for the RCA...

  • Mega Man Zero 2 (GBA)

    ...others in the Mega Man legacy is its grading system. The system counts the number of hits you take, the number of enemies you “retire” and the time taken to...

  • Jewel Knights Crusaders (PC) [NSFW]

    ...actually offensive in a number of other ways, believe it or not. For starters, there is no gameplay in this “game.” Even the Hugo trilogy has vastly superior gameplay to...

  • Phantom Fighter (NES)

    ...this game for going slightly above the standards of NESdom (retrospectantly shallow programming, lame translations, short game time and low replay value in the modern world) for a number of...

  • Mid-Boss: Dino-scores

    ...to think rationally? No one’s going to read your boring words if there’s a number at the bottom of the page that does all the thinking for them. I fear...

  • Giana Sisters DS (DS)

    ...should have been expected), such as touchscreen and microphone functions. Luckily, use of the touchscreen can be kept to a bare minimum. Also, gameplay takes place entirely on the top...