• 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

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    Dear Readers: What is an RPG?

    ...any idea what an RPG is. Do you? Let me know! Love, Paul Franzen Editor-in-Chief e-mail: pfranzen@gamecola.net P.S. A devoted fan set up a GameCola message board here. Do with...

  • 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...

  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

    ...United states to be the number one seller, 2 million more units than the runner up, and over 4.85 million units world wide? A review that, unlike most reviews around...

  • Mega Man 8 (PS1)

    ...various upgrade parts for Mega Man. Depending on which part you take, you might receive more energy from powerups, transform your charged-up blaster shot into an enemy-piercing laser beam, or...

  • Giana Sisters DS (DS)

    ...in two varieties, and collecting all the red crystals in a single world unlocks the bonus level for that world. This remake also includes unnecessarily tacked-on DS controls (which also...

  • Sonic CD (SCD)

    ...and WELL CRAFTED. Jeez. Sonic CD’s predecessors, Sonic 1 and Sonic 2, helped cement the platforming clichés that we are commonly aware of—the unaltered paradise, that place with lava, the...