• Avenging Spirit (ARC)

    ...writing a review. The Nintendo 3DS eShop version is cheap if you feel like supporting Jaleco, but comes at the expense of playing the game in horrendous black and white....

  • Shovel Knight (PC)

    ...fair throughout, with no cheap shots or cheating bosses. It’s a learning experience up there with the absolute best, splicing modern videogame friendliness to old-school videogame cruelty in the most...

  • Crimsonland Coming to Steam and PlayStation 4

    ...but with better graphics and without the song?”, and the answer is “yes”. “Yes, MAED is a cheap knockoff of a free game that came out several years earlier.” But...

  • Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP)

    ...you need to do is whittle down the enemy’s health using cheap tactics and then you win! With only five playable characters (six including the one and only hidden character),...

  • StarSweep (PS1)

    ...to play it. If they hadn’t been so cheap in my local retro video game retailer, on that ever so fateful day, I’d have never walked away with Jigsaw Madness...

  • Jigsaw Madness (PS1)

    ...of adding another game to my endlessly expanding library, and also because it was cheap. I wasn’t expecting it to have decent controls, acceptable presentation and excellent music. I didn’t...

  • DuckTales: Scrooge’s Loot (iOS)

    ...I’d like to rate it lower than that, but most of the game’s nickel-and-dime features are industry standards right now. So there’s a chance that the game’s designers aren’t cheap...

  • Spam Attack: Wine and Freckles

    ...you’ve been saving.” (Mark responds, “Oh, I certainly save scraps of exotic wood to make the frames for my cheap oakleys.”) “Some of the boxes also feature cleverly designed latches...

  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator (SNES)

    ...makes you choose from a preset list of names, most of which aren’t particularly common. I see this as a cheap cop-out of having a simple text entry system. It’s...

  • Retro ≠ Good: Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road

    ...like cheap and arbitrary difficulty by today’s standards. See, kids? We were morons back then. Yes, there were incredible games in those magical days, but also there were impossibly hard...