• 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?

    ...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...

  • 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...

  • Dear Readers: Rebirth of a Forums

    ...August 1, 2007 Dear Readers, My Fanzens! Welcome, my teeming Fanzens, to your number-one source of videogame fairy tales, furries, and hentai boobs: GameCola.net. We’ve got one humdinger of a...

  • Dear Readers: MAGFest 5

    ...20740 February 1, 2007 Number of videogame conventions I have attended: 4 Number of videogame conventions that have given me, completely unexpectedly, dog tags with the name “Paul ‘gamecola’ Franzen”...

  • Digital Championship Wrestling: The Third Annual Dino Rikki Invitational Battle Royal

    ...this rumble started! Eric: Battle royal, Mr. Franzen, battle royal. We don’t need any legal problems. Paul: The number one entrant, Dewey, from that classic Wii title Dewey’s Adventure, is...

  • The Ten Reasons: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

    ...to dislike decisive evidence in itself. 10. Courtroom and Lobby Discrepancy This is probably just me, but I noticed that for every single trial, the courtroom number never matched the...

  • 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...