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Arc the Lad (PS1)
Reviews by Matt Gardner on Since this game can be easily beaten in 10 hours or less, there's not enough time to get bored of playing it.
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R-Type III: The Third Lightning (SNES)
Reviews by Stuart Gipp on R-Type. The very name sends shivers of nostalgia down every self-respecting late-'80s gamer's spine.
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Carbonated News (March 2004)
News Posts by Paul Franzen on - For all three of you (including myself and Matt) who played PlayStation 2's Way of the Samurai, you'll have a reason to be thankful this summer: the game's previously Japan-only sequel will be comin
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Sunset Riders (SNES)
Reviews by Brian Vanek on If you can only play one western game, make it Sunset Riders.
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Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-Ups (A26)
Reviews by Allec Johnson on Ever play a game that just makes you want to take a scalding shower to wash away the horrid experience?
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Submissions (March 2004)
Fan Submissions by GameCola on Comments, e-mails, artwork and more from GameCola’s readers.
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Dear Readers: My Game Collection
Columns by Paul Franzen on As I have made clear many times within this virtual realm of GameCola, I am absolutely terrible at video games. This has been confirmed again recently when I combed through the list of games I own, and created a new list of games I own and beaten, and games I own and have not beaten. The results are shocking (to someone who would expect the Editor-in-Chief if a video game webazine to actually be good at video games, anyway). Out of the 331 unique games in my collection, 267 remain unbeaten, meaning I have completed a completely unimpressive 19% of my video games. This is sad. Granted, some of the games are for systems I don't even own, and some of the games I got nearly to the end but was then distracted by something newer and shinier; but the vast majority of games I own I have not completed just because I got stuck at some point and called it quits. So this, my readers, leads me to my latest life goal: to have more games in my collection beaten than I have not beaten. Send all letters of encouragement, sympathy, and bemusement to pfranzen@gamecola.net.
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… of the Month: The Super Mario Advance Series
Columns by Matt Gardner on The first thing one must do when examining four games that have been ported from one console to another is to ask one's self the following question: "What has been changed?" Well, there's good news and there's bad news concerning the answer to that question. The good news is that not much has changed in any of them. The bad news is that the things they did change were in no way needing to be changed, and are quite awful now that they are different. Let's start with the first of these games, shall we?
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Games for the Casual Gamer: The Sims: Bustin’ Out
Columns by Julie Kozarsky on Everybody's heard of The Sims, right? Ever since the game was introduced for the PC, numerous expansion packs have been released, each expanding the Sim universe a little more. It only makes sense
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Versus Mode: Super Mario RPG vs. Kingdom Hearts
Columns by Paul Franzen on When I first heard about Kingdom Hearts, one of the initial things that came to my mind was a comparison of this game to Super Mario RPG. With KH being a collaboration between Squaresoft and Disney, and Super Mario RPG being a collaboration between Squaresoft and Nintendo, it seemed only natural that similarities might be conjured up between the two. To me, anyway. If you don't agree -- tough cookies. This is my first shot at writing Versus Mode, and this is the topic I wanna discuss. So sit on it, disbelieving headwire.