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Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Jeremy Stock
Fan Submissions by GameCola on Jeremy Stock's top 10 favorite videogames.
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Soul Calibur II (GCN)
Reviews by Brian Wolf on It is every little boy's dream to go around the world waving swords around and wreaking havoc.
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Magi Nation (GBC)
Reviews by Matt Gardner on Clever title? Maybe. Cleverly created gaming masterpiece? Less likely.
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Jet Force Gemini (N64)
Reviews by Kyle Ogilvie on You are part of an elite force of police officers that patrol the galaxy. Your sister and dog are also part of this precinct. Your ship is being boarded by gigantic bugs. Your friends, the Tribals, ha
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Comix Zone (SG)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on I was warned about saying too many negative things in this review. Specifically, GameCola's own Allec Johnson (i.e., the guy who reviewed Bomberman right above this) explicitly stated that he would do
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Carbonated News (October 2003)
News Posts by Paul Franzen on - Much like Sonic the Hedgehog before him, Mega Man is about to have released a vast collection of his elderly titles. This compilation, which is being released to honor the blue guy's fifteenth ann
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Submissions (October 2003)
Fan Submissions by GameCola on Comments, e-mails, artwork and more from GameCola’s readers.
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Dear Readers: Atrophy
Columns by Paul Franzen on Along with fellow Team GameCola member Brian Wolf, I've been playing a lot of Secret of Mana (SNES) this month. We totally rock at it (though, let it be known that I'm the only one of us to have ever cleanly completed the game). Occasionally, somebody else from our dormitory here at Rutgers University will join up with us; but as a general rule of thumb, they don't know their rabites from their cups of wishes. It's sad, really -- all these kids who claim to have played SoM in their youth are now totally out of touch with the game. It's gotten to the point where we'd prefer to have the characters be powered by AI than by an actual human being. Anyone familiar with Secret of Mana should immediately see that this is a sad state of affairs.
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… of the Month: Pirates of the Caribbean
Columns by Matt Gardner on I'm sure many of you have seen this movie, which many would call the greatest pirate movie of all time, but in case you haven't, let me sum it up for you: Captain Jack Sparrow is awesome, and goes on a pirate adventure with swordsmith Will Turner. Any more information would spoil the movie, I'm afraid, and I just cannot do that to such a piratastic film. The characters were well portrayed by the actors, especially Captain Jack Sparrow, and keep your eyes glued to the screen wondering what they are going to do next. The story is filled with action, leaving out the ridiculously long and boring dialogue scenes that plague so many movies. The pirates in this movie, unlike in the video games, act very piratey (stealing, kidnapping, plundering, pillaging, arring, etc. etc.) and even turn ghostly, making for an exciting scene that captures the qualities of the actual ride. Piratey or not, this is a great movie and if you haven't seen it please get together whatever money you have and write the following sign and paste it on your back:
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The Mystery of Monkey Island
Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on All right, so there wasn't really much to the plot. Something bad happens to your girlfriend/fiancé/governor upon whom you have this huge crush, and you have to defeat some pirate/skeleton/zombies in order to save her. Nothing we haven't seen before in countless other outlets of entertainment. So what makes the computer series known as "Monkey Island" so special? Why are the games so enthralling? And, perhaps most important of all, why was the last installment so danged terrible?