• Captain Eric’s Super Thumb Feature Presentation

    ...No plot, no story—just card gaming vs. some stupid, then kinda hard, then cheap-ass cheating AI! Even if you never played the card game it isn’t very hard to pick...

  • 0wning the Competition: Mac Gaming

    ...so go get one with a few extra buttons ya cheap bastards. But in all reality, Apple is moving into the real world: The new iMacs now shipping with not...

  • BLACK (MXB)

    ...designers cheap out and block your path with tiny piles of debris and even invisible walls. “I could reach that secret stash of ammo if it weren’t for this wooden...

  • Retro ≠ Good: Castlevania

    ...witty, he’s got an exclamation point on his shirt so you just know he’s trouble!” Now, normally I intend to use this column to take cheap jabs at bad old...

  • Dance Dance Revolution S (iPhone)

    ...criminals has something that keeps pulling me back there. No, it’s not the cheap heroin; it’s the Dancing Stage Supernova machine. Dancing Stage—yes, it’s the European title for Dance Dance...

  • Base Wars (NES)

    ...grown tired of steroid-enthused, overpaid lumps of poop and have replaced all human players with robots. I guess in the future, robots are as cheap as a pair of socks....

  • Nidhogg (PC)

    ...onward for the faint chance of victory. Many compete, and many stand in the way of others, for there is no sport grander than the duel. However, no matter how...

  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

    ...a “cheap”character—a character that can claim quick and easy kills without any skill required. But in Brawl, if the computer secures Snake’s Final Smash, you’ll be seeing Zanzibar soon enough,...

  • 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...

  • 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...