• 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dragon Warrior II (NES)

    ...only graphical part of the game that is moderately impressive. I can imagine that Akira Toriyama doesn’t come cheap. Malroth…or, maybe some form of Cell from Dragon Ball Z. The...

  • 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...

  • Localization Anxiety: Nintendo World Cup

    ...looks exactly the same. The game only changes the palette colors depending on the team you’re selecting. That just feels a little cheap to me. This is how the USA,...

  • 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...

  • [NSFW] Beyond Oasis (SG)

    ...for everyone. Pick it up if you find it cheap or try a ROM of it to see if you like it, but I wouldn’t go further than that to...

  • Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (iPad)

    ...kind of disturbing. Now, perhaps the game designers were trying to create a spooky atmosphere. More likely, they were just being cheap with the graphics. It didn’t surprise me to...