• Versus Mode: Pokémon Red vs. Pokémon Ruby

    ...Japanese names and their numbers. This time your rival pulls the same trick with the three types of starting Pokémon. However, your rival is actually more of a friend in...

  • Guilty Gear X2 (PS2)

    ...character’s arsenal of moves, overdrive attacks, and instant death moves, there are a number of universal moves that make for a variety of combinations. Most all of these maneuvers depend...

  • Skitchin’ (SG)

    ...in the sport of Skitchin’, and work your way to number one by racing on major highways in 12 major North American cities. I love racing in this game a...

  • [NSFW] Red Faction (PS2)

    ...lead flawlessly to the player’s spatial disorientation. With the vast number of model first-person shooters that predate Red Faction, there is absolutely no excuse for such a horrid control system....

  • Chrono Cross (PS1)

    ...about thirty to forty hours), to which I say no. The sheer number of possible party members leads to a severe lack of character development, a major downfall for Chrono...

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    Nintendo 64: Change the System

    ...magic. Through the staticy quality of this video cassette I can just barely make out what is happening in the introduction. It tells me of the vast number of Nintendo...

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    … of the Month: Lufia

    ...control of the ancestors of the hero from Lufia 1. Lufia 2 completely got rid of the problems with random encounters that Lufia 1 had. The only time random encounters...

  • MTV Remote Control (NES)

    ...one-digit number, ranging from 1 to 9, with no other label to tell you what these numbers stand for. They’re useless to anybody curious as to the categories of questions...

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    The Top 5 Games of 1994

    ...to be a “big thing”, but in retrospect, it has had quite an impact on our industry.) Regardless, 1994 was not a terribly important year for video games, as you...

  • You Can’t Go Home Again

    ...available in Korean at the time and required the Korean equivalent of a social security number to get an account. My time with the leopard-print Archers and giant Baphomets was...