• James Pond: Codename RoboCod (PS1)

    ...dying (I did manage up to Boss #3 once). The progression has changed, as has the way the game is played, with levels no longer containing any originality. Almost every...

  • SimAnt (SNES)

    ...Or maybe that was Jesse Jackson. You do have some mayor-like management in this game, but rather than building strip clubs and fire departments, you get to manage quests for...

  • The Baconing (PSN)

    ...as a series of tubes, allowing you to travel to any outhouse you’ve previously discovered. The only thing you’ll have to manage is your backpack space, as you won’t be...

  • Top of the Heap: Health Education Games

    ...than Packy and Marlon. Captain Novolin is yet another “avoid unhealthy foods and get diabetes management advice between levels” game which, judging from the large-sized character sprites the game uses,...

  • Bad Dudes (NES)

    ...more powerful strike, and you have some spin-kick moves, but it just doesn’t match up to Double Dragon 2. If you manage to make it to Level 2, you’ll be...

  • Cheat Codes for Life

    ...to seriously examine how you manage your time. Surely you can’t be studying or writing essays at all waking hours. And even if you are overdoing the studying, you’re going...

  • Mike’s Birthday Wishes for the Gaming Industry

    So last month Paul sends me an e-mail, which I manage to read between all my global jet-setting and super-model hangouts (sorry ladies, Vangie says I’m strictly “look but don’t...

  • Star X (GBA)

    ...manage that, and neither can it manage even remotely as impressive a frame rate. For the game it is trying to imitate, Star X appears slipshod at best. To its...

  • Featured Game Soundtrack: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game

    ...hand, they manage to seamlessly include the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song motif into nearly every single song in the soundtrack. That sort of branding usually comes off as...

  • Captain Novolin (SNES)

    ...it: They do give a good effort in trying to teach people about how to manage their diabetes. However, when they developed the rest of the game, they were probably...