• Shovel Knight (PC)

    As a child, gaming was a ceaseless joy. Every game was a new experience, a fresh pleasure, a fountain of creativity from which flowed wonder and inspiration; years of sheets...

  • Localization Anxiety: Nintendo World Cup

    ...this game allows you to tackle your rivals so hard that they fall flat on the ground, or slide directly to your opponent’s feet in blatant disregard of their safety....

  • 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...

  • Dragon Warrior II (NES)

    ...counterpart. The sprites look a little more gaunt and less distinguishable, and the map tiles are a little flatter. I was halfway through the game before I realized that the...

  • Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP)

    ...you need to do is whittle down the enemy’s health using cheap tactics and then you win! With only five playable characters (six including the one and only hidden character),...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spam Attack: Wine and Freckles

    ...of establishing Louis Vuitton outlet is favored by thousands of Louis Vuitton lovers.” Is that so? Well, as Diagnosing ADHD once said on an early “Flash Flood” post, “You’re never...

  • 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...

  • BREAKING: Big Ace Attorney 5 News!

    ...All are available for really cheap (I’m talkin’ 20 bucks) on Amazon, so if you have no idea what I’m talking about, get on it. That’s all for now. We’re...