• 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...

  • Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (GCN)

    ...eight basic missions that basically teach you how to perform such complex actions as walking and…walking backwards, the total number of Konquest missions rounds out at 218. Besides the little...

  • 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...

  • [NSFW] Red Faction (PS2)

    ...name of freedom. The control system of suggested use by the player in this fight for freedom is cumbersome, if not an outright pain in the arse to employ. Switching...

  • 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

    ...can buy “sweet water,” to reduce the number of encounters, and “smoke balls,” to run away from the battles you don’t want to fight, in many stores around the world....

  • 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

    ...more than the original Clay Fighter with spiffier graphics and smoother gameplay, it has earned its spot as the number three video game of 1994. It’s still Clay Fighter. It’s...

  • 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...