• Mega Man 3 (NES)

    ...surprise bosses. It’s such a great twist I’m surprised they haven’t raped the shit out of it at the Number 6 dance later on that night. Lord, I do love...

  • The Vana’diel Diaries (March 2007)

    ...1 40th level and I’m still finding myself dragged into the Crawler’s Nest. I joined a party with Moesizlack (bwaa!), Kyyra, Buddah, Stedron and a rotating DD in the secret...

  • Snowboard Kids (N64)

    ...part of giving this game a final score, which is difficult for a number of reasons. One, this is GameCola, and their whole FIVE IS EXTREMELY AVERAGE bit is something...

  • Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue (NES)

    ...number. If you like mazes and can tolerate the back-asswards emergency force of the Little People, then you’ll like this game. I wouldn’t like to live there, though, because I...

  • Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB)

    ...so rightly deserved. With the soldiers back at home having little to do, we saw an increase in the number of children being born. Post-war America saw a vast expansion...

  • Burnout Paradise (PS3)

    ...highest number of cars crashed, will be mourned by every fan, but the scale of what remains softens the blow. To be honest, the only thing about the game that...

  • Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

    ...legacy once again. Super Mario Galaxy shares its premise with all the other 3D Mario games. In order to save the princess, you need to travel to a number of...

  • Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (Wii)

    ...plays host to a challenge mode, which consists of races with different objectives, like not finishing last, and breaking X number of barrels. It’s a pointless extra that’s only there...

  • Rayman (PS1)

    ...with five-to-six or so levels in each stage and any number of screens within those levels within those stages. The stages have themes like forest, surreal music, caverns, umm…stationary? and...

  • Final Fantasy II (SNES)

    ...in execution, most problems of which are due to the era in which it was produced. There’s not a bad track in the game, with a fair number of songs...