• 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Gamer Girlfriend: I Am the Shock Rat

    ...but somehow, it always seemed to balance itself out with the number of othercharacters I had taken with me. I ended up coming in second or third place for most...

  • Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES)

    ...prayer? A self-contained phonetic enigma in which the question IS the answer and the answer is a question? What IS Zombies Ate My Neighbors? Well, we’ve known for 14 years...

  • 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...