• 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

    ...mangled gibberish more suitable for my “Impaired Closed Captioning” column from “people” with “names” like espresso coffee makers stove top: “Actually is you can—” I’m going to pause here to...

  • Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (X360)

    ...Star Force, I mean Wars really was the best thing since sliced bread for some people. Naturally, you can’t please all the people all the time, and although I’m quite...

  • China, Part 2: PC Gaming, Merchandising, and Intellectual Property Armageddon.

    ...with building an entire unlicensed amusement park, it should come as no surprise that piracy is the rule rather than the exception, and cheap bootleg copies of games are openly...

  • Base Wars (NES)

    ...grown tired of steroid-enthused, overpaid lumps of poop and have replaced all human players with robots. I guess in the future, robots are as cheap as a pair of socks....

  • SimCity (SNES)

    ...start off with only enough funds to build a power plant and a few residential, commercial, or industrial zones; but as people move into your town and start paying your...

  • 0wning the Competition: Mac Gaming

    ...are, like Unreal Tournament, Doom III, Halo, but too many aren’t. I think that there’s no reason for this. Some people will argue Macs aren’t building their computers to meet...

  • Doom 64 (N64)

    ...to take that cheap shot), but it was still more of the same. Enter Doom 64, the Doom that was finally something new. Maybe this was partly a result of...