• Cooking Mama (DS)

    ...for screwing up. The minigames range from the mind-numbingly simple (like typing in the correct number on a numeric keypad/cooking timer) to some that require good timing (tapping different ingredients...

  • Dear Readers: Absolutely Real Message Board Posts

    ...20740 March 1, 2007 Dear Readers, You know I’ve been doing this for like five years, right? Five whole years. That’s probably longer than some of you have been alive....

  • Poor Player’s Paradise

    ...positions for converted barbarians, for, if you do not have enough money to pay their upkeep, a certain number of soldiers will be lost. Graphically, this game is nothing to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blaster Master (NES)

    ...good portion of my childhood. Being fairly long for an NES game, and requiring a good amount of knowledge of level layout and boss strategy, it has a great number...

  • Soul Blazer (SNES)

    ...Dr Leo’s Lab. For every great song, there’s one that’s just alright and another that’s just filler. It also seems slightly odd to me that Soul Blazer shares a number...

  • Rock Band 2 (X360)

    ...I tasted was much like what I had tasted in the previous game. In fact, outside of a few cosmetic changes, Rock Band 2 looked exactly like Rock Band 1....

  • Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (PC)

    ...member of Mensa with an IQ as high as the number of floors in a New York skyscraper. Other than the puzzles, the gameplay is pretty much the same as...

  • Braid (X360-XBLA)

    ...somehow drove away because of the behaviors he performed offstage before the game actually started. The entire narrative is told by some books in the clouds before entering each of...