Search Results for: Paul Franzen
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Carbonated News (July 2002)
News Posts by Paul Franzen on – It seems as though a Sims game is headed towards the realm of Playstation 2. It will, more or less, be a port of the PC game of much...
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Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi’s Journey (GBC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on In January of 2001, Enix allowed us to try something new with their world of Dragon Warriors. Instead of creating a straight up role-playing game, they took more of a...
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The Social Ramifications of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and other Comparably Ancient Venues of Video Entertainment
Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on First, just a little nugget of background information on this piece. This was originally submitted to my Honors United States History II teacher Mr. Bacon, as an extra credit report...
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Carbonated News (June 2002)
News Posts by Paul Franzen on – Starting Sept. 14, Kirby (whom you all know from such games as Kirby’s Adventure, Kirby’s Dreamland, Kirby’s Star Stackers, and various other games whose title is preceded by the...
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MTV Remote Control (NES)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on We are introducted to this game show-turned-video game known as MTV Remote Control by a flying MTV logo, and what appears to be a plethora of Mexican Jumping Beans in...
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Baseball (GB)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on When you commence a game in Nintendo’s Baseball, it gives you the choice of playing in US mode, or Japan mode. The only difference between the two is in the...
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Toad: The Little Mushroom that Could(n’t Star in His Own Game)
Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on When somebody inquires about your favorite Super Mario Bros. 2 character, how do you respond? With the lanky, high-jumping/slow moving Luigi? With the in-the-air-floating, pink-and-white dress wearin’ Princess Toadstool? With...
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NHL ’94 (SNES)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on Summer 1994: My brothers and I go to Pinelands Video (since gone out of business) in order to find a Super Nintendo game to amuse ourselves with; NHL ’94 is...
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Philly Classic 3 Report
Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on Try to imagine your own personal euphoria. To some, it may be a scenic countryside, with bunnies, deer, butterflies, and all sorts of other delectably cute creatures prancing about. For...
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The Top 5 Games of 1994
Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on It seems only appropriate, in keeping with our 1994-inspired issue of GameCola (see: NHL Hockey ’94) that we write a little about this less-than-stellar year in gaming. In a year...