• Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Matthew Loriso

    Matthew Loriso's top 10 favorite videogames.

  • Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (PS2)

    All of the pretty graphics and pretty music in the world aren't going to save a fundamentally flawed game.

  • Arc the Lad (PS1)

    Since this game can be easily beaten in 10 hours or less, there's not enough time to get bored of playing it.

  • R-Type III: The Third Lightning (SNES)

    R-Type. The very name sends shivers of nostalgia down every self-respecting late-'80s gamer's spine.

  • Carbonated News (March 2004)

    - For all three of you (including myself and Matt) who played PlayStation 2's Way of the Samurai, you'll have a reason to be thankful this summer: the game's previously Japan-only sequel will be comin

  • Sunset Riders (SNES)

    If you can only play one western game, make it Sunset Riders.

  • Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-Ups (A26)

    Ever play a game that just makes you want to take a scalding shower to wash away the horrid experience?

  • Submissions (March 2004)

    Comments, e-mails, artwork and more from GameCola’s readers.

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    Dear Readers: My Game Collection

    As I have made clear many times within this virtual realm of GameCola, I am absolutely terrible at video games. This has been confirmed again recently when I combed through the list of games I own, and created a new list of games I own and beaten, and games I own and have not beaten. The results are shocking (to someone who would expect the Editor-in-Chief if a video game webazine to actually be good at video games, anyway). Out of the 331 unique games in my collection, 267 remain unbeaten, meaning I have completed a completely unimpressive 19% of my video games. This is sad. Granted, some of the games are for systems I don't even own, and some of the games I got nearly to the end but was then distracted by something newer and shinier; but the vast majority of games I own I have not completed just because I got stuck at some point and called it quits. So this, my readers, leads me to my latest life goal: to have more games in my collection beaten than I have not beaten. Send all letters of encouragement, sympathy, and bemusement to pfranzen@gamecola.net.

  • … of the Month: The Super Mario Advance Series

    The first thing one must do when examining four games that have been ported from one console to another is to ask one's self the following question: "What has been changed?" Well, there's good news and there's bad news concerning the answer to that question. The good news is that not much has changed in any of them. The bad news is that the things they did change were in no way needing to be changed, and are quite awful now that they are different. Let's start with the first of these games, shall we?