Archive for Category: Columns
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Dear Readers: Awesome Ideas for Mario and Sonic
Columns by Paul Franzen on Man, Nintendo should totally bring me onto their staff; I've got some pretty awesome ideas for new games that make use of some of their (and Sega's) older titles. Hopefully no one's come up with them before, but if they have, oh well! They're new to the GC universe, and that's obviously what matters.
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Advice for the Sensitive Gamer #10
Columns by Jenna Ogilvie on Jenna Ogilvie offers advice about finding gamer girls, breaking an addiction to RPGs, and more.
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… of the Month: PlayStation 2 Headset
Columns by Matt Gardner on First off, let me clear up any confusion there may be over what exactly a headset is. It is not, despite popular belief, a set of heads. It does bring several heads together, though, in a way. It is a handy little device that sits on your skull and lets you communicate with people without the aid of a keyboard.
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You Learn Something New Every Play: Sports Games
Columns by Brian Vanek on This month, we take a look at sports games. Just recently, I learned the more technical rules of football from Madden 2004. I learned more about volleyball from Summer Heat: Beach Volleyball. Bu
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Games for the Casual Gamer: Tetris
Columns by Julie Kozarsky on This month I will be shedding light upon what is quite possibly THE quintessential game for a casual gamer: Tetris. Armed with my trusty Game Boy Advance (color: glacier blue), a serious case of sen
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Versus Mode: SimCity vs. The Sims
Columns by Paul Franzen on It's a shame, really. I'm willing to put money on that most folks who play The Sims don't have any idea what Sim City is. In fact, if you said the words "Sim City" to them, they'd probably be like "... eh? Is that a new expansion pack or something?". No way, dude. It's not an expansion pack. It's the game that started it all.
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The Gates of Life: Episode 10 – Go Fusion Kitty!
Columns by Matt Gardner on Rivers: I actually hit them! I hit her and even that little cat!! I don't believe it!
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Preserving the Plastic: Connecting Multiple Systems
Columns by Allec Johnson on If you are like me or many of the other hardcore gamers and collectors out there, you'll probably have more than one console, and want to play them without the hassle of changing cords. Fortunately,
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Dear Readers: My Game Collection
Columns by Paul Franzen on 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.
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… of the Month: The Super Mario Advance Series
Columns by Matt Gardner on 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?