Archive for Tag: action games
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[NSFW] Flash Flood: Games for Terrible People
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 
4 These Flash games are bad! In the evil way, not in the good way.
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Bad Dudes (NES)
Reviews by Mark Freedman on 6 THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY NINJAS. ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO RESCUE THE PRESIDENT?
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii)
Reviews by Nathaniel Hoover on 3 Motion controls? Bah! Fancy-pants three-dee graphics? Who needs 'em? Back in my day, we felt lucky if we had two buttons to press and could tell the hero apart from an 8-bit ketchup stain. The crafty
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (XBLA)
Reviews by Matt Jonas on 3 Great Scott! Three months ago, you'd have asked me "What is Scott Pilgrim?" and I'd have said, "It's a comic book." I didn't know anything about the characters, the story or anything else. Now it is i
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Flash Flood: Games IN SPAAAAACE!
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 6 Nathaniel reviews Flash games set IN SPAAAAACE! Certain things explode.
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Mega Man 2 (NES)
Reviews by Nathaniel Hoover on 5 Mega Man 2 is widely regarded as the best [Mega Man / NES / video] game of all time. There's no way to write a positive and original review when all the good adjectives have already been exhausted by
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Mega Man (NES)
Reviews by Nathaniel Hoover on 10 “Fairly revolutionary” and “rather creative” are two terms I would use to describe the original Mega Man. “Spine-meltingly difficult” is another one.
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Blaster Master (NES)
Reviews by Alex Jedraszczak on The classic tale of a boy and his frog.
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Soul Blazer (SNES)
Reviews by Alex Jedraszczak on I am here to tell the story of a game that is often forgotten in the wake of the popularity of its successors, despite my personal preference for it. No, no, I'm not talking about Lufia. This isn't about Final Fantasy IV, either.
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Bonanza Bros. (SG)
Reviews by Shawn Sackenheim on Bonanza Bros. sticks closely to the early '90s game design bible, which states, “Thou shalt not burden thine audience with a story.”