Archive for Tag: Paul Franzen

  • The Jungle Book (GG)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    Honestly, would it have been that hard to make the objective just "reach the end"? I know you don't see a lot of games like this, but I think we could've figured it out.

  • Dear Readers: The Next-Gen Consoles

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    A number of you (one is still a number, right?) have written in asking for my thoughts on the next generation of gaming consoles. While I'm not quite finished with this generation yet (or the last several, for that matter), this appears to be a pressing issue on the souls of our loyal readers, so I feel it is my duty to have it a go. Even if I would rather just play Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt than most of the Xbox 360's launch titles.

  • The GameCola Interview: Denny Delk

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Denny Delk portrayed Murray the Talking Skull in the Monkey Island series, King Otar Fenris III in King's Quest VII, Hoagie and all the various tentacles in Day of the Tentacle, the narrator in Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Wicket in the Ewoks animated series, and loads upon loads of other characters you can read about at IMDB.

  • Default Thumbnail

    Digital Championship Wrestling: Princess Peach vs. Princess Zelda in an Inferno Match

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Hello everyone, and welcome once again to Digital Championship Wrestling, live from the GameCola Arena! I'm Paul Franzen, and with me this eve is Eric Regan, and we are ready, absolutely ready, to provide you with some of the most entertaining pro-wrestling this Internet has to offer.

  • Super Battleship (SG)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    If you bought Super Battleship and you expected more than you got, it's YOU who has the problem, man, not Super Battleship.

  • Dear Readers: GameCola Statistics

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    DID YOU KNOW THAT...11.1% of all GameCola staff members have been named "Matt?"

  • Default Thumbnail

    Digital Championship Wrestling: Billy vs. Jimmy

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Paul: Hello gamefans around the world, and welcome to this month's edition of Digital Championship Wrestling! My name's Paul Franzen, and with me, always and forever, is Eric "d00d quit letting me die

  • The Amazing Virtual Sea-Monkeys (PS1)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    Somewhere, somehow, somewhen, someone thought that The Next Big Thing for gaming would be a title based on Sea-Monkeys. Think about it.

  • Dear Readers: Out of Their Minds

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    For the longest time, I couldn't play Out of This World, the acclaimed side-scroller in which, as one GameFAQs user put it, "failure is almost unavoidable." I was too scared to. Right at the beginning of the game, there are these evil slug monsters who jump completely out of nowhere and kill you instantly. They're impossible to avoid—at least, they were for a a ten-year old who'd only just recently mastered tying his shoes—and they always jolted the poo out of me.

  • Paper Mario (N64)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    I wanted ever so badly to hate Paper Mario.