Archive for Tag: Paul Franzen

  • Dear Readers: Pictorial

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    I'm going to try something a little different here this month. For far too long has "Dear Readers" been confined to a 3-4 paragraph long blur of words about how Sony is annoying me or how I just got back from Disney World. This month, I present to you: a pictorial. See if you can figure out what the heck is going on in it.

  • Versus Mode: You Don’t Know Jack vs. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire

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    If you've been studying your GameCola archives, you may have conceived the notion that I have a soft spot in my heart for trivia games, a genre that is typically neglected by your typical gamer.  Thi

  • Blazing Dragons (PS1)

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    I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a cheap laugh.

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    Dear Readers: Summer Laziness

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    I think the summer is affecting all of us, or at least, everyone on the GameCola staff. During the school year, it seemed like the GameCola writers were well ahead of the deadline most of the time, and that they were more enthusiastic about discussing our little webazine and various ideas that they have about it. Now, the only AIM conversations we have about GC go like this:

  • SimCity (SNES)

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    See where your computer gaming champion got its start.

  • Jim Henson’s Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival (NES)

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    The purest example of an absolutely repulsive game which the publishers hoped would sell on its license alone.

  • Carbonated News (June 2004)

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    - Have Matt, Eric, and I been the only people who both read GameCola and have played Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest?  I ask because there's a sequel of that game said to be coming out at t

  • Versus Mode: WarioWare vs. WarioWare

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    The main differences between these two games are quite easy to grasp, unless you're the type of person that can't grasp why "gay" doesn't make sense as an insult (i.e., as good ol' J.R. would say, you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer): Mega MicroGame$ is for the Game Boy Advance, and its focus is on single player action; Mega Party Game$ is for the GameCube, and its focus is on multiplayer action. Got that?

  • Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon (MXB)

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    I came into this game expecting The Curse of Monkey Island, and what I got was Super Stealthy Crate Mover 64.

  • Carbonated News (May 2004)

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    - Several new Nintendo games have been confirmed to be released later in this year.  This list includes Paper Mario 2, Metroid Prime 2, Mario Party 6, Star Fox 2, F-Zero 2, and Donkey Kong Country 2.