Archive for Tag: Paul Franzen

  • Chrono Cross (PS1)

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    Is it as good as Chrono Trigger?

  • Carbonated News (October 2002)

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    - From your television to your...well...television comes American Idol: the videogame. Based on the "hit" TV series of the same name, this yet unnamed title by Vivendi Universal is to be packaged with

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    Dear Readers: Rushed

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    If this issue of GameCola seems somewhat rushed, there's a reason for it. With the new school year now upon us, the staff of your favorite free online gaming newsletter, and myself even more so, needs to learn how to effectively divide our time between educational efforts and gaming goodness. So please, bear with us during these trying times, and soon enough we will again be putting forth issues that are up to par with what our established readership expects.

  • Swordquest: EarthWorld

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    How does this sound to you? A four-part gaming series with a competition held at each release. If you can locate all five of the clues hidden within the game and the DC comic packaged with it, and if

  • Secret of Mana (SNES)

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    Aside from your mentally deficient cohorts, the game's not really half bad.

  • Carbonated News (September 2002)

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    - Squaresoft has arrived on Nintendo.  Along with the already announced Final Fantasy Tactics release for the GameBoy Advance is coming a revamp of the original Secret of Mana, aka Final Fantasy Adve

  • Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (PS2)

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    Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finds its basis in the shadow of table-top games such as Dungeons Dragons: no set storyline for the character as the story commences, no evil empire to overthrow, no worl

  • Carbonated News (August 2002)

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    - TDK Mediactive and Disney Interactive are teaming up to bring you video games based on upcoming Disney flicks, based on the "Haunted House" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" rides located within Disney

  • The Social Ramifications of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and other Comparably Ancient Venues of Video Entertainment

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    First, just a little nugget of background information on this piece.  This was originally submitted to my Honors United States History II teacher Mr. Bacon, as an extra credit report we students had

  • Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi’s Journey (GBC)

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    The only people this is not recommended to are those who just do not have the time to get involved with a time-consuming game.