Posts Tagged ‘nes

30
Apr

Date Night

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
Categories: Games
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Mark, take this down. You and I will spend one night playing through the recently-released-on-VC River City Ransom (RCR) sometime in the near future. It’s one of the the most beloved beat-em-ups in the NES library, and a contender for best NES game on many people’s lists. Its RPG-style leveling and two-player gameplay seem to make it the perfect one-nighter, and at $5, we can’t go wrong.

Granted, I think some other game that came out the other day may be a bit more involving; but I personally never played through all of RCR, and I have a feeling you haven’t either, so let’s make it happen. Besides, I already bought it.

Tyler, you’re more than welcome to fly out and watch.

29
Apr

Cheapskate: Yobo FC Twin

By Russ Crandall 2 Comments
Categories: Cheapskate and Games
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While perusing eBay for the current top-loading NES used prices, I came across the Yobo FC Twin. It’s a top-loading console that plays NES and SNES games. See, look:

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04
Apr

Retrograde! Little Nemo: The Dream Master

By Tyler Miller 2 Comments
Categories: Games, Retrograde and Reviews
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I think it was a regular poster on this page, 8bitmagic, that actually rented this game to me nigh on 15 years ago, down the street from where I lived at the Carmen Video. I liked the game when I was younger but couldn’t really master the finer points without the help of the instruction booklet which was missing at the time. Now that I have the internet to back me up I can make up for lost time.

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08
Feb

Retrograde: Bad Dudes

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Games, Retrograde and Reviews
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Bad Dudes
1988
Data East
Some games were created using a template akin to other, more popular games and for the most part these copies fail due to the absence of original style and an over all unwillingness to go in a different direction. Bad Dudes is one of these games. But time has worked a miracle for the game; like John Travolta, it was so lame it became cool again. Continue reading ‘Retrograde: Bad Dudes’

08
Feb

Most Wonderous of Wonders

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
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Emulation, for years it has been refuge for many a fan of classic gaming. The problem with it has always been the lack of the tactile enjoyment that one can only get from pulling the gray cartridge of a NES game out of the sleeve, blowing in the slot, inserting the cart, powering up and picking up that small rectangular red black and gray controller. After a long absence from Emu (aside from the Virtual Console), I sort of got back in to it these last few days due to one piece of equipment in particular.

The Retro Pad, which used to be sold by Retro Zone but now is kind of hard to find has made my daily ritual of Nestopia approx. 89342% better. Not since red, gold and green herbs has there been a combination as beneficial to videogaming. f you are looking to get in to it, then this is the trifecta that you should be steering towards.

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18
Nov

Why I love video game music

By Tyler Miller 3 Comments
Categories: Editorials and Music
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Rock Man

The 8 bit era of video game music is a fond time period for most of the people who currently play video games. If you are still playing today, you have a favorite game song. It was the point in gaming history where the music of the game added significantly to the emotion of playing the game. Would I have liked Bionic Commando as much if when I began my first mission the stark bombed out environments didn’t match the military snare beat pushing me though the world? Most likely I would not, because the music primed me mentally to play the rest of the game. This is what happened when actual musicians began actually writing actual music for games, instead of the code writers who made the game adding it as an afterthought. Continue reading ‘Why I love video game music’

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