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RETROspective: Genesis Mascots


Posted on 04/18/2014 at 02:37 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I was a SNES kid, but surprisingly, I enjoyed the Genesis Sonic games more than the SNES Mario games. However, since then, Sonic has definitely fallen far behind Mario.

Streets of Rage was my favorite take on the Double Dragon theme, although my favorite beat-em-up game from that era overall was Konami's Simpsons arcade game (and that game is now seriously challenged by Dragon's Crown on PS3).

ToeJam and Earl was a bit esoteric for me. Catchy music though.

My own pick for Genesis mascots, however, would be Alex and Luna from Lunar: The Silver Star. And that's taking into account that I never played the Sega CD version of that game. The PS1 version of Lunar is one of my favorite games ever. Trust me, though, if I'd thought I could have talked my mom into springing for $400 for a Genesis+Sega CD combo back in the 90s, plus the money for Lunar, I'd have been a Genesis kid instead of a SNES kid.

Cary's Top Five Favorite BlazBlue Fighters


Posted on 04/17/2014 at 11:31 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Noel is probably my best fighter. I also like Arakune, who appears to be an homage to the River God from Spirited Away (one of the best anime movies ever made).

Intellivision Dies on PS2


Posted on 04/15/2014 at 12:04 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I missed out on the Intellivision myself. The only Intellivision games I played were the handful of Intellivision games that were converted to the 2600, like Astrosmash. You can tell those games because they're shaped like Intellivision cartridges with attachments to make them fit into a 2600 cart slot. Astrosmash was interesting, but Intellivision's offerings as a whole weren't very appealing. I was used to playing on the Atari 130XE anyway.

April Review Showers


Posted on 04/11/2014 at 01:52 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I don't think HD remakes of the PS1 games are coming, sadly. It would cost Square too much money to overhaul them into HD and not enough ROI. It's easier to do that kind of conversion of PS2 games to HD.

So tired... slapped together update 4-10-14


Posted on 04/10/2014 at 11:48 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I had to write two giant papers this past week so I didn't get any gaming in. To celebrate, I've spent the past three days doing nothing but gaming (FFX HD and a couple of 3DS games.)

Taito Legends - Operation Thunderbolt


Posted on 04/10/2014 at 11:45 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I remember playing this game back in the 80s. I think there was some real-life hostage crisis in the Middle East at the time it came out. Can't remember, my poor old memory is a bit fuzzy.

April Review Showers


Posted on 04/10/2014 at 11:43 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Not sure what it would be about the English version of Tomba! 2 that would cause problems. I wonder if it came down to some kind of licensing issue.

I'm enjoying the FFX/X2 collection. FFX was the first PS2 game I bought and it was the game I bought a PS2 for. I really enjoyed it, but I actually like FFXII a lot better. I hope that one gets its own HD remake, and I'd rather have a FFXII HD on PS4 rather than PS3.

I Went Outside Today


Posted on 04/08/2014 at 07:49 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Pretty flowers. They don't have anything like that in my parts.

Taito Legends - Jungle Hunt


Posted on 04/06/2014 at 11:37 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I had the 5200 Jungle Hunt at home, and I played the original Jungle King complete with the Tarzan scream in the arcade.

My Top 10 GBA Games


Posted on 04/03/2014 at 01:39 PM | Filed Under Blogs

My most-wanted GBA games:

1. Metroid Zero Mission

2. The Minish Cap

3. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

4. Sword of Mana

5. Golden Sun (which is among the games announced for the VC now)

6. Final Fantasy V (best version of that game available in the US)

7. Tales of Phantasia

8. Sword of Mana

Another game I hope Nintendo will seriously consider is Mother 3, the sequel to Earthbound (Mother 2). There's an excellent fan-translation out there, but it would be really awesome if Nintendo were to use that fan-translation, pay the folks behind it a small sum of money, and release it in English. Since it's Nintendo and Nintendo is notoriously protective of its IP, it isn't likely. But then, Nintendo has surprised me before.

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