Top Gun
April 21, 2007 | No Comments
Ruthless NES cockpit shooter, with the infamous carrier landing minigame.
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
April 7, 2007 | 3 Comments
Static struggles with betrayal, as the Zelda series abandons the gameplay of the original for something much more RPG and confusing.
Amagon
April 5, 2007 | No Comments
Static side-scrolls through a tropical island as the gun-toting Amagon, who can Hulk out into the uppercut-bashing Megagon. But both forms suckagon.
Paperboy
March 18, 2007 | No Comments
Paperboy is one of the more unique arcade games I can remember, getting away from the predominate space fighter or scrolling fighter genres of the 80s. You play as a paperboy delivering the morning edition from his bike. The arcade cabinet had a set of bike handlebars for a controller (trés chique!) as well as […]
Renegade
February 19, 2007 | No Comments
One of my quasi-regular readers asked me what I was working on next for the site. I told them that I had been playing Renegade, the earliest of the real Final Fight/Double Dragon kind of brawlers. The conversation then went like this: Them: “Oh? How is it?” Me: “It’s kinda fun, but not really.” And […]
Back to the Future II & III
February 19, 2007 | No Comments
Static made the point last week that many of my recent games have fallen into the “good” or at least “average” categories. It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed something particularly heinous, and he requested that I do so since they usually turn out to be amusing reads. I was happy to oblige, and I […]