Top Gun
Ruthless NES cockpit shooter, with the infamous carrier landing minigame.
Ruthless NES cockpit shooter, with the infamous carrier landing minigame.
Static struggles with betrayal, as the Zelda series abandons the gameplay of the original for something much more RPG and confusing.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]