Snake’s Revenge
I should begin by declaring that Snake’s Revenge has gotten a bad rap over the years. Mostly forgotten as the bastard child of the Metal Gear series – literally, as “father” Hideo Kojima had zero involvement here – it’s generally been regarded as the lazy cash-in Konami rushed out for Western audiences. I have vague [...]
1 Comment »Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures
I’m not going to lie. I’d pretty much given up on platformers. Look around the site, and you’ll see the evidence – the PC section has overtaken the NES section, the Genesis and SNES sit lonely and neglected. Being bored with platformers almost knocks you right out of a decade of console gaming, and I [...]
No Comments »Postal Plus
The original Postal came out in 1997, while anti-game violence sentimentality was still high, Lieberman was still preaching from the Senate floor, and before the wave of school shootings would have made this particularly tasteless in the U.S. (and as the developer is based there, would have seriously complicated its release). The Special Delivery pack [...]
No Comments »Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
I’ve made it no secret that I’m not a fan of fantasy, but I try not to be a snob about it. After all, we’re really talking about the same basics here. Whatever your explanation, be it mental power, nanites, arcane mysticism, or the proper incantations from a scroll, the end result is the same [...]
No Comments »Martian Memorandum
Tex Murphy is your typical private dick in the not-so typical world of California, circa 2039. A third World War has slagged most of Earth, causing lingering radiation, a lowered population, and ghastly deformities for those unlucky enough to become mutants. A few safe havens, populated by a mix of radiation-immune “normals” and segregated mutants [...]
No Comments »Bureaucracy
I recently (as part of that damnable “growing up” routine) purchased a house in the ‘burbs and moved in. I keep receiving mail from a large insurance company for a previous tenant, for whom I have no forwarding address. When the first letter arrived, I simply wrote “No longer at this address” and stuffed it [...]
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