The console released before the Wii was the Nintendo Gamecube and it was a good little machine. It didn’t sell well and it wasn’t particularly innovative, but many people, including me, loved the thing. What’s crazy is how much more it could have been. Nintendo had sunk a ton of…
Have you ever had that sort of confluence of media when you watch, read, or play a number of things and they all seem to play off of each other? One year I went for months when, not only was every book I read great, but they also perfectly paired…
My friend busted out Mortal Kombat XL at a recent party and I had forgotten how much fun those games are. So when the next party happened to be at my place, I wanted to reciprocate as a good host. I found a little indie game called Normal Human Face…
The Connecticut Leather Company was started in 1932 by an ambitious young buck named Maurice Greenberg. The company made bank during World War 2 and with wads of cash in hand, began diversifying. One idea which they had was a “make your own leather moccasin” kit for kids, released in…
If I had a preferred genre of game, I suppose it would be “emotional narrative” games. I love me some 3rd person adventure, first person and platform puzzlers, and good old point-and-click, but I always seem to find my recent favorites in character driven narrative games. If you’ve looked at…
The seventies were a fascinating time for several reasons, but what I find the most interesting was the home computer and electronics market being born. Microchips were getting cheaper, and companies knew that there was a lot of profit to be made if they could somehow monetize these amazing little…
There was a time in video game history where going up against the juggernaut that was Nintendo was almost a fool’s errand. This was in part because the NES was awesome. From a strictly technical standpoint, the Master System was more awesome. But Nintendo’s one year head start was just…
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T.S. Eliot Game companies come and go. A happy few get to be the leaders of the industry. Others at least survive the generation and try to rebuild. Still others fade away into the void.…
“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.” ― Stanley Kubrick In…
The way these ranking lists work is simple. I use a weighted system which takes into account game sales, player review scores, and professional review scores for a whole bunch of games on a given system. My personal opinions are irrelevant. All of our opinions are irrelevant. We are all…
Gather around my children and I shall tell you a tale of a gaming console which has two sides. (The story had two sides, I mean. The GameCube had six sides due to its cube like nature.) On one side are my memories. I loved my GameCube and hauled it…
Journey with me, my fellow gamers into the long, long ago. An age of disco music and punk rock. Twas an age that saw the US Military really amp up nuclear weapons production and also an age where because of the U.S. space program, microchips and computers were beginning to…
