Most licensed games for the Nintendo Entertainment System were pretty lacking, but that was not the case for a series of releases based on the Disney television series Duck Tales, Tale Spin, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, and Darkwing Duck. The games based on these shows are some of the
The birds are chirping, the flowers bloom, and the bat’s crack against a baseball rings in the rebirthing season of spring. A constant and welcome new edition of Out of the Park Baseball is sure to be as refreshing as the blooms and the greenery. Out of the Park
Kingdom Hearts was a communal experience for me and my friends. We played the game at the same time, and discussed various plot points and secrets at extreme length. One of my most vivid memories of youth is my group complaining that we’d never get to play the fabled
Is there any more profound state of being than “hit and miss?” To not be terrible, but not great either, a dualistic order within which you can find almost the entirety of life. So much of video gaming is based on this status of being as well. You either strike
Have you ever played an old 8-bit style video game on a modern console in front of someone old enough to remember when that was the only option available? Perplexed, they invariably question “Why would you play that old game when you’ve got the modern graphics and physics of
Gust, the developers of the Atelier series, seem to approach each game with the same philosophy that goes into their trademark alchemy process found in each game. Taking the ingredients of a fun JRPG and tinkering with them in subtle ways, Atelier games come out similar, but always slightly improved
Digimon has always felt like the weird cousin of the monster collecting games, not quite as stylish and dramatic as its more celebrated counterpart. However, Digimon has a charm to it after you get past the absolute bizarre nature of cute faced blobs with fully adult voices, providing services and
Toys coming alive is somehow a consistently winning formula. Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found takes that formula and plunges it into a melodramatic darkness, pitting you against hordes of evil, discarded toys in side-scrolling, Castlevania-style platforming battles. A game that reminds you of the good ol’ days of gaming,
