Is X-Wing the stuffy flight simulator that just happens to wear a Jedi robe, or is it a full-throttle power fantasy that cannon-balls straight through the Death Star exhaust port? (Don’t play coy, we already know the correct answer is “yes to both… and crank the John Williams to 11.”) When LucasArts unleashed the game on DOS in […]
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Some games age like wine, a few age like milk, and then there’s Pit-Fighter on the Super Nintendo, a bruiser that ages like a forgotten gym sock: questionable aroma, oddly nostalgic if you were there, and somehow still useful when you need a quick laugh. Is it a misunderstood relic or an archetype of “so-bad-it’s-good” brawling? Both, but only
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The 16-bit wrestling boom was a lawless carnival of Lycra and latent glitchery. In June 1993, LJN’s WWF Royal Rumble somersaulted onto the Super Nintendo promising 16 megabits, twelve superstars, and the first console Battle Royal that could crowd six beefcakes on screen without turning the framerate into confetti. Classic or clunker? Depends on whether you grade
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What happens when a neon-drenched arcade road trip is detuned for family-room consumption? (Spoiler: fewer cows explode and more fog rolls in.) Cruis’n USA on Nintendo 64 is either a lovable launch-window workhorse or a grainy slipstream disaster, depending on whether you still smell nacho-cheese carpeting when you close your eyes. Over-hyped? Ask anyone who bought
Cruis’n USA (N64) – Review – No Cows Were Harmed in the Making of This Port Read Post »
Is Culture Brain’s Flying Warriors the holy grail of martial-arts curios or a dusty footnote squeezed between Ninja Gaiden II and that unloved copy of Karate Champ your cousin pawned off on you? (Rhetorical, naturally the answer is “yes” to both, plus an extra scoop of what-the-heck.) From afar it masquerades as a stock 8-bit brawler: punch, kick, platform, repeat. Then it
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