Reviews

We already know this, yet I can practically hear you playing coy behind that tab: Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel is the Super Nintendo cartridge that looks like a normal side-scrolling mascot, then whips out a shuriken, belly-flops through the sky, and claps your expectations harder than a 300-page shōnen cliff-hanger. “Aero the Acro-Bat’s edgy rival gets his […]

We already know this, but I will say it anyway because the world keeps forgetting: Zool: Ninja of the “Nth” Dimension on Super Nintendo is what happens when Sonic the Hedgehog drinks three cans of Surge, slams into a piñata factory, and decides the shattered candy shards are adequate camouflage. Bizarre premise? Absolutely. Underrated? More than a

We already know this, but I refuse to let the point slip beneath the sofa cushions of pop culture: Zoop on Super Nintendo is the bright-pink platypus of 16-bit puzzlers. It waltzed into 1995 wearing hyperactive chevrons, declared itself “America’s Largest Killer of Time!” (yes, Viacom’s marketing department typed that with a straight face), and then dared us to

Is WWF RAW for the Super Nintendo a straight-laced wrestling simulation or the gaming equivalent of a neon-lit carnival sideshow where physics checks in its coat at the door? (Rhetorical question; you already know the answer.) Picture a ring so springy it might be rented from Acme, move sets that leave Newton spinning in his