Dear Esther
When approached as a game, Dear Esther is bundled frustration. A game all wandering around an abandoned island sounds like a great …
Ken to Mahou / Sword & Sorcery (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Last week I didn’t get to do another entry unfortunately (although I technically didn’t announce this as a weekly column …
Zeddas: Servant of Sheol
The gradual adoption of the CD and 3D technologies in the early 1990s is remembered today with equal parts wonder …
Punch-Out!! (Introduction / Characters)
Nintendo’s take on the boxing world is quite interesting. While not the first boxing video game, Punch-Out!! was certainly the first one …
Scramble Spirits
It’s difficult to do anything too original in the action genre of shoot-em-ups, ever since Xevious and Gradius set the bar for vertical and …
Nosferatu the Vampyre
The Movie Produced in 1921 and first shown the following year, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Nosferatu is one of the early formative works …
Nosferatu (SNES)
The 16-bit Nosferatu offering by Seta can hardly be described as even maintaining a most tenuous link to the movies. It seems …
Virtua Fighter
After Street Fighter II took the arcades by storm in 1991, the fighting game genre changed forever. Its basic control layout, its …
Franko: The Crazy Revenge
In the early 90s, the success of games like Final Fight, Golden Axe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the …
