Remember waaaay back in my first Radvertisements post when I talked about UK ads? Well I found more. In the other post about UK ads I featured a series of commercials starring a teenage kid who lives in an 18-wheeler in a parking lot somewhere who plays games and fights…
Fantasy Zone started out in the arcades but was later ported to like every console ever including the SEGA Master System. For an 8-bit game the visuals and pace are impressive. Piloting the tiny ship Opa-Opa feels fast and fluid. He even dies quickly. And a lot. Fantasy Zone follows…
Remember that Radvertisements article I did about Sonic selling out? Well it’s getting worse. You’d think with two new games coming out Sonic wouldn’t be hard up for cash but apparently he’s been seen shilling coathangers in Mexico. It’s always sad to see legends fall from grace like this. It’s…
For this review I’d like you all to play along with me. So get out your Neo Geo Pocket Color. What? You don’t own a Neo Geo Pocket Color? But it’s one of the best handheld systems ever! For a console with such a short lifespan, the NGPC had a…
In comics, alternate realities are commonplace. Before the Crisis, superheroes jumped back and forth between worlds all the time and had all sorts of adventures with different versions of themselves. Naturally, this would transfer over to videogames. On the Genesis we have SEGA’s The Adventures of Batman & Robin and…
The SEGA Genesis was released in Japan in 1988 and the US in 1989. That’s a full two years in both regions before the Super NES. While many gamers were content with their NES, a lot of us thought it was time to move into the next era of gaming…