Posted on September 25, 2012
My Top 100: #81 – Super Smash Bros. Melee
Back in the late 90’s, I was lucky enough to have access to a satellite dish with American programming. I was able to watch shows most of my classmates didn’t even know existed, thanks to having channels that… Read More
Posted on September 24, 2012
My Top 100: #82 – Street Fighter II Turbo
Growing up, it seemed like there was always two of something, and a person always had to be on one side of the fence. In baseball, there were the American and National Leagues. In New Brunswick politics, there was the… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2012
My Top 100: #83 – Stunt Race FX
Nintendo was pretty damn proud of Star Fox, and for good reason. The Super FX chip helped this little 16-bit console compete with the Atari Jaguars and Sega CD’s of the world, delivering some pretty fine-looking polygon action to… Read More
Posted on September 20, 2012
My Top 100: #84 – Mission: Impossible
Nintendo Power seemed to believe that two Nintendo 64 games would revolutionize their respective genres, and both were based on movies that would be a couple years old by the time they were released. One was GoldenEye 007, and the other… Read More
Posted on September 18, 2012
My Top 100: #85 – Sonic the Hedgehog
Console wars these days are pretty tame. It’s mostly limited to back-and-forth comments on YouTube videos by people so riled up they forget all sense of proper grammar, while the companies themselves tend to avoid flat-out bashing the other guy. After all,… Read More
Posted on September 17, 2012
My Top 100: #86 – RBI Baseball 3
When I was younger, I didn’t really know why some NES cartridges looked different than usual. I managed to rent some Camerica (gold) and Color Dreams (light blue) games a few times in Baie Sainte-Anne, which seemed like a… Read More
Posted on September 14, 2012
My Top 100: #87 – Rock Band 3
There are only three of these rhythm games on my countdown, and they’re all on it for various reasons. Rock Band 3 is on it because it is the ultimate realization of the Guitar Hero dream. The dinky… Read More
Posted on September 13, 2012
My Top 100: #88 – Enter the Matrix
Here’s another game on the list that was panned by critics, but gets my thumbs up! Yeah, it could be glitchy, and it was a bit repetitive… but dammit, it was cool!!! The Wachowskis wanted 2003 to be… Read More
Posted on September 12, 2012
My Top 100: #89 – Mortal Kombat (2011)
Isn’t fan service awesome? Mortal Kombat (often called MK9 for short) delivered pretty much everything the typical old school MK fan was looking for. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon was intended to be the last hurrah for the series when… Read More
Posted on September 11, 2012
My Top 100: #90 – Power Blade
*Thanks to RF Generation for the image, and everything else that helped me make this list, for that matter!* Arnold Schwarzenegger was pretty much everywhere for a while. Even where Arnold technically wasn’t, like the cover of… Read More