Posted on September 4, 2012
My Top 100: #93: Tiny Toon Adventures
When you were young, those last few days leading up to Christmas were pretty damn exciting. Once school was out for the holiday break, the only true hurdle left was Christmas Eve mass. It’s not that I didn’t… Read More
Posted on September 2, 2012
My Top 100: #94 – Kid Icarus
To me, nothing about the 8-bit era gets me more nostalgic than looking at this box art. Whether it was silver or black (or blue, with Ice Hockey), it was plain and simple, and still managed to… Read More
Posted on September 1, 2012
My Top 100: #95 – Blades of Steel
It’s perfectly fine to enjoy a game tremendously, while being pretty damn terrible at it at the same time. On the surface, Blades of Steel is your typical bare-bones hockey game. Choose your city, play against a… Read More
Posted on August 29, 2012
My Top 100: #99 – Donkey Kong Classics
Before I delve too deep into the legend that is Donkey Kong, let it be noted that this is the only game on my countdown that is *technically* a compilation. A game is a game, and a… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2012
Gun.Smoke (NES) and Adventures of Dino Riki (NES)
As evidenced by my prior posts, turning the stories video games tell us into “films” (if they can even be called that) has been a hobby of mine since I was in my early teens. With the advent… Read More
Posted on June 13, 2012
I have a feeling it’ll be a long time…
Well, the last time I updated, it was a snowy and cold Easter Sunday. These past few days, the weather has been sunny and warm here in Fredericton, which is quite the contrast from that last post. I’m slowly getting… Read More
Posted on January 20, 2012
“Eastmost Penninsula is the secret.”
I’ve had the idea kicking around my brain for a couple days to start making my own Top Five videos. I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something oddly satisfying about taking my favourite things, grouping them… Read More
Posted on November 22, 2011
Mega Man 4 (NES)
Some considered Mega Man 4 to be the beginning of the end of the love affair gamers had with the series. Honestly, I didn’t find that happened until several years later with the countless Battle Network games that changed the formula altogether…. Read More
Posted on November 17, 2011
What a… stinkin’, no-good… burgerfricckle!!
In going back to play old games, I’m finding that some of them are real stinkers. Games that were once cherished are actually big steaming piles of gaming poo. I’ve watched a fair amount of Angry Video Game… Read More
Posted on November 7, 2011
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)
This one may seem a bit childish on the surface, and it does somewhat come out of left field compared to the other games I’ve written about. Capcom had the rights to create Disney games for quite a… Read More