To this day I’m still a fan of the cartoon Captain N: The Game Master. I used to watch it all the time as a kid, and when Shout Factory released the complete series on DVD I began watching it all over again. It was just always so crazy to see characters from different franchises, that weren’t even owned by Nintendo, in this cartoon together. You’ve got Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Pit (well, they just…
Read more →Hey all! Just a small addition to my retro gaming collection this week, but some pretty good ones in my opinion! First off we have yet another X-Men game! I’ve been picking them up left and right lately. But this is one that I did own back in the day, and I remember it being pretty great; X-Men Mutant Apocalypse. This particular X-Men title is made from Capcom, and as you’d expect from them it’s…
Read more →Well, even if I haven't been *writing* about playing old games, I've certainly been *playing* them! And acquiring even more, apparently! So let's look through my latest old games purchases! First up is a couple of Super Famicom games! Now that I've modded my SNES to play Super Famicom, I'm all about the SuFami games! On the left is Mickey's Adventures in Tokyo Disneyland. The screenshots of this game looked really nicely detailed, and I'm…
Read more →Ah, summer vacation! Hopefully I'll be able to get more blogging done, not to mention some new videos uploaded, I've got so many old games to play and talk about, especially after my latest retro gaming spree! A few weeks ago I went to video game convention that's not too far from my home, called Too Many Games, where there were so many retro and import games that I went a little crazy! Some people…
Read more →One thing I didn't mention in my post that may be of interest to some people out there is that these games are all available to download for free online! Al Lowe, who many of you know as the guy who made the Leisure Suit Larry games for Sierra back in the day, was also the designer of the three games I spoke of in my post, with the exception of the Winnie-the-Pooh game, where…
Read more →Wow, sorry for the lack of updates lately, guys. School work has really taken a lot of my free time up. But I found a good solution/cop-out for a new post, putting up a paper I wrote for one of my library classes last term, which was for my Resources for Children class. We had to go back to something we remembered as impacting us as children and evaluate it. Since we were allowed to…
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