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Sega were known for doing the quirky thing with their games, this was true in the early days. Titles such as Alex Kidd had you fighting bosses with “rock, paper, scissors”. Later titles did cool things that we see today though no fighting game has revived the Daytona car like Fighter’s Megamix featured. In Die […]
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Die Hard Arcade Updates Brawlers with Movie License, Hits Sega Saturn Hard – Today in History – February 28th, 1997
February 28th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
10 Great Licensed NES Games That Are Not from Capcom
June 28th, 2018 Carl Williams Licensed games back in the 8-bit days were really hit or miss for gamers. We did not have options like YouTube to check out prior to purchase. There were no game reviewers readily available covering every game imaginable. No, back then we had to rely on gaming publications like Gamepro or Video Games & Computer […]
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Five Gaming Licenses that Missed the Mark
July 11th, 2017 Carl Williams Licensing is a staple of gaming. It has been since the Atari 2600 days. Licensing is going nowhere as companies realize they can halfheartedly work on a game, slap a license on it, and expect to at least make back their investment if not a tidy profit to boot. I have collected five licensed games […]
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Star Wars – from Movie to Arcade to Atari ST
May 4th, 2017 Stuart Williams Today being May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day), I thought I’d mark the occasion by looking back at one of the first Star Wars video games which brought simulated science fiction movie action down off the silver screen and into arcades and homes.
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Revenge of the License: The Thing
October 30th, 2016 Michael Crisman The final installment of this column prior to Halloween saved the best for last. There’s no denying John Carpenter’s “The Thing” from 1982 is a master class in claustrophobic paranoia. Forget the 2011 prequel and turn your attention to the 2002 sequel, developed with Carpenter’s blessing as a continuation/expansion of the events from the movie on its […]
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Revenge of the License: The X-Files (PS1)
October 23rd, 2016 Michael Crisman ‘The X-Files’ utterly changed the face of television. It scared us with ghost stories for adults. It boggled our minds with conspiracies within conspiracies. In its early days, before internet access was something everyone took for granted, it gave us a reason to visit the library and research topics ranging from alien abduction and the […]
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Revenge of the License: Five NES Games That Missed the Point
July 24th, 2016 Michael Crisman I love licensed NES games. I love the sound they make as I yank them out of my system and hurl them against the wall. The relentless plundering through the morass in search of something worth playing and finding the occasional surprise is always delightful, and why I keep coming back to this column over […]
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Revenge of the License: Willow
December 27th, 2015 Michael Crisman Now that we’ve reached the final column of the year, I want to end on a high note rather than just trash-talk another piece of crap. It’s been a few months since I wrote about anything Famicom-related, so back to the 8-bit scene we go! Today’s entry is my chance to gab about and gush […]
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Revenge of the License: Blair Witch Vol. 1: Rustin Parr
November 1st, 2015 Michael Crisman Welcome back, my vengeance-seeking boys and ghouls. Halloween may be over, but the air is still chilled. The leaves still crunch underfoot. We’ve still got games to write about. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be looking at a trilogy of video games which take place in the cinematic universe revealed in The Blair Witch […]
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Revenge of the License – Darkman
June 7th, 2015 Michael Crisman People give props to Sam Raimi for his most excellent Spider-Man film and often credit him for reviving the sagging comic book movie market, but Raimi didn’t cut his teeth on comic-like heroes with the wise-cracking webslinger. Twelve years before directing Tobey Maguire through his transformation into Kirsten Dunst’s boyfriend, Raimi put Liam Neeson through […]
