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Darkwing Duck is a Disney animated feature set in an alternate “duckverse” from Ducktales. Launchpad McQuack and Gizmoduck both appear each show, in similar positions of life, but are considered different characters. That means two different universes to deal with here. Think of Darkwing Duck maybe as a DC Comics Elseworlds story. In 1992, Capcom […]
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Lets Get Dangerous Darkwing Duck Launches on Nintendo NES – June 14th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
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John Wick Fan Game Released
July 21st, 2019 Carl Williams What would gaming be without fans that take it upon themselves to do things big companies sometimes cannot? Fans rock Streets of Rage 2 hacks that add new characters to level edits of Sonic the Hedgehog. Fans keep these old games feeling new and keep gaming interesting for a lot of us old school gamers. […]
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Jurassic Park Unleashed on Super Nintendo – October 6th, 1993 – Today in History
October 6th, 2018 Carl Williams What do you do when making a game based on what is surely going to be a blockbuster release? If you are Acclaim you phone in the development then hope for sales based on name alone. Ocean Software on the other hand took another approach to their acquisition of the Jurassic Park license. They allegedly […]
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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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Top 3 Games Left Off the NES Classic (Top 3 Tuesday)
February 14th, 2017 Michael Crisman He promised he’d be back, and he is! Arnold’s back in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which is just one of the many hundreds of games I’m choosing not to write about in response to MichaelBtheGameGenie’s latest Top 3 Tuesday video: Top 3 Games Left Off the NES Classic (which you should totally open in another window […]
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Acclaim Closes Their Doors – September 1st, 2004 – Today in Video Game History
August 31st, 2016 Carl Williams Old school game publishers going out of business is never fun to write about. With Acclaim though it is kind of bittersweet. Accalim held some of the best licenses of whatever generation of console we are talking about. They would also universally phone in the quality of the underlying game. For many, Acclaim made games […]
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! – May 7th, 1991 – Today in History
May 7th, 2016 Carl Williams Fans of this period of video games knows that there are more than a few licensed titles to pick from. Some are quite good while others make the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall look like a masterpiece. Beetlejuice is one of those that ran the middle ground quite well as far as licensed […]
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Batman Swooped Onto the Nintendo Entertainment System – February 13th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
February 13th, 2014 Carl Williams When Batman hit the home console market, it represented many things. Most importantly was that it was breaking the trend of “licensed crap” that had been plaguing systems at the time. Batman on the Nintendo Entertainment System was also quite a bit different than the movie it was based on. This probably lent to it […]
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A Further Six Absurdly Difficult D&D Adventures (That Are Not ‘Tomb of Horrors’)
October 22nd, 2017 Michael Crisman This week, I celebrated my birthday. That’s right, Modern Zorker has turned the great four-oh (though I prefer to think of it as “21 with 19 additional levels in the Geek Prestige Class”). To celebrate, I’ve invited one of the best friends I had growing up: Dungeons & Dragons! And because nothing says ‘Happy Birthday!’ […]
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There is No Cure For Pac-Man Fever. I’m Living Proof
July 30th, 2016 Thor Thorvaldson Good day, everyone! New guy Thor here, but I guess “new” is a relative term considering I’m 44 years old. As you may have guessed, I’ve been playing games for a VERY long time: I recall playing one of those mid-seventies 3-game Pong home machines during the mid-seventies, but I consider my official initiation into […]
