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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: Willow
December 27th, 2015 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in Console, News, Nintendo 
Tags: 8-bit, action, ad, adventure, capcom, famicom, nes, revenge of the license, role playing game, rpg, willow 
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Today in Retro Gaming: Clock Tower 2 (PS1)
December 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman Clock Tower 2, one of the scariest games ever released for 32-bit systems, celebrates its 19th Japanese birthday today in retro gaming history! It’s impossible to explain what this game meant to me when I discovered it completely by accident at a Toys ‘R’ Us in the late 90’s. While Resident Evil made me jump […]
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Today in UK Retro Gaming: Hardcore 4×4 (PS1)
December 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman In case you think the grass is always greener across the pond, rest assured the UK gets just as many crap games as the US. When it came to Hardcore 4×4 on the PlayStation, the only good thing you can say about its European release is that it isn’t tied to a publishing deal with […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Sonic R
November 18th, 2015 Michael Crisman Today, Traveller’s Tales is best known for taking extremely popular franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Batman and converting them into cute little Lego versions of themselves. The end result is an enormous dynasty of titles which earn the company cubic butt-tons of money with every new release as gamers […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
November 11th, 2015 Michael Crisman I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the team tasked with designing the follow-up to Resident Evil 2. RE2 improved upon every facet of what made the original so memorable; the end result is a title still hailed as one of the best survival horror experiences even now, nearly twenty years later. Since I don’t […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Alien Resurrection (PS1)
October 11th, 2015 Michael Crisman It’s sad that one of the best licensed titles of the 32-bit era was based on one of the two most reviled films in the Alien universe, but if you can ignore the bile rising in your throat at the thought of playing Alien Resurrection, you’re going to find a ridiculously playable FPS that manages […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: F1 Pole Position 64
September 30th, 2015 Michael Crisman There’s something to be said for coming in first. While people remember who won a given race, ask them who came in second and they’ll either have to think about it for a minute or else admit they don’t know. When it comes to sports, the gold medal might as well be everything and second […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Abuse (Shareware)
September 20th, 2015 Michael Crisman Abuse was a phenomenal action shooter with the misfortune to be released in 1996 when the PC gaming world was going apeshit for first-person shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. More’s the pity, because while developer Crack dot Com’s first- (and only-) born did nothing to revitalize the world of video game storytelling, it […]
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Revenge of the License: Dungeon Hack
September 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman You’d have been hard-pressed to find a company flying much higher in the early 90’s than TSR. Between the recently-published 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (aka: the best-selling pen-and-paper RPG in history) and a slew of hit computer games produced by SSI which used the AD&D License, TSR’s market position was so perfect […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Sony, Square, Sega and the 9-9-99 Debacle
September 9th, 2015 Michael Crisman There are many ways to deliver a “screw you” message to your enemies. From Twitter insult wars to full-blown industrial espionage, corporate trickery has a large palette from which to pick a prank. Trading one-liners and one-upping one another’s ads happen every day, but every once in a great while the fates align to create truly […]
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