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Having survived the wretchedness that was The Simpsons Wrestling last week, I reached into the bag to discover what new form of torment my punishment would take this Sunday. I’d keep a positive attitude about this, but when Carl, my boss, picks the topic of discussion I can only be positive he’s gone out of […]
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PlayStation Agony, Part 2: PowerPuff Girls Chemical X-Traction
November 27th, 2016 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in Console, News, Sony 
Tags: 3d, bam!, chemical x-traction, fighter, playstation agony, powerpuff girls, ps1, psone, revenge of the license, vis, warner bros 
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PlayStation Agony, Part 1: The Simpsons Wrestling
November 20th, 2016 Michael Crisman When Carl, the man I perceive as the primary antagonist in my life as a video game character, used a sledgehammer to defeat the lock on my door, my heart slid into my colon. “Time to pay the piper,” he said, holding up a paper shopping bag. “Donald Trump will be president, therefore you lost the […]
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Posted in Console, News, Reviews, Sony Tags: 1999, acclaim, big ape productions, fox interactive, license, playstation, playstation agony, ps1, psone, revenge of the license, simpsons, simpsons wrestling, wrestling No Comments »
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: Alien Trilogy
October 16th, 2016 Michael Crisman One of iD Software’s initial ideas for Doom was to make a first-person shooter set in the world of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’. When a licensing deal couldn’t be worked out between iD and 20th Century Fox, Carmack and Romero’s team fell back on a more generic ‘space marine kills everything’ setting, and an FPS classic […]
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The Black Sheep of Horror Gaming: LSD Dream Emulator
October 8th, 2016 Michael Crisman When Halloween slips around, you have tons of choices for hosting a retro-themed scare-a-thon on your big screen. It’s easy to dive straight into the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street, Silent Hill 2, or even these Atari 2600 ‘classics’. Formerly obscure titles like Run Like Hell for Xbox/PS2 and Nocturne on PC have been around […]
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Oddballs in Gaming: Rage Racer
August 7th, 2016 Kevin Ayre Rage Racer was the third in the popular Ridge Racer series by Namco, and even the designer admits it was a bit of an oddball!
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So Bad It’s Good – Jedi Power Battles ‘Forces’ You To Practice
June 11th, 2016 Michael Crisman I’m not about to beg forgiveness for that awful pun in the title, and I agree: I deserve every ounce of scorn you want to verbally unloaded on me for making it. I’m not sorry. Make my day. Come at me, bro. Also, on an unrelated tangent, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for the PS1 and […]
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June- So Bad It’s Good Month
June 2nd, 2016 Dash The Bomber There will never be an end to games that are objectively terrible in the world of gaming. From bad design choices such as a eliminating everything which made the original great, to being an experimental game which didn’t quite execute as intended, bad games are a part of our lives. But there is one experience […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: OverBlood (PS1)
May 22nd, 2016 Michael Crisman Waking up from cryosleep is never fun, but it’s even less enjoyable when you’re dealing with amnesia and hypothermia. This is the situation our protagonist finds himself facing at the beginning of OverBlood, a 3-D Sci-Fi Adventure (just like it says on the package). You know you’re in for a rough stretch when the first […]
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Revenge of the License: Dark Seed
April 17th, 2016 Michael Crisman Over the lifespan of this column, we’ve looked at games licensed from every conceivable medium: blockbuster films, television shows, comic books, sporting events, fashion dolls, a casino, a restaurant, table top role-playing games, and even real life. Just when you sit back and think you’ve covered every conceivable thing a game company could pay money […]
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