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So here’s the situation: you’re a marketer with Midway’s advertising department. The job you’ve been tasked with is simple. Midway’s got a new racing game coming out on the Nintendo 64. It’s a port of an extremely popular arcade racing game, and you’ve been given some very simple bullet points to hit in the two-page […]
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Wacky Wednesday – Cruis’n World Ad
February 11th, 2015 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in Console, News, Nintendo 
Tags: ad, arcade port, cruis'n world, marketing fail, Midway, n64, nintendo, wacky wednesday, you had one job 
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Wacky Wednesday: Sheena Easton Beats Defender. Literally.
December 17th, 2014 Michael Crisman Scottish singer Sheena Easton exploded onto the pop music scene in the 1980s with a ridiculous number of back-to-back chart-topping hits, went on to record with some of the biggest names in music of the day (including Kenny Rogers and Prince), performed the title song to the James Bond film “For Your Eyes Only”, and […]
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Posted in News Tags: 1983, almost over you, arcade, defender, gravity, lols of physics, music video, sheen easton, silent hill, sinistar, wacky wednesday, williams No Comments »
Wacky Wednesday – Galoob Thanks Canada
November 4th, 2014 Michael Crisman Copyright law in the United States is pretty explicit when it comes to defining what third-parties are allowed to do with regards to content said third party did not create. While copyright law makes provisions for fair use in the creation of new or derivative works based on original material, the owner and the would-be […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: camerica, Canada, cheat, codemasters, galoob, game genie, genie, lawsuit, nes, nintendo, wacky wednesday No Comments »
Wacky Wednesday – Thumb Master
September 30th, 2014 Michael Crisman Welcome back to Wacky Wednesday, where we ask the all-important question: “What the F&@!?” Today we’re looking at an accessory destined to rock the gaming world, to ensure that you dominated each and every alien invader, koopa troopa, and loathsome Communist oppressor who crossed your path. We love it. It’s so bad. It’s not the […]
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Wacky Wednesday – Konami’s Nintendo Hack
September 2nd, 2014 Michael Crisman This week’s Wacky Wednesday offering doesn’t focus on any specific hardware or software, but rather the ingenious way one company hacked their way through Nintendo’s old third-party-software regulations. A round of applause for Konami, if you please, for creating Ultra Games…
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: konami, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, ultra games, wacky wednesday 1 Comment »
Wacky Wednesday – Dinosaurs Will Fly
August 5th, 2014 Michael Crisman Nintendo had it rough going into the fifth generation of gaming. Sega and Sony upstaged the big N with 1995 releases of their consoles. What’s worse, Nintendo was clinging to more-expensive-with-less-storage cartridge technology instead of embracing the cheaper CD option. Even Nintendo’s most ardent supporters were starting to wonder if maybe they shouldn’t just pack […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: 64, 64-Bit, ad, bowser, dinosaurs will fly, mario, michael crisman, n64, nintendo, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, wacky wednesday No Comments »
Wacky Wednesday – Godzilla (GB)
July 1st, 2014 Michael Crisman Welcome to Wacky Wednesday, a weekly wandering whereupon we wistfully wemem…remember…those wild, wonky worlds we’ve welcomed without–OK, you know what, enough of this alliterative nonsense. I’m not Alan Moore, and neither are you. This is just a new feature we’re throwing at the wall to see if it sticks. So here’s the deal: each week […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: ad, game boy, gameboy, gb, Godzilla, i'll be back, michael crisman, portable, retro, retro gaming magazine, toho, wacky wednesday No Comments »
