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Witness: The “Popples”

August 20, 2009 - 4:29 pm

oufwid_1098689173_popples A teddy bear that can tuck itself into its own back!

On paper this premise sounds like something a future serial killer would do to his stuffed animals, but somehow in reality it turned into a sensation. The cartoon to go along with the toys allowed the popples to make anything they imagined pop into existence.

Personally I was much more impressed when I could fold my entire jacket into a pouch.

Rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

Artelius

August 19, 2009 - 6:42 pm

Oh boy.

A young man vanished from the Earth. Now prepare yourself to sit at a menu screen for 20 minutes and then read pages and pages of text.

It’s the journey of a lifetime. I hope you brought a pillow.

Your choices are “Set” and “Kill” – don’t stress over the decision too much though, because nothing happens when you choose either of them.

Just pretend the lack of stars means negative infinity.

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

31-in-1

August 19, 2009 - 2:46 pm

Thirty-one titles? ALL ON ONE EASY TO LOAD CARTRIDGE!? Yes.

In 31-in-1, the #-in-1 Game Development Company comes at fans with another action-packed cartridge, and while it is rare in the #-in-1 genre, every title on this cartridge actually works. Keeping with past #-in-1s, there is some mislabeling with the games, but there are no repeats.

For fans of epilepsy, the menu screen in 31-in-1 contains many flashing colours and even a character that runs by and changes the flashing colour scheme.

Aside from trips to the emergency room, there are some interesting titles on this cartridge. Karateka and Zinja are entertaining titles, and ol’ trusty Galaga also makes an appearance.

Pac-Man appears as Pack-Man, but is called Goblin on its menu screen: -.25 for inconsistency.

Rating: ★★★★★★★¾☆☆ 

WrestleMania I Part II

August 18, 2009 - 6:19 pm

We left off with Tito Santana defeating the Masked Executioner in a barn-burner of a match. Truly thrilling. As I fast-forwarded through it I could almost feel the adrenaline these two wrasslers had pumping.

Now it’s time for the main event – King Kong Bundy (Alive) vs. SD Jones (Dead). King Kong of course famous for his 30s film of the same name. SD Jones famous for being one initial short of a rash on your privates.

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Click here to fill your day’s SD Jones quota

Aussie Rules Footy

August 17, 2009 - 3:23 pm

This ain’t your grandmother’s footy… Or maybe it is.

Laser Beam Entertainment did their best to take the game of Aussie Rules Footy – a game originally played under tables by children – and turn it into some sort of sport that’s played on some kind of field.

This release coincided with North America’s obsession with Australia, or the Republic of Criminal Island if one wishes to use its official name. But with North Americans being more familiar with Canadian Rules Footy and American Rules Footy, Aussie Rules Footy entered an already saturated market. This situation is what has been blamed for the failure of Aussie Rules Football.

Shortly thereafter, North Americans realized they cared as much about Australia as they do for Australian sports rules and their circular playing areas.

That is to say not at all.

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

Witness: The “Frisbee”

August 17, 2009 - 2:14 pm

GREEN FRISBEE Imagine if you will, that a ball has been flattened. The result is the Frisbee.

If you’d told me that flattening a ball would make it go further, I’d have called you crazy. But I also said man would never fly, that electricity was Satan’s blood coursing through power lines, and that bicycles were powered by evil spirits rather than pedals. Suffice to say, I’ve been wrong in the past.

Toss it, and it flies. The direction it flies in is a lot more reliant on the wind direction than a ball, but nobody likes a control freak anyway – just be glad you have a Frisbee and stop trying to dictate where it can go.

It’s like the famous quote “If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.” Only a Frisbee will never come back, because that’s a boomerang, and you’re not old enough to use one of those.

Get used to being lonely.

Rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆