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Witness: The "Lite-Brite"

August 6, 2009 - 12:32 pm

litebrite

Insert pegs to your heart’s content.

This could rival the Glo Worm as the best way to light your bedroom.

Draw a kangaroo. Draw a balloon. Draw a kangaroo riding a balloon. There’s no limit, aside from your meager imagination.

Some consider Lite-Britin’ to be playing with a toy, to some it’s an art form, but I consider it a lifestyle choice. Someday I hope to marry mine.

Wait for me, bright board of pegs – someday we’ll be together.

Rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 

Alien 3

August 6, 2009 - 12:10 pm

As I entered a world full of hostile aliens, I took solace in the fact that I was armed with an automatic rifle. Unfortunately my fanny pack could only hold so much ammunition and I was left to my secondary attack: standing around holding an empty rifle.

Originally as I started playing this game I noticed that there was a “heat” type indicator that would stop your gun from firing when it filled up. No problem, I thought, I’ll just refrain from my usual running and firing through the entire game.

Well, next to that gauge were numbers that I now realize are ammunition amounts.

Once you’re out, it’s time to die. And die you will.

Why can’t I swing the rifle like a bat

Rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

6-in-1

August 6, 2009 - 11:50 am

A game which rewards your Reset presses with new and exciting lists of games!

The exciting precursor to 54-in-1. Each feature a whopping 6 working titles for the low price of manufacturing one cartridge, and enough royalties to keep the developer high on opiates.

The list of games we have here are all classics. A personal favorite of mine is Soccer 1998; a game that was so forward thinking it shunned the yearly sports cycle and jumped 10 years into the future.

In 1998 soccer looks a lot like Nintendo’s Soccer title.

Rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

Earthquake

August 6, 2009 - 11:32 am

WWF Earthquake

wwf-score-tug Earthquake, or as some may know him ‘Large fat man who wrestled prior to Yokozuna’, took the WWF by storm in the late 80s.

For years he terrorized the WWF with his ‘Earthquake splash,’ a move so dangerous that to perform it outside of the ring requires a comfortable chair.

It was only after he retired that he was recognized for inventing the sitting position. Incredibly, until then the world had remained standing.

After Burner

August 6, 2009 - 10:57 am

One of the ugliest and choppiest things you’ve seen since grade 9 Shop class.

Why can’t I crash into the sea? How am I supposed to become a national hero if I can’t ensure my own death in combat?

No further comment.

 

 

The controls work, but that’s only a tenth of the battle.

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 

The Adventures of Captain Comic

August 5, 2009 - 9:46 pm

Behold the Adventures of Captain Comic, more left and right walking action than anyone believed could possibly fit into a perfectly legitimate blue cartridge!

Adventures of Captain Comic was originally released as scribbles on the wall of Cro-Magnon’s cave. Amazingly, the programmers were really able to capture the slipperiness our prehistoric designers intended.

Use the directional pad to move, ‘A’ to jump, and, when you find a weapon, ‘B’ to shoot. If you’ve been waiting for a game where you can’t tell if you or the enemy is being harmed and it seems like the ground has been greased with Crisco, then wait no longer.

Looks like it was designed and programmed by Cro-Magnon. Now that’s authenticity!

Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆