When I wrote my review about the original Final Fantasy, I said it was a very hard game. On my latest play through I realized with the right steps the game becomes merely a bit challenging. It is a matter of preparation.
The Party
The is the key decision to just how hard or easy Final Fantasy will be. I usually roll a party of Fighter, Thief (or Black ...
Boogerman is definitely a product of the ’90s. Enter Sam Leuck, the janitor with delusions of superhero hood. He wanders into an experiment to send the world’s pollution into another dimension called Dimension X Crement. The inventory? Professor Stinkbaum. Sam screws up the machine, causing a giant arm to pop out of the portal and grab the machine’s power unit. Sam gets the idea to “save the day” as his alter ...
Heh…gonad gnashers. When conceiving of this list, I decided that I wasn’t going to use the word “ball-buster” to describe these games, since not everyone who plays video games has that particular set of gonads. So gonad gnashers is a nice, family friendly way to include the more than fifty percent of the population who doesn’t have balls to bust.
Regardless of the anatomical term used to describe them, the games that follow are all quite difficult. At least I found ...
Okay, Epic Mickey isn’t a retro game, but it does suffer from many problems old 3D games have in common.
Epic Mickey (for the Nintendo Wii) starts with Mickey messing up a world Merlin painted for defunct Walt Disney characters to live. This mess created an entity called the Blot that also pulled Mickey into the world. Mickey grabs Merlin’s magic paint brush just as he was being pulled into ...
The Sega Genesis version of The Adventures of Batman and Robin is rough. Based on the DC characters and their 1994 animated series, this run and gun pits the Dynamic Duo against Mr. Freeze and “friends.”
The game only has 4 side-scrolling levels with several stages, but it is a ball buster in the tradition of coin gulping arcade machines. Unlike the Super Nintendo version, the Genesis lets ...
Pirates, trading, and being a captain of a fleet? Sounds great!
It’s not…it’s menus and more menus.
Welcome to Uncharted Waters. This RPG…errr…sailing simulator for the Sega Genesis with the graphics and play control of the 8 bit NES. You are the captain of a fleet that can be either pirates or wealthy merchants. Your choice. You sail from port to port, buying and selling goods, keeping your sailors from starving, and ...
