Archive for November, 2010
Games You Should Have Played: Super Dodge Ball
The Nintendo Entertainment System is known for its classic, pantheon level games like Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Castlevania. Beloved by all, these games need no advocates. Some games, on the other hand, need – and deserve – more help. Super Dodge Ball is one of those games.
Worlds of Power #2: Metal Gear
You’ve played Metal Gear. At least one of them, and probably several. This was the original (sort of), and it was incredibly hard the first time I played it at age six. Unlike Blaster Master, Metal Gear has a compelling story of espionage, stealth, and dog-punching. Of course this could translate well to a novelization. […]
Worlds of Power #1: Blaster Master
I feel like video games were a more prevalent pop culture phenomenon in the late 1980s and the early 1990s than they are today. While more people are playing video games today than did when I was a kid, it truly doesn’t seem as pervasive as it once was. Ask anyone who was a kid […]