

Game Review: Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 is released in 1996 with the Nintendo 64 console. The game begins with Princess' Peach inviting Mario to her castle for a...
Game Review: Super Metroid (1994)
Super Metroid (1994) for the SNES revolves around the acquisition of technology for use while navigating a hostile environment. It...
Game Review: Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone is an arcade game developed by Yoji Ishii and released by Sega in 1986. For my review, I played the version ported to the...

Game Review: Pac-Man (1980)
The sights and sounds of Pac-Man are familiar to virtually all of us. Confined to a dark maze littered with glowing pellets, a small...

Game Review: Dancing Eyes (1996)
Namco outdid itself with this one. Released exclusively in Japan in 1996, Dancing Eyes is an arcade game in which the player controls a...

Game Review: Super Metroid (SNES,1994)
Super Metroid ostensibly dimunitizes man and introduces players into many layers of isolation. It pretends to be unforgiving and...
The Invisible Hand in Final Fantasy: Game Review
With over fourteen volumes created and released since its initial launch in 1987, it would be hard to argue against the fact that Final...
Game Review: Alone in the Dark
The 1992 PC game Alone in the Dark brings us a survival horror experience through its dramatic storyline and eerie creatures. Known as...
Game Review: Metal Gear Solid (1998)
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game released for Playstation in 1998. It was directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, and...
Game Review: Super Mario 64
The first time I found Super Mario 64, it was among a pile of DS games dropped in the mud by the side of a soccer field. To my...
Game Review: Half Life
In 1998, Valve debuted with the release of Half Life, a sci-fi FPS that sold almost 10 million copies in retail alone. Half Life was...

Game Review: Mega Man 2 (1988)
Mega Man 2 (Rockman 2 in Japan) is a science-fiction, action platforming game first released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)...
Game Review: The Legend of Zelda (1986)
The Legend of Zelda was released in North America in 1987, being one of the first open-world adventure videogames ever released. The map...
Game Review: Gex (1994)
Gex, the first game in a series of three that was originally released in 1994 for the 3DO and re-released shortly after for the...
Game Review: Earthbound
Earthbound, Mother 2 in Japan, is that game where Ness from Super Smash Bros originates. His attacks in Smash Bros are a mixture of...
Game Review: Mega Man (1987)
Capcom released Mega Man in December of 1987, and with it brought many innovations to the platformer. The stages are fairly typical for...
Game Review: Pokémon Blue (and Red)
Pokémon Blue was the first video game I ever played, on my old hand-me-down Game Boy that I got from my cousin. Every now and then I’ll...
Game Review: Kirby’s Adventure (1993)
Created and presented in the context of a post-Cold War Japan, Kirby’s Adventure reflects a dominating anxiety shared by the Japanese public
Game Review: Star Fox (1993)
Star Fox, released by Nintendo in 1993, is everything that an action-packed space shooter should hope to be. As soon as the game begins,...



















