With a new generation almost upon us, now seems as good a time as any to look back to 2005, when the Xbox 360 first released. As with every console launch, the majority of games to release alongside the 360 were clag; Gun (opens in new tab), King Kong: The …
Read More »Want to parachute children into bottomless pits? Play Snowboard Kids!
(opens in new tab) What’s the best racing game in the N64? Mario Kart? F-Zero? Wipeout, even? No. The best racing game on the N64 was and always will be a relatively obscure cartoon snowboarder from the publisher of Dark Souls and Persona. When I first discovered it via a …
Read More »Want to freak out at the sound of chanting? Play Blood!
If you ask your fellow gamer whether they’re familiar with the Build engine, two things can happen. One, they’ll stare at you with the perplexed expression of a hypnotized lemur. Or two, they’ll stare at you with the perplexed expression of a hypnotized lemur. Some may cite Duke Nukem 3D, …
Read More »Want to groan at casual racism? Play Mr. Chins Gourmet Paradise!
When you are small, there are games that simply appear on your shelf. They come to you by way of a well-intentioned, if out-of-touch, grandmother, or a negligent father, or, I don’t know, your idiot brother stole them from one of his idiot friends. Typically, these games aren’t ones you’d …
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