Paul Werkema

One of the Worst NES Games

Sometimes a thing enters pop culture in a weird way. In this case, it was a driving commercial that gave life to a crash test dummy. For some reason, this gave rise to the Incredible Crash Test Dummies. This idea spawned cartoons, toys, and a few video games. Then it faded away like so many…

Bucky O’Hare on the NES is Great

Bucky O’Hare wasn’t a game that I was aware of growing up. I didn’t know about the NES or Arcade games, the comics, or the cartoon. It was one of many media properties that just slipped through the cracks for me. There were so many cartoons and comics back in the 1980s and 1990s that…

True Lies on the SNES, One of the Better LJN Games

True Lies is one of the few SNES games that I remember renting. I didn’t own the system when I was a kid, and the only one who did was my friend Drew. We were best friends back in the day, and sometimes rented games when we hung out on the weekend. Most of them…

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