A few years ago, I played through the Paperboy games. I had played them before and was looking forward to playing them. Paperboy 64 was the one game that I hadn’t played before making a video on it. It is an odd entry in the series. While it is an arcade-style game, it does aContinue reading “Paperboy One of the Worst N64 Games”
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Rampage: Total Destruction is the Best Since the Original
This is the last console release for the series. Rampage: Total Destruction is another reboot, so you can forget everything from the previous games. I’m not sure if the series needed to be rebooted, but it needed to be freshened up with some different gameplay. Rampage: Total Destruction was released in 2006 for the PS2Continue reading “Rampage: Total Destruction is the Best Since the Original”
Rampage Through Time is More of the Same
Rampage Through Time is the fourth game in the Rampage series, and is the end of this trilogy of narratively connected games. I guess Midway was running out of ideas after going into space, so they decided to send the monsters through time. It isn’t the worst idea. This isn’t too different from the previousContinue reading “Rampage Through Time is More of the Same”
Mastering Pac-Man, One of the Fist Strategy Guides
Mastering Pac-Man was published in 1981. Ken Uston, known for gambling, counting cards, and suing to get around being banned from casinos, is the author. This is a strategy guide for Pac-Man. This has to be one of the earliest examples of a strategy guide. What makes it even more interesting is that it isContinue reading “Mastering Pac-Man, One of the Fist Strategy Guides”
A Brief History of Sega on the Atari 2600
I’ve looked at several video game companies that published games on the Atari 2600 over the years. Next up is Sega. I wasn’t expecting to see them as a publisher/developer on Atari’s console. I would’ve expected them to do something similar to Nintendo and license their arcade games to other companies. That isn’t what happened,Continue reading “A Brief History of Sega on the Atari 2600”
Not Much Here: WWF WrestleMania The Arcade Game
WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade is Midway’s entry in the SNES wrestling games. It was also ported to other consoles, but I’ll focus on the SNES port. It was originally an arcade game with similar controls to the fighting games that Midway was creating at the time. This isn’t great as far as what I wouldContinue reading “Not Much Here: WWF WrestleMania The Arcade Game”
From Pinballs to Pixels: The Interesting Story of Williams-Bally-Midway
From Pinballs to Pixels is a comprehensive look at Williams and how they became the center of Chicago’s pinball and video game industry for a period of time. Ken Horowitz does an excellent job of documenting the history of Williams, and I like how he tells this story. However, I wish more time had beenContinue reading “From Pinballs to Pixels: The Interesting Story of Williams-Bally-Midway”