Until the current console generation, I’d not gotten into the Zelda games. But when I tried out Twilight Princess, I fell in love. You’ll notice that when I listed my top five favorite games, Twilight Princess was number five. “So!”, I said, “This is what all the fuss is about. Zelda games are awesome! I […]

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I recently found myself with an entire weekend to myself. No spouse, no children, no chores. It’s a rarity. So what immediately sprang to mind? Video games. And as I reviewed the titles I might pick up, I realized that what I really wanted was a Zelda game. In the end, I bypassed Dead Space […]

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Over at No High Scores, Bill Abner wrote this weekend about the games that make us who we are, and referred to the collection as a Gaming Tree, even going so far as to map his out. The idea was so fascinating to me that I went ahead and drew up my own gaming tree […]

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Back in 1990, I was in high school. I remember reading in a computer magazine that Ultima VI had been released for the Commodore 64. At the time, Ultima V was one of my favorite games of all time, and I really wanted to play the sequel. But for whatever reason – money, girls, college applications […]

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Maybe it’s a game that we didn’t hear of until years after its initial release, maybe it’s just that we were busy at the time in our lives when the game released, or maybe we just weren’t interested. In any event, all gamers have games that they’re a bit ashamed to have never played, and […]

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Maybe it’s a game that we didn’t hear of until years after its initial release, maybe it’s just that we were busy at the time in our lives when the game released, or maybe we just weren’t interested. In any event, all gamers have games that they’re a bit ashamed to have never played, and […]

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In a wonderful blending of different NES games, Super Mario Crossover lets you play Super Mario Brothers using Mario, Megaman, Samus, Simon Belmont, Zelda, or one of those guys from Contra. Each one retains all the abilities from their native game, which means that Simon can throw axes and Zelda has a boomerang that stuns […]

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There’s a lot of hate out there for the 2d sidescroller Zelda sequel. I was one of the few who really enjoyed the game. I loved fighting the shield-bearing knights in the game’s dungeons. And I bought the Nintendo DS version of the game and replayed it. Now, there’s a 3d version of the game […]

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I’ve often heard podcasters and other videogame journalists discuss 1998 in reverant tones. To hear many people talk about it, all the most amazing older games were released in 1998, and no year since has had such an amazing list of titles. Let’s take a look at what games were actually released in 1998. Baldur’s […]

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One of the oldest game genres is the platformer, so named because you play a character that jumps to and from suspended platforms. Contra, Bionic Commando, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Super Mario Brothers all fall into this category. I should make it clear here that I never got into Super Mario World or Mario 64, […]

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