11,287 reviews · showing 4,461–4,480
Reader Apple II HG exclusive
Shortly after my friend Aric pasted me in GBA Basketball Two-on-Two on his Apple IIgs--retribution for all the RPGs I'd solved--I found the IIe version cheap at Babbage's. I felt frugal--it probably didn't have all the extras, like the…
aschultz · November 2, 2010
Reader Apple II HG exclusive
"Adjust tint til blue field is green." That's the opening screen of Championship Baseball (CB,) with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" blaring. I never bothered. Blue grass is just one of the things that aren't true to life in CB but are…
aschultz · November 1, 2010
Reader NES HG exclusive
The game is both side scrolling action (word used loosely) and scrolling shooter rolled into one. You take control of both Jekyll and Hyde. Playing as the former is dull and boring, playing as the latter is frustrating and boring.
JoeTheDestroyer · October 31, 2010
Staff PlayStation HG exclusive
Whether as a loving tribute to the series' glorious past or a striking declaration of its subsequent revival, Symphony of the Night will make any 2D enthusiast shed bloody tears of joy.
Sho · October 31, 2010
Reader Wii HG exclusive
You've likely seen the trailer for this game on a video website. You know, the one where a bunch of confusing sequences are tossed in your face while weird J-Pop music plays in the background? And there was this highly enthusiastic…
dementedhut · October 31, 2010
Staff PC HG exclusive
These aren't the sorts of vampires who constantly whine about their lost humanity or take annoying teenage princesses to the prom. We're talking about hard-drinking and even harder-dying undead anarchists packing UZIs who'd just as soon…
Sho · October 30, 2010
Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Mr. Do has to harvest cherries from his overgrown orchard. However, some Badguys (this is what the manual calls them) are out to not only horribly murder Do, but also eat his cherries. . Were they really that strapped for time? They…
JoeTheDestroyer · October 30, 2010
Reader TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive
The Triforce doens't stand for this.
JoeTheDestroyer · October 29, 2010
Staff SNES HG exclusive
For Kazuya, a perfectly ordinary Japanese youth, it had been a perfectly ordinary beginning to a perfectly ordinary day. Then his mom gets eviscerated by a demon from the rather similarly torn bowels of the underworld, he accidentally…
Sho · October 29, 2010
Staff PC HG exclusive
Whether in the role of silver-tongued conman or paranormal investigator, Gabriel Knight is definitely someone you'll want to know; his career might have begun just as the entire adventure genre was taking those first, faltering steps on…
Sho · October 28, 2010
Staff Saturn HG exclusive
These garments are handed over to the very approving imp in exchange for heaving stacks of chips nearly as abundant as those newly revealed pleasure globes until at last your bankrupt beauty goes down with a hilariously inept video of the…
Sho · October 27, 2010
Staff Genesis HG exclusive
The controls are stiffer than one of its endless supply of corpses, and the average level is a short, uninspired advance from left to right punching identical hordes of muck-encrusted undead while occasionally hopping over a hole in the…
Sho · October 26, 2010
Staff MSX HG exclusive
At a cursory glance it might even resemble a simple port, but this impression couldn't be more incorrect – Vampire Killer immediately stands out as a dramatic departure from the rest of the franchise even as its influence can be felt in…
Sho · October 25, 2010
Reader PC HG exclusive
Wolfenstein - Nazi + Aliens and overweight security guards = Blake Stone
JoeTheDestroyer · October 24, 2010
Staff Mac Review of the Week HG exclusive
Don’t think that Blue Lacuna works simply because it doesn’t have graphics or a bunch of explosions, though. Not all Interactive Fiction can claim to have achieved what Blue Lacuna does. This isn’t some throwback to sensibilities that have…
Jonathan Stark · October 24, 2010
Reader Wii HG exclusive
There's a lot of whys when reacting to this particular release: Why not include the first game? Why these specific titles? Why the absurdly long name? Well, I'm guessing they simply used the Xbox versions, modified them a bit, and slapped…
dementedhut · October 24, 2010
Staff Arcade HG exclusive
Witness earthen bridges over lava fields lined with flame throwing hazards and enormous wasps that spew out a skull carved into a jungle cliff. Shotgun-toting Bonebreaker miniatures rove the inside of Magneto’s lair while stone statues…
Winston Wolf · October 24, 2010
Staff PC HG exclusive
There’s a cleverness in the level design that helps extend the game’s brief lifespan.
Gary Hartley · October 24, 2010
Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Samurai Shodown Sen is not an awful game. The only way it could be considered "awful" would be to ignore the barely playable fighters that have come out over the last twenty years. The characters perform expected actions whenever I press…
Zigfried · October 23, 2010
Reader Xbox 360
As a front-runner in Sega’s Dreamcast launch lineup, it’s only reasonable that Sonic Adventure would be the first Dreamcast game that Sega would port to Xbox Live Arcade. Serving as something of a tech demo for the fledgling console, the…
Calvin · October 22, 2010
