Tag Archives: SNES

Everyone loves a good video game secret. Developers love to hide them in places players would never think to look, and players love exploring every nook and cranny of their favorite games hunting them down. But this being the age of the internet, streaming, and constant dissection and discussion, most …

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …

Mods that swap out parts of games for external replacements – like stepping into Iron Man’s Hulkbuster suit in GTA 5 (opens in new tab) – are cool, but they’re a known quantity. Using nothing but a standard SNES console and accessories to recreate Flappy Bird inside of a regular …

Twenty years changes many things, but this much is true: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is the best role-playing game starring a plumber with Boogie Nights facial hair and big ups. Many games have challenged the title held by this collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft. Paper Mario …

Long, long ago, back in the before times, we rolled our multiplayer action at home splitscreen style. We’d play Goldeneye 007, four tiny guns and blocky hands each in their own quadrant, on a fuzzy CRT television and we would love it. Part of the fun of splitscreen shooters back …

Don Bluth and Gary Goldman met one another at Disney back in the 1970s, right when its animation was starting to get super weird and super awesome. Their artistic partnership went on to revolutionize movies with pictures like The Secret of Nimh and An American Tail as well as video …

First, there’s the origin story everyone knows. Following the success of Donkey Kong Country in 1994 a Super Mario World 2 prototype was rejected by Nintendo’s internal evaluation team and Shigeru Miyamoto was told to move the graphics in DKC’s pre-rendered direction. One year later, Yoshi’s Island was the result …

For the old school console fan, 2015 is a paradise of fresh delights. Axiom Verge oozes that classic console feeling when it starts up on PlayStation 4. The grinding wub-wub-wub of the distortion field weapon and its glitchy effects warping the blocky environment seem like they were lifted right out …

If you pay close attention in Bloodborne, you learn that a werewolf’s ultimate weakness isn’t quicksilver or wolfsbane – it’s doors. Specifically, it’s doorframes that are too big for their hulking bodies to fit through. You can stand on the other side and comfortably hack them to death without any …

‘Well excuuuuse me, Princess!’ ‘Excuses, excuses’ – where in the world would we be without them? Probably turning up to all of those social functions we’d drunkenly agreed to, or heaven forbid, actually out using our gym memberships. Eurgh Well, I for one don’t want to live in a world …