Tag: game boy
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March: Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues [Fukubukuro 2010]
I saw Anamanaguchi live for the first time in March and it was everything I could have hoped for on a night that was damn near a disaster. Min and I assembled in Baltimore in front of a tiny club we’d never seen before. Sonar isn’t that far from the harbor. It’s a tiny club […]
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Tire Therapy or Driving In My Car Saves My Sanity [II]
It was late fall or early winter. The precise season doesn’t matter; it was definitely cold. Equally cold was my companion riding shotgun. Her visit to icy Ithaca was, as usual, marred by the arguments we always found ourselves embroiled in, only this time I was living in a double with Min that should really […]
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Mother 3 Review [Big N]
Ruminations on video games as an art form – this could very well become a Mother 3 review. There will be spoilers here. Seriously, don’t read it if you want to play Mother 3 and not have the plot spoiled. There’s a trite comparison that floats around the internet almost every month that always gets […]
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Tetris [GO]
Eric came up with an idea to write parallel reviews of the same video game to see how similar our reviews came out. You can see his at Eric’s Binary World 2.0 Tetris is…”video gaming distilled to its core” A Tetris Review (In Four Lines) Tetris is a game where you try to clear lines […]
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Game Overview: 16-Bit All-Stars
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. Due to some poor life decisions, I find myself stranded for five weeks without any video games. What’s a guy to do, right? Well, rather than just giving you some of the headlines from the […]
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Game Overview Editorial: Difficulty in Video Games
You’re playing through an RPG. You’ve gained five levels, found some sweet equipment drops, minimized the use of your precious items, and then it happens. You come up against a behemoth of a monster. Your party is decimated, your progress lost, your controller tossed through the screen. Does this even begin to sound familiar to […]