Tag Archives: Game Boy

You’re beating up bad guys, jumping around platforms, and generally doing video game-y stuff when you slam headfirst into an A-or-B (or C if the developer is feeling generous) type situation. You’re probably not entirely happy with any of the options, but since your character is the only proactive person …

If you’re a guest in someone else’s home, don’t go through all their drawers looking for money. If you see a turtle, don’t stomp on it. If you need to escape from a bunch of armed dudes, don’t leave a nudie mag on the ground and expect them to hunker …

Doing research for video games is not an easy job, especially when it comes to creating the game’s setting out of a real-life place. In movies and TV shows, showing slivers of New York streets (almost certainly shot in L.A. or Vancouver) will suffice. Games, however, require entire worlds to …

An earlier version of this article originally appeared on this site on April 22, 2010. To the general public, all Pokemon are perceived as cute and cuddly creatures. Sure, there are some oddballs like Koffing or Voltorb – but they’re nowhere near as popular as the Pikachus, Togepis, and Evees …

Final Fantasy 15 has a release date. It’s a game, a real video game, that is going to come out in the real world. Hard to believe it’s happening after ten exhausting years in development. Square-Enix released a brand new demo of its white whale of a role-playing game and …

How has it taken this long for Pokken Tournament to exist? Pokemon trainers have been pitting their Pikachus against their Bulbasaurs for 20 years. While we’ve been allowed to select their actions in menus, rock out in action RPGs, or take pictures of the little beasts, we’ve somehow never been …

Where are all the cooking games? Cooking Mama’s fine sure, but what about the weirdness? What about games like Burger Time where you have to build towers of meat and murder fried eggs before they murder you? Thank heavens for Ghost Town Games. Overcooked, their new multiplayer bout of madness …

Kupopo! It’s okay everyone, you can stop holding your breath: after Square-Enix’s impromptu vote on whether Moogles should appear in Final Fantasy 15, the fans answered back with a resounding YASS!! And good thing, too. It only feels right, since those marshmallow bears with cherries on top have been around …

Slasher movies took a weird, delightful turn in the 1980s. While Michael Myers silently scared the crap out of everyone in the ’70s, his successor Jason Vorhees evolved into something else entirely. Scary? Certainly, but also hilarious. Friday the 13th was the only series where the audience actively waited to …

Yuji Naka hasn’t made us a game in quite a long time now. The co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog had an interesting run on Nintendo Wii with the delightfully difficult Ivy the Kiwi and Let’s Tap, the only game with an amazing theme song whose box doubled as a controller, …