Adventure Island is a groovy little platformer from the old NES days, famed for its short-but-difficult levels, and some pixel-perfect jumping action. Taking control of a caveman fellow (that looks suspiciously like a baby in a diaper when scaled down to the Game Boy) by the name of Master Higgins,…
Read MoreThere were some really great, even deep games released on Nintendo’s original Game Boy console; the Castlevania games, Donkey Kong Land series, and especially the Final Fantasy Legend games. Nintendo’s done a decent job of releasing some of its true classics to the 3DS Virtual Console (Zelda, Super Mario Land…
Read MoreThere were some really great, even deep games released on Nintendo’s original Game Boy console; the Castlevania games, Donkey Kong Land series, and especially the Final Fantasy Legend games. Nintendo’s done a decent job of releasing some of its true classics to the 3DS Virtual Console (Zelda, Super Mario Land…
Read MoreSome interesting comments have come out of a recent Nintendo investor call: namely that Nintendo wants to help you shop for digital products even when you don’t have your 3DS around. In a translation from: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/111028/index.html We would like to solve this issue by making the Nintendo eShop accessible via…
Read MoreSome interesting comments have come out of a recent Nintendo investor call: namely that Nintendo wants to help you shop for digital products even when you don’t have your 3DS around. In a translation from: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/111028/index.html We would like to solve this issue by making the Nintendo eShop accessible via…
Read MoreGargoyle’s Quest is deceptive. It likes to pretend it’s more than a hardcore, challenging platformer, and it’s largely been forgotten to history like many substandard Game Boy Games. The deception is that the game is really little more than a platformer, and it’s anything but substandard. The game, which is…
Read MoreGargoyle’s Quest is deceptive. It likes to pretend it’s more than a hardcore, challenging platformer, and it’s largely been forgotten to history like many substandard Game Boy Games. The deception is that the game is really little more than a platformer, and it’s anything but substandard. The game, which is…
Read MoreHosting retro downloads on a service like Virtual Console sometimes throws up a nice surprise; a game you hadn’t had a chance to play when it was new, and perhaps never even heard of. Avenging Spirit is one such pleasant surprise. Jaleco’s forgotten platform classic has more than a few…
Read MoreHosting retro downloads on a service like Virtual Console sometimes throws up a nice surprise; a game you hadn’t had a chance to play when it was new, and perhaps never even heard of. Avenging Spirit is one such pleasant surprise. Jaleco’s forgotten platform classic has more than a few…
Read MoreThat old guy in the middle is just creepy Here we go again. Another platform, another avenue for Gameloft infest with its gimmicky tripe. Hot on the heels of its DSiWare support, which threw terrible and unnecessary camera integration into each and every game, Gameloft has kicked off its 3DS…
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