Retro Review #4 "8 Eyes"

Ok in this game you play a homeless little shrimp that dresses a bit queer and hangs out with a bird. You hit people with a tiny little stick and your bird basically just flies around not attacking anything. Also you can't leave the room without the fucking bird.
I give this game a rating of: Better than getting your eyes pecked out by a raven.

Retro Review #3 "The 3-D Battles of World Runner"

Ok, third times a charm. Here we have "The 3-D Battles of World Runner", from... Square? The same Square that gave us Final Fantasy? Oh man this is going to be awesome!
Wrong. Sucks. I have no manual for this game but even a traditionally epic Square story line could not save this pile of wasted silicon. I am guessing you play the part of World Runner as you take part in 3-D Battles. Well mostly you run forward on a auto scrolling checkerboard world towards what looks like giant stacks of ham with wings jumping over pits and avoiding smiling green balls. I actually played this piece of shit twice hoping against hope to find a redeeming quality in there and I came up with: you can jump for a very long distance and there is minimal flicker. Good job Square, stick to the RPG from now on.

Reto Review #2 "2-in-1 Tough Cop + Super Tough Cop"

Well fall off the horse get right back on right? Fuck, another light gun game. My only note on this one is, why? I mean if you have the option to choose to be a tough cop with a gun or a super tough cop with a fucking badass gun, who is going to pick tough cop? Kind of kneecapping your whole "2 for 1" value scheme aren't you?

Retro Review #1 "2-in-1 Cosmo Cop + Cyber Monster"

I have decided to try and review every Nintendo NES game released in the US. Here is #1...

Well this is going to be fun! There are so many great games on the NES, I hardly know where to begin. I have so many fond memories of playing video games in general but I hold a special place in my heart for the NES. This was the mighty system that birthed Zelda, Metroid, and Contra. Introduced the world to a couple of brothers named Mario and Luigi. Legendary stuff. So I decided to go alphabetical, only way to be fair an make sure I hit them all right? Well this is my punishment for such a method. There are two games here, neither of which I can play because I have no light gun. A shame really because I always wanted to grow up to be a Cosmo Cop or a Cyber Monster. This is the only screen I saw and I would say it left me underwhelmed.

Brooklyn

My sister had her first child yesterday, 3/3/09 at 12:42 and named her Brooklyn. Very cute baby. Congrats to my sister and her husband, they did a great job !