What happened - I don’t actually remember if there were even rumors of Capcom VS SNK 2 coming to American Dreamcasts, but considering we got the first game, it seems likely that there were. CVS2 would hit the Dreamcast, but only in Japan. In my experience it was one of the most widely …
Archive for August, 2007
Dreamcast Mania!: What did we miss? - Capcom VS SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001
Friday, August 17th, 2007 by christianWe can’t really be this stupid
Friday, August 17th, 2007 by DonWhen my fiancee tells her friends that she’s engaged to a fairly devoted gamer she is almost universally met with reticence; those ‘I feel sorry for you’ little smiles, vacant head bobs and the ubiquitous ‘oh… that’s, um, cool’.
This is because, even though G4 Tech TV, Spike and the Sci-Fi channel …
Review - Halo 2 Vista
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 by zenstraboIs Halo 2 for Windows Vista Worth Your Hard Earned Cash?
If you’re reading this (which you clearly are) I assume that you fall into one of two categories:
1. You are thinking of re-buying your favorite XBOX game for the PC and are wondering if $50 for a three year old game that you already have …
Dreamcast Mania! - EA
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 by christianIn my development of articles for Dreamcast Mania!, one theme has come up quite a lot - the lack of support from major companies like EA, Square and Konami greatly injured the Dreamcast’s chances of success. I agree that it certainly wasn’t a good thing, and I certainly agree that missing support from companies …
Metroid == Aliens
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 by mattMany people may not know this, but the Metroid franchise is basically the video game version of the Alien movies. There are many subtle similarities between the two that only the trained eye would notice. I’ve seen a few tidbits of info on the Internets, but most are incomplete, or haven’t been updated since Super …
Kotaku suggests you buy a shirt
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 by jayFrom their sponsor. I assumed this shameless plug would be met with boos and hisses from commentors, but instead readers were content with discussing the merits of the t-shirt. At least they realized it was stupid and unfunny.
Blogs are a powerful tool for marketers because unlike “objective” …
A death in the family - Sega leaves the hardware business and I rediscover video games
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by jayTowards the end of highschool I stopped gaming. For the first time, I had a girlfriend, was preparing to go to college, and had a wicked meth habit. Beyond these time wasting activities, something about video games seemed to have changed. Though I had been a Sega faithful since the Master System, my highschool days …
Requiem for a Dreamcast
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by christianI used to think I was pretty clever when I told folks that “Nintendo made me a gamer. Ocarina of Time made me hardcore”. I kept thinking this for quite some time, but eventually realized that pre-OOT, I wasn’t really a “gamer”, just a kid whose game experience consisted of little more than …
Why does the Wii have so many terrible games?
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by jayI’m not particularly upset about Nintendo’s shift towards casual gamers. Wario Ware, Animal Crossing, and Mario Kart are all awesome series and if I need a second console to play long jRPGs then so be it. Even if expanding the market somehow eliminates niches that are occupied by Japanese RPG developers, which seems counterintuitive, there …
Pieces of a Perfect Game: Koei’s arduous slip into mediocrity
Monday, August 13th, 2007 by chrisGood strategy games can be hard to come by on consoles. The only company that reliably produces games in the genre is Koei, and, as I’ve noted before, their recent track record is not so good.
Koei is now widely known for their willingness to recycle old work in …
