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M.C. Mario

I got e-mail from Tootai about how he once stumbled upon a famicom cartridge in Europe called “Mac Donald Mario”. Being an NES cartridge collector he picked it up and found

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Mutant Storm

Here’s a pretty cool game I stumbled on today called Mutant Storm. Very polished. It’s almost like Robotron crossed with Asteroids but with modern graphics. It’s awesome if you have a controller with 2 analog sticks. I have this PS2 controller adaptor and it worked perfect! Otherwise I managed to get it playable keyboard

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Space Invaders Anniversary

So I’m going to Shibuya today to meet some friends and as I get off the train I am greeted by posters saying something about a Space Invaders exhibit at the 109 building. Well, I’ve got 30 minutes to kill so I think, “sure, let’s check it out”. As soon as I get out of

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Gitaroo-Man

If you are a music game fan you need to check out

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Programming M.C. Kids

I was going through some old CDs searching for something and I stumbled on this article from 1992 and thought I’d post it as some people have been asking questions about programming platform

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Canvas 3D

I stumbled upon Canvas 3D today. It’s a 3D modeling and animation program. There’s a free version, a lite version and a full version. The lite version is only $35 and the full version is only $70. The lite and full versions read and write the DirectX format files so if you are trying to

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The Scrolling Game Development Kit

Somebody recently told me about the Scrolling Game Development Kit. If you are looking learn out to make games that might be a good way to get

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Super Mario Second Reality

Many of today’s PC games allow you to make your own levels, characters etc like Half-Life, Quake and Unreal but for older games stuff like that was left to hacking. Well, some guy has taken Super Mario World and hacked in a bunch of new levels. Of course the only possibly legal way to

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Metroid Prime

I recently finished playing Metroid Prime. It’s probably one of the most perfect games I’ve played in a long time. It’s hard for me to think of how to describe what makes it so good.

Metroid Prime may well be the most immersive game made to date. Almost every little detail fits inside the game.

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Instant Attraction

Does a game have to grab you immediately? Did it used to be different and it’s changed because of short attention spans or has it always been that way?

I bring this up because of several observations over the years and a few recently. Painting with the broad stroke their are two types of games.

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