FAXANADU!!! From hell's heart I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

Same here. Bionic Commando was the most grown-up game I had every played as a kid. before that it was all Zelda, Mario, Blaster Master, and Metroid. Ninja Gaiden felt pretty dark and grown-up too, but I never beat that. But when I got to the end of Bionic Commando and Master-D called me a "Damn Fool," my little kid…

This video series about Interplay (from the exceptional but now defunct "All Your History Are Belong To Us" channel) actually explains the economics of game development/publishing very well, and how a great company—like Interplay, THQ, or Crytek—can really get into a lot of trouble with a few bad/unfortunate…

Haha, love it. Great work Jason. (And thanks to Chris for the logo.)

As the great GabeN once said, it's all about "What have you done for me lately?" This is really the story for any business that doesn't have a source of stable, long-term, passive income to smooth out the ups and downs of active development. My background is in investment real estate, which is all about passive…

The girls at 1:08 - The one with her hair day gives WAY better than she gets. Finest slap of the lot: Great form, solid contact, that'll leave a mark. Well done.

Hahahaha, that was fantastic! First one I read was White Knight - so funny.

Those energy weapon crit deaths - so satisfying!

Yeah, I watched a YouTube speedrun of Fallout 2 where the guy just snuck into somewhere and stole a bunch of super powerful stuff and then went straight to the port and then oil platform. Because I'm old, I certainly don't have the time to goof around with too much trial and error, but I still want to experience most…

My intro to Fallout was Fallout 3 on the PS3 and it blew me away. So of course I had to try the cRPG classics when I got the chance. Fallout 1 was a bit too bare to hold my interest, and I'd heard Fallout 2 was much better from just about everyone so I jumped to that. There was some pretty cool stuff (like a…

Now that's what I call video game journalism! Great piece Tina!

I watched this too, about a year ago. My jaw dropped open from about the 40 second mark and never closed until several minutes after it was over. My child mind cannot comprehend how it is possible, though the evidence is before mine eyes.

Yeesssss! The Grim Reaper was SO HARD! Those freaking scythes that would just appear out of nowhere and fly around in random directions. There was no escape! Never beating Castlevania is one of my biggest childhood gaming regrets.

Finally, some love for the difficulty of Castlevania. The Grim Reaper killed me every single time. That music though, made it totally worth trying again and again.

These are great! Thanks for sharing.

I remember playing that game with some neighbor kids when I was about 8. That first boss with the big head who blows you from one side of the screen to the other, these neighbor kids joked that his name was "blow job." Excited about this new game and knowing something cool about it I went home and told my very…

As a kid I think I decided that this was the hardest of all NES games ever, and that includes Battletoads, TMNT, Double Dragon, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden. The only competition that came close was Ghosts N Goblins.

Epic story. Thank you.

I got to the crappy pink tube sewer level on Battletoads, which I think is WAY farther than most people ever got without cheating. I beat that jetski level but only after hours and hours of attempts. That level was ridiculous. But seriously, I kept waiting for the game to end, and it just went on and on, getting…

I forget where I saw it but someone on the internet had "Master D thinks you are a Damn Fool" under their signature line. +10 Bionic Commando reference. That game was awesome. So...adult for a Nintendo game. Swearing. Exploding heads. Epic.