If you click on the embedded link on Metroid Prime, you'll see that I have nothing but borderline perverse love for the game.

Well, Patrick is Canadian, so the only Republicans he knows are the ones yelling at him for stealing our dairy and precious soft lumbers.

When does happen, he's just going to use his time travel power to start all over again.

ActRaiser 2 had some of the best graphics on SNES, and the worlds you battled through were even stranger than those of the first, but the sim element really was the heart of the game. Maybe that's also because it was super-hard and I had no patience for it.

I never did as a kid, because horribly, it actually takes a level of skill to uncover the wizard chest. But I did see it. That game was just an unvarnished "fuck you" from beginning to end.

That's how long you last if you just stand still. Any movement instantly cuts that time in half.

I disagree. Not about the game; the game is indeed bullshit, but the article. I think Anthony is pretty right on about the use of humor as a counterpoint to the game's difficulty. Especially how tough it is to express any sort of effective sight gag with an 8-bit game. The only point I'd disagree with the piece is…

Ghosts 'n Goblins was the tabletop arcade game fixture at my podunk hometown's Pizza Hut. I'd split all my fidgety kid time waiting for the pizza between staring at the game's default screens and wandering over to the salad bar to poke at the pickled peppadew peppers.
Maybe one time in twenty my folks would actually…

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Episode VIII's shoehorned easter egg will probably be Luke conspicuously pulling a copy of Yoda's Soups and Stews for Neophyte Force Users off the shelf of his kitchen.

Man, when Billy Everyteen's Cinematic Suckers Detective Agency is on the case, no one is safe!

The weakest aspect of Force Awakens was it's fidelity to a New Hope's plot structure. Yet, I can't help but be super excited about another Empire-style force-user-in-training film.

Dang. I'm sorry you don't like it.

I haven't seen it yet, and thanks to your oblique reference, probably won't. But it's crazy isn't it? In general now I'm susceptible to the cheapest, most unearned emotional manipulation in a way that I'm aware of, but powerless to do anything against.

I know right! I'm still trying to figure out if I'm more surprised by how reluctant I am to see the movie since having kids or how happily blase I was about fictional dismembered children before having kids.

If you have kids, them hitting their heads on shit is less slapstick then it is daily occurrence.

Have any of you tried a VR headset yet? I had the chance to try out the PlayStation VR today and I honestly thought it was kind of amazing. I went to Hulu and watched a ski video until the first slope jump made my stomach drop. Then I tried out the free proof-of-concept game bundled with the headset. It was a…

I do recall! Happy birthday to C. Joely Jr. It both amazes me and freaks me out that these kids won't stop growing for one single second.

I played this for the first time today along with my seven-year old kid. It was really the ideal pairing for an experience like this. Really loosely structured games of this kind both play to and work against a lifetime of internalized game mechanics. With a minimum of prompting, I know I should check out floating…

I found that one to be incredibly dull. Admittedly, my strategic mind is for shit, but I felt the beginning house abilities really kind of locked players in and didn't offer much chance for mobility. But despite all that, as you say, someone can just win almost accidentally.