Out of all the games I played on my NES, Mega Man 2 got played the most. By FAR. I used to sit down and complete it 3-4 times in a row after school. It’s the closest I ever came to having any sort of interest in speed running. I knew it well enough that I’d occasionally have kids I didn’t know ask me how to get past…
Remember, if you don’t fawn all over a title a particular reader really wants to be good, then you’re biased and incapable of impartial, rational assessment.
I’m with you on being baffled by this evident demand for uniformity across reviews and reviewers. While I definitely make use of Kotaku’s reviews in making…
Inelegant and tedious, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the anti-Nintendo game. In a year full of triumphs for the spunky…
Clearly Winner Ford lost their Focus and didn’t offer Flex time, but did have a Galaxy of compensation plans. To quote their general manager, “This verdict really Taurus a new one. There’s no way we can Escape.” They planned this as a way to Edge out the competition.
For those less aware, the issue with The Sun is their despicable reporting of the Hillsborough disaster, where 96 Liverpool fans died because of police incompetence that took years to finally drag into the open, which put the entire blame on Liverpool fans, falsely claimed they urinated on and stole from the dead and…
A few years ago, someone applied to manage Middlesbrough FC on the strength of his Football Manager stats and his experience coaching a local u-11 team... and received a personal reply from the club’s chairman:
You make this sound like it’s a good thing.
Seriously, where the hell do you people use 1,000-horsepower? I have 240hp/tq and I never think, “I need/want more.”
Maybe I’m just getting old but the best cars to drive are lightweight classics with just enough power to help you keep momentum.
I took Driver’s Ed quite a long time ago when the rules were a bit less stringent. My instructor was an older guy named Vic who looked a bit like a Abe Vigoda. By that time, I had been driving old farm trucks and a decrepit Beetle my Dad kept at a friend’s ranch since I was about 10 and Dad had even let me take his…
When I took my driving test, I pulled out of the DMV. The officer is sitting int he passenger seat with is notebook. I get to the red light, look in my rear view mirror and a dump truck is barreling towards us not slowing. I tell the officer “I’m sorry about this” and go into the intersection (the light is still red)…
One really simple example of the whole shear stabilizing panels concept are the chintzy looking cardboard.fiberboard panels they include in furniture kits (typically for covering the majority of the back panel on a dresser). Without this panel installed the entire structure is weak and unstable, with the panel…
“none of the all-seeing crime-prevention devices happened to flag a man who brought 10 automatic weapons with him to the Strip.”
Is Final Fantasy V the best of the series? Whether you agree or disagree, if you love old-school Final Fantasy games…
I went to Japan in July, and most of my time in Tokyo was spent combing through various retro gaming shops, trying to find everything on my buylist. A quick run-down:
I think Charmin Sandiego is a better name than The Mad Pooper.