The Greatest Story in the History of Video Games
It is a fighting game that provides us with the boldest and strangest narrative in the history of video gaming. I’m talking, of course, about Super Smash Brothers for the N64.
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Video Games on Overthinking It
Systematic Street Fighters and Skilltesters
If you’ve been playing as much Street Fighter IV as I have (or any online at all), you should probably appreciate this. I claim no credit for it myself and have no idea who made it, but I thought the … Continued
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Top Ten Miraculous Fictional Head Injuries
Fiction is full of miracles caused by hitting people on the head. Reality is still catching up.
Jack Slate and Shadow Rule the Box Office
Last weekend, America’s #1 and #2 movies were the PS2-inspired cop drama Max Payne and the Madagascar/Kangaroo Jack tequila-inspired love child, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Part of me can’t help but see this as a missed opportunity — As any millennium … Continued
There’s Nothing Like A Game
I’m the sort of nerd that doesn’t play videogames, but since college one of my favorite entertainment activities has been watching people with far greater skills play Grand Theft Auto. And unless you’ve been spending eighteen hours a day in … Continued
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Gary Gygax fails his saving throw against abdominal aortic aneurysms
In all seriousness, this is sad. Not all of us knew the sublime pleasure of holding a twenty-sided die in a trembling hand, needing a miracle to defeat that Beholder. But if you ever enjoyed Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, … Continued
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Death of a Pac-Man
Good morning. It’s-a me, Mario. It’s wonderful to see so many old friends here. I feel like I’m back in Super Smash Brothers. But of course, the circumstances today are very un-super. We mourn a man many of us thought … Continued
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