Everyone loves the NES. If you don’t, you’re a communist and R.O.B. the Robot will physically abuse while you sleep. Lots of classic games to point to and slather with fanboy love, too: Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Super Dodge Ball, River City Ransom, Little Nemo etc.
But how about those games that may have only appealed to you way back when? The under-appreciated losers of the bunch?
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Favorite NES Games That No One Else Cares About
There are many, many patsies in the video game cannon fodder family, but few get shafted as often as the Robot Bad Guy. Pick an action game, particularly a brawler or hack n’ slash, and unless it’s set in Middle-Earth or something, chances are you’ll stumble across a mechanical heavy of some sort, often sent in wave after disposable wave.
Why the love for sending robots to their death? Probably because players can murder them without feeling burdened by the moral weight that accompanies the slaying of virtual human foes.
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Pushover Robot Bad Guys
They are one of the most respected game publishers in the free world (and maybe a banana republic or two) and their catalog is pregnant with iconic titles. And I’m pretty sure super-Capcom-fanboy Jon Mercer possesses the world record for Chun Li erotica.
So this one is for him: all-time favorite Capcom game. Let’s hear it.
Pardon the spectacularly lame attempt at wordplay, but in honor of the lunacy that is E3, how about a triple-themed roundtable topic?
An easy one–favorite/memorable third installments in a video game franchise. Go forth and consume bandwidth!
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Good Things Come in (E)3′s
I’m still working on digesting the mammoth steak BBQ from yesterday’s Memorail Day grill-a-thon, so while my enzymes do their dirty work, how about a quick discussion about the role of foodstuffs in our gaming?
In honor of Erich’s new bouncing addition to the Asperschlager clan, how about a discussion on video game babies?
Sure, why not!
Ever since Grand Theft Auto III up and created a genre, there has been no shortage of run-around-pulverizing-civilians-for-kicks entires into the gaming world.
There have been plenty of flaccid examples and a handful of winners, but the important question is this: what is up with Venezuela these days?!
Anywho, here then is a selection of our favorite open world games.
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Favorite Open World Games
Man’s best friend has received some memorable treatments in the virtual world. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any, but that’s what this blog entry is for.
Wait, something’s coming to me. Why, yes of course!