December 2009
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade review
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Released 1989 System: JAMMA (Arcade) By Konami I’m going to say something that a lot of people are going to disagree with. The NES version of TMNT2: The Arcade game was CRAP. The extra levels they added were pointless, Raphael didn’t have his alternative special attack & the NES was just generally a bad platform choice for the arcade port. Do I think...
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Super Mario Brothers 2: Why the hate?
Super Mario Brothers 2. When I say it today 2 games might enter your mind: Super Mario USA & The Lost Levels. Mario USA obviously being the game released in the Western world as SMB2 & The Lost Levels being the Japanese SMB2. Most Western gamers were introduced to the Japanese SMB2 via the Mario All Stars collection that was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993. In the Western world...
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Super Famicom Nintendo Power Cartridge System
In Japan Nintendo doesn’t dump its systems for the next big thing like the Western world seems to. Being that most video game systems debut there you would think they’d be the first to drop one generation & hop onto the next, but this is not the case. For example, they were still making Famicoms (the Japanese NES) right into the new millennia. So too, the Super Famicom had a life...
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Super Famicom Barcode Battler Interface FAIL!
So, riddle me this Batman. What happens when you take 1 Super Famicom, & one Barcode Battler 2? Well, the answer is: Not a hell of a lot. Add in the specially designed Barcode Battler Interface for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo however, & we’ve got ourselves this setup. The idea behind this is really inventive. Take a game & determine the strength of the characters in...