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As someone who witnessed the complete failure of Nintendo's black-and-red, portable-in-name-only Virtual Boy back in the nineties, when the technology was truly in its infancy and the idea was so far ahead of its time that it was still essentially the domain of science fiction: I am quite...

The current focus upon violence in video games by likes of Jack Thompson is merely the latest target in the on-going blame game, in which any target other than society itself is blamed for all of society's ills. In the 1950's, Fredic Wertham published a book entitled Seduction of the Innocent...

I think that those who blame violent acts on depictions of violence within the media (be it video games, music, movies, televisions, books, or what-have-you) are, in general, putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. For the most part it is the art that is imitating life, not the other way...

I think that kittyworker delivered a near perfect, deft analysis of the state of such games in the very first response. Most of these games are sub-par for the vary same reasons that most licensed games in general aren't very good: the motivation behind making such games are much more so to...

Having recently replayed Dune II (I completed the Atreides and Harkonnen campaigns in their entirety thus far, and am about to start the Ordos campaign), I maintain my above praise vis-a-vis how revolutionary this game was as the proto-StarCraft RTS that set the standard for the genre! However...

I would have thought that a game tied to the recent RoboCop reboot would have come out, but that wasn't the case as far as I'm aware. And as the reboot was something of a flop (and apparently not very good), I don't anticipate sequels or video game adaptations based upon that rebooted...

You can play Dune II today through DOS Box. In response to this thread, I downloaded DOS Box and Dune II alike to relive this proto-StarCraft RTS gem! :D "The spice must flow!"

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty is a fantastic, truly revolutionary RTS DOS classic that the genre quite honestly woes a huge debt to! In fact, it is often regarded as the first modern, mouse driven RTS game! A proto-StarCraft, more or less! A fellow named Matt Chan 74 made a YouTube...

I thoroughly enjoyed the SNES' RoboCop vs The Terminator in my youth! I consider it to be both the greatest RoboCop video game and the greatest The Terminator video game--at least among 2D platformers released on a Nintendo console! (Certainly better than the NES' The Terminator game. We...

For a lighter, more humourous take on Nintendo's failed experiment in strapless, black-and-red "virtual reality," check out the Angry Video Game Nerd's classic Virtual Boy episode! Among other things, James presents a solution to the strapless issue that would make Red Green himself proud...

The Virtual Boy is particularly notable case in Nintendo's long history (especially during the eighties and nineties) of having excellent core conceptual ideas that were simply too far ahead of their time, as in too far ahead of the then current technological capabilities (and perhaps even the...

It is of course subjective and varies from game to game, but I do naturally consider music to be an important part of any video game. Perhaps as important as graphics and game play, even. I would even go so far as to so that the quality music is part of what games like the Super Mario, Mega...

In my own humble opinion, the all-time greatest "old school" RPG and perhaps the greatest SNES game period is Square's Chrono Trigger! There are have been other RPGs with epic stories that include numerous surprising twists and affords multiple alternate endings, side quests, extra playable...

Beyond reviving Captain N as an animated series, just imagine it revived as an actual video game! One in which the player, as Captain N and his various allies, travels through numerous levels spanning Castlevania, Planet Zebes, Hyrule, The Mushroom Kingdom, Dr. Wiley's castle, etc, etc, etc...

I consider the SNES' controller to have been absolutely perfect! It ergonomically fit my hand like a glove and had a near-optimal number of easily accessible buttons for me! Earlier controllers were much less ergonomic and either had too few buttons, or had way too many buttons and looked...

Super Mario Land did indeed have a level in which Mario piloted a submarine, as well as a later level in which Mario piloted a small plane. (Those levels offered an experience not unlike the Rush-Marine and Rush-Jet from later Megaman games.) In general though, I found it to be a fairly...

I didn't care for The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link when I first played it at a very young age, mainly because I was too turned off by its numerous drastic departures from the original game's now classic formula. (And yet, at the time, I had no problems whatsoever with...

In my own subjective opinion, Captain N was a case of an interesting concept that was poorly executed: To explore and integrate the characters and worlds from the various classic NES games from the perspective of fellow Mary Sue gamer is a great concept, but was absolutely butchered in execution...

Final Fantasy Tactics is actually my favourite Final Fantasy game! I thoroughly enjoy this spin-off for its broader, more strategic, tactical game play during battle (hence the title). And I moreover also appreciate the subversiveness with which it framed its story, as it was told from the...

My all-time favourite video game is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! It just edges out the more traditional Super Castlevania as my favourite game in the series, and I moreover thought that it was a truly refreshing take on the franchise and is vastly superior to previous attempts to mix...