NES - Review: Super Mario Bros.
by Andrew on 4/05/2008 4:36:58 PM
Released on the NES on the 13th of September 1985, Super Mario Bros. is the best selling game of all time selling over 40 million copies. This in itself should
earn it a perfect score. Super Mario Bros. was also the first game of it's type (side-scrolling platformer), credited to ending the video game crash of 1983 and was a brilliant game, from start to finish.
It's hard to think that this is the sequel to Mario Bros. that was released two years earlier – the two games look a decade apart in terms of graphics and gameplay.
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NES - Review: Mario Bros.
by Andrew on 4/05/2008 1:44:26 PM
Originally released as an arcade game in 1983 by Nintendo it was also ported to the NES that same year. This wasn't the first game to feature Mario as back in
1981 he was fighting Donkey Kong, though it is the first game to have his brother Luigi.
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NES - Review: California Games
by Andrew on 1/05/2008 9:36:35 PM
I don't think there's another game that captured the 80's feel as much as California Games did. If you weren't a kid in the 80's you probably won't find
aspects of the game amusing, like choosing your team amongst names like 'Santa Cruz Skateboards', 'Ocean Pacific' and 'Maxx-out'. Like, totally radical man.
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NES - Review: Bubble Bobble
by Andrew on 1/05/2008 8:49:21 PM
The NES version was released back in 1987 meaning this game was still fresh in the arcades allowing people to save their pennies and to try to unlock all of
the secrets in the comfort of their own filth. Graphically the game isn't bad, not as good as the arcade, but not that far off. The game 'feels' slower though and I notice that you blow bubbles slower,
which makes some of your arcade tactics unusable on the NES. This isn't a major problem though and you learn to adapt pretty quickly.
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NES - Review: Bomberman II
by Andrew on 30/04/2008 10:05:32 PM
Bomberman II was released in 1991 as a sequel to Bomberman. Same console, same idea, and a much better game. The screen no longer scrolls to the left and
right, the graphics are better, multiple play modes and there's even a storyline; Framed for robbing a bank (by a fellow bomberman no less!) you are sent to prison, though obviously not frisked for bombs,
where you proceed to blow your way out.
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NES - Review: Bomberman
by Andrew on 30/04/2008 8:11:26 PM
Nearly every gamer has played Bomberman, but not every gamer played the first incarnation of it back in 1987 on the NES (if you didn't know, the original
Bomberman was a multi-platform release). The Bomberman series spanned multiple generations and even branched out with RPG versions and other spin-offs. It's still available too, in DS and PSP format and
there's even a WiiWare version.
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NES - Review: Double Dragon
by Andrew on 29/04/2008 9:30:39 PM
Double Dragon, for those who remember it when it was in the arcades, was one of the most popular games around. Having an unusual 'tri button' layout (three
buttons shaped in a triangle) it allowed for multiple attack combinations (head butt, elbow, jump kick, spin jump kick, kick and punch) as well as having special moves such as knee attack, throws and double
teaming someone in a full nelson.
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