Talk about a stealth release. It came completely out of nowhere on the XBLA, with no announcement or anything by Atari for a release date, and then it came out on Steam out of nowhere. WTF?

Anyways, this is a sequel to the best selling Atari-made game on the Atari 2600, Yars’ Revenge (notice the different placement of the apostrophe in the title). Or at least some sort of revival. Yars’ Revenge is probably my favorite Atari 2600 game, one that I replay frequently, so that alone made this a sure-buy for me. The shift in gameplay styles wasn’t much of a problem to me, since I doubt keeping the original gameplay would have been a great idea here.

Read on and see if it lives up to its predecessor!
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Super Meat Boy! The game that confuses people now since it has the same abbreviation as Super Mario Bros!

It’s about a boy without skin going to save a girl covered in bandages, from the evil hands of Doctor Fetus, an actual fetus in a robotic suit. The premise itself sounds all sorts of awesome, and then we see that it’s a super-hard super-precise platformer where you die in one hit and any minor error will kill you? Damn right I’m interested.

So read on and see if I liked it as much as I was hoping!
(Note: I’m starting the GotY posts either tonight or tomorrow morning)
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Pac-Man, one of the legendaries in the gaming industry. Despite being part of a few less-than-stellar platforming and adventure games, and the infamous Atari 2600 port (which really IS as bad as you might have heard), Pac-Man’s original gameplay style remains timeless and one of the best pure gameplay experiences ever. Basically, if you don’t like Pac-Man, you can’t consider yourself a gamer. It’s that awesome.

When I checked the demo for this game, I didn’t think I’d end up buying it, considering I already have a few versions of Pac-Man available to me (on NES, on Atari 2600 (there’s actually 2 good Pac-Man games on there, people tend to forget those because of the crappy port), the arcade version in my MAME cabinet), but then I saw something that got my attention: this game has a BOMB button. A Pac-Man game with a bomb button? What the heck? That’s awesome! I had to buy it.

Needless to say I instantly picked it up after experiencing the furious gameplay. So read on and see exactly why I liked it so much!
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Well, just based on the premise of this game, the developers might as well have come to my house and taken my money, because it was 100% sure I’d buy it. I mean…a humorous Diablo clone, with a great graphic style and made by Ron Gilbert (one of the Monkey Island creators)? Sounds like awesomeness to me.

Read on and see if it reached my expectations!
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This is a strange little package by Capcom. It includes one of the most classic Beat ‘Em Ups ever, Final Fight, and the largely overlooked Magic Sword. Rather than remakes or upgraded ports, those are basically just the ROMs from the arcade version, with  addedonline capabilities and a few visual options.

So this will be a rather short review, but it’s still a game I want to comment about a bit.

So read on!
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AH yes, Capcom milking something that hasn’t really been milked since the early 90s. After the success(and awesomeness) of Mega Man 9, it was no surprise that people wanted more, and Capcom never misses the opportunity to make easy money.

Since the fans loved it so much, myself included, this game goes back to the NES style of Mega Man games again. Cover art and all. Yeah, I really love that cover art… The game features nostalgic graphics, nostalgic music and nostalgic gameplay.

Does it hold of as well as Mega Man 9, or should have Capcom stopped milking the cow already?

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jobocan Announcements, Console, News, retro, video, WiiWare

The first Matt Hazard game bombed. Big time. The story of the fictional former video game icon doing a return seemingly didn’t appeal to anyone. Or maybe it was the mediocre and very buggy gameplay. Who knows?</sarcasm>

On my side, I appreciated the humor, but the game didn’t really feel right. Following the first Matt Hazard comes a new game in the series, this one going for what the first game SHOULD have been: a Contra/Metal Slug-like action platformer.

So did Matt Hazard finally find his genre of choice, or should he just give up?
Read on and see!
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Mmmm Shadow Complex I had fun times. Yeah this is kind of old news but it’s a good game damn it. Read more…

Victor Review, XBLA, xbox 360

Hi, This is a neat little development. You can now purchase XBLA games through Amazon.com Neat huh? No need to translate MSPoints into actual currency to determine just how much you’re spending on a game. Two questions go through my head right now though. Will amazon restrict international? Will amazon have deals on this that do not reflect XBLA pricing?

Update: It blocks Canadian adresses. I will verify if I can get the code with a mock American one sometime later when I have something I really want to buy.

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