Like football? Hate how overcomplicated it can be? Then Midway has the game for you: NFL Blitz. Blitz did for football what their previous ‘extreme sports’ series, NBA Jam did for basketball: strip out all of the grunt work and concentrate on the big hits, big passes, and over-the-top action fans love about the game. No stats to fudge through, no back-office politics to worry about, no contract negotiations to wade through, you just pick your team, hit the field, and play through 4 quarters of smash-mouth football, just the way God intended.
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Shownotes behind the cut.
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Koei’s Musou games (or Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors as we know them over here) are a guilty pleasure of gamers. Although they tend to be simplistic and repetitive, they are easy to get into, and they are quite educational thanks to their historical setting. Plus there has always been a certain charm to be gained by slashing up dozens of Chinese warriors or evil samurai with a guy who wields fans as weaponry. While the Dynasty Warriors games cover China’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms period (in which Three Kingdoms vie for ultimate power in the wake of the collapse of the Han Empire), Samurai Warriors deals with Japan’s Age of Warring States (in which Nobunaga went head to head against other warlords in an attempt to unify Japan under one banner). Fans often speculated what would happen if the casts of the two games teamed up. In fact, you can go onto any message board and find a “Samurai Warriors vs Dynasty Warriors Heal/Hurt” game. It would only be a matter of time until Koei and W-Force answered player’s wishes, and in 2007, the great warriors of Ancient China and Japan joined forces in Koei’s Orochi Warriors. While it’s not perfect, it’s the crossover fans have been waiting for.
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On this date in 1984, the very first issue of Transformers from Marvel Comics hit newstands. Toys would not arrive until summer, and the first episode of the animated series wouldn’t premeire until September.

So where were you on May 8, 1984? When did you first experience Transformers? Who your favorite Transformer? Respond in the comment section!

Earlier this week, I featured a compilation of the PC Delta Force games. So to that end, this week’s Lost Classic features a Playstation side entry of the series. This game is special as it was one of the last (if not the last) first person shooter games for the original Playstation. While Novalogic could have easily phoned this end, they instead chose to go all out with it, creating one last engaging military-style FPS experience, putting this game head and shoulders above other PS1 shooters, and even giving a few then current-gen shooters a run for their money.
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