Entries in the ‘Classic Gaming’ Category:
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Boxless, Classic Gaming, EA, Games, Half-Life, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, Portal, Sony, Valve, Wii on Sep.01, 2010
Times are tough, especially in the midst of this economic recession. That’s why we here at powet are proud to help bail gamers out of the hell of playing the same things over and over again. For the past 5 years, we have helped gamers like yourself find cheap ways to increase your [...]
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Capcom, Classic Gaming, Games on Aug.23, 2010
If you believe Capcom’s ‘history’ of this downloadable title, then the company discovered this secret cartridge of a game that was in development for the NES. Supposedly, Capcom began work on the title only to cancel it due to the emergence of the Super Nintendo, only to rediscover it in a vault 2 decades [...]
filed in Classic Gaming, DS, Games, Nintendo, PSP, Powet Alphabet, SNK, Sega, Sony on Aug.22, 2010
Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.
In the short time they had been around, manufacturers took steps to make video games available in as many formats as possible. After their arcade origins, games were made available on home computers, [...]
filed in Classic Gaming, Games, Lost Classics, PC Gaming on Jun.27, 2010
These days, the Duke Nukem franchise has regulated to a running gag, especially with Duke Nukem Forever being delayed so much that it has been all but confirmed as canceled. However, it wasn’t already like this for the series. In fact, when it was released in the mid-90s, it stood alongside games like [...]
filed in Classic Gaming, Games, Lost Classics on Jun.04, 2010
Blood is an alumni from the early days of the fps genre, and its graduating class includes Hexen, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, and Marathon. Back in those days, you didn’t need AI companions, ragdoll physics, quick-time events, a fancy 3D graphics engine, or any other neat bells and whistles to get players into your [...]
filed in Classic Gaming, Contra, Games, Konami, Lost Classics on May.20, 2010
Normally I wouldn’t feature a game this mainstream in Lost Classics, but during my 16-Bit Powet Alphabet article, I opened with an image of Contra 3, despite the fact that I mentioned nothing about it during the article. Oh yeah, this game is just plain awesome too.
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Capcom, Captain America, Classic Gaming, Games, Iron Man, Marvel, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Spider-Man, Street Fighter, The Hulk, Wolverine, X-Men on May.10, 2010
Since Iron Man returns to theaters this week, this week’s $20 GOTW will take a look back at one of old shellhead’s finest moments. A mysterious orb threatens all life on both the Marvel and Capcom universes, so Ruby Heart unites heroes from the two universes in order to help save it. However, [...]
filed in Arcade, Capcom, Castlevania, Classic Gaming, Contra, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, Games, Konami, Mario, Mega Man, Metroid, Midway, Mortal Kombat, Nintendo, Playstation, Powet Alphabet, SNK, Sega, Sonic, Sony, Square-Enix, Virtual Console, Wii, Zelda on May.08, 2010
Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.
The sixteen bit era of video games is considered by many to be the bridge between the past and modern eras of video gaming, and there were two kings of the ring: Nintendo’s [...]