filed in Games, Lost Classics, Sega, Xbox on Dec.05, 2009
Every inch of this sci-fi shooter screams “even though Japanese developers created me, I was made specifically for American audiences”. This sentiment would later be the driving force behind games such as Breakdown, Dead Rising, and No More Heroes, games that have achieved cult-like status. Smilebit/Sega’s Xbox shooter might not have been perfect, [...]
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Activision, Classic Gaming, Games, Guitar Hero, Lost Classics on Nov.28, 2009
Well, now that the turkey is digested and the Black Friday bargain hunting is done, it’s time to get a start on your holiday shopping. Of course, I’m here to help you get a head start. For the $20 GOTW, I’ve got one of those new-fangled rhythm games that the kids seem to [...]
filed in Capcom, Games, Lost Classics on Nov.21, 2009
The following may or may not be an actual conversation between me and a college roommate.
My Roommate: Yo Will! Check out this book I read for history class!
Me: You actually read? I thought you just played football and lifted weights all day!
My Romomate: Heck yeah! It’s called [...]
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Capcom, Classic Gaming, Games, Horror, Lost Classics on Oct.31, 2009
It’s Halloween weekend! Time to dress up in your costume, scare the neighbors, and grab some candy! Along with Powet’s creepiest games feature, this week’s Lost Classics and $20 GOTW focus on some very scary video games. We’ve got the most recent Castlevania along with an adventure title from the Playstation era. [...]
filed in Classic Gaming, Games, Lost Classics on Oct.23, 2009
Remember all those old Warner Brothers cartoons with the weird Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson-style contraptions? You know, the one where the ball goes down a ramp, knocks over a line of dominoes, sending one down onto a teeter totter with a lit candle at the other end which burns a hold in a rope allowing [...]
filed in $20 Game Of The Week, Arcade, Capcom, Castlevania, Classic Gaming, Final Fantasy, Games, Konami, Lost Classics, Metal Gear, Namco, Powet Alphabet, Resident Evil, Sony, Square-Enix, Street Fighter, Tekken on Oct.17, 2009
Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.
When Sony entered the market as a console manufacturer, they began a whole new era of gaming, and much of it was due to the rise of disc-based gaming. Disc based systems at [...]
filed in Games, Lost Classics on Oct.16, 2009
A lot of you are probably playing through one of Maxis’s most recent hits, Spore. In that game, you create a species and take it from a single-celled organism all the way to an intergalactic space empire, designing their buildings, armor, and vehicles along the way. It seems huge in scope, and it [...]
filed in Games, Lost Classics, Nintendo on Oct.09, 2009
This past weekend I featured a big article on the Nintendo Entertainment System’s most influential games. This didn’t make the list, but it was still an excellent sports title from Nintendo’s early days. Back then, beating Mike Tyson was a rite of passage for any hardcore gamer. Of course, en route to [...]
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