July 2021
July 28, 2021 Review Crew
Nintendo Switch Online: 1990s Critics Review Bombuzal, Claym...
Episode #119 - This just in: Nintendo has released three new classic games onto their Nintendo Switch Online service today. These include controversial picks like Bombuzal, Jelly Boy and Claymates, all of which have...
July 26, 2021 Game Over
Story Breakdown: Seibu Trilogy (Arcade)
Episode #132 - Long before Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto III and Vanquish, arcade developers were hard at work trying to invent the third-person shooter genre. We already covered the two Crossed Swords games that S...
July 23, 2021 EGM Ranks
Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 10 Shoot 'Em Ups
Episode #8 - Don't call it a comeback, because shoot 'em ups never went anywhere. While trends have come and gone, developers of all shapes and sizes have been delivering high-quality shooters for more than four d...
July 21, 2021 Game Over
Story Breakdown: Cotton - Fantastic Night Dreams (Arcade)
Episode #131 - When I saw that Cotton Reboot was coming out this week, I immediately knew that I needed to post a Game Over episode comparing the brand-new rebooted narrative with the quirky story we saw in the 1991...
July 13, 2021 Game Over
Story Breakdown: Tintin in Tibet (Super NES)
Episode #130 - As a magazine reader in the 1990s, it was common to see Electronic Gaming Monthly and Die Hard Game Fan rave about the hottest Japanese games that had no chance of coming to the United States. But imp...
July 10, 2021 Recapped
007 in Pixels: 15 Weeks of James Bond Games
Episode #65 - Who is the suave man of mystery dedicated to taking down the world's most nefarious super villains? His name is Wallace, Adam Wallace. To help celebrate the upcoming release of No Time to Die, ou...
July 09, 2021 Game Over
Story Breakdown: S.P.Y. - Special Project Y (Arcade)
Episode #129 - There are exactly 91 days until James Bond returns to the big screen in No Time to Die, a movie that was supposed to have come out 450 days ago. To celebrate Daniel Craig's final time playing 007, we'...
July 08, 2021 Review Crew
1990s Critics Review Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol...
Episode #118 - It's time to protect your friends and family, because both Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol are out right now on Switch and Xbox One, and the reactions have been, well, a little mixed. Could ...
July 06, 2021 Game Over
Story Breakdown: The Alex Kidd Series (Master System & Genes...
Episode #128 - This may be Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary, but lately it feels like some of Sega's earliest mascot characters also want to get in on the action. Just in the last two months, we've not only rev...