Tag: 2001

Developer: Nintendo EAD    Publisher: Nintendo     Released: November 18, 2001     Genre: Action In 2001 the thought of a Nintendo system launching without a Mario game was ludicrous.  After all, every prior system either had a Mario title packed in...

Developer: PS2-Snowblind Studios GC-High Voltage Software    Publisher: Interplay    Released: PS2-2001, GC-2002    Genre: Action RPG Baldur’s Gate is a revered name computer RPG fans. It came at the perfect time to restore life to the Crpg, won man...

I have to say, even though the Dreamcast flame was short lived it burned brightly.  In the three-year period the system had any relevancy in the US it managed to cover most genres pretty well.  One genre that was a...

By the end of the 32-bit era the modern shooter was all but gone from the West.  While we would occasionally get a home port of the really cool arcade games in Japan in America this once popular genre was...

They just couldn’t leave well enough alone.  Mega Man X5 was supposed to be the natural end of the series and directly lead in to Mega Man Zero.  But Capcom is going to be Capcom, which means they went back...

The amount of restraint Capcom showed with the Mega Man X series on the PlayStation is pretty surprising.  For a publisher known for milking their series to death gamers would have to wait nearly four long years for a follow-up...

Developer: Electronic Arts     Publisher: Electronic Arts     Released: 2001, 2002     Genre: FPS Electronic Arts first forays into the Bond license were not all that well received.  Tomorrow Never Dies and the PS One version of the World is Not E...

Developer: KCET    Publisher: Konami    Release: 10/21    Genre: Action I remember the final years of the PlayStation One as being particularly dreadful. Once Sony stopped giving a damn the flood gates opened with legions of budget titles flooding sto...

Developer: NST     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: November 18, 2001     Genre: Racing In terms of sheer number of hours I have probably spent more time playing Wave Race 64 than the vast majority of games in my thirty seven years. Of course...