Tag: Nintendo

Eternal Darkness – Sanity’s Requiem
June 1, 2018 No Responses

Eternal Darkness – Sanity’s Requiem

Developer: Silicon Knights     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: 06/24/02     Genre: Action As a Nintendo 64 owner until the very end I looked forward to Eternal Darkness almost as much as Zelda. As one of the proposed last N64 games it was ambitious...
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Goldeneye 007
May 25, 2018 No Responses

Goldeneye 007

Developer: Rare    Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 08/25/97   Genre: FPS Goldeneye 007 should not have been a success. There were a number of factors working against it. It was released in 1997, two years after the film hit theaters. It was...
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Star Fox
May 18, 2018 No Responses

Star Fox

Developer: Argonaut/Nintendo     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: 03/23/93     Genre: Rail Shooter I’m not ashamed to admit that I scoffed at Star Fox initially. In 1993 16-bit continued the stride started in 1992 with beautiful 2d games appeari...
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F-Zero X
February 23, 2018 3 Responses

F-Zero X

Developer: Nintendo EAD    Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 10/27/98   Genre: Racing The Super Nintendo launch brought a number of ground breaking titles. Pilotwings was an excellent showcase of Mode 7 with its simulated 3d environment. But F-Zero was th...
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Kid Icarus
February 5, 2018 one Response

Kid Icarus

Developer: Nintendo R&D1   Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 07/87    Genre: Platformer It really is amazing just how forgotten Kid Icarus has been. Aside from its little known Gameboy sequel it took over twenty years for the series to receive a...
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Metroid
December 18, 2017 6 Responses

Metroid

Developer: Nintendo R & D 1   Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 08/15/87    Genre: Platformer Metroid has always been a bit of an anomaly in Nintendo’s library.  Where I was used to bright and cheery worlds in Nintendo’s games Metroid stood in...
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Wave Race: Blue Storm
August 25, 2017 2 Responses

Wave Race: Blue Storm

Developer: NST     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: 11/18/01     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 a large...
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Diddy Kong Racing
August 18, 2017 2 Responses

Diddy Kong Racing

Developer: Rare     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: 10/31/97     Genre: Racing Mario Kart 64 was one of the biggest releases of 1997.  As the long awaited sequel to the original SNES game the move to 3d did wonders for its track design.  While....
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F-Zero
July 14, 2017 6 Responses

F-Zero

Developer: Nintendo EAD   Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 08/23/91   Genre: Racing For as much as I like racing games I will admit that most of the 8-bit titles in the genre did nothing for me. There were valiant attempts that...
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SNES Classic announced, 09/29, $80.00, 21 games including Star Fox 2!
June 27, 2017 one Response

SNES Classic announced, 09/29, $80.00, 21 games including Star Fox 2!

Gaming’s worst kept secret! We all knew it was just a matter of time after the wild success of the NES Classic last year.  There’s been retailer talk and such for the last few months as well.  But now its...
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