Adventures of Lolo
Developer: Hal Laboratory Publisher: Hal America Released: 1989 Genre: Puzzle I miss the HAL Labs of the 8 and 16-bit days. Don’t get me wrong they are still a great developer but the diversity in their output is...
Tag: puzzle
Castelian
For the longest time growing up I had an unconscious bias against European games. Long before I would learn where certain developers were based I learned to associate janky games with certain companies. These were the titles that may have...
A Boy & His Blob
The NES library has its highs and lows. Many genres that are still around today were created on that little gray box. But it was also home to shovelware the likes of which is rarely seen in the industry. During...
Luigi’s Mansion
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...
Cacoma Knight in Bizyland
Taito’s Qix is one of the few Gameboy games I played at release. I never owned the handheld myself but appreciated it from afar. Qix, much like Tetris seemed tailor made for quick pick up and play sessions with its...
Kickle Cubicle
In my mind the name Irem has always been associated with R-Type. It’s no secret why; R-Type is one of the most influential shooters of all time. But that one seminal game did tend to overshadow a lot of their...
Mendel Palace
Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 12/12/89 Genre: Action In some ways I kind of miss blindly renting games. When you were young with no disposable income game rentals were your life blood. The only problem is there was...