The Haunted Hoard: Dr. Franken (Game Boy)
While it’s fairly common for a video game protagonist to find themselves rescuing their love interest, Dr. Franken on Game
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The Game Hoard
Playing Every Video Game Ever Released And Reviewing Them Along The Way
1992
Sewer Shark (Sega CD)
With the release of the Sega CD peripheral for the Genesis and Mega Drive came the bold promise of games
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The Haunted Hoard: Alone in the Dark (PC)
It’s hard to go back to the original Alone in the Dark without feeling the weight of its legacy. It
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King Salmon: The Big Catch (Genesis/Mega Drive)
King salmon is not only the largest type of salmon found in North America, but many also consider it the
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Boggle Plus (Game Boy)
Despite an interest in word games, I had no idea that Parker Brothers’s Boggle exists until I saw it in
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50 Years of Video Games: Mortal Kombat (Arcade)
Violence has been part of video games from the very beginning, but back when you were blowing up black and
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
When I played the original Splatterhouse arcade game I was disappointed to find that a game with a heavy horror
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Wordtris (SNES)
When Tetris took the world by storm with its simple but addictive puzzle game design, designers were quick to try
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The Haunted Hoard: Monster in My Pocket (NES)
Monster in My Pocket is one of the bigger names from the fad in the 1980s and 1990s where a
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Warriors of Fate (Arcade)
While it would be a major simplification to say that Warriors of Fate is just Final Fight set in China’s
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Kirby Blitz: Kirby’s Dream Land (Game Boy)
When you take a look back at the first game of a video game series, you don’t exactly expect the
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Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! is a game about a surfer that features very little in the way of surfing,
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghoul School (NES)
Ghoul School, despite its name, has no ties to the similarly named Scooby Doo movie, but the story it does
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The Haunted Hoard: Master of Darkness (Master System)
Video game developers can benefit immensely from looking back on the games that came before theirs to find out what
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Phalanx (SNES)
Before you get too excited by the prospect of a game with hillbillies dueling with starships in space, it should
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is, appropriately, a legendary game in the Zelda series. Already impressing
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Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Mario Kart seems to be one of those series where the ever-improving nature of the sequels makes it hard to
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Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)
Contra III was both a sobering reminder of the importance of selecting your difficulty level in a game and an
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