X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES)
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse is usually billed as something between a platformer and a beat-em-up, and while both genre names come
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The Game Hoard
Playing Every Video Game Ever Released And Reviewing Them Along The Way
Nintendo
New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
Nostalgia is an incredibly powerful thing, and Nintendo is perhaps the company best poised to use it in their titles,
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Link’s Crossbow Training (Wii)
The Legend of Zelda series didn’t have many spin-offs before Link’s Crossbow Training, but a confluence of factors all came
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Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
The original Metroid tried to create an exploration-based action platformer, but because of technical constraints and an unwillingness to accommodate
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Metroid Prime Pinball (DS)
Nintendo appears to really enjoy making pinball spin-offs for their major franchises. Mario, Kirby, and Pokémon all have had portable
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Metroid (NES)
The Metroid series is one of Nintendo’s most well-regarded franchises, with at least two of its games, Super Metroid and
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Soulcalibur Legends (Wii)
Fighting game lore can be difficult to track. Storylines are often split across the roster, with some characters even having
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Wii)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the penultimate book in the Harry Potter book series and the third to
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Henry the Hamster Handler (Switch)
Henry the Hamster Handler for the Switch is the follow up to a VR title all about trying to make
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Disaster Report: Dogz (GBA)
Do not let the doe-eyed puppy dogs on the game’s box fool you. Just like with real life pet shops
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Mario Party DS (DS)
The Mario Party series is undoubtedly one of the more derivative Mario spin-off series. They found a format for a
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Shrek: Reekin’ Havoc (GBA)
After the subversive fairy tale movie Shrek changed the tone of animated features for years to come, the video game
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The Land Before Time: Into the Mysterious Beyond (GBA)
The ESRB’s Early Childhood rating is a surprisingly informative symbol to find on a game’s box. While it does play
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Gumshoe (NES)
A peripheral like the NES Zapper has plenty of obvious uses. Many games just take the gun peripheral at face
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Freedom Force (NES)
There seems to be a fairly common template for light gun games, one that is used across many arcade titles
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Inspector Gadget: Operation Madkactus (Game Boy Color)
The cartoon Inspector Gadget is about a cyborg police inspector whose body contains tons of gadgets he can call upon
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Whomp ‘Em (NES)
Japan seems to think that the Chinese novel “Journey to the West” is a good fit for video game adaptation,
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Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)
In some ways, quite a lot of video games can feel like theme parks. To include more variety, many game
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Alleyway (Game Boy)
Since the Game Boy was the first majorly successful portable gaming console, many early games for the system could get
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Nano Assault EX (3DS)
The microscopic world of microbes is a fascinating place, with creatures that defy the standards we hold for animals. Even
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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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