The Atari 7800 is a truly underrated and oft-overlooked game system. It is the only Atari machine that truly fulfills the promise of every game system before it: arcade-perfect ports of classic games. No longer would classics such as Ms. Pac Man be butchered beyond recognition by hardware that wasn’t up to the task. Seriously, [...]

The iPhone and iPad are not the future of gaming. Ironically, it took a rather spectacular game, Castlevania: Encore of the Night, to help me fully conclude this. You’d think Castlevania: Encore of the Night would be as convincing a title as any as to the promise of iPhone/iPad gaming. Its got great 2d visuals, [...]

Minotaur China Shop is in many ways everything a good online game should be. Crisp graphics, simple gameplay with a subtle sense of strategy. These attributes are paired nicely with a solid soundtrack and a completely unique and humor-filled premise. What’s that premise, you ask? You play as a entrepreneurial Minotaur interested in running his [...]

You owe it to yourself to play Passage. Passage is an art game. Although I deplore the term, it is actually the most consistent term we have to describe this genre of game: there is no right or wrong way to play, no stated objective, and, ultimately, no way to win. The game lasts only [...]

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It must have been around ought-three or ought-four when I first discovered the original Bobby is Going Home while casually surfing some Atari 2600 ROMs by title. The exceedingly simple premise intrigued me: Who is Bobby? What is his deal? What’s the hurry to get home, anyway? Who knows? Who cares? Wherever he is, Bobby [...]

Can you get Bobby Home? As you may know, Bobby is Going Home 2 is (finally) complete! Although it may seem to be of questionable taste to bribe you to play my game, I’m interested in seeing what sort of scores you can come up with. The player who can send me a screenshot of [...]

I’m usually not one to fawn over flash and web-based games, but this deserves special mention. The Anti-Bush Game, from the good people over at emogame.com, manages to be hilarious, inspiring, offensive, disgusting, and depressing all at the same instant. Your team consists of ‘Real Americans’: Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, and an obsese He-Man, (along [...]

Check out these bizarre nuggets- Behold- McDonald’s THE GAME This flash game, which has somehow miraculously evaded the watchful eye of McDonalds’ intellectual property lawyers, puts YOU in control of your very own McDonalds empire. Micromanage every detail from dealing with rebellious and insolent staff, creating a brilliant and persuasive ‘brand image,’ to managing pesticides [...]