Donkey Kong – Nintendo Game Boy (1994) Donkey Kong for the Nintendo Game Boy (often called Donkey Kong ’94) begins as a seemingly straightforward port of the original 1981 arcade classic, but quickly transforms into a massive, genre-defining puzzle-platformer. The familiar story kicks off with the giant ape Donkey Kong kidnapping Pauline, prompting Mario to…
Pickups: 349 – Resist Or Serve
The X Files: Resist Or Serve – Sony Playstation 2 (2004) The X-Files: Resist or Serve is a survival horror game that plays out like a lost “three-episode” arc from the show’s seventh season. Structurally, the story takes FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to a remote, zombie-infested town in the Rocky Mountains,…
Pickups: 348 – G-LOC: Air Battle
G-LOC: Air Battle – Sega Mega Drive (1991) G-LOC: Air Battle is a combat flight shooter that serves as a spiritual successor to Sega’s legendary After Burner II. The game features virtually no in-game narrative, loosely positioning you as a pilot flying an experimental jet fighter tasked with taking down the fictional “Future World Army”…
Top 10 Nintendo 64 Games
Collecting for the N64 is much like collecting for the other cartridge based games, it is difficult to find the boxes in a good acceptable condition. I will eventually need to swap out Banjo-Kazooie, as it is the classics version. Super Mario 64 (1996) Approx Units Sold – 11.91 million In Super Mario 64, Mario…
Pickups: 347 – Saturn Bundle
Panzer Dragoon – Sega Saturn (1995) Panzer Dragoon is a critically acclaimed on-rails shoot-’em-up that stands out for its striking, melancholic artistry. Set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world littered with the ruins of a highly advanced, long-lost civilization, the story follows Keil Fluge, a young hunter who inherits a powerful, armoured blue dragon after witnessing…
Pickups: 346 – Resident Evil Code 7
Resident Evil 7: Gold Edition – Sony Playstation 5 (2024) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard – Gold Edition on the PlayStation 5 delivers the definitive, modernised version of the game that famously revitalised Capcom’s iconic survival horror franchise. Moving away from the action-heavy focus of previous entries, the story follows Ethan Winters, an ordinary man who…
Pickups: 345 – Night Trap
Night Trap – Sega Mega CD (1992) Night Trap is an interactive full-motion video (FMV) horror-comedy that casts the player as a special agent for the Sega Control Attack Team (S.C.A.T.). The story follows a group of teenage girls having a slumber party at the Martin family estate, unaware that the house is infested with…
Pickups: 344 – Game Genie
Galoob Game Genie – Nintendo NES (1990) The Galoob Game Genie was a popular “video game enhancer” released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It functioned as a pass-through device, sitting between the console and the game cartridge to intercept data. By entering specific alphanumeric codes into its startup menu, players could modify…
Pickups: 343 – Walking Dead Vita
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season – Sony Playstation Vita (2013) Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season Plus 400 Days on the PlayStation Vita is a critically acclaimed graphic adventure that translates the series’ emotional gravity to a handheld format. The story follows Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who finds redemption…
Pickups: 342 – Mega Drive Bundle
Pac-Panic – Sega Mega Drive (1993) Pac-Panic (Pac-Attack) is a falling-block puzzle game that adapts the mechanics of Namco’s earlier title, Cosmo Gang the Puzzle, into the Pac-Man universe. While it lacks a complex narrative, the game centres on Pac-Man’s effort to clear the board of pesky ghosts that fall alongside standard blocks. The gameplay…