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Gaming BriefsGaming BriefsPosting about news on computer games, arcade games, and even on occasion about board games like Monopoly 
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Snow Bros. Nick & Tom
2008-05-21 19:58:00 In 5 recordings: This is a very cool game where you guide the two title snowmen through 50 single screens and five stages to help liberate some princesses from the clutches of a sinister demon. Similar to Bubble Bobble, you can get extra points from bonus items they leave around after they're done away with. And, if you can finish them off all at once, special yen icons will come down that More About: Snow , Nick , Bros
Legend of Hero Tonma
2008-05-21 19:48:00 First, here's a video of the first three stages: And here's a video of the ending: A great platform-based cute-em-up where you're on the typical sojourn to rescue a princess. Simply wonderful. More About: Hero , Legend
A cassette of Mr. Heli
2008-05-21 19:36:00 Here's a short recording of an interesting cute-em-up game: You pilot a kind of robo-copter making its way through amazing worlds and caves, and you can get a hold of special crystals for extra points. A very good adventure indeed. More About: Cassette
AP review of Wii Fit
2008-05-21 06:59:00 Well now, here's a review written by the AP Wire about Nintendo's brand new exercise program: If someone had pulled me away from "GoldenEye 007" in the late 1990s to tell me that I'd one day be using my video game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond's Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory. But here I am a decade later, trying to hold a yoga pose in "Wii More About: Review
News about Square Enix
2008-05-21 06:46:00 Here's some news on the plans of this vidgame developer: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co Ltd said it is considering taking stakes in game developers to combat rising competition from established game publishers and other entertainment companies. "Economies of scale and breadth of scope are getting important. It may be a business alliance or it may be us taking a stake More About: News
Virtua Fighter recording
2008-05-18 10:49:00 Note: this is the Genesis 32X version. This was the very first 3-D fighter, and the beginning of the subsequent move by fighting games into the more 3-D arena. You've got 8 characters duking it out on a square ring, and if you fall outside that parameter, you'll be disqualified. The last fighter and the boss, Dural, is one you need to win within the very game session you're playing, or the game More About: Recording , Fighter
The decline of arcades in Japan
2008-05-18 04:30:00 It was bound to happen even there, and it looks like that's what must've happened: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ese superhero Ultraman vanquishes an evil enemy during a live performance at a Tokyo games arcade. But Ultraman's real battle is proving much harder -- enticing customers back to the nation's arcades. Japan's $6.9 billion arcade industry has been whacked hard by new advances in gaming,
Rival Turf cassette
2008-05-18 00:04:00 Click ahead and take a look: Yup, it's another Final Fight clone, one that was probably just done for home consoles as well, where you battle enemy gangs in California. That scene where the heroes battle on a bus sure doesn't take as long as the subway section in FF, of course, since it's a lot smaller! More About: Cassette , Turf
Some news on the new Wii Fit
2008-05-15 22:28:00 Time is reviewing the brand new Wii Fit program, mastered mostly by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto (via Hot Air Headlines). And here's also a video trailer (I don't think it's the first time I ever put something like this here, but it sure has been long since I last tried that) where they promote the system (also via Hot Air): Now, you can see for yourself what this is like. More About: News
WiiWare will get downloadable games
2008-05-15 22:22:00 Oh, look at this: Nintendo is going to provide online games to download for the Wii: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nintendo is finally bringing original downloadable games to its popular Wii video game console. Nintendo's small white box is the smash hit of the video game industry, thanks to its easy-to-grasp controls and simple games that appeal to a broader audience. But the Wii has lagged More About: Games
Short cassette of Goal! Goal! Goal!
2008-05-15 18:10:00 Yep, that's the title, in three exclamatory words! Click over to watch the tape. It's a pretty good soccer game with good graphics, and if you know what it takes to handle it, there's plenty of fun to be had. Enjoy! More About: Goal , Cassette , Short
A Conan game comes up
2008-05-14 18:40:00 Let's see, we have here an article about a new game based on Robert E. Howard's Conan books: OSLO, May 14 - King Conan wins a bloody final battle against a menacing mix of barbarians, assassins and sorcerers in the hills above Oslo before retreating to his virtual home where a million online gamers await him. With real swords, metal and leather body armor and fake blood, Norwegian gaming company More About: Game
Sony's triple profit
2008-05-14 18:19:00 Their sales are up, I guess: TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Sony Corp. said Wednesday its annual net profit almost tripled to hit a record high as brisk sales of digital cameras and laptop computers offset continued losses from the PlayStation 3. The electronics giant has endured a difficult past few years amid tough competition from rival products such as Apple's iPod and Nintendo's Wii, but is now More About: Profit , Triple
Despite GTA, Nintendo is the one leading in sales
2008-05-12 23:15:00 NewsFactor Network says that despite what's been said so far about Grand Theft Auto, it's Nintendo 's own games that are leading the way in sales. Now that's certainly good news that makes me feel better after having to find those awful articles about Take-Two's undeserved success. More About: Sales , Leading
Foldit: a game for battling diseases
2008-05-11 12:11:00 Here's an article in the Washington Times about a new game called Foldit where players combat all sorts of medical problems. More About: Diseases , Game
Some info on Art of Fighting
2008-05-10 23:52:00 Here's a special post about another notable series of fighting games SNK made, that was meant to take place in South Town a couple years prior to Fatal Fury. It began with the game in the following recording: The story is about Ryo Sakazaki's teen sister, Yuri, being kidnapped and his and her boyfriend Robert Garcia's quest to find her around South Town. Though not officially revealed here, as More About: Info , Fighting , Art of Fighting
Short Eco Fighters taping
2008-05-10 22:38:00 Click ahead to see. An interesting shoot-em-up, with vague cute-em-up themes to it, where you need to protect a planet against the sinister forces of an intergalactic enterpreneur's assault. Delightful music too. More About: Fighters , Short
X-Multiply recording
2008-05-10 21:51:00 Click over to watch the tape. Another great R-Type variation from the masters at Irem, with plenty of great powerups and so on. More About: Recording , Multiply
Thunder Cross taping
2008-05-10 21:09:00 Click ahead to take a look. A marvelous space shooter from Konami, and another gem besides what began with Gradius. More About: Cross , Thunder
Some info on Fatal Fury
2008-05-09 14:51:00 Time now for a special post all about the Fatal Fury series, the second most popular fighting series in its time to Street Fighter, which provided some of the ideas for how to design this game. Let's start with the first game, released in late 1991, over here in 2 parts: And watch here for the endings for all 3 players. This was how it began, with this story-based game in which you have three More About: Info
Tower of Druaga
2008-05-09 14:40:00 In five recordings: You play a knight going round the title tower and battling all the assorted monsters within. It's got some very grand music. More About: Tower
Guitar Hero is a success on Wall Street
2008-05-09 14:35:00 Here's an article about Guitar Hero's financial success for Activision: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc posted a quarterly profit on Thursday that blew past expectations as demand for its "Guitar Hero 3" and "Call of Duty 4" video games made up for a complete lack of new releases. The two games, released late last year, drove Activision to a profit, excluding stock-based compensation More About: Wall Street , Success , Street , Wall
Kamikaze Cabbie kassette
2008-05-08 22:27:00 Ha ha, it's the umpteenth time I'm doing something absurd with the letter K. Take a look: A funny game where you manuever a taxicab around a city, trying to get passergers to various locations while avoiding vehicles that can really smash into you and cause you to lose a turn. Interesting production. More About: Kamikaze
Viewpoint video
2008-05-08 18:20:00 First, here's a tape of the first two stages: And here's a tape of the ending part: A fun shooter that may have been inspired by Zaxxon, if you note the isometric graphics here, with plenty of great ideas to find. Those slinky-like weapons are amazing, as are the fish-like beings on the second stage. More About: Video , Viewpoint
Twinklestar Sprites recording
2008-05-07 22:06:00 Wow, this is really cool. Click on over to take a look. An adorable combination of an action and puzzle game where you've got a couple protagonists and their mascots from different ends of a magical kingdom competing to see who can rake in the best score and beat the other opponent in order to pass each level. The mascots can serve for special attacks. This was Alpha Denshi/ADK's last official More About: Recording
Brief tape about Splendor Blast
2008-04-28 11:53:00 Check it out ahead. In this space shooter, what's most amazing it that it appears to be one of the earliest 3-D games for its time. As far as I know, it's a fairly rare game to be found today, but it's certainly a most excellent production. More About: Blast
Dragon Breed delivery
2008-04-27 06:56:00 Whoa, is this an awesome adventure. Check it out ahead. You play a warrior riding on the back of a dragon that can breathe fire as well, and almost similar to R-Type, you battle your way through a whole bunch of amazing worlds. The dragon's tail end can damage and destroy some enemies if you know how to maneuver it correctly. This is a great game. More About: Dragon , Delivery , Breed
This month's Wii and DS report
2008-04-27 05:24:00 Nintendo reports strong sales for both of these consoles: TOKYO (AP) - Nintendo Co.'s net profit surged 47.7 percent to a record high, powered by strong sales of software and accessories for its popular Wii video game console and brisk sales of its DS handheld devices. The Kyoto-based company reported a group net profit of 257.34 billion yen ($2.5 billion) for the March-April period compared More About: Report
Well here's something awful: the game based on the Street Fighter movie
2008-04-26 23:17:00 And what a fiasco that was, as some might recall, back in 1994. Even so, a game was produced based upon it, using digitized takes on the actors from the movie, and yep, most sadly enough the horrific Jean-Claude Van-Damme was among them. Here's a recording right here: Let me say, first of all, that there's one work of brilliance in this otherwise not-very-impressive competition game that I More About: Movie , Street , Game , The Game , Street Fighter
Asian history becomes a new inspiration for games, or is that really again?
More articles from this author:2008-04-25 17:05:00 This article here says that history of Asia is becoming an inspiration for game designers now: SEOUL (Reuters) - After exhausting just about every elf, dragon and knight featured in Western cultures, makers of popular online games are turning to ancient Asian history and war heroes for new inspiration. Chief among their sources is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," an epic Chinese novel whose More About: History , Games , Inspiration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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