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Dec05
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Killer Instinct

by Gazunta on December 5, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Killer Instinct

You wanna know how old this game is? When I reviewed the Super Nintendo version of it for TV Week I took physical photos photos, on “film” that I had to get “developed”, in order to make screenshots.

Yeeesh.

It was pretty weird that there was a Super Nintendo version at all, considering the whole point of the game was to be a tech demo for the Nintendo 64. But it was a pretty good port of a pretty average game.

Yeah, I said it, Killer Instinct was a pretty average game, what are you going to do about it? Nothing because you just got delivered a big whopping serve of Video Game Truth, pal!

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Nov21
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Blast Corps

by Gazunta on November 21, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Blast Corps

Fun fact: This is the greatest Nintendo 64 game ever made.

I love everything about this stupidly stupid game. I love the fact it’s just about destroying buildings. I love how it’s a game about racing against the clock but the clock is a truck with a nuclear bomb on it instead of some arbitrary clock on the UI. I love that you can find the A-Team van and the Dukes of Hazard car in it. I love that (SPOILER ALERT) once you finish the game you get to play ON THE MOON. That’s NUTS.

VIDEO GAMES!!

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Nov07
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Donkey Kong 64

by Gazunta on November 7, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Donkey Kong 64

I was going to do some lame joke about the DK rap, but thought something a bit more personal would be interesting.

I have another story about this game! This was the very first game I bought online. We were starting a store on the site I was writing for back in the day, which back in 1999 was an idea not everyone was getting behind. I ordered this game because I needed to test the store software, and I knew I needed that packed-in memory pack for Perfect Dark…oh and hey, yellow cartridge, how can you go wrong?

Man, did we get a LOT of flak from the local game distribution companies once they found out what we were doing. They screamed blue murder because we were an ‘unlicensed distributor of their games’, which was just completely bogus thanks to the parallel import legislation changes a few years prior, and then they told us they were going to sue us and remove advertising (they didn’t do either). Eat it, you pack of vultures!

Oh yeah there was no Cranky Kong in this WHAT THE HELL.

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wipEout

by Gazunta on August 29, 2012 at 12:01 am
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wipEout

This is the game that convinced me that the PlayStation was a freaking BEAST and really represented something new in the way we played games. I mean, futuristic racers have been done before but the presentation was incredible.

I remember listening to the game disc in my snazzy new portable CD player even before I owned a PlayStation – how great was it was that you could listen to the game’s music in a regular CD player?

I remember playing the game for half an hour once I got a PlayStation, then rushing up to the store to buy a NeGcon for better control.

I remember instantly deciding that the NeGcon was the greatest God damn controller ever invented in the history of mankind and to hell with anyone who says otherwise now and in the future.

I remember thinking how important it was to spell the game like wip’Eout” because that looked cool.

I remember the speed and the difficulty and feeling like this was a video game that didn’t look like anything else.

I remember playing the N64 version and thinking it was neat that enemies shot each other instead of just me.

And fifteen years later, I remember still being so damn angry that Sony closed down the studio that made it. Idiots.

Go play some wip’Eout” tonight.

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May16
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Mischief Makers

by Gazunta on May 16, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Mischief Makers

Someone asked for this at Supanova Gold Coast, SO HERE IT IS. Who says I don’t care about my readers?

Treasure make wonderful games, and this one is no exception, and it’s magic how they make an entire game out of one simple action. Shaking bad guys until they drop gems and explode is one of those neat video game things that you just can’t get anywhere else.

Take that, weird German board games that all the cool kids play!

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Oct05
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Banjo Kazooie

by Gazunta on October 5, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Banjo Kazooie

I can’t say I was ever a huge fan of this game, but I can definitely respect its place in gaming history.

I did like how when Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts came out, you could call up Microsoft and say that you didn’t get the download code for Banjo Kazooie XBLA that you should have got when you pre-ordered Nuts & Bolts, and they just gave you a code for free. Thanks for the eight free copies, Microsoft!

The XBLA port was nice and all, but MAN did I adore Nuts & Bolts. It was the game I had dreamed of making for years. In fact when we were pitching a sequel to Viva Piñata Party Animals one of the key features was going to be a “make your own mini games” feature where you could construct your own activities, gadgets and vehicles from parts you collect through the regular game. In my mind if a kid wanted to play a mini game where he attached wings and rockets to his pinata and flew around kicking a floating soccer ball around, should be able to do that.

“That’s a really interesting idea”, they replied, “but we have something similar in the works”

A couple of months later Nuts & Bolts was released and I played it like craaaaazy.

Anyway, Rare were awesome back in the day, but man was it weird that that bird stayed in the backpack.

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