Mighty Final Fight Final Fight is an arcade classic that has been beloved in the gaming community since it hit arcades in 1989. It was ported to the SNES and even received two sequels on the system, but did you know it was also ported to the NES? In July of 1993 Capcom released Mighty Final Fight for the NES, a more lighthearted spin on the Final Fight story with a colourful chibi art style. PLOT Being that Mighty Final Fight is a port of…
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Nintendo released their first plug ‘n play console, The NES Classic Edition, on November 23rd, 2016 and now that I have had some time to play around with it I’ve got some things to say. HARDWARE Yes, the NES Classic Edition was and is still nearly impossible to get a hold of. Let’s just get that right out of the way. Nintendo vastly underestimated the demand for this product and the online stock was gobbled up in only a few minutes. Fortunately for me, I…
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Gun-Nac is a fast paced, action packed, vertical scrolling shoot-em-up that was published by ASCII in North America for the NES and released in September of 1991. It was developed by a company called Compile which I had never heard of before this game but it seems they favoured the shoot-em-up genre. They were the company behind other notable shoot-em-ups such as Zanac and the Spriggan games. I normally don’t enjoy shoot-em-ups very much but this is one that hooked me, I couldn’t put the controller down.…
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The latest installment in the Paper Mario series is out now on Wii U and I just finished playing it, so let’s dive right in. Released on October 7th 2016, this game appeared in my mailbox at just the right time. I had no long games on the go and I was feeling ready to jump into something completely new, and this game is certainly completely new. It takes the Paper Mario series in a new direction, different than anything I have played before. A HILARIOUS EXPERIENCE…
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