[typing] Greetings. Seeing as I just did a video on PC games and boxes and stuff, and small boxes, I figured I may as well just kind of show the state of affairs of PC games at retail in America at the moment, and I haven’t been in a Walmart in a while to check […]
Tag: retro
[typing] [music: “Luke’s Theme” from “Star Wars”] Ahh! “Star Wars!” X-wings! TIE fighters! Jar Jar! Aw, crap! I shoulda quit while I was ahead. [whoosh, glass breaking] Yes, a new “Star Wars” movie is about to blast us all in the face with its hot, geeky film juice in December of 2015. So… That means […]
[typing] If there is one game genre that ellicits such an apathetic shrug that all you can manage is to move your lips a little bit, it’s the maze game. Also known as Pac-Man clones, these games were anything but interesting, except to those whose PC usage was otherwise restricted to Lotus 1-2-3. Sure, a […]
[typing] Aw, man, I can’t help it. I’m always so drawn to this one, even though I know the truth about it. Bioforge, developed and published by Origin Systems in 1995 for MS-DOS PCs. I freakin’ LOVE this box cover with its alien-looking x-rayed hand glowing like something out of Fallout. Then you see… “Take […]
[typing] Within certain retro gaming circles, the name Wisdom Tree conjures up thoughts of unlicensed NES games, like Bible Adventures and Sunday Funday. But in case you’re not aware, they were a company that started out under the name Color Dreams, creating Nintendo Entertainment System games and soon created the label Wisdom Tree to become […]
My name is Matt and I review retro games. Like most of you, I’m a huge fan of the Angry Video Game Nerd and he’s one of my biggest influences. Unlike a number of his followers, I enjoy most of the turds he rips apart, and that is why I now don the moniker of… […]
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So you just bought one of your favorite older games and booted it up, excited to see how your favorite modern controller might make the experience feel fresh or revitalized. But when it loads your controller does nothing. You check your config and it’s set up perfectly for being used as a gamepad. Using your […]
– You can buy old mountain bikes for not a lot of money now. Like this old downhill bike, you can get this for a couple hundred pounds, or dollars, off something like Ebay, or a friend. Maybe it’s been lying in his shed for 15 years. This is how to check over an old […]
– The latest Shimano XTR group set in transmission represents the absolute pinnacle of design right now. It’s a phenomenal setup with so much tech, but ever since I made the video over on GMBN Tech last year all about it, I’ve been thinking we needed to do something else, just to show how relevant […]