Posted on May 30, 2008 by kicknz
Developer/Publisher: Frontier
Year: 2008
Lostwinds is one of the premier launch titles for Nintendo’s new Wii Ware service and the only platformer among the lot. Developed by Frontier, the game aims to show just what can be done with only 49 megs. The presentation and gameplay presented are undeniably great but even those don’t tell the whole [...]
Filed under: Virtual Console, Wii | Tagged: lost winds, lostwinds, lostwinds-review, virtual-console-reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 29, 2008 by kicknz
Developer/publisher: Nintendo
Year: 2007
Fun fact: Mario’s 3rd 3D platformer
It’s hard for me to hide my admiration of the Super Mario series. It seems to be the standard to which I hold all other platformers. When a new installment occasionally makes it onto the shelves, I usually experience strokes, heart attacks, fainting spells, etc. Unfortunately, when Galaxy [...]
Filed under: Mario, Nintendo, Reviews, Wii | Tagged: Wii, super mario, Super-Mario-Galaxy, Super-Mario-Reviews, Super-Mario-Galaxy-Reviews, Wii-Reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 28, 2008 by nealp
The Wario Land series enjoyed four classic platforming titles on the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. Wario has since become better known for his quirky party games in the Wario Ware franchise. It looks as if a return to form may be in order.
Nintendo of Japan updated its upcoming releases list [...]
Filed under: Nintendo, Wii | Tagged: Wario, Wario Land, Wario-Land-Squash, Wario-Wii | 5 Comments »
Posted on May 23, 2008 by Pete Dorr
PixelJunk Eden has remained pretty mysterious in terms of what type of game it will be or it’s gameplay until now. The Playstation Blog sat down with two of the games producers for a nice little interview followed by some actual gameplay. The producers call it a platformer that really brings something new to the [...]
Filed under: PS3, PSN | Tagged: oixeljunk-eden, pixel-junk, pixeljunk, playstation-blog | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2008 by nealp
You probably never heard of The Kore Gang for the XBox, but it was a quirky platformer that got put on a long hiatus. Developed in Sweden by ZOINK, the game was originally put on hold when the publisher went out of business. It’s making a return now for the Wii, retitled as KORE.
It’s been [...]
Filed under: Wii | Tagged: Wii, xbox, KORE, Core, The Kore Gang, ZOINK | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 21, 2008 by kicknz
DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER: SNK
YEAR: 1999
With no handheld of their own to support, SEGA licensed their Sonic property out to SNK for their NeoGeo Pocket in the late 1990s. The resulting game is interesting for two main reasons: 1) it was the first step toward the Sonic Advance/Rush series and 2) it’s a face-off between old and new gaming values [...]
Filed under: NeoGeo Pocket Color, Reviews | Tagged: Add new tag, Neo-Geo-Pocket-Color-Reviews, Neo-Geo-Pocket-Reviews, Sonic, Sonic-Pocket-Adventure, sonic-the-hedgehog, Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Pocket-Adventure | No Comments »
Posted on May 21, 2008 by Pete Dorr
If you had not heard of the game Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa before don’t feel bad. It is a platformer for the Famicom Disc System which has never seen a release outside of Japan. It stars a baby with a rattle, which probably would not have appealed to anyone in the US anyway, however it [...]
Filed under: Import, Nintendo, Virtual Console, Wii | Tagged: alex-kidd-miracle-world, Bio-Miracle-Bokutte-Upa, import-platformers | No Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by Pete Dorr
The French website Jeuxvideo.fr has posted news that the PSP platformer Daxter will be coming to the PS2 as a port, however this is still just a rumor. Seing that Ratchet and Clank Size Matters made it’s way to the PS2 it is a good bet that Daxter could as well. However, with Daxter being [...]
Filed under: PS2, PSP, Rumors | Tagged: Daxter-port, Daxter-PS2, Daxter-PSP, Jak-and-daxter | No Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by kicknz
DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER: CAPCOM
YEAR: 2006
Mega Man Powered Up is an updated remake of the original Mega Man for NES. It’s been remade from the ground up so it’s a different experience than the NES installments. The action is still 2D but the graphics are now 3D. The designs in Mega Man games have always been pretty cartoony but in this [...]
Filed under: PSP, Reviews | Tagged: PSP, PlayStation-Portable, PSP-Reviews, PlayStation-Portable-Reviews, Mega-Man, Mega-Man-Powered-Up-Review | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 18, 2008 by kicknz
Developer: Westone/Hudson
Publisher: Hudson (Japan), NEC (USA)
Year: 1991
Fun Fact: originally released for the Master System in 1989
As the fun fact states, this game was originally released 2 years earlier on the Master System, as Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap. As with most of the Wonder Boy series, Hudson licensed this game, changed the names and [...]
Filed under: Reviews, Sega, TurboGrafx-16 | Tagged: Dragon's-Curse, Dragon's-Trap, TurboGrafx, TurboGrafx-16, TurboGrafx-16-reviews, wonder boy, Wonder-Boy-Reviews | No Comments »
