As much as I wanted to like Adventure Island it skewed a little too closely to the platformer archetype laid down by Super Mario Brothers. It was also a reskin of Wonder Boy, a game I was never too fond of. However while it was fairly unremarkable there were the kernels of a good game […]Adventure Island II
As much as I wanted to like Adventure Island it skewed a little too closely to the platformer archetype laid down by Super Mario Brothers. It was also a reskin of Wonder Boy, a game I was never too fond of. However while it was fairly unremarkable there were the kernels of a good game […]
I’ll be the first to admit I was never a big fan of the Wonder Boy series. It was one of the first Master System games I ever played and it just rubbed me the wrong way. So it’s really odd that I found myself overly hyped for Adventure Island. Mind you all I had […]
It’s funny but the SNES never had its Shinobi counterpart. There were numerous Ninja games to be sure, such as the Ninja Warriors or Legend of the Mystical Ninja but never a straight action masterpiece on the level of Shinobi 3. It’s a noticeable hole in the system’s library, one that Hudson Soft and Red […]
It’s kind of a mystery to me as to why the games starring Jackie Chan aren’t very popular. Not only is he one of the most bad ass action movie stars of all time but his goofy persona lends itself well to nearly any setting you can imagine. Even prior to his debut in American […]
