Once upon a time two funky alien dudes came to Earth and gifted Genesis owners with a cool coop game unlike few on the market. That period in 1991-92 was when Sega really began to hit their stride with unique releases and ToeJam & Earl were a part of it. The recent kickstarter for the […]ToeJam & Earl
Once upon a time two funky alien dudes came to Earth and gifted Genesis owners with a cool coop game unlike few on the market. That period in 1991-92 was when Sega really began to hit their stride with unique releases and ToeJam & Earl were a part of it. The recent kickstarter for the […]
If you were a third party during the 16-bit era it was a prerequisite that you needed some kind of furry mascot to be taken seriously. It’s a silly concept in retrospect but back then a smarmy farm animal in a t-shirt could help your business thrive. Some resisted like Sunsoft but even they eventually […]
Sega Master System fans are intimately familiar with Alex Kidd, the Sega mascot who tried to carry the company to fame years before a certain blue hedgehog was born. Let’s not mince words, Alex Kidd was no substitute for Mario no matter how much you lied to yourself and tried to say otherwise. The monkey […]
2001 would prove to be a crucial year for the PlayStation 2 as the software that truly showed off the system’s potential and made early adopters proud of their purchase would finally arrive. While the early months after launch were barren by June 2001 games like Gran Turismo 3, Twisted Metal Black and Klonoa 2 […]
Spyro the Dragon was something of a landmark title for the PlayStation. For years it was assumed that the system was not capable of a free roaming 3d platformer like the Nintendo 64 was inundated with. While Crash Bandicoot might have been Sony’s franchise player in that battle it was confined to a straight path; […]
The 16-bit generation certainly didn’t need another mascot platformer but any game that at least tried to do something different was appreciated. Plok is a little known platformer from that era that went unnoticed yet managed to introduce elements that would show up in far better games a year or two later. While it has […]
Like Mario and Nintendo Bonk was the closest the Turbo Grafx-16 ever came to having an official mascot. While Bonk’s Adventure wasn’t the pack-in title it was the one of the first games to garner the system widespread attention. His judiciously large noggin was also heavily used in ads trying to sell the system. But […]
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Mario should be blushing red as a beet at this point. The success of Super Mario Brothers inspired the video game industry to spawn a sea of blatant clones. Amongst the mascot platformer rush of the 90s Sonic the Hedgehog became the most popular due to […]
He’s a freaking seal! Think about all of the mascot platformers you’ve either seen or played in the past. Mario, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot, Bubsy, Aero the Acrobat……Croc. They were all based around cool animals (except Mario, but we can excuse him because his games are awesome) but a Seal? I don’t think there’s ever been […]
Where is the PlayStation mascot? It’s hard to believe but in the mid-90s there was still the prevailing myth that every console needed a wise ass animal to be the corporate shill of the company. Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic, 3DO had….Gex I guess, and Atari had…..no one gave a damn. As the PlayStation […]
It’s always sad to see a mascot fall from grace. Like Hollywood movie stars the trip to the bottom is usually a painful process, with few bowing out of the spotlight gracefully. While the Crash Bandicoot games never degenerated to the level of repetition of the later Mega Man games he never reached the height […]
Nintendo has always excelled at taking genre’s they are not comfortable with and putting their own unique spin on them. The Mario Kart series was born from this as an example. So when word came of a fighting game starring their most iconic characters the gaming world lost their shit. You could say it was […]
I figure I’ve made fun of it enough that I should give it it’s just due. Much has been written about Awesome Possum, another contestant in the generic mascot platform wars. And none of it good. But on closer inspection is it really as bad as it is portrayed? Well someone has to put […]
New console launches are always full of promise. New technology! New ideas! We look to new hardware to see what years of new technology can do to wow us and give us that feeling of being a kid all over again. Super Mario Brothers revolutionized the industry, Super Mario 64 did the same once again, […]
After the success of Bonk’s Adventure a sequel was inevitable. That it turned out so well was no surprise as the first game, while rough around the edges, was still a fun game. All they had to do was smooth out those flaws but instead they went above and beyond the call of duty. The […]
