FC Mobile 2

by Mike | Jul 11, 2020 | Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Other Magazines Preview

A few months ago, Video Game Trader readers had the opportunity to read my review of the FC Mobile system. The review had just hit the presses and sure enough the FC Mobile II was already on the market. Now here I am back to work (if you call playing video games work)...

Prehistoric Times

by Magazine Writer | Jul 9, 2020 | 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Other Magazines Preview

Prehistoric Times Platform: Atari 2600 Programmer: Blake Leftwich Developer: Salute Games Release Date: May 2009 Okay, first things first. I know this might cost me a bit of street cred here, but here it goes: My name is Peter G, and I LIKED E.T. on the Atari 2600....

NES: Wolverine

by Magazine Writer | Jul 7, 2020 | 1970s, Other Magazines Preview

As any X-Men fan that is also a NES gamer can tell you, the first ever X-Men video game was The Uncanny X-Men for the NES, which was released by LJN. And as any NES gamer can also tell you, that game stinks. So I can only imagine the feeling that X-Men fans got when...

The Secret Origin of Superhero Video Games

by Brett Weiss | Jul 7, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview

From the late 1980s to the present, the super-hero genre has been a constant of the video game industry. For years games based on Batman, The X-Men, The Punisher, The Fantastic Four, Spawn and other spandex-clad vigilantes have been jockeying for shelf space alongside...

Star Trek – Jim Combs

by Magazine Writer | Jul 7, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview

A long time ago… in a galaxy far far away…. oh wait wrong series. However, we are about to embark on a journey where no man has boldly gone before to take a look at a widely popular series and its video game incarnations that is just as big as “Star Wars”....

NES: Star Wars

by Magazine Writer | Jul 5, 2020 | 1990s, Other Magazines Preview

Star Wars just seems like it would be the perfect series to make video games for yet for some reason there have been many failures along the way. While this game is far from a failure, I still can‟t help but be a little disappointed by it. One of the problems that the...