Game 11: Spider-Man (Insomniac, 2018)
Ice Cream Jonsey Kids today love Spider-Man; Marvel has done the best job possible with marketing. Stan Lee wasn’t shy about licensing, but they went from Mego Dolls and underwear to high quality…
Game 10: Zwackery (Midway, 1985)
Zwackery is an arcade game with “complicated” controls from the mind of Brian Colin, an artist, animator and designer on other arcade titles like Rampage, Xenophobe and Arch Rivals. His…
Game 9: Abuse (Crack Dot Com, 1995)
Abuse has been a fun one to try to do some background research on. Typing in the name of any of the developers, designers and engineers for Abuse + the…
Game 8: Sentinel Returns (Psygnosis Limited, 1998)
Let’s avoid anything going on in the real world and talk about Sentinel Returns, a “modern” (at the time) remake of Sentinel. It’s a game that makes me feel like…
Game 7: NHL ’96 (Electronic Arts, 1995)
I have a treadmill in front of my television and have learned that a full game of NHL 23 for the Playstation 4 is about 36 minutes. Walking that while…
Game 6: Rocket Jockey (SegaSoft, 1996)
Rocket Jockey is a science fiction arena sports game that has the player operating a rocket-propelled sled in three different modes of play: a race course, a soccer-like game where…
Game 5: Vyrzon (Minsoft, 2023)
The Vectrex homebrew scene is crushing it. Look at the box that Vyrzon arrives in! It’s gorgeous. It would not be out of place in the 1980s. The first versions…
Game 4: Aquatron (Sierra On-Line, 1984)
Aquatron (Atari 8-bit 1983, Apple // 1984) is a bit like Defender, although with a slow enough pace that you can survive on the screen for a while. These days,…
Game 3: Silent Hill 2 Remake (Capcom, 2024)
Silent Hill 2 created sympathy for the protagonist we would be playing by painting him as a desperate anti-intellectual that responded to a single piece of mail stating that his…
Game 2: Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Muse Software, 1985)
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple, C64 and Atari 8-bit for 1984, IBM PC in 1985) You know how Michael Jordan was not part of the NBA’s player association licensing deals, and therefore…