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Pit-Fighter

It’s been over 20 years since I last played this game and I’m happy to say nostalgia’s rose tinted glasses weren’t covering my eyes because this game is still as good as I remember it. Few know about this game, so click the link above to get the deets on it. But don’t tell anyone because that’s the first and second rule of our little club.

Got you in my crosshairs

Trap Gunner

It’s an unknown game to most, but Trap Gunner has to be one of my favorite games of all-time -- top 5, in fact. That’s a bold statement to make, I know, but ever since I played its demo shortly before its release, I knew I had to snag a copy of it before it disappeared from store shelves because of its obscurity from being mentioned by the gaming press. Boy, this is sounding very hipster-ish for liking something that’s obscure, but if liking Trap Gunner sounds that way, then you can call me the biggest hipster doofus of them all.

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Shredding, Shooting, and Slicing with UEP Systems

Yeah, the late 1990s saw a ton of snowboarding games with most of them being mediocre at best. But one company almost exclusively made nothing but them, and over the course of a few years ironed out the wrinkles to make some of the best boarding games to date. This feature will follow the development studio UEP Systems and all of its games in abundant details. So you better buckle up, pork chop as this is going to be a long read.

Furry space opera

Star Fox

Back during the 16-bit days I was on team Sega, so I missed out on a lot of what the SNES had to offer. For the area where I grew up at and for the elementary and middle schools I attended, the Sega Genesis was the dominant force when it came to the console wars for the time. Luckily I had a friend who was in the minority and owned an SNES which gave me an opportunity to at least dip my toes in and try out a small fraction of the huge catalog of games for what would arguably be Nintendo’s greatest home console. For me, the game I kept going back to was Star Fox. Dem phat polygons kept me comin’ back for more.

Now this is what it's like when worlds collide

What’s this? Not only are you, the fine reader of this fabulous website, getting two articles for the video games journal for the month, but also a feature?! It may be hard to believe, but it’s true! WHO LOVES YA, BABY!

Marvel Fighting Games: From Civil Wars to Clashing of Universes

Here we have a central showcasing of all the games from the Marvel vs. Capcom series. But since this feature encompasses the other Marvel fighting games prior to the MvC series, let’s, for the sake of simplicity, call the whole darn thing the Marvel fighting series. Don’t worry, though, as we can keep this title a secret just between us.

Double yellow lines

Here we go with a new batch of game write-ups for the video games journal. It took longer than expected to get this going again due to RL stuff plus working on the backend of this site, but here we are on the verge of a few months’ worth of new articles and features. Aaand to kick things off, here is not one but TWO game articles. Wooo!

18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker

At first it seems like an odd fit to have an arcade game where all you do is drive a Semi-trailer truck, transporting cargo from one destination to another. But leave it to Sega to make it interesting by basically turning it into a game of bumper cars but with tractor trailers. Fun? You bet! Nonsense? Yup!

The King of Route 66

This one flew way under my radar to the point where I didn’t even know this game existed until just about a year ago. I was all like, whoa! 18 Wheeler has a sequel?! Guessing this was the rarest of the rarest games, I was planning to pay a good chunk of cash to snag a copy of it. Luckily it’s not a game most people hold a great deal of value for so I was able to get it for an extremely inexpensive price. Let the good times roll.