Video Games
Update to “Building a Better Mario Kart”
Nothing too big here, but I made a bit of an oversight in my "Building a Better Mario Kart" article from a couple of days ago, and I have just finished adding it in. If you wanted to know without reading (or re-reading the whole thing), I added two items to the end:...
Dear Microsoft: Let Rare Remake These Classic Games!
Recently, James Rolfe added to a series of GameTrailers videos where he drops his "Angry Video Game Nerd" persona and talks candidly about video games he has fond memories of from years ago. His most recent entry (which, unlike his AVGN videos, has little in the way...
Building a Better Mario Kart: What I Would Change
Much as I love Mario Kart, it's not perfect, and I feel that SEGA's Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing has overall managed to surpass it as a more enjoyable, more competitive, and overall more skill-based experience. The sequel, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, is...
What I Love in Mario Kart
As mentioned at the end of my previous post, I really enjoy Mario Kart. More than anything, the characters, vehicles, and tracks tend to stand out for me. Here are some of my favorites. Characters: Mario Kart has seen a lot of characters over the years. I remember...
Super Mario Kart Turns 20: Looking Back
Will I ever get a tribute up on time? Probably not on this site. Still, one day late (by a short margin) is better than never, I suppose. Today's honor is the 20th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Kart in North America (with Japan's coming out only a few days...
Stardroids: True Blue Now Live and In Color
Have you ever checked out the list of affiliates down on the sidebar there? If you have, you might have seen one called "Stardroids," which is a Mega Man fancomic written, drawn, inked, and colored by Terra. I recommend checking it out, as it does have some funny...
Awesome Art: Yoshi’s Island of Dreams
Matt Green over at Press the Buttons recently came upon and posted the above piece of artwork by Michael Julius Peterson on deviantART, "Yoshi's Island of Dreams." He notes that "this is not a real Yoshi game, but it should be" while drawing comparisons between the...
Debuting on 1UP: The Many Versions, Ports, and Re-Releases of Super Mario Bros.
It pleases me to finally be able to reveal to you my latest work, which is also my debut writing for 1UP: "The Many Versions, Ports, and Re-Releases of Super Mario Bros." What's funny is that while the 1UP staff did a splendid job in bringing everything together with...
VGDC to Make ‘Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom 5’ as Tribute to the Late Randy Solem
The past few days have been like something of an information exchange between myself and Tony Ponce over at Destructoid. Recently, in searching for something else, I came across an article he'd written late last year as a tribute/retrospective to Randy Solem's Video...
Fun with Golden’s Super Mario Bros. The Movie Coloring Book
This ain’t no game. This ain’t no movie. This is something else.
Review Round-Up
Just because I'm not always writing here doesn't mean I'm not writing! Here is a look at some reviews I've written elsewhere. On Slide To Play: Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast - An AR-styled game for the iPhone/iPad in which you bust ghosts in the environment around...
Blast from the Past: Cool Art from The Legend of Zelda Folder
It’s The Legend of Zelda art, and it’s really rad.
Check Out the Cosplay of OtaRockman
25 Years of Mega Man - Otakon 2012 by ~LBDNytetrayn on deviantART Image courtesy of JackScarab. Okay, so I've been away for a couple of weeks. Last week, I was in Baltimore for Otakon, and you can see me and my costume at right in the picture above. That's just the...
Charles Martinet Wants More Super Mario Sunshine
In the above video posted to YouTube by user CooperMcHatton (via GoNintendo), we see Charles Martinet say at an autograph signing at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con that he would love to see another Super Mario Sunshine game. And I have to say that I'm of mixed feelings...
Urban Champion: The Movie
Hmm, update time... what to do? I don't want to do another review just yet; I'm doing some of those on Mario's Hat (look for them this week) and Slide to Play already, and I don't feel like more. Ah, I know! I've been holding on to this one for some time; it was meant...
The Forgotten Super Mario World Commercial and What It Means to Me Now
It's a funny thing: When it comes to commercials for Super Mario World, in such instances that such a topic would come up, it seems the ones people remember are always either this one or that one. And while I do remember both well, the one which has always remained...
Look Back: The Top 6 Most American Video Game Characters Revisited
Here's a little blast from the past I thought I'd dig up for this wonderful Fourth of July holiday. "The Top 6 Most American Video Game Characters" is a silly little piece I wrote for fun back when I was working at Kombo. The interesting part of this list is that none...
Looking Back: When Mario Became a Badass
I had planned to make this post sooner; it was meant to be the first post on the newly-relaunched PMO, but thanks to E3 and the time needed to get Mario's Hat up and running, it fell by the wayside. This one's a bit of a personal story, but one I wanted to share just...
Introducing Mario’s Hat
I would just like to take the opportunity to let everyone know that I have started up a new website called Mario's Hat. Mario's Hat is focused on video game news from across Canada, and despite the title, is not strictly about Mario or Nintendo. If you want to know...
Have a Mario Christmas with Pepsi
Now here's an interesting piece GoNintendo linked to earlier today (sadly, the auction for it has ended, but I didn't have the $108 anyway). It's a store display sign from 1989, and if you're familiar with vintage video game commercials, you might remember the ad...
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