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• We Salute Halloween and the Greatest Mega Man Boss Of All Time

  It just so happens the two are connected! I don't blame Mackey for pussying out on Berserk. We owned that game too and it was kind of pants-dumping scary. You, as Mr Stick Spaceman, had to crawl slowly through electrified caverns. Inch by inch, step by step; touching the wall meant death. It was tension at its most potent. So you'd almost be clear of some narrow hallway and then your mom would pop in and ask you, "What would you like for lunch?" You'd scream and jolt and Mr Stick Spaceman would fry against the wall with a blinding flash of colours and a sizzling/clacking sound that was offensive to the ear in the worst imaginable way. Berserk did not get much playtime in our house. It's mandatory for bloggers to give wordy offerings to Halloween on the appointed day and I was thinking about how I might do the same. I don't play survival horror games because honestly I already have a problem with vivid dreams and nightmares and further contributions are just not necessary. Then I thought about "safe" ghouls and vampires--the guys who are just fun to have around. I thought about Shade Man, the vampire-bot from Mega Man 7 and probably my favourite Robot Master of all time. Read More... Posted Oct 31 2008, 05:00 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: capcom, mega man 7, nadia oxford, halloween, scary games, berserk, shade man

• Chiptune Halloween: Check Your Candy For Razor Blades

  Happy Halloween, everybody. I'm sure you've all got long nights of Sugar Daddies and Zombies Ate My Neighbors lined up, but don't forget some sweet tunes. Might I recommend the title track off of Twilight Electric's "Razor Blades" EP? I think you'll find these blades much smoother and more pleasant than the ones your mom was always checking your candied apples for. Read More... Posted Oct 31 2008, 02:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with no comments Filed under: derrick sanskrit, chiptune friday, 8bitpeoples, halloween, twilight electric

• Irrational Gaming Fears

  As I've pointed out in the past, I'm a huge gaming wuss--though I like to think I'm much better than I used to be. This particular brand of cowardice started very early in my gaming life, with a system that probably didn't instill fear in anyone aside from stockholders: the Atari 2600.  It was the abstract, blocky representations within these simple games that played hell upon my young mind.  Sure, a dragon usually ended looking like a duck on the system's puny hardware, but to the boundless imagination of a young child, that duck's about to leap off the screen and peck out your heart. One 2600 game terrified me so much that I actually had to hide it: Berzerk. Maybe it was the killer robots, maybe it was the creepy, tense atmosphere--but I'd break out into a cold sweat anytime it was near. And to make me look even more pathetic, the commercial for Berzerk featured an octogenarian and her small grandson playing the game with absolutely no reservations. Note: This is the one time I felt a sassy grandma was not nearly sassy enough. Read More... Posted Oct 31 2008, 11:00 AM by Bob Mackey with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: tomb raider, scary, bob mackey, halloween, scary games, berzerk

• Wasted Rentals, Wasted Youth: Bram Stoker's Dracula (SNES)

  The Angry Videogame Nerd has posted a Halloween Game Shitfest just in time for Satan's birthday. The first installment focuses on all the bad Dracula-themed games spanning back to the beginning of time. Turns out there are a good number of Dracula-bombs out there, and we're not even counting any of the lesser Castlevania titles. Angry Nerd even takes a brief look at Bram Stoker's Dracula, which saw release on the NES, SNES and the Game Boy. I kind of feel like cringing into a ball and sucking my thumb when I say this, but I've played Bram Stoker's Dracula on the SNES and Gameboy. The experience was like biting a hangnail; oh so painful, but enjoyable in a masochistic way. Hark! A flashback! Most weeks, my parents allowed my brothers and I to rent a video game. We had to take turns, and my younger brother picked out Bram Stoker's Dracula one week. I wanted to throttle him. The logical thing to do when a shit game is in your presence is to not play it, but I had kind of an obsession thing going on. Nintendo game in front of me? OMG, must play, no matter how painful. Actually, maybe there was a bit of a spite thing going on here, though all of this might have something to do with my childhood love for eating the syrup-covered styrofoam that used to line packages of butter tarts. Read More... Posted Oct 20 2008, 09:33 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: game boy, snes, angry video game nerd, nes, dracula, nadia oxford, halloween, bram stoker's dracula