The Halloween season brings with it many rituals and traditions, but there is one above all others that I steadfastly keep. At least once during this spookiest of months, I sit down either by myself or with a friend and try my best to beat the original Castlevania video game in one sitting. Originally released in Japan in…
Though it wasn’t the first 3D platform game, Super Mario 64 tends to get talked about as though it was, and with good reason. While other platform games preceded Mario’s foray into the third dimension (90s Kid icon and forsaken Sony mascot Crash Bandicoot beat Mario to release in America by two weeks), none are as fondly remembered, are as…
It appears some apologies are in order. My relationship to DC Comics in the last few years has been a bit fraught. There have been some shows I like a lot, some I like a lot less, and a certain movie I’d rather like to not mention for a while. The editorial decisions in the…
The climax of Atari: Game Over finds a couple hundred nerds, archeologists both professional and amateur, a digging crew, and a disgraced game designer anxiously standing by in a land fill; it’s windy and looks uncomfortably warm, and the expressions of the gathered mass adorned in sweat-lined video game t-shirts reflects this. An author waits by…
Fresh off the heels (or hooves, as the case may be) of my review of the excellent A Brony Tale, I was invigorated to look at other recent documentaries that examined and championed other elements of nerd culture; in particular, I was excited to watch Video Games: The Movie (2014). Released last month and directed…
Well, I promised you two reviews today, and I am totally delivering. Check it, single ladies and potential employers: I’m reliable. Wreck-It Ralph (2012): The Plot: Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) is the Bad Guy in an arcade video game. His job is to wreck a fancy apartment building so that endlessly-chipper Fix-It Felix (Jack…
