Category: GameFAQs Reviews

The Power Rangers… concocted when creator Haim Saban got inspired by Japanese programming to do a show about kids in costumes fighting rubber monsters with their nice weapons and giant Megazord robot. A simple premise that somehow got over with the kids, Power Rangers was a big thing back in its day… and with a big thing comes the video games. While Bandai released some platform-based brawling games for the Game Boy and SNES, Sega released one-on-one fighting games for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. Those Sega games were actually pretty good and even the Nintendo ones had their moments… but then Sega still had another “console” to make a game for. And so they begat this game for their Sega CD console. Unlike the Genesis and GG versions, this was an Full-Motion-Video style game… much like most of the Sega CD’s library of video games. Now I don’t particularly care for FMV games, but I did play this one since one of my buddies still had a copy… now I wish I hadn’t.

Now before we jump ahead, I should probably let on that I’m into this Power Rangers stuff. I’ve seen the shows and movies, played the games, read some of the comics, and even wrote a few fanfics. It pretty much helped to reinforce my resistance to terrible movies and video games, giving me somewhat jaded tastes. So, in reference to another review for this game, I can stomach this stuff quite well. That having been said, no amount of resistance and stomaching could blind me from seeing what a putrid release I’ve been hit with. It absolutely boggles the mind how something like this came to be.

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Ah, the original Mortal Kombat arcade game. Released during the height of Street Fighter II’s increasing popularity, Mortal Kombat contained a few elements different from all the other fighters of the time, such as digitized actors and backgrounds, blood and gore, and a block button. The result is the start of one of the most popular video game franchises in the 1990s, but beneath all the hooplah concerning the violence and all that stuff, does a good game lie within?

Well… you have to start somewhere, right?

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Capcom Fighting Evolution is a mixed bag. You either love it or hate it because of what it is: another recycling job disguised as a brand new game. All things considered, I had hesitated to pick this one when I saw it going for full price as opposed to being a budget title, but since the local EBGames had dropped the price on this title, I picked it up anyway despite all the negative press behind it and tried it out for myself. Is it really as bad as they say?

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In 1993, LucasArts released an unassuming Star Wars flight sim called X-Wing for the PC and was instantly praised as one of the better Star Wars games, thanks to its immersive gameplay, detailed graphics, and involving storyline placing the player in control of a Rebel pilot who controlled a number of Rebel craft such as the maneuverable A-Wing, the heavy bomber Y-Wing, the assault fighter B-Wing, and of course, the familiar X-Wing, in a battle against the Empire.

And then came TIE Fighter, the sequel where you get to work for Darth Vader. Greatest game ever, end review.

Okay, just kidding. Let’s look at this thing in more detail, shall we?

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Around the late-80s during the NES craze, Nintendo decided to take some of their top titles and convert them in arcade games. You had games like Vs. Super Mario Bros, Vs. Baseball, Vs. Castlevania, and others like that. The one addition that struck me as odd was Vs. Gradius, which is the NES port of the original arcade game Gradius. Curious. Out of all the NES games they could have converted to the arcade Vs system, they had to choose a game which started out as an arcade game… and a pretty good arcade shooter. In any case, I’ll review this game for what it really is: an arcade port of an NES port of an arcade game.

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Argh! Too hard! Great game though…

Around 1987, Nintendo created several arcade games that each featured a slightly different Nintendo game. Some of the popular games at the time received this treatment. One of them, conveniently enough, was Castlevania.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this game. For those unaware, there indeed is an arcade version of the original Super Mario Bros. video game. While mainly a gimmick by Nintendo to try and sell more NES systems, the arcade version is somewhat different from its home counterpart.

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So THIS is the Super Mario Bros. 2 game that was never brought to the states either because it was too tough or too much like SMB1, right? All I can technically say is… good move.

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About a week ago, I passed by this new arcade near my house and noticed a multi-game arcade mission. You know, the ones that got a bunch of games in them. Well, I noticed that one of the games featured was the original Street Fighter game. Although I had played the game once before, it was a long time ago and I was pretty incompetent at the time. So, here was my chance to try the game out.

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