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Retro Review: Alex Kidd in Miracle World (and its theme song)

Will Ooi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:26:56 +0000

I still remember it so vividly: the day my mum took me to the store to pick up the Sega Master System II, my first ever console and a moment that inevitably influenced my gaming life for good, culminating in me. The console's box design and game covers checkered in predominant white with black stripes and adorned with Times New Roman font. We sure have come a long way since then, but in the early 90s when Hypercolour t-shirts constituted taste, it was magic.

When Sonic Met Mario: A Summary of the Gaming Crossover

Will Ooi — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000

What the hell? What’s a Spartan soldier doing in DOA 4? Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games? Battletoads vs Double Dragon?? Halo nerds rejoice as Spartan Nicole practices aerobics with the DOA girls Gaming crossovers have been around for ages now, with a variety of characters and franchises merging together to form some [...]

The Life of a Gamer

Will Ooi — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Originally posted here ~ Here is a quick timeline of the gaming life of a former Sega “fanboy”. In writing this I discovered quite a bit about my own hypocrisies and double-standards…coming to the conclusion that we should all give up hating this console or that console, this company or that company, Sonic or Mario [...]

A Brief History of the Soccer/Football Game

Will Ooi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Soccer. You either love it, hate it, or belong to the casual World Cup watching crowd. Yeah there is way too much cheating and diving involved, and these days with clubs having players on astronomically overpriced wages (just look at Beckham) it really is difficult for fans to feel at all connected to their team. [...]

Rambo: Thoughts on the movies and the Genesis game

Will Ooi — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:00:00 +0000

We should all remember the Rambo films. The first thing that comes into our heads is probably Sylvester Stallone standing half-naked and holding a ridiculously large machine gun with a red headband wrapped around his long and wavy black hair. As iconic as that image may be of the American Action Movie genre, it’s a [...]

Retro Review: Alien vs Predator Arcade

Will Ooi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Following my last blog on Schwarzenegger- related arcade games and because several people mentioned it, this new article will be on the classic Alien vs Predator arcade game. No not the rubbish movie, or the Jaguar first-person shooter, or even the recent AvP FPS. This Final Fight-like title was released in 1994 by Capcom and [...]

Retro Review: Elevator Action Returns

Will Ooi — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:00:00 +0000

I never played the original Elevator Action which Taito released in 1983 but the closest I came was when I borrowed a Game Boy version off a friend many years later but the cartridge didn’t work and I was accused of ruining it. In 1995 though, the sequel Elevator Action II (aka E A Returns) [...]

The Punishing Experience of Playing Pirate games

Will Ooi — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Ok I admit it, I used to buy and play pirated games for my beloved console the Sega Saturn. But I never got it mod-chipped (even though that would’ve been the long-term cheaper alternative) – I used to use a “spinning-disc” technique. What this involved was: 1. Opening the console 2. Taping the CD door [...]

Cartridges!

Will Ooi — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0000

How great were cartridges? I’m guessing that most of you have experienced a game cartridge in your lifetimes (even before the N64), and what an experience they were. How many times did you have to blow into the chip-end of it when your game didn’t work? Game interactivity was alive and well a long time [...]