The Yoshi series is one which for a while struggled to find legitimacy beside its father series, Super Mario. Yoshi games carry a lot of aspects over from the Mario series; heck even the cast of Super Mario appear as … Continue reading Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island – Legacy
Version Played – Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island (Game Boy Advance – Wii U Virtual Console) Super Mario World 2 is much less a sequel than an entirely new style of platformer worthy of its own moniker. Yoshi’s Island … Continue reading Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island – Overview
Donkey Kong was once upon a time the big contender for Nintendo, famous for launching the company into the video game market at the start of the 1980s. The game was a nice spoof of the infamous King Kong in … Continue reading Donkey Kong Country – Legacy
Version Played – Donkey Kong Country – SNES (Wii U Virtual Console) Once upon a time Donkey Kong didn’t wear a tie, he didn’t climb inside barrels which acted like cannons, and he wasn’t so fussed about bananas more so than damsels … Continue reading Donkey Kong Country – Overview
Star Fox, (known as Starwing in PAL regions to avoid confusion with the German company StarVox) was first released in 1993 as a game that broke all the expectations Nintendo had for the Super Nintendo console. Thanks to the Super FX chip inside … Continue reading Starwing – Legacy
Version Played – Star Fox (SNES – ROM) When we look at the original Star Fox (titled Starwing over on European soil) we might not expect much from it. Polygons fighting polygons on bare settings with very little textures to … Continue reading Starwing – Overview
If one were to say to me “I’ve never played a Kirby game before” I wouldn’t be completely surprised, but what I would say is that if you like what else Nintendo has to offer then you’re missing out on … Continue reading Kirby’s Dream Land – Legacy
Version Played: Kirby’s Dream Land – Game Boy It’s hard to know what to think about Kirby’s first ever outing as it either goes all in on the player or not at all. For example, I was about to take … Continue reading Kirby’s Dream Land – Overview
F-Zero began as a launch title on the SNES, one of which showed off the capabilities of the shiny new console. Mode 7 texture mapping allowed the console to give the impression of 3D environments and F-Zero, shortly followed by … Continue reading F-Zero – Legacy
Version Played – F-Zero (SNES – Wii U Virtual Console) F-Zero is of a rare genre not often delved into in the gaming industry; a single player racing game. It is perhaps the first thing one may notice when starting … Continue reading F-Zero – Overview
