Space Ace is little more than an extended QTE with some great animation. Hailing from the same people that brought you Dragon’s Lair, the story is much the same, only this time it’s in space. You play as “Ace”, and …

Awesome.  Need I say more? 2DAoROC begins with a bomb going off and scattering all of the baby octopi around the world.  It’s up to 2D Rotating Octopus Character to save the day!  The game is a two button mini …

Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …

There’s been some discussion on this title, most notably this.  Does the “It’s just darts” argument stand up to the oche? Loading up Top Darts you’re greeted to the calibration screen.  It isn’t the most precise screen with just three …

Welcome to die, ladies and gentlemen. Before starting, let me preface this review by writing that the X-Men 6-player arcade machine holds a special place in my heart. More than even the Simpsons arcade cabinet, X-Men had the ability to …

Ah. So this is how you mess up a game in which you play a giant, hulking monster. Eat Them certainly sounds a treat on paper, a game in which you play a hulking monstrosity of your own creation, and …

One of the first games I ever got for my old Sega Genesis was Ms. Pac-Man.  It was fun for awhile, but eventually, you can only play so much pac-man for so long.  I wasn’t sure what to expect from …

Crazy Taxi is an iconic game, one that was a staple title in the Dreamcast’s library. It brought the frantic fun of racking up exorbitant fares from arcades into living rooms. The digital release of Crazy Taxi is essentially repeating …

Shank is brutal, dark, and entirely humorless in its execution. This tale of a lone man out for revenge is certainly not for the faint of heart, but Shank stands on its own 2 feet from a gameplay standing. At …

Scott Pilgrim has a tough time ahead of him. Not only must he defeat Ramona Flowers’ 7 evil ex boyfriends, but he also is tasked with proving that the beat-em-up is still relevant as a genre in this day and …