Tweet Before we get started with the review, please allow me to state very clearly that Games Are Evil does not support piracy, and that all games shown in this review were acquired legally. With that little bit of housekeeping out of the way, let’s dive right into the review! Like many of you reading...

Tweet We take midnight launches for granted nowadays. Every time a major title rolls down the pipeline, players expect to line up at midnight at their local GameStop and prepare to hand over their $60, rain, shine, or hurricane. It’s not an exaggeration really. I’ve seen nearly 1,000 players...

Tweet The internet shut down again yesterday over some mammoth news. It finally happened… Shigeru Miyamoto is retiring…. except he’s not. No, Miyamoto is not retiring to the rocking chair to sit in that legendary garden of his to smoke the Pikmin pipe into his old age, but rather is...

Tweet 1998 was the last truly great year of video games that were dedicated to solely the original 1977-1983 classic Star Wars Trilogy. The Phantom Menace would launch the next summer, and while you can debate the merits of the prequels until you’re blue in the face (I love them to death. Feel free to...

Tweet On August 23, 1991 the Super Nintendo was welcomed into the world. It arrived late to the scene. Sega had started the 16-bit generation early in 1990. Though their hardware was inferior to Nintendo’s, it was there and lots of people had made the switch. Everyone knows that Nintendo leaned on the...

Tweet Cynicism is a rapidly spreading disease, and our generation is suffering from a terrible case of it. On one level, you can’t blame us. The people who came before us have destroyed the economy, and the unrest seems to spill over into all areas of our lives. It makes maintaining relationships more...

Tweet My game room is a weird place. Folks don’t understand it when they walk in, but they love it once they start playing. When people walk in, they’re surrounded by a myriad of tube TVs from every decade. You see, I have this little obsession where I not only want to play all of my classic...

Tweet Girls do play games. In fact, there are more women on this Earth than there are men, so mathematically there should/could be more women playing games than men. The problem is that we live in a male dominated society, and the video game industry is one of the most perverse examples. As such, women get...

Tweet This last weekend I took a trip around my local used video game stores. I had recently come into possession of a $5 spare GameCube from a garage sale. I keep spare consoles around in case my originals fail, but I also like to have extras (when I can) in case 4-players aren’t enough. There’s...

Tweet I’m an old school Sonic fan. I’m not ashamed to admit it. Sonic the Hedgehog – in his original Naoto Oshima Genesis-era design – is one of the greatest designed characters of all time, who also happened to be the star player of some brilliantly constructed 2D sidescrollers. As a...