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Archive for the ‘Mystery’ Category

July 20th, 2008

Max Payne trailer: Leak or marketing gimmick?

More than a week ago, b5media entertainment channel’s Film Gecko posted a trailer video of 20th Century Fox’s Max Payne with the suspicion that it had been leaked onto YouTube.
Film Gecko’s Jane Boursaw wrote:
I’m not sure how long this will stay online, but a new trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Max Payne has been leaked […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

July 20th, 2008

Max Payne 2: More than meets the eye

While we’re on the subject of Max Payne …
Have you ever wondered how Max Payne and the gorgeous Mona Sax look like under all those layers of “graphic novel-like paint” in
Max Payne 2’s dialogue or cut scenes? Well, you need not wonder any longer. Feast your eyes on these before and after shots:
Before
[…]

By Joel -- 1 comment

July 6th, 2008

Whatever happened to Strategic Simulations Inc.?

I’ve been asking this question since the early 2000s, and I don’t know for the life of me why I didn’t bother looking the answer up with Google, or any other search engine for that matter. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to ruin the mystery. It turns out, however, that the disappearance of Strategic […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

June 29th, 2008

The Goonies: Music video and video game

Hahahaha! I can’t stop laughing. I don’t know which is funnier: seeing The Goonies video game being played to the beat of Good Enough by Cyndi Lauper or watching Captain Lou Albano (who played Mario in the Super Mario Brothers animated series) in the music video for the movie The Goonies. I can’t make up […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

June 29th, 2008

The Goonies: 8-bit gaming goodness

As promised, I’m here to talk about The Goonies, not really much about the movie of the same name, but the 8-bit video game that inspired an entire generation of video game addicts.
Actually, there’s not much to talk about as game features go. The only news concerning The Goonies is the fact that it has […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

June 22nd, 2008

Speed Run: Goonies on the NES

Yeah, I’m supposed to post only one speed run a month. But, they, times change, and I need this speed run to introduce another old game I’m planning to write about soon. So here it is, The Goonies on the Nintendo Entertainment System:

Stay tuned to Re:Retro for my take on this classic movie tie-in.

By Joel -- 1 comment

June 14th, 2008

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? Apparently, everywhere

A few posts back, I answered fellow b5media video games channel blogger Aiza Bautista’s meme on what games I currently play. My answer included “a plethora of old video games, including Super Mario Brothers, Adventure Island, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, and Contra. Well, I’ve talked about the first two and the […]

By Joel -- 1 comment

April 17th, 2007

The History Of Gaming, Part Six: The First Rubbish Game Ever

(Or: Elite Week Delayed By Shock Remembrance)
It’s the eighties. A school friend has an Atari 2600 - already a piece of treasure, a strange lumpy luxury from a time before time. It has that whiff of seventies design that’s still familiar and comforting to us, dodged deep in the brain from when our cortexes were […]

By alewing -- 5 comments

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