Author Archives: Dean Jones

When developing their first game, Sucker Punch had a lot of faith in Sprocket (the original name for Rocket, before trademarks got in the way).…

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There are some amazing film tie-in games, there are some terrible film tie-in game, but for the most part, they’re mainly alright but dull games…

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A boxing game centred around the famous “lets get ready to rumble” boxing/wrestling catchphrase. This starts off with a song that samples the original line (not the…

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While there have been “NBA Jam” games on the N64, they’ve not been much like the original NBA Jam – instead, the actual gameplay sequel to…

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Elmo’s Letter Adventure is a Sesame Street themed edutainment game, and one that’s rather quite bizarre due to how overly simplistic it is. The objective…

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40 Winks is fascinating more for its cancellation than the game itself. I remember being really interested in it when reading about it in N64…

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This is the best basketball game on the N64, and I don’t expect it to be beaten by any of the ones I’ve got left…

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The translation of the title is a tricky one. Tsuwamono (ツワモノ) strictly translates to “soldier”, but from what I can tell, it’s also slang that, in this…

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Nintendo has a long history with Hanafuda – they produced cards long, long before video games existed. While it doesn’t directly link to this game, it’s still worth noting.…

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Earthworm Jim is known mainly for his two mediocre 2D platformers on the Mega Drive/SNES. These were both elevated due to their style and sense…

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