Author Archives: Dean Jones

Traditional fighting games like Mortal Kombat aren’t platformers. In order to combine Mortal Kombat with a platformer, you’ll need to put in some serious work…

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While Chameleon Twist came out in America and Europe, I played a Japanese copy with an English translation patch. The western versions seem to be…

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I don’t quite understand the name of this one – there’s no “dual” aspect to anything of this game. Did someone mistype “Duel Heroes”? Anyway,…

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Yearly sports updates are tricky things to review, as some can bring big improvements, some minor improvements and some just update the stats. The first…

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With a score of 17% from N64 magazine, I was expecting something truly atrocious from this. Yet, despite the wonky looking graphics, it does a…

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It took a while for the N64 to get its first wrestling game, although it ended up getting a LOT after this one. It’s quite…

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Pachinko, from what I understand is a “totally not gambling” gambling machine popular in Japan. It seems to be a mixture of a pinball machine,…

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Yet another Japanese only baseball game, this time from Namco. This one, however, features a different style of batting and some other fun features –…

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Chopper Attack (or Wild Choppers) is a game that’s clearly inspired by the [Terrain] Strike series of games. It’s a helicopter shoot-’em-up across eight missions.…

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N64 Magazine gave this Japanese-only sumo wrestling a rather impressive 90%. Even so, I was surprised as to how much I actually enjoyed this. Unfortunately,…

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