If you have a DS and have ever played Tecmo Bowl you owe it to yourself to grab this game. I had lots of doubts when I heard about the remake of this classic football game, but I have to admit that this is looking good. I like the classic look of the game combined with some new features like the create a character, added weather and building your own team functions. The fall can not come fast enough for me to grab this game up and get in some old school running and gunning. The first character I will create is Bo Jackson, Bo knows football and Tecmo Bowl just won’t be the same without him.
What do you guys think, just old school nostalgia on my part or a must buy for you as well?
Mega Man 9 of course! Have you guys seen this packaging, it makes me smile just looking at it. I am a huge old school NES player and regret getting rid of my original NES and all my games. Look at that sexy case! Ok it isn’t exactly sexy, actually its blocky and gray, but that is exactly what makes it so great! It looks just like and old NES cartridge but opens up to house the CD.
What do you think - masterful piece of art or old piece crap? I will hunt you down if you vote for old piece of crap!
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What do you get when you cross a toaster with an old school NES console? One might think jelly in your console but alas you would be wrong. You get a Nintoaster of course. A classic gaming console that can play Super Mario Brothers 3 and unfortunately can’t toast bread anymore. The funny thing is this guy chose a white toaster so that if you glance quickly at it you might think your playing a Wii. Although this does look pretty damn cool there really isn’t any advantage of having your NES in toaster form, one upgrade would have been if you could eject your games using the toaster lever on the side, flying cartridges FTW.
In what has to be a pretty bizarre lawsuit, EA and Sony are both looking at a lawsuit that former NFL player and current Hall of Famer, Jim Brown, has brought against them for using his likeness without his consent.
The character, part of the “Real Old School Teams and Players” series, is a muscular, African-American running back wearing the number 32 jersey who is featured in the game’s “All Brown’s Team,” Brown said in a complaint filed yesterday in state court in New York.
Brown, who wore number 32 for the Cleveland Browns, said in the complaint that he “never signed away any rights that would allow his likeness to be used.”
Looks like Jim Brown is not a fan of Madden after all, or EA or Sony. Jim Brown goes as far to say that them abusing his likeness actually devalues his overall worth.
Brown said Sony and Electronic Arts, maker of the “Madden” football games, have “unjustly enriched and have received and continue to hold ill-gotten gains,” diluting his trademark rights for his likeness and reducing its value.
In the lawsuit, Brown seeks unspecified damages for trademark infringement, unauthorized use of his likeness, trademark dilution and unfair business practices and competition. He also seeks a preliminary and permanent court order to stop the use of his likeness.
I think Jim is getting a bit bent around the axle but lets see how this ends up. Something tells me that old Jim does not have a leg to stand on since they will say that the jersey number and the character even remotely looking like him are just coincidences.
You read that right. You can get your hands on some old school Quake action free online. Just mosey on over to QuakeLive.Com and sign up to help test the servers out.
From the website:
Enter your email address below to sign-up for the QUAKE LIVE Beta Program. Beta testers are given early access to the QUAKE LIVE website and game, and will help us test all of the game’s features and functionality while offering feedback and suggestions. Simply enter your email address below to apply, but please note that entering does not guarantee participation in the beta program.
In case you are doubting this one check out some hard hitting old school action. This makes me smile and think of hours of rocket battles.
This is a bit of an older clip but really shows just how big Starcraft was in Korea, this is footage form an actual match where the contestants were going head to head with a live audience watching their every move. The control and strategy that this guy uses is incredible and he wipes out his opponent in 5 minutes via an SCV rush coupled with marines in the background. Makes me want to play some old school Starcraft and definitely some Starcraft 2.
With a total of 19 stations to listen to as you drive around Liberty City in GTA 4 there is a ton of programming to listen to, from Reggae to Rock to Talk Radio. Some players even decide to turn off the music and listen to the sounds of Liberty City by themselves, the beautiful sounds of cab drivers cursing at you. My personal favorite station is San Juan Sounds, probably the first video game to include Reggaeton as a genre and even have Daddy Yankee as the DJ. What do you listen to as you mow down pedestrians on the way to the boardwalk and get some bowling in?
Here is the complete list of stations:
Electrochoc - Dance music
L.C.H.C. - Hardcore Rock
K109 The Studio - Disco music
IF99 - International funk
The Beat 102.7 - Hip - hop
Vladivostok FM - Russian music
The Classics 104.1 - Old school hip - hop
Fusion FM - Funk and Jazz
JNR 108.5 - Jazz
The Journey - Smooth music
Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 - Rock
Massive B Soundsystem 96.9 - Reggae
Radio Broker - Alternative Rock
San Juan Sounds - Reggaeton
Tuff Gong Radio - Reggae
The Vibe 98.8 - R&B
Integrity 2.0 - Talk radio
PLR - Talk radio
WKTT Talk Radio - Talk radio
So what do you get when you cross an old school Chinese movie with Parappa the Rapper and Street Fighter? Well genius of course. I am a sucker for Parappa and Street Fighter so this was right up my alley, check it out. The narrator is pure gold!
So it is officially the New Year and we wish you all the best, but there is no better way to ring in the New Year than with a little Nintendo love. These guys take an empty old school NES shell and fill it with a lot of fireworks, the result is magic!
I was at a Christmas party with friends this weekend and we did one of those Yankee Swap deals. Our limit was $10, and everyone got some pretty amusing gifts. I think what I ended up with was definitely the winner though. Yeah, you guessed it from the image above… I got Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. HELL YEAH. This is how we gamed in the dark ages people.
After a couple hours of drunken Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em tournaments, I ended up on top as the champion. I have some torn up knuckles to prove it. The game is definitely not meant for big adult hands. I’m gonna have to come up with some extension for the handles so I don’t cut up my hands again. Oh well, it was all in the name of classic gaming fun.
We're like Spaceballs... we're making Loot Ninja everything. Coming soon we'll have hats, shirts, hoodies, possibly banana hammocks if one Editor has his way...
Check out the shirt prototypes here and the hats here
