As gamers, we all know that most movies based on video games tend to be pretty bad. And most movies about the subject of video games tend to be found in the bargain bin soon after (Grandma’s Boy). Wreck-It Ralph does a lot right and I can’t really find anything it does wrong. Funded by Disney… Directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama, The Critic) … [ Read More... ]
Back in the 80s, you could play Atari games in a dark room surrounded by other machines with glowing screens. You could also play them at home. Atari now is letting you play their classics for free, right in your browser and they’re calling it the Atari Arcade. All the games are made using Javascript and HTML 5 which load natively in your web browser. Any HTML 5 compatible … [ Read More... ]
Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden may have started off as an arcade game but the NES version of Ninja Gaiden is really what made the series popular. They were released at about the same time with the NES version featuring simplified graphics yet faster gameplay. A few years later the series was remade and remastered for the SNES as part of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
Although the superiority of the Super Nintendo… [ Read More... ]
We love shmups here at BSMH. Todays cover art is of an obscure side scrolling shooter called Hellfire. It was developed by Toaplan who made the infamous Zero Wing (“All your base are belong to us“). This cover is really typical for the shootemup genre, but cool nonetheless.
It was originally an arcade game; then later released on both the PC Engine and Sega Genesis … [ Read More... ]