When I was in middle school and high school, my favorite video game console was the Nintendo GameCube. So it was disheartening watching so many of my friends write it off as kiddie and flawed compared to the Sony PlayStation 2 or Microsoft Xbox. I eventually owned all three consoles, but I was thrilled when…
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Things I Hate: Gargoyle’s Quest (Game Boy)
Gargoyle’s Quest is one of the many titles available in the Game Boy section of the Nintendo Switch Online’s retro catalog. I had no idea it was actually related to Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins series. From the cover alone, I assumed it was based on some weird cartoon I had never heard of. Apparently, the…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The 1998 Video Game Resident Evil 2
RE2 was released on January 21, 1998 in North America. It sold nearly five million copies, becoming one of the best selling PS1 games. It held a Guinness World Record for “Highest Grossing Survival Horror Game” at the time. Resident Evil 2 was originally almost entirely different as it would have been the infamous Resident…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Video Game Mega Man Legends
This Mega Man isn’t the original or Mega Man X, but a “Digger” named MegaMan Volnutt. In Japan, Mega Man Legends is known as Rockman DASH. During development, the working English titles included Mega Man Neo and Mega Man Nova. Keiji Inafune stated that his goal was to create a unique Mega Man game that…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Video Game Mega Man X4
Mega Man X4 was released on both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn. While North America and Japan received both versions, Europe only got the PlayStation version. Capcom had initially intended to make the game a Sega Saturn exclusive, but later changed their minds. The executives at Sony’s American PlayStation branch initially did not…