Monthly Archives: September 2013

Paper Mario

This Mario RPG is certainly very unique. As you may be able to guess from the title, every character in this game is a paper thin cut out. I imagine this decision was made for aesthetic reasons because Mario, Luigi, … Continue reading

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Tingle’s Balloon Fight DS

This is the second Tingle game, but it has no connections to the others in the series and is, in fact, just a remake of the game Balloon Fight but with Tingle as the protagonist rather than the Balloon Fighter. … Continue reading

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Illumination of a Tortured Mind by Dalfino Madrigal Keyte

(A while ago I had a week where a new author wrote an entry every day, I asked Dalfino if he’d like to contribute, but he said he couldn’t. Later, once that week was over he gave me something to … Continue reading

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Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge

This, the third Banjo-Kazooie game, actually takes place between the first and the second. Here you find out that Klungo actually thought up a successful plan to rescue Gruntilda from underneath the boulder she was trapped under at the end … Continue reading

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Donkey Kong Jr. Math

Back in the early days of the NES, Nintendo decided that it could be a good idea to try and make some educational games. Donkey Kong Jr. Math was the first of these, but it was so unpopular that they … Continue reading

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The Hidden Tower

I’m sure regular readers will remember who David Tubb is, and, most probably they’ll also remember his Tumblr blog where he posts photos and such from various projects of his. Well, now he has started a new more bloggy blog … Continue reading

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Advertisement Campaign

Just the other day I was heading out to visit my friends Elliott Egan and Chris Hunter at a lovely Corsham pub named The Two Pigs (originally owned by two policemen, funnily enough). Anyway, I was walking along the path … Continue reading

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Mushroom Kingdom Culture

As I’m sure anybody who’s played a game in the Mario series will agree, the Mushroom Kingdom is a very unusual place. But the thing is, we’re never told about how any of it works, it’s always just “Here’s the … Continue reading

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Sabre Wulf (Game Boy Advance)

Before Rare existed there was another video game company which could be called their predecessor. This other company was Ultimate Play the Game and one set of games made by them was the Sabre Wulf series. Years later Rare made … Continue reading

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