Have You Seen…Blind Date?
Release Date: March 27, 1987 Director: Blake Edwards Starring: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette, William Daniels, Phil Hartman Favorite quote: “Oh Walter your beautiful car! Oh look on the bright side, what else can happen?” – Nadia Gates I haven’t gone down this well in a while. It’s not been for a lack of desire; real life finds a way to ruin plans. So I figure, why not restart...[Read More]
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Review
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Review Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Platform Reviewed: Xbox One Release Date: January 24, 2017 Acquired via: Purchase by Reviewer I’m trying to catch up with all the responsibilities I have with the Digital Crack website. One of them is getting this review out. It’s taken me a bit, but I got it out. Playing this game put me in a bit of an existential crisis. In le...[Read More]
Retro Review: Castlevania Bloodlines (GEN)
Release Date: March 17, 1994 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Sorry for not posting anything recently. You know, life and such. I touched on this subject once before with my review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist for the Genesis, but it’s worth repeating again. Nintendo revived the video game market in the mid-to-late 80s. But while the NES was getting all the love from co...[Read More]
Being a Tech-Savvy Curmudgeon: How I Defend Emulation via RetroPie
This is going to be a fun exercise. I can already imagine the thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of information this piece about RetroPie will inspire. Yeah, it’s going to be a shit show. I don’t care. Many people think it already; I’m just giving voice to those thoughts. It should go without saying that I love video games, especially older video games. It’s in my title: Old-School Gaming Speciali...[Read More]
Super Bowl LI Movie Commercials
Another Super Bowl has come and gone, and another bevy of overpriced commercials have been paraded in front of our consumerist eyes. I’ll save the opinions about the Budweiser and Pepsi commercials for another forum; we’re highlighting the movie trailers that were on display here. Well, one entry isn’t a movie, but it’s still relevant. Because there was no way in hell I was gonna tackle all of the...[Read More]
Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta Impressions
The Digital Crack crew put the closed beta for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands through its paces. Two members decided to give their impressions from two different perspectives: single player and multiplayer. Here are their impressions. Single-Player Impressions by Uncle Willy I was unfortunately segregated from my Digital Crack mates when the closed beta for Ghost Recon Wildlands opened up. Each o...[Read More]
Retro Review: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (PC)
Release Date: August 21, 1998 Developer: Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. This past weekend, I was bombarded by Tom Clancy in effigy. My son gifted me a key to the closed beta for Ghost Recon Wildlands. Around the same time, I found out that Ubisoft set Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, a game I do not yet own but enjoy, to be free to play for the weekend. For ...[Read More]
Rings Review
Cast: Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bonnie Morgan Director: F. Javier Gutierrez Synopsis: A young woman finds herself on the receiving end of a terrifying curse that threatens to take her life in 7 days. Review: You know that half-giddy feeling you get when you’re about to be in a serious car crash and narrowly miss? That’s how I felt as I walked out o...[Read More]
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Coming to PC and Xbox One
I’ve been a huge fan of the Ace Combat series ever since the first title, Air Combat, released on the original PlayStation. I have played all the mainline series, which were exclusive to Sony consoles until Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, which was curiously only for the Xbox 360. Until now, however, the only multiplatform title in the series has been Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. That ent...[Read More]
Retro Review: Dragon Warrior (NES)
Release Date: May 27, 1986 Developer: Chunsoft Co., Ltd. Publisher: Enix Corporation Sometimes, nostalgia clouds reality for me. The dawn of the JRPG hit me relatively early. It hit me in the form of Dragon Warrior, a game for the NES that was as surprising as it was confusing. I only discovered it when I asked the guy at the video rental store where I rented NES games from if they had any role-pl...[Read More]
About This CHIPs Trailer…
Okay okay, this is only fair. I bagged on Jose’s disdain for the Power Rangers trailer…it’s only fair I do this. Okay, here goes: THIS! FUCKING! TRAILER! HURT! ME! What the Power Rangers trailer did to Cousin Jose, THIS trailer did to me twice and didn’t call me afterward to at least apologize! As a youngster, there were three TV shows that were Holy Writ for me: Starsky an...[Read More]
Power Rangers Trailer #1 Released
I will say up front that I am not a Power Rangers fan. The Saban TV show was well after my time. Cousin Jose, however, is currently on suicide watch. He grew up watching the show and with what he saw has him completely apoplectic. How apoplectic? I’m glad you asked: Ummm ok wow, I fucking hate it! So Goldar is a gold monster, literally. So no Putty Patrols, but rock monsters? The Zords looks...[Read More]