Reviews
Death Road to Canada Review
Developer: Rocketcat Games Publisher: Rocketcat Games Platform Reviewed: PC Release Date: July 22, 2016 Acquired via: Steam As far as tired video games tropes go, the zombie game is near the top of my list. From the classic Zombies Ate Me Neighbors on my SNES to Dying Light on the PlayStation 4, I have played my share of zombie games. Honestly, I’m zombied out. It’ll take something real interestin...[Read More]
Retro Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (GEN)
Release Date: December 11, 1992 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami The Nintendo vs Sega console war of the early 90s produced some very intriguing subplots. There was the way the console manufacturers attacked each other in commercials. There was also the Mortal Kombat blood controversy. However, one hidden subplot helped fuel the console war even more, and the subject of today’s retro review is ...[Read More]
Jason Bourne Review
Cast: Matt Damon (Jason Bourne), Tommy Lee Jones(Robert Dewey), Alicia Vikander (Heather Lee), Vincent Cassel (“Asset”), Julia Stiles (Nicky Parsons) Director: Paul Greengrass Synopsis: It’s been 10 years since Jason Bourne walked away from the agency that trained him to become a deadly weapon. Hoping to draw him out of the shadows, CIA director Robert Dewey assigns hacker and co...[Read More]
Song of the Deep Review
Insomniac is one of the greatest developers in the gaming world they created some stellar franchises like Ratchet and Clank, Resistance and Sunset Overdrive. They have now created a smaller type of game called Song of the Deep a Metroidvania style of action-adventure game. Players take on the role of a young girl named Merryn who father doesn’t return home. Merryn quickly decides to build a ...[Read More]
Ghostbusters (2016): My Review of the (Supposedly) Unreviewable
I really hate that I feel the need to excuse myself with this Ghostbusters article. I went through about 19 revision of this article. In them, I took many stances: aggressive; reasoned; insulting; defensive; apoplectic. Those angles were not about the movie; they were about the people who would like to discredit anyone who talks about this particular topic. I decided I was going to do this straigh...[Read More]
Retro Review: Devil’s Crush (TG-16)
Release Date: July 20, 1990 Developer: NAXAT Soft Publisher: NEC For me, video pinball was one of my guilty pleasures. I started my love for video pinball games with, well, Video Pinball for the Atari 2600. It was primitive and lacked any real depth, but I would play it for hours. When I got my hands on my TurboGrafx-16, the 8/16-bit hybrid that could, I eventually sought out a video pinbal...[Read More]
Movie Review: Ghostbusters
Studio: Sony Director: Paul Feig Release Date: July 15, 2016 Who ya gonna call? The Ghostbusters of course! I saw an early screening of this movie and I have to say that this movie was made well and I enjoyed it. The characters and plot were done well. The plot: paranormal researcher Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) and physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) are trying to prove that ghosts exist in mo...[Read More]
Retro Review: Sinistar (Arcade)
I may have spent my gaming time at home playing the Atari 2600 when I was younger, but I truly cut my gaming teeth in the arcade. My first arcade game was Gun Fight, an ancient, two-player versus, Western-themed gun fighting game. This was back around 1976. I became hooked on arcades at that very moment, and that addiction has lasted for a very large part of my life. Even today, I will go to a ra...[Read More]
Pokemon GO aka Digital Meth
Video games shouldn’t make people this crazy. This is the sort of behavior normally associated with drugs. Here’s a sample of headlines that have popped up since Nintendo released Pokemon GO, their mobile rendition of catching cute pocket monsters in real life: Can’t get Pokémon Go in your country yet? Here’s how to download it now It’s a thing: Pokémon Go invades Seattle Pokémon...[Read More]
Florida SuperCon Impressions
Lights, Camera, Cosplay!!!! This 4th of July weekend was full of surprises, movie stars, shows, and famous cosplayers. Florida SuperCon is one of the biggest cons located in sunny South Florida. Running this event is Mike – also known as SuperCon Mike – and Sandy Martin. We have the privilege to attend the event and also meet some great people, including Sandy Martin and Mr. Broder him...[Read More]
Retro Review: Herc’s Adventures (PS1)
Back in its heyday, LucasArts was a premier video game developer and publisher. In addition to great Star Wars titles like Rebel Assault and Star Wars: Dark Forces, George Lucas’s video game studio made and released some non-Star Wars gaming classics like Maniac Mansion, LOOM, and Full Throttle. Although the majority of LucasArts games were confined to the PC, many titles were either ported to con...[Read More]
Digital Crack Podcast: Special Coverage on E3
The best Fowl mouthed video game Podcast on the planet.This week we talk about everything E3, Bethesda,Ubisoft,EA,xbox and of course Sony. We go over all the good, the bad and the ugly from this years E3.All the upcoming games and announcements.Prepare yourself for some exciting news. http://traffic.libsyn.com/digitalcrack/e3_podcast_final.mp3