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Lex Luthor has created a virtual Metropolis and trapped Superman’s friends in there and for some demented reason wants Superman to spend most of his time flying through rings with an unreasonable time limit. Perhaps this would be reasonable if the flight controls were good and it wasn’t over done, but on both counts they failed.

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Motivational Monday: Knock Offs

November 15, 2010April 1, 2014 J.A. Laraque 3 Comments amiga, atari, Atari ST, Classic Gaming, clone, commodore 64, gaming news, gaming reviews, J.A. Laraque, kc munchkin, knock off, knock offs demotivational poster, Magnavox odyssey, Mario Bros, modern gaming, Monday motivation, munch man, nintendo, nintendo DS, obsolete gamer, pac-man, Super Mario Bros, Texas Instruments, The Great Giana Sisters, ti-99/4a, time warp productions

I really don’t want to call this game a knock off because I owned both it and the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A that it was released for, but it was loosely based on Pac-Man. The cool thing was the differences including the fact that you were trying to connect links to form a chain not eat dots. Also the ghosts in the game, called Hoono’s change from level to level. As the game continues your enemy gets much faster than you and their vulnerability time is greatly reduced.

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Motivational Monday: Stereotype

November 8, 2010April 1, 2014 J.A. Laraque 1 Comment African americans in video games, barrett Wallace, black video games, chaos in the windy city, classic games, cosby, everquest, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy 13, Final Fantasy 7, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, J.A. Laraque, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Monday motivation, moonwalker, obsolete gamer, RPG, sazh katzroy, sega, shaq fu, stereotype, Stereotype demotivational poster, tom and jerry

I see the first issue now, why do they give all the black folks the horrible video games? We really should have a contest to see which was the worst Shaq; Shazam, Steel or Shaq Fu, all titles that start with S and were a piece of S. So Shaq is playing himself and while sightseeing before a charity basketball game he wonders into an old man’s store and is told to walk through some backdoor portal to a new land, I think this is how slavery happened.

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Motivational Monday: Boss Battles

November 1, 2010April 1, 2014 J.A. Laraque 2 Comments ares, boss battle, boss fight, castlevania, classic games, Dracula, final battle, Final Fantasy 7, God of War, J.A. Laraque, Monday motivation, NES, nintendo, obsolete gamer, playstation, richter, sega, Sega Genesis, Sephiroth, Silent Hill, snes, Sony, super ghouls n ghosts, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Nintendo, symphony of the night, video games, wart

I get it, a lot of people are tired of the FF7 talk, but you have to give them credit for presenting the final Sephiroth fight in a grand manner. Sure, Final Fantasy has used angel themed bosses many times, but the mix of the long intro, the orchestra music and his presentation makes you feel like this is it. Unfortunately, with just a few items it is incredibly easy to not only beat Sephiroth, but to neutralize almost all of his attacks, but hey how about that cool music.