Boy, the 1990's were some good years. Peace time between the Cold War and the War on Terror. Unparalleled economic prosperity. The mainstream introduction of the Internet. What else am I forgetting?
Ah, yes. The last time I played a good Mortal Kombat game.
For some ridiculous non-reason, Midway Games has kept churning out iterations of the original bloody fighting series long after it was relevant or even fun to play. The first was revolutionary, the second was a nice update, the third was passable but rather unimaginative. By the time MK4 hit the shelves, I was fairly certain the series didn't have the legs to make it through the next decade. Being 12 and therefore naive enough to believe there is any dignity in the videogame industry, I was sorely mistaken.
So, as we slowly approach the 20th anniversary of the iconic slugfest, we have to entertain the notion of something as patently absurd as Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. It's as if an executive over at Midway tripped over a long-discarded copy of Marvel vs. Read more
There is sad news, I’m afraid, on the horizon for all of you Sony PSP lovers and players – the Sony PSP is on its way out and may not ever come back once again! So what about all of those Blu Ray movies that you rushed out and purchased that only work on your PSP? What about warranty repairs, and new games coming out every week? And what about internet access and Sony’s lauded, but quite often slow, free national wi-fi network that allows you to Google and web surf?
Certainly everybody that I know remembers them fondly – those old cartridge video games of our technology-ridden past. And the one thing that is great about those older, 8-bit and 16-bit games are that they never wore out, were nearly ever defective and many of those old-school Nintendo systems of the past still work fine today. In fact, the N64, touted as the last great cartridge video game console was one of my favorites for their many innovative approaches to gaming. And still, up until today, I will pop in an old cartridge game into my N64 console and play the night hours away; and it always works, even if it is nearly ten years old.
Attention avid gamers: are you sick and tired of hearing all of this slandering of violent video games like GTA IV (Grand Theft Auto Four), where parents and society as a whole are apt to always point the proverbial finger at these video games as the root of all problems present in modern day society? It is ridiculous if you think about it, seriously! Video games are played using a plastic controller, attached to a console, connected to a television set – they do not represent anything realistic in any way, shape or form. In fact, most people are not becoming tantalized with the fake, cartoon-like violence that they see in a video game, nor are they becoming desensitized by play games like GTA IV.
