FGC #191 New Super Mario Bros. Wii
And now for a brief history of multiplayer in Mario games, and why that’s important. Mario started with multiplayer. Donkey Kong, the premiere of Jump Man, was two player alternating,…
FGC #186 Pokémon Blue/Red
Pokémon Blue shattered my faith. Since videogames first made the scene, there was an implicit trust between the player and game: this is a game, and, thus, it can be…
FGC #183 Super Punch-Out!!
For better or worse, Super Punch-Out!! is the black sheep of the Punch-Out!! series. Punch-Out!! for the NES was a surprisingly popular game. Despite the fact that the actual gameplay…
FGC #181 Splatoon
I dislike anything that looks like a FPS. I’m almost pathologically noncompetitive, not a big fan of guns ‘n ammo, and find the idea of “ranking up” to be tedious.…