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I enjoyed this J&MM more for the tangential rants (e.g. the Genesis vs SNES/sports games rant that starts around the 5:30 mark and the Jar Jar Binks rant starting around 14:10) than for the actual Earthworm Jim related talk. I'm with Mike in that EWJ never really did anything for me as a kid, and this quasi-LP ( Read more... )

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Castlevania series. Here is 1up's retrospective of the series as a whole. They were quite a bit more negative in the middle part than I would have been, and the best/worst bit on the third page was kind of silly and very subjective, as such things usually are (and, worse, they blatantly spoil several key plot ( Read more... )

"You'd think ... that Westwood would still be around, making smash hits in every genre they touched, but sadly, it was not to be. Bought by Electronic Arts 1998, aside from Command & Conquer and Dune games the studio's output soon dries up, the Westwood name split across two studios which released things like failed MMO Earth & Beyond and under- ( Read more... )

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It doesn't sound nearly as crappy as I was initially expecting it would. Still not as good as the SNES version, but not bad, not bad. Quite good, actually. I'd totally play Super Metroid on a Sega Genesis with this music. (Though, it did kind of lose it toward the end there with the credits theme...)

Don't know why they didn't do the Norfair ( Read more... )