Author: Justin Francoeur
This game originally piqued my interest thanks to the cover of CRASH magazine #14 (March 1985). I mean, look at these guys… they kind of look like the grotesque marionettes Jeff Dunham uses for his ventriloquist act: Upon further investigation, ads for this game boast “1st ever multi-role arcade adventure” and there’s a song called “Everyone’s A Wally” included on…
Let it be known that I’m a sucker for video games based on film properties I enjoyed as a kid — so when I saw that Back to the Future for the C64 hadn’t been reviewed yet, I jumped at the chance. I do remember playing the NES version of this game released by LJN in the late 80s. I…
1989 was a big year for me — Nintendo had taken North America by storm and just about everyone I knew had an NES console at home. It was the system that captured our imaginations — I was in grade 3 at the time, and we’d spend our recesses drawing elaborate NES levels (as seen in Nintendo Power), talking incessantly…
As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…
Every now and then I feel a little nostalgic for the “good ol’ days of gaming” and try to uncover hidden gems I may have missed the first time around. Sometimes, however, I realize how pretentious that sounds and let my inner-child take over and pick a game that would’ve appealed to my 7-year old self. Today we look at…
Every now and then I feel a little nostalgic for the “good ol’ days of gaming” and try to uncover hidden gems I may have missed the first time around. I especially enjoy taking a look at older, award-winning games that were previously hailed as ‘future classics’ and ‘masterpieces’ — I get my kicks seeing just how far they’ve come…
To coincide with Halloween, this weekend (Oct 27, 2017) saw Netflix release its second season of Stranger Things — a sci-fi/horror TV series about a band of kids joining forces to battle supernatural forces in their small Indiana town — to a very enthusiastic North American audience. The first season is set during the early 80s and contains all of…
I remember first becoming aware of MAD magazine sometime during First Grade in Elementary school. All of the older kids (aka: ‘cool’ kids) were reading it, and I wanted to be like the older kids, so naturally it became the most important thing in my life. I was born in 1981, so I would’ve been in First Grade around 1987….
