Flashback — Classic Videogame Villains

Old videogame, the classics, had many things we loved which in essence have now made them … “classic.” Part of that love was the love/hate relationship we had withe the bosses, villains, banes of our existence when we got to the boss battles that would drive us nuts. Jump left, jump right, pattern, pattern, pattern, [...]

This Week’s WTF: Why not offer Xbox 360 250 Hard Drive?

By the way, you may come across alleged versions of a 250 gig on some random sites but they’re bunk. Add to that you have a company that won’t allow you to say go out and buy a Western Digital 500 G external hard drive and use that for your console and well, once again, it’s stupid. In a culture of consumerism wouldn’t it make sense to make it available so that you can then offer more stuff for people to then add to their monster hard drives? With that much space why you wouldn’t think twice about downloading GTA or Fable. But alas for now we’ll either have to shell out and extra 100 for a whole new console or be happy with the 120 gig.

Flashback — Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy was more than just ahead of its time, it was a pioneer in factoring in key elements of a videogame that make it successful from the characters to the story to even the musical score. The epitome of a long lasting franchise, it’s one of those games that if you played it back then, you would now talk about it with wonder and awe.

Flashback: Black Characters in Videogames — Good Luck Thinking Of Those

In honor of Black History Month this week’s Flashback will take a look, or try to, at black characters in videogames. Specifically playable characters that weren’t just NPCs or cast members in cut scenes. Guess what? There aren’t that many.

FlashBack — Greatest RPG of All Time

Sure there have been great RPGS since then and other Final Fantasies but FF VII still stands the test of time having as of last year sold 10 million copies and spawning a slew of other titles connected to just that storyline.It was just that good.