Author: Charlie Marsh

I have a question: how awesome are beat “Ëœem ups? And I’ll answer: very. There’s something about running around as the sort of muscle-bound freak Vince McMahon would cream over and beating the crap out of everything in your way that just screams, “awesome“. I have two guesses as to why this is so: a)…

There are two Gamecube games I play with any kind of frequency: The Legend of Zelda: Collector’s Edition and Mega Man X Collection (X’s 1-6). Yea, they don’t really count as Gamecube games since they’re collections of classic games, but I’m not exactly what you would call a “fan” of the Gamecube, so living in…

Anyone who has followed my columns from the beginning would know that EarthBound is my favorite game ever. If I had to pick a second favorite, it would be Chrono Trigger. It’s odd though, since I’m admittedly not the biggest RPG fan. In fact, I rather dislike most of them I play. There seems to…

I’ve played a lot of crappy games in my day. E.T., Shaq Fu, Bugs Bunny’s Crazy Castle, Super Mario Bros. 2…none of them compare to Ghostbusters on the NES. I went into this column looking to make a few jokes at its expense, but no, there is absolutely nothing funny about this game, so I’m…

If you’re a kid and you don’t like Disney World, you suck. Hell, I’m an adult and I love it! I went there for a weekend last summer and just couldn’t get enough of everything. I went on Pirates and The Haunted Mansion and the race cars and everything. I didn’t go on Space Mountain…

During the holiday season, I got the opportunity to meet Santa at my local mall. I went right up to him, sat on his lap and punched him in his cherry-red nose for not bringing me a Sega Genesis when I was a kid (I’m not allowed to see Santa at the mall anymore). I…

Yea, this is supposed to be Beyond Oasis, and that’s done…kinda. I’m just lazy around the holidays. Anyway, I picked up Atari Classics Evolved recently, so I’ll give a little review of it while it’s still timely and save Beyond Oasis for another day. Atari Classics Evolved Personifying the solution to the debate over which…

Have you ever rented or bought a game and, after playing it, wanted to send it back to the publisher with a note reading something along the lines of “What in God’s name is the matter with you that you released a game this crappy to the public?” I sure have. I’ve played some real…

Nintendo continued its foray into the world of handheld gaming, following the Game & Watch series, with the Game Boy in 1989. Though it wasn’t necessarily graphically revolutionary (the Atari Lynx, released the same year, had a full color, backlit screen) its price tag, battery life, portability and expansive game library helped the Game Boy…

That’s right friends, you can stop sending those emails, call off those searches, I’m still alive! Ok, so there weren’t any emails, aside from a few guys wanting my help to move a large sum of money, and some containing information about herbal ways to make my breasts bigger, but yea, I’m still here. You…

I hate dealing with people. People suck. That’s why I like studying archaeology, so I only have to deal with people long after they’re dead. So, you could say that spending my summer working at a country club wasn’t exactly my dream job. The people were just irritating, impatient, ill-mannered…that’s neither here nor there. So…

When my family moved to a town outside of Cincinnati in 1994, we finally decided to join the (nearly) 21st century and get a computer with a CD drive. It was an old Apple Macintosh. It had AOL version 2.7 (and what are we at now? 15.0?), and a few fun little games already installed…

Fourth grade for me was any elementary school student’s dream. We had fun all the time, even when we were being taught, which wasn’t terribly often considering we got off track a lot. My teacher, Mr. Maiste (MICE-tea, if you care), would always make jokes or tell stories. He even had an extraordinarily comfortable couch…

Since the groundbreaking first edition of Kickin’ It Old School, Old School HQ has been bombarded by requests for games to be reviewed in this column. Unfortunately, time constraints and the fact that I actually only got 4 requests have relegated the amount of games I can talk about to 4: Little Nemo: The Dream…

There are a lot of things in this world that should never have even been thought, much less actually produced. From Justin To Kelly immediately springs to mind. One of the worst ideas that I think never should have seen the light of day is the idea of ‘edutainment,” or, in this case, educational video…

If spending much of the year at Syracuse University has taught me one thing, it’s that there really is no place like home for the holidays. Sure it sounds cliche and everything but it’s quite true. Home cooked meals, friends, family, Super Nintendo; home is definitely where the heart is. While I am having an…

Way back when, the NES Max controller was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. It wasn’t the usual boring rectangle that the regular controller was. It was curved, like controllers these days. Also raising its coolness factor for me were the two additional “turbo” buttons it had. These buttons had the effect of rapidly pressing…