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  • Download ’em to the WII! – Alexander Lucard’s Top Five

    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Release Date 01/91 Developer: Kid Publisher: Taxan System: NES I can’t remember the last title Kid developer that made it stateside, but I can certainly remember the first game they ever made. Same too with Taxan, although they went out of business long ago, they gave us Burai Fighter,…

  • Hulk Hogan: Pokemanaic

    On August 8th, New York City held “Pokemon Day” in Bryant Park. The Grandmaster of Ceremonies? Hollywood Hulk Hogan himself. Yes, much like John Cena, Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio Jr., and others, The Immortal One is a bonified Pokemanaic. Yeah I know, we’ve been making jokes about Hogan jobbing to Pikachu but not Orton/Pikachu and…

  • Give The Sega CD Some Sweet Sweet Lovin!!!

    Ah the Sega CD. Often mocked and jeered as the first nail in Sega’s hardware producing coffin. Priced at a few hundred dollars as an add-on, and bombing right out of the gate as every system add on ever has, the Sega CD’s potential was swept away by a myriad of reasons from being overly…

  • The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 5)

    System Spotlight: Saturn Controllers Saturn Feature Index: – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Many would argue that one of the Saturn’s finest aspects was its controllers. The basic controller was the Final Evolution of the Mega Drive/Genesis pad; it took the overall shape of the 16-bit…

  • The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 4)

    System Spotlight: Sega NetLink Saturn Feature Index: – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Before Xbox 360. Before Xbox. Before PS2. Before Dreamcast. As early as the 32-bit generation, Sega became the pioneer in the console online gaming revolution with the Sega Saturn. In 1996 Sega released…

  • The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 3)

    System Spotlight: Internal Memory Saturn Feature Index: – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 OK.. You’re launching one of the first consoles on a completely new game medium. Veteran gamers have all grown accustomed to battery back-ups on their cartridges, a luxury which CD-format games cannot manage.…

  • The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 2)

    System Spotlight: Cartridges Galore! Saturn Feature Index: – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 You know, it’s one thing when a system comes out and you find an expansion port on it. Ah, can’t you remember the one you found on the bottom of every Nintendo system…

  • The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console

    Ahhh the Sega Saturn. My beloved, underappreciated 32-bit Sega Saturn. In time, it would become the first truly successful CD based gaming console to market, although not without its growing pains. Rushed to stores just a few weeks ahead of its rival, the Sony PlayStation, the Japanese Saturn was released on November 22nd, 1994. Following…

  • National Geographic Live: Wings Over Africa 02/23/2006

    On Thursday Feb 23rd, I attended the first of four National Geographic Live events here in Minneapolis, along with two friends, including IP’s own Music Editor, Gloomchen. This particular performance was entitled, Wings Over Africa: Tracing the Human Footprint. The speaker was Michael Fay, who is best known for his work known as “the Megatransect.”…

  • Inside Pulse Games 2005 Year End Awards

    BEST STORY The Nominees: Digital Devil Saga 1 Indigo Prophecy Oddworld: Stranger’s Wraith The Warriors The Winner: DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA 1 The fundamental basis behind DDS’ story is surprisingly innovative: take a group of characters who have absolutely no emotional depth to speak of, at all, and stick emotions into them. Then force them to…

  • Inside Pulse Games 2005 Year End Awards

    BEST ACTION RPG The Nominees: Guild Wars Jade Empire Magna Carta X-Men Legends 2 The Winner: X-MEN LEGENDS 2 In a year where RPGs were relatively light and action RPGs were pretty mediocre, X-Men Legends 2 stood out. It was great for so many reasons. It was easy to pick up. It was easy to…

  • Inside Pulse Games 2005 Year End Awards

    Inside Pulse Games 2005 Year End Awards Tagline: Come see what was the Best of the Best. 2005. I have to admit this was not the best year for gaming. There were a lot of sequels, rehashes, and a lot of poorly done games ruining the legacies of many of the most popular franchises of…

  • 2005 Inside Pulse Gaming Awards Nominees

    Hello all. As another year comes winding down, it means that behind the scenes here at Inside Pulse is a lot of shouting, bullying, politicking, bribing, and heated discussions. No, it’s not Activision or Bioware calling us demanding we grade their games only on a score from good to excellent and threatening to take away…

  • THE TRIBUNAL: Madden 06

    THIS SESSION HAS NOW BEEN CONVENED Order! Order in the Tribunal Court! *janitor coughs* Ok, so it’s been a while since we’ve had a Tribunal, but the court is now back in session. We’re here today in Tribunal Hall to judge the biggest sports game of the year Madden 06 which is available for the…

  • The Pokemon Triple Threat

    AW: Greetings all, and welcome to a special feature we all felt needed to be done. Well, by “all”, we mean “all three of us hardcore Pokemon fans”, but I digress… We all love Pokemon. There’s no denying that. If we could, we would shout this fact across the rooftops. We’ve spent the money, we’ve…

  • E3 2005 Roundtable: XBox 360 MTV Special

    Greetings all and welcome to the Inside Pulse Games Roundtable reaction to MTV’s X-Box 360 unveiling. We collected our thoughts on the special, the X-Box 360, and some of the games. Who’s on the Roundtable this time? Well we’ve got: Alex Williams: IP Games Co-Editor in Chief and god of all things with rhythm. Tom…

  • Wrestlemania XXI: First Impressions

    Look people, I won’t lie to you. This is honestly the worst wrestling game ever made. This game makes WCW Thunder and WWF Royal Rumble look like Touken Retsuden 4 or Fire Pro Wrestling D. No one should buy this game. It’s glitchy, it crashy, it is a pile of shit, that THQ needs to…

  • Developer Interview: BioWare Corp – Jade Empire (XB)

    Publisher: Microsoft / Developer: Bioware / Genre: Role-Playing / Release: 04-14-05 Jade Empire is BioWare’s latest massive Action RPG set in ancient China for Microsoft Xbox. With gameplay supposedly as deep as Morrowind or KoTOR and letting you have over 30 different fighting styles, Jade Empire has created a lot of buzz before it even…

  • Developer Interview: Hydravision Entertainment – Obscure (XB, PS2, PC)

    Publisher: DreamCatcher / Developer: Hydravision / Genre: Survival Horror / Release: 03-29-05 No one has made a Teen Slasher Survival Horror video game in a very long time. But thatâ┚¬â”žÂ¢s all changed with the release Hydravisionâ┚¬â”žÂ¢s Obscure for Xbox, PS2, and the PC. Having enjoyed success in the European market, itâ┚¬â”žÂ¢s hitting North America courtesy…

  • The Sony PSP Launch Guide (Part 2)

    Gretzky NHL Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Genre: Sports Release: Launch Title With the hockey season itself still in a will-they-won’t-they-play situation (except for the UK national league, which is still going song, and seeing a lot of big-mane talent coming over from the NHL in search of a game), it seems that the PSP…