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HAL’s Forgotten Franchise: Adventures of Lolo
In my profile description I state that I enjoy puzzle games, yet I have not written about any yet. So let’s take a look at a series that started back in the early days of the NES: Adventures of Lolo....
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Continuing the Contra Tradition
Dan Laughton and I(Brent Blauser/General Brent) are continuing our coverage of the Contra series with my retrospective on the gameplay and his examples of physics. With the success of Contra and Super...
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My Favorite Video Game Music Remixers
Since I listen to a lot of video game music when working and/or driving, I feel it’s appropriate that I share some of my favorite music remixers. There are a lot of great ones to choose from, and we...
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It’s Great to Be Hard Corps
I’ve got some great memories of my favorite Contra game. Hard Corps takes everything that made the Contra series amazing and perfects it. This game also hits home with me quite a bit because I played...
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A First Timer’s Look at Sonic Adventure
Growing up, I was one of those kids that had both a Sega Genesis and a Super Nintendo in the early to mid 90s. The SNES I got back on Christmas of 1992, while I won my Genesis, complete with Sonic 2,...
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A Terrible Legacy
Contra: Legacy of War It’s time to continue on with my Contra retrospective after my brief but awesome Sonic Adventure experience. I remember getting Legacy of War for my birthday back in the late...
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Better Times Ahead
Contra Shattered Soldier After the horrid PS1 Contra entries, especially Legacy of War, Konami learned their lesson and took classic Contra gameplay and made it next gen. Shattered Soldier, released...
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A Retro Revolution
Back in the late 2000s decade, specifically 2007, shortly after the previous console generation came out (PS3, 360, and Wii), a retro revolution of sorts came about, and Contra 4 on DS was one of the...
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A Simple Rebirth
Within the flood of Wiiware titles, Konami included some in the mix, and Contra Rebirth was one of them. It’s a very basic, no frills experience, but it’s a great game that any fan of classic Contra...
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Great Memories of Sonic 3 and Knuckles….20 Years Later
I have not posted in quite some time, but during the holiday season I thought I’d reflect on some of my best and most memorable gaming moments, so here we go. Nowadays most Sonic games get mixed...
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Honoring 15 Years of Banjo Kazooie
There once was a lazy bear and loudmouth bird They were a pair that was really quite absurd Banjo with his backpack and Kazooie with her sneers Did nothing but heighten the enemies’ fears Bottles the...
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The Importance and Impact of Portable Gaming
Since the early days of the video game industry back in the 1970s, portable games sprung up alongside consoles and arcades. My first exposure to RetrowareTV was actually Ben Hall’s Video Game Take...
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Ninja Gaiden Still Punishes Gamers to This Day, and They Love It
Ryu Hayabusa and the Ninja Gaiden franchise have been around for almost 25 years now, and aside from his three games on the NES and other various old school consoles, he’s also had some newer...
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Ryu Hayabusa Returns for More Awesomeness
As far as sequels go, Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos is one of the best around. It takes the best elements of the first game, and adds a few new features that give it a fresh...
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With Ryu on the Job, This Ancient Ship is Doomed
Closing out the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy, we have Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom. Does it stand up against the first two? Well, yes and no. The look and feel of the game still retains most...
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What the Next Superman Game Should Be Like
In light of recently seeing the movie Man of Steel, I figured it was time to rant a little bit about Superman games. As most gamers know, Superman has been guilty of having some of the worst games...
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An Xcellent Remake
It’s been too long since I’ve written a Mega Man themed article, so it’s time to change that. Mega Man Maverick Hunter X was released in the early years of the PSP life cycle, and is a remake of Mega...
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Zero Returns for His Own Series
In the early days of the Game Boy Advance, Capcom decided to do yet another spin-off series of the Mega Man franchise, and we got Mega Man Zero. With Zero’s popularity, it was inevitable that he would...
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Mega Man Zero 2 Heads in The Right Direction
The first Mega Man Zero game set the foundation in some ways with cyber elves, different weapons besides just the Z-Saber and Z-Buster, and the grading system. It just didn’t have the polish or...
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Zero Goes Back to His Roots
After the first two games in the Zero series not being all that they could be, Mega Man Zero 3 gets it right with a truly outstanding 2D platforming experience. From the intro and opening stage all...
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Zero Gives His All
Mega Man Zero 3 was so great that it could have very well ended with Zero defeating Omega, but I’m glad that it didn’t. As one of the only Mega Man spin-off series to have a conclusive ending, Mega...
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The Origin of a Nickname: General Brent
Back in the mid to late 1990s, when I was just a young, naïve teenager who was only just beginning to face rejections from potential girlfriends for being a serious gamer(this was before there were...
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Mega Man X: A Legend for All Time
When you think of superlatives like greatest, best, or most awesome, you might have the tendency to think of one of your favorite video game characters. For me, I think of Mega Man X, or X for short....
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An Xcellent Start to the Series: Mega Man X
Let’s just get something clear right from the start; Mega Man X for SNES is to 2D platformers what Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger are to JRPGs, Tetris is to puzzle games, or if you like, Doom,...
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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Capcom hit another homerun with Mega Man X2, as they changed very little from the first entry in the X series, and added a couple of new features and different power-ups that make the game just as...
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Three Cheers for X and Zero
This time around Dr. Doppler is trying to build some utopian city called Dopple Town. Something goes wrong with the control chips and many of the reploids go Maverick. X and Zero rush to the Maverick...
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A Shining Christmas
Welcome to the first edition of General Brent’s Strategy Gaming! You didn’t expect me to call myself a general and not enjoy strategy/war type games, did you? Back in 2007, what I most wanted for...
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X4 Achieves a High Score
The fourth entry of the X series changed things up quite a bit when moving over to the PS1 and Saturn in the late 90s. The most obvious change is the graphics, which are no longer 16-bit, but opt for...
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Sega CD Memories
In keeping with the recent 20 year anniversary of the Sega CD theme, I’d like to post about some of my first memories with the system. About 20 years ago, when I was in 5th grade, one of our teachers...
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X5 Takes a Dive
By this point in the series, things can either change drastically and get much better, or start going downhill somewhat. Unfortunately, X5 is guilty of the latter. While there are a few new features...
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Don’t Be So Quick..to Play Mega Man X6
Are you a masochist? Do you enjoy dying many times just to get some necessary parts and then leaving a stage? If so, then try playing X6 on Xtreme difficulty. While there are some minor improvements...
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The X Series Hits Rock Bottom
I suppose Capcom had to try something new after X6 ended the PS1 generation on a less than stellar note. With 2003 being the 15th anniversary of Mega Man, they probably wanted to do something that...
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Mega Man X8: Well Worth the Wait
You know that feeling you get when you play a game and everything comes together like you thought it would. That’s how Mega Man X8 feels to me. It took most of the features from X5 to X7 and either...
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Prepare Yourself for Construction Combat
It’s time for back to back articles of General Brent’s Strategy Gaming, featuring two DS games: Lock’s Quest and Ninjatown! Lock’s Quest is an interesting gem that came out in 2008 and won an award at...
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Won’t You Take Me to….Ninjatown?!
Alright! If you love tower defense games with lots of humor thrown in there, then Ninjatown is for you. Plus, it’s portable, so who doesn’t love that? Coming out in October 2008 and based upon the...
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