Cybergoth

I've never seen COD: WAW described as "spectacular" anywhere before It got decent reviews - 83% at GameRankings.com - but most of the reviews I read said it was pretty good but nothing real special. Just name another HD > Wii port with a Metascore of 83% then

It'd be rather surprising if the Wii port of CoD4 was worse than last years spectacular CoD5 port - it's from the same team after all...

I have it on the VC and didn't regret the 500 points. The emulation is flawless and the controls work with a pad. It even has a little advantage over the C64 version, which required the keyboard to switch the extra weapons.

Did you at least play Minish Cap on the GBA?

That's probably my main problem. We had one back in the day with a handful of games (Mario 64, Zelda, Turok, Star Fox and Goldeneye), but I basically remember not playing them much. Of course those were the years I was hanging out in clubs and I spent most of the time drinking and flirting ... I remember wondering why Mario and Zelda got so high ratings. In my book they were nowhere on par with their predecessors Link to the Past and Super Mario World. Basically I was just disappointed. ... My Mario Kart Tour de Force was on the GBA. I totally beat it. Coming out on top in each circuit of each class, collecting 100 coins on each track - and doing the same on the unlocked SNES tracks. I played it so long until the heaven on the title screen turned red, which was the final achievement IIRC. So when I boot it up now everyone can see that I'm the MK super guru

That's kinda a lost generation for me. Coming from an era of perfect 2D I never really made the transition to first gen 3D. Especially suffering from motion-sickness didn't help it... Only later with the Cube/Wii and the PS2 I started to enjoy modern gaming again. I bridged the gap with classic and GBA gaming (My must have list of N64 titles so far has '0' entries and the PSX has '1' ) I couldn't do that though, a general Top 10 has much too wide a scope for me. I'm more tracking must-haves per console, albeit so far I'm only done with the 2600 and the GBA. The NES and the N64 are almost done, but other consoles still have hundreds of games I need to try The only Top 10 I accidently have ready to go is my Top 10 favorite Capcom games: Super Ghouls'n'Ghosts (SNES) Breath of Fire (GBA) Breath of Fire II (GBA) Demon's Crest (SNES) Resident Evil (GC) Resident Evil 2 (GC) Breath of Fire IV (PSX) Onimusha: Warlords (PS2) Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2) Zack & Wiki (Wii) All must haves in my book. BoFIV is the PSX title mentioned above Hm... going down memory lane... Did you play one of the Ultima Underworld titles? After Dungeon Master and EotB the next RPG generation that blew me away I was very close to including this game on my list, as it is also one of my favourites. The only for omitting it was that I haven't played it for a long time. Sometime next year I'll be checking out some early works from the mastermind behind Ufo in my "Playing..." series. Absolutely looking forward to that I really loved PC gaming in the mid 90s. Besides Ufo and Underworld I also enjoyed Magic Carpet 2, Panzer General, Bioforge, System Shock, Tie Fighter, Wing Commander 2, Warcraft 2, Day of the Tentacle, Duke Nukem 3D, Ascendancy and many others

Those two, Rogue Squadron and Naboo are still amongst the remaining ~20 titles on my N64 check-out list. Also Paper Mario, Star Fox, Sin & Punishment, Conkers BFD, Body Harvest, Blastcorps, Pilotwings, Rocket, Donkey Kong, the Banjo games and a few more I can't remember since the list is stored on my pc at work Thank heavens one of my workmates has a good dozen of them, so I can borrow them one after another

I've been putting some effort into trying to get into the N64 lately, but so far it seems I just can't. Even games I remember liking back then I can stand anymore today, like e.g. Shadow of the Empire or Turok. I recently bought Shadow Man, a 95% title back in the day, and I just had to quit playing it after 30 minutes. The graphics and speech are horrible, the clunky controls, everything in the game sucks... The small foggy 3D bubble all N64 games seem to be trapped in seems to kill the whole system for me @Chris: Interesting read. I like a few of the games in your list, especially Dungeon Master. Like every other Amiga owner on the planet I bought a RAM expansion just to play it and it's been one of the most awesome experiences in my life - one of the reasons I am a gamer Two suggestions based on your list: - I loved "Eye of the Beholder", which successfully combined Dungeon Master with AD&D. - As a fan of Ikari Warriors, you must try Jackal on the NES! Totally not related to your list, but my personal all time favorite game: UFO - Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense in the states)

I somehow managed to endure Ultima VI on the SNES from start to finish. I hate this series...

Another new trailer from Calling http://www.gametrailers.com/player/58698.html

Personally I prefer this one

And 7.5 from GameInformer. IGN gave it 85% and the Wii Magazin 84%, so I'm happy to have it on my shopping list BTW: Maybe Ubis CSI: Deadly Intent is also worth a look?

http://kotaku.com/5396068/is-konami-going-to-rebirth-jackal-on-wii

Hi there! Even though the song and the animation were created totally independent from each other, they're a perfect match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro Greetings, Manuel

The game about the Nikelodeon show. It's supposed to be released this week: http://www.play.com/Games/Wii/4-/9925537/iCarly/Product.html

Did you already see a review for iCarly per chance?

Since it is the game of the week in the Capcom Unity Video Game Club, I got motivated to fight my fears in order to finally beat REmake - and succeeded!

Since Silent Hill got delayed until february, I replaced it with A Boy And His Blob

It's great to see the loving care they put in here, all the Amiga graphics seemingly got converted by hand. It's really a pity that It came from the Dessert and Lords of the Rising Sun never materialized on the commie.

Hi there! Abandoning the C64 with style, Cinemaware bade farewell with Rocket Ranger: Originally I missed this great C64 version, since at the time I already had an Amiga. I must admit I never got into it though, most likely because my version came without a manual Well, Rocket Ranger is a great continuation of Cinemas better earlier efforts. Further improving the tried and tested formula of Defender of the Crown and Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon, it adds some more varied action scenes and provides a better scripted movie scenario, while delivering another interesting map/strategy part and matching Cinemawares own superior audio-visual standards. Rocket Ranger is keeping the player busy with rescuing damsels in distress, while he's single-handedly stopping the whole nazi empire of the 1940s along the way. Unlike the first 5 Cinemaware games, Rocket Ranger takes not just one, but two hours to complete: Sidenote: Roket Ranger marks the turning point of Cinemawares reception in my "Power Play" magazine collection, it was their first game that scored over 70%! (their second over 50% ) Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Cinemaware game in the form of "Lords of the Rising Sun", but first it'll continue with something else. Greetings, Manuel

I've been there in the 90's, albeit I spent much more time in comp.sys.cbm and de.soc.subkultur.gothic

Hm... why do you think it's a kids title? Because it's lacking blood, gore, fatalities and dismemberment? To me it looks like fun all ages entertainment, like Super Mario or Zack & Wiki I read some very positive reviews, I liked that it seems to give players a choice between just Hack'n'Slashing through all enemies or playing it full ninja style by using all the ninja powers - it'll be interesting to see what type of gamer I am

I think that's just standard buzztalk. "Oh yeah, WM+ is great, but..." Sidenote: Remember the ruckus LucasArts made regarding their lightsaber game when WM+ was announced? => http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195258 So why does their current(!) Star Wars game still not support WM+?!?

That looks incredible! I wish I would find more time for my own NES programming ideas. Hopefully during the holidays

You realize that the WM+ enhancement doesn't improve the reading of the optical sensor that is tracking where the Wiimote is pointing to at all? It just contains an extra dual-axis gyroscope, which in combination with the regular accelerometer readings enhances the precission of the motion detection. The pointer sensor is sitting on top of your TV, it won't change with a plugin in the Wiimote