What is it about great running backs who end their careers prematurely that makes us fans worship them as gods who’ve walked the earth only to return to the heavens from whence they’d came? Players such as Jim Brown (who dropped out of NHL High to take up the noble causes of social activism, bad [...]
I have no hesitation in expressing my love/near-fanboy-level obsession with Technos’ family of rough and tumble titles. Check the company’s credentials: Crash N’ The Boys, Double Dragon, Renegade, River City Ransom, and many, many more. One of my favorites, which seems to only be remembered by retrogamers and grumpy old men like myself, is Super [...]
To be perfectly honest, before the age of 10, I really disliked football. I hated the concept of “downs”; it just seemed to bring the otherwise kick ass action to a sudden and screeching halt. I hated the flags; seemed too prissy for a sport in which 300-pound men knee one another in the groin [...]
If you weren’t living in New York City during the middle-to-late ’90s, it’ll be difficult for you to understand the unadulterated bliss, shared camaraderie, and fevered excitement that filled the boroughs at that time. The Yankees went from ’80s bridemaids to masters of the universe; the loser Knicks reinvented themselves as world championship contenders, but [...]
Holy sacrilege, Batman! When most gamers think of the ultimate videogame boxing badass, Mike Tyson (of the appropriately named Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!), immediately comes to mind. Unfortunately, they are quite wrong. Just like real life, Tyson’s deadly for the first 90 second of the match, but if you’re able to stay the path, he’s a [...]
Iron Mike. The Dynamite Kid. Rapist. Victim of a Cruel Society. Manic Depressive. The Baddest Man on the Planet. Sympathetic Figure. Call him what you will, but Mike Tyson’s in-ring talents (I’m talking pre-jail sentence, here) made him the greatest KO machine of his generation and arguably of all-time. His string of explosive knock outs [...]
Take the combined might of McGwire, Bonds, Sammy, and Canseco, multiply it by the entire membership of Cooperstown, toss in a couple of steroid needles, and place the Frankensteinian creation into digital form, and you have power equivalent to just the bottom third of the American Dreams’ lineup. When it comes to pure offense, [...]
