Not only did THQ give us the displeasure of one bad Swamp Thing game, they decided to vomit another game based on the character for the Game Boy, courtesy of the developer of The Flash for the handheld, Equilibrium. The best thing that can be said about Swamp Thing on the Game Boy is that…
When it comes to tracking down retro games, normally the ones with higher price tags are the rare and treasured gems that are simply so good that those who own them either don’t want to part with them, or will only do so if a healthy profit is involved. Sometimes however, an older game will…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/29/2013 Compared to other comic book characters like say a Spider-Man or a Batman, Spawn has only appeared in five games, but there’s a fair amount of variety in that hand full of titles: traditional side-scrolling action games, a 3-D adventure/fighting game hybrid and a multi-player focused arena action game.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/29/2013 Capcom is no stranger to licensed games, having crafted dozens of superb games based on the Disney license in the 8 and 16-bit era that are still well regarded by many today. They’ve also been known to dabble in the Marvel Comics world as well: you might know of…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10//22/2013 Does Konami really need any introduction when it comes to the ethical treatment of a license in the video game industry? I mean really, let’s run down the list a little: TMNT IV: Turtles In Time, Bucky O’Hare, X-Men and the Simpsons in the arcade, Buster Busts loose, The…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/18/2013 1997 was a HUGE year for the Spawn franchise: the comic book series was at the peak of its popularity, action figures featuring the character lined toy shore shelves, the HBO series debuted to an overwhelming positive reception and the first (and to this date, only) live action film…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/18/2013 The year is 1995, and if you were anything like me, you loved nothing more than getting your hands on that newest SNES game, especially in the fall of the year when all of the big games dropped that were competing for that coveted place on your Christmas list.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/17/2013 If, like me, you wanted to like Constantine more than you wanted to that one time you watched it out of curiosity, you probably didn’t realize or simply forgot that there was a game released in tandem with the film. When looking at games to cover this Halloween season, I…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/13/2013 Through a crazy, unforeseeable series of circumstances, Hellboy: Asylum Seeker turned out to be an unintentional tie-in game to the original Hellboy film in 2004. Publisher Konami was a bit more proactive with the release of Hellboy: The Science of Evil on the Xbox 360/PS3/PSP, getting it out just…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/13/2013 The history behind Hellboy: Asylum Seeker may in fact be more interesting than the game itself: In the 1990’s, Cryo Studios (the original developer behind this game) was intended to be branded as DHI, or Dark Horse Interactive, and tasked with making games based on properties that the comic…
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