As a kid of around 6 or 7, I had little to no knowledge of The Rocketeer’s history in comics, but what I did know is that there was a movie about this golden helmet wearing character zipping around in a jet-pack, shooting gangsters and saving the day. As you can more than likely tell,…
Given that The Flash is the fastest man alive, he comes and goes in the blink of an eye before anyone knew he was even there. The same could be said about the first attempt at a Flash TV series in the early 90’s, which lasted only a season due it being shuffled around to…
This game. I’ve been waiting a llllloooonnng time to get my hands on this game. I remember seeing ads with screenshots in them for this game in issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly around the time it was coming out. I desperately wanted to play it and checked my local video store and gas stations to…
The Punisher: The Ultimate Payback! plays nearly identically to its counterpart on the NES, and in fact comes from the same developer, Beam Software. Unfortunately, it’s missing a lot of what made that game fun. The largest omission being the ability to move The Punisher across the screen to avoid bullets. It’s an understandable omission…
When it came to bringing arcade games to the under-powered NES, developers normally chose to go one of two routes: Craft a graphically inferior or somewhat downgraded port of the coin-op experience (i.e Capcom’s Ghosts N’ Goblins, Konami’s TMNT II: The Arcade game,) or just take the name of the game and make something completely…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 Ah LJN, the company who would purchase any license they could get their mitts on to turn a quick buck. Wolverine on the NES would be the companies second X-Men game on the system (the first being the atrocious Uncanny X-Men) but the first solo Wolverine outing. Also unlike…
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