This summer, Nintendo opened up a new channel of their subscription service Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion Pack tier specifically for M-rated Nintendo 64 games. Aptly titled MATURE 17+, it’s a separate application from the one that houses the other Nintendo 64 classics like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.…
DEVELOPER: Acclaim Studios Austin (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) PUBLISHER: Nightdive Studios REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. To read out thoughts on the Nintendo 64 original, click HERE. It’s fair to say that the Nintendo 64 was kept afloat against the juggernaut that was Sony’s first PlayStation because of Nintendo’s own…
DEVELOPER: Acclaim Teeside (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) PUBLISHER: Acclaim (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 5 from a copy purchased by the author. For our thoughts on the 1999 original, click HERE. Despite having their name stamped on arcade conversions of hits like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, the now defunct publisher Acclaim was mostly known…
I can remember it like it was yesterday. While taking a trip to my local Wal-Mart, one of the first things that greeted me when I walked in the door – other than an actual greeter – was a TV with a new console hooked up to it. In it was a cartridge for the…
Before the X-Men squared off against one another, or the Marvel Universe went to war with Capcom, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe fought one-on-one in what would become a trend for super hero in video games: put them in a fighting game. Given the huge popularity both at home and in the…
Announced earlier in the year from Night Dive Studios, the remaster of the 1997 N64 and PC classic Turok: Dinosaur Hunter arrives in two short days on December 17th for PC via Steam, GOG and The Humble Bundle. While not a from the ground up remake like Resident Evil or the recently announced Final Fantasy VII, this update will feature the complete…
And with the final review of Turok (2008) on Xbox 360, The Year of Acclaim comes to an end. Over the past twelve months I’ve looked at fifteen games through multiple console, handhelds and console generations. While some of the games I’ve looked at have confirmed that certain games are bonafided classics or huge surprises, others are…
Reboot. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot nowadays, heck even the beloved 90’s animated series Reboot is getting…umm….rebooted, and to many it’s as dirty a word as the most well-known four letter ones. For every great reinterpreting of a property, like Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, you get a Point Break, Total Recall, Terminator: Genisys, or RoboCop that fail…
In its short time in the video game spotlight, Acclaim’s Turok franchise was a lot of things: A series of traditional first-person shooters, a multi-player focuses arena shooter, several side-scrollers and overhead action games mixed with beat-em-up and vehicular gameplay. That all being said, I didn’t expect what I got when I slotted the Game…
2002 saw the release of two major franchise sequels from Acclaim on the sixth generation of consoles. The big fall release was the infamous Turok: Evolution, which arrived on every piece of hardware available at the time: The GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC, and even a spin-off on the Game Boy Advance. The second arrived at a…
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