The Royal Rumble. thirty men enter the ring, twenty-nine leave, and one stands as the winner. The winner will defeat the other men by elimination. Winning means prestige, honor, and the title shot at WRESTLEMANIA!
Author: Vince Thornburg
Fatal Labyrinth
Fatal Labyrinth is a game you desperately want to like, but it just doesn’t let you. An RPG with over three dozen levels, its random dungeons make each playthrough unique, and the presentation and exploration are very fun. However, Sega’s inexplicable decision to omit a password or save feature nearly ruins the entire experience, and you’re left with a massive quest that has to be done in a single sitting.
Action 52: A Pothole in the Road of Gaming
Active entertainment is a small game company with only two full titles to its name, one of which is the Action 52 (the other being the unreleased NES title Cheetahman 2). The masterminds behind this game must have thought that if they could create a cartridge with 15x as many games as normal, they’d be millionaires. Considering the results, it would seem like they either A) Hired a group of college programmers to create some basic games or B) Hired ONE man to create every game in his basement. Any of the above options would have probably turned out better than what was released.
In truth, Active Enterprises contracted FarSight Studios to create their abomination and thus the Action 52 was released in 1991 for both the NES and the Genesis. Read the full article for more details.
Art Alive!
Not every cart made for the Genesis was a game. For instance, today’s subject: Art Alive. An art program early in the system’s life and one of the last before Sonic arrived and changed the face of not only Sega games, but gaming in general. Had Sonic come out in say, 1990, Art Alive may never have been made. Still, Sega wanted to broaden its horizons, and make a nice little game for kids.
New Year’s Resolution: Games You Might Have Missed
At the time of this writing, December is about half over. While it’s obviously a bit late to think of New Year resolutions your made last year, you’ve still got those 15 days to play that one game that you just couldn’t get to or have maybe been ignoring since you picked it up in that 30 game lot a few months ago. Of course, some games deserve to be ignored but here’s a few that just may have slipped under the radar. Don’t worry, you’ve still got time to pick up the games you might have missed.