10 Yard Fight NES Review

One of the original 30 launch titles.  Looking at this game and playing it now, it seems like pure crap.  When this first came out, it was awesome because all other football games at the time sucked bad.  I am not a real big football fan so I didn't play this one much back in the day.  I play it now and I can't say that I enjoy it.  It just isn't fun for me to play.  It was an arcade port and the graphics are pretty good for an early NES release.  The game play is OK, and the sound and music are sub par in my opinion.  Overall, I give it a 5 out of 10.  Average game, not really something I would play at all.  There are better 8 bit football games out there for sure.

Olympic Summer Games Sega Genesis Review

Nothing special about this game.  Not even a fun game.  Graphics are pretty good for the Genesis but the sound and music are terrible.  The game play sucks.  The game is very hard to control and seems to be very unrealistic.  The music that is blasting over everything in the game is horrible.  Overall, I give this game a 4 out of 10.  Don't go out of your way to play it.  It is below average.

Jordan VS Bird Super One On One Sega Genesis Review

I am not a big fan of basketball video games and this one proves why.  The game play is mediocre at best and the game plays slow and is repetitive.  There is not much going on here except one on one basketball.  It gets tedious and is not really fun to play at all.  There is a 3 point contest and a slam dunk contest mode you can play that adds a little more to the game.  Overall this game gets a 2 out of 10 stars.  There are definitely better basketball video games out there.  The graphics and sound seem a little lower than standard for the Genesis as well. 

Best Of The Best Championship Karate NES Review

This game is complete garbage.  It is not even playable in my opinion.  The game play is so horrible and sluggish that it is painful.  It is almost impossible to hit the other person and when you do, it is impossible to tell that you did.  The graphics are reminiscent of 4 color CGA graphics on an early IBM XT and the sound is complete crap.  Talk about a complete piece of garbage.  This game gets a 0 out of 10 stars.  Stay away from it unless you like complete crap.

Video Olympics Atari VCS (2600) Review

Released in 1978 as one of the Atari VCS's initial launch titles.  For its time it was pretty awesome because it took a basic Pong style game and added different variations to it.  Mediocre by today's standards but pretty cool back then.  I just attempted to play it and realized that my paddle controllers are not functioning correctly.  Nonetheless, the basic concept of what the game is was translated to me as I remember it. Hit a square ball back and forth and try to score on your opponent.  A fun 2 player game to mess with but nothing epic going on here.  Overall, I give it a 5 out of 10.  Atari is very hard to rate due to the huge amount of crappy games but this one stands the test of time.  It does what it is intended to do.  Pong with multiple variations.

Great Golf Sega Master System Review

Typical 8 bit golf game here.  Nothing special.  I am not a big fan of golf games at all.  This one seems to play really slow and sluggish.  It seems to be about the same as any other 8 bit golf game.  I don't really have much to say about it.  Sorry.  I give it a 4 out of 10 stars.  Average to a bit below average.

Football Atari 2600 Review

This game is really bad.  The screenshot above is the game, that's it.  You also have to have 2 people to play.  There is no single player mode.  It is sluggish and boring.  Horrible!  I give it 0 out of 10 stars.  I should go -10 on this one.  I understand they were limited with what they could do back then with games but come on!  There are plenty of games from the same era that are awesome.  Lazy programming is what led to the video game crash of the early 80's and it is evident with this piece of crap.

Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf NES Review

This one is a port of an arcade game.  It is a pretty close port.  Where I don't like golf games at all, this one is not too bad.  I call it "dummy golf" because it selects the clubs for you and takes the guess work out of it.  It also doesn't let you move left or right to aim your shot, you have to hook it if you want to do that.  Graphically it looks almost identical to NES Golf.  The sound is OK and the game play is nothing special.  Just your average run of the mill golf game with nothing really interesting going on.  I guess a plus of the game is that you can select 2 different courses so that is 36 different holes in all.  Overall, I give the game a 5 out of 10 stars.  Just average.

Putter Golf Playstation Review

This is a putt putt golf game for the Playstation.  The game is actually pretty fun.  You can select from several different modes when you start.  There is regular mode which is just a basic course setup and there is trick mode with ramps and tunnels, and there is a mixed mode with both.  There is also a practice mode.  You can play against the computer or against a human player.  The graphics not great but OK for a PS1 title.  The game play is pretty good though and it doesn't get really frustrating like some golf games.  They kept the interface simple which works great for the game.  The music is pretty decent as with most PS1 titles.  The game also has pretty good re playability and great fun factor.  Overall I give the game 7 out of 10 stars.  Check it out, it is a fun game.  

Hat Trick Atari 7800 Review

This game is a port of an arcade game by the same name.  It is a pretty close adaptation of the arcade version except that it seems slower and sluggish.  Once you get used to the speed it seems to play fine though.  It is a top down perspective one on one hockey  game.  2 on 2 technically if you count the goalies.  You can select between Novice and Expert mode and either 1 or 2 players.  It is much more fun to play with a friend but the computer does offer a challenge on expert mode.  Fun little game to pick up and play a few rounds with a friend every now and then.  Graphics and sound seem a little mediocre for the 7800 but not horrible.  Overall, I give this game a 6 out of 10 stars. 

Rocky Gamecube Review

This is a pretty cool game.  Lots of different options and game play.  My favorite is the movie mode.  You work your way through the 5 Rocky movies fighting different opponents.  You train between rounds with 5 different training regiments.  You can auto train for a guaranteed 5 skill points or try your luck with manual mode for a max of 10 skill points.  The game gets progressively harder and always stays fun.  The control is really easy to figure out and easy to use.  The game has very high re-playability. Try your luck against the favorites from the movies.  You can fight against Apollo Creed, Ivan Drago, Clubber Lang, and Tommy Gunn.   Overall I give it a 7 out of 10.  The graphics could have been a little better for the Gamecube in my opinion but the game play and story are great.

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out / Punch Out NES Review

Good old Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.  This game is classic.  When you first play it, it seems hard, but once you memorize the patterns, it is pretty easy.  The game play is pretty good, and the graphics are pretty good for its time.  There is no way to power up Little Mac (that's who you play as), you just keep fighting your way through the opponents.  You can however refill some or all of your power once per fight by pressing select between rounds.  Each character you fight has their weaknesses which makes the game fun.  Each fight is 3 rounds where you either need to knock your opponent out or get a TKO (Technical Knock-Out) knocking your opponent  down 3 times in a single round.  You get 3 minutes per round but the clock is kind of weird.  It runs really fast sometimes and other times runs slow.  There is no constant to the clock.  Mario is the referee which is pretty cool.  You fight your way through 3 divisions and at the end you fight Mike Tyson or Mr. Dream if it is the Punch-Out version.  Nintendo dropped Mike Tyson from the Punch-Out game after making the game for 3 years.  They apparently only had a 3 year license to use Tyson's likeness in the game.  Overall, I give this game a 7 out of 10.  I still find myself picking this game up from time to time and going all the way through it from beginning to end and having a good time doing it.

Babseball NES Review

This game is pretty good considering it came out in 1984.  It is a basic and I mean basic baseball game.  There are no team names, just initials.  There are no player names or numbers.  You can pick from I think 8 teams total.  It doesn't matter what team you pick because they all are the same except the color.  The game play is very straightforward, except controlling the runners.  Controlling the runners is probably the most frustrating thing about the game.  Everything else is pretty much automatic.  One thing that sucks big time however is when you hit the ball towards the 3rd baseman, he always covers 3rd and 9 times out of 10 he lets the ball get by him.  Oh well, anyway, the game is alright and I give it a 5 out 10 overall.  It does get pretty boring after 2 innings though and I feel very hard pressed to complete an entire game when I do play this game.  It is so slow at times it makes you just want to turn it off and sleep.

WWF Wrestlemania Challenge NES Review

The title screen comes up with an awesome shot of The Ultimate Warrior!!  OK, anything cool about this game ends here.  Do yourself a favor and never play this turd of a game.  The graphics suck (other than the title screen), Hulk Hogan is so tan he looks African American, and the game play sucks so bad you can barely control it.  I will give this piece of shit a 1 out of 10 only because there are worse games out there that deserve a zero.