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Run Saber
If only we had some kind of... directive Run Saber has both running and Sabers. It plays a little bit like if Ninja Gaiden had a life bar, sort of a weird beat-em up with otherwise neat moves. But it...
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Secret of Evermore
I have never heard anyone name Secret of Evermore as one of their favorite square games. Secret of Mana, sure. Chrono Trigger, yep. Final Fantasy, of course. Given that I’ve only played for a few...
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Shadowrun
Death is a pretty good start. Amnesia is probably the best device to use in a video game. It’s the perfect way to synchronize the behaviour of a player with the behaviour of their character. Between...
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Sim Ant
Come comrades, we strike out for a new world! Comrades, our colonies to the south have grown and prospered. Our aphids are fat, our mold colonies great, our enemies nonexistent. It is time, fellow...
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The Simpsons: Virtual Bart
Where to even start with this dense and confusing bit of surreality? The premise is this: Virtual Bart is one of a number of franchise titles, allegedly cranked through some sort of awful development...
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Sonic Blast Man II
Alright listen you tweedy little fucks, put down your Capri Suns and trade in those glasses for goggles, because today we’re going to learn how to be super heroes. Okay, so we’re gonna do this the hard...
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Super Mario World
Turtles can have no shells planes can be diagonal watch out you should probably jump right about now. After playing the first five minutes of a wealth of 16-bit platformers they all start to feel a...
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Super Nova
Shmups are interesting. From a contrivance standpoint, they are one of the simplest games to make. Along with platformers, they’re likely to be the most common type of game created by just one person....
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Super Slapshot
AI is really really interesting. I don’t mean the science fiction BS about machines overthrowing their human oppressors (though that is undeniably interesting in its own right) but rather AI as a...
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Spectre
I just played Spectre and managed to hold it together for like two minutes. It’s a vector based tank game kind of like battlezone but prettier. It looks sort of like this: That giant checkerboard is...
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