Author: Jared Lord
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Musings on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Video games are an artistic medium. When they are at their best, they can deeply move you. This can be from the beauty of the graphics or the story they are conveying. But just because a game isn’t a masterpiece, a big seller, or even particularly good, doesn’t mean it can’t be a landmark experience in your life.…
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Musings on Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
I have a weird fondness for oddball entries in video game series. The ones that just don’t quite fit in with the rest of the games in a franchise. Their existence fascinates me, as they often have unusual historical reasons for coming into existence. Sometimes, different games get reskinned to be part of a franchise they…
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Musings on Ports and Remasters on the Switch
At the time of this writing, Pikmin 3 Deluxe has recently been announced. And, I for one am excited about this. When the first two Pikmin games came out, I could count on one hand the number of people I knew who actually owned a Gamecube. As a result of this, I never really actually experienced Pikmin…
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Musings on Super Paper Mario
Paper Mario: The Origami King has just been released in the past couple of weeks. I have yet to pick it up myself for a couple of reasons. One of those is that I currently have too many games in my “to play” stack for my Switch (and for everything else, for that matter). I definitely…
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Musings on Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
When you talk to gamers of my generation, when you ask them about the first video games they played, or the first video games they owned, you’re going to hear a couple names quite frequently. If you were to poll a hundred people born between 1980 and 1990 about some of the most memorably and…
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Musings on the Secret of Mana
“Some of us like chocolate ice cream, some of us like vanilla ice cream, and some of us like strawberry.” The bulk of my gaming memories are from the Nineties through the early 00s. I vividly remember the excitement of the Console Wars from my childhood. I remember people arguing over the merits of the…
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Musings on Sonic and Knuckles
Fans of Sonic the Hedgehog have a notoriously bad reputation for being vocal and disagreeable. You’ve got people who became fans of the series because of the Saturday Morning Cartoon and Archie Comics
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Musings on Super Smash Bros.
If You Want Peace, Prepare for War. A while back, a coworker was talking to me, and the conversation somehow turned to Super Smash Brothers. We were talking about the excitement around Smash Ultimate, the various new characters, and who we tend to play as. He admitted, “I love playing as Little Mac, but I…