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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Suckage (Genesis) retrospective

After reading this review of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie on Chocolate Lemon, I decided it might be fun to dig out my own copy of this game to give it a try. It didn’t fair well.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is an obnoxiously repetitive brawler, aspiring to be one of the worst in the genre. You fight through, literally, dozens of the same enemy; again and again. And, just when you think you’re done, a bunch more show up. It’s painful.

After mashing the B-button for, oh, a minor … Continue Reading

Jungle Strike (Genesis) retrospective

Nothing sells video games like war; real-world war. These days, we have games like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that use the conflicts going on in Iraq and Afghanistan as a backdrop for much of the plot that makes up these games. And while these modern shooters delve into realms so fantastic that the writers behind G.I. Joe would find them ridiculous, it’s worth noting that nothing much has changed — games have always had a fancy for the ludicrous. Enter the Strike series of games. Specifically, the game we’re going to … Continue Reading