As a lover for Action- RPGs, 3D Dot Game Heroes had me at hello.
With its retro aesthetic, unabashed, blatant rippof of classic Zelda music and gameplay, and its comical nods at overused RPG tropes, this game has been on my radar since day one. Yeah, I have a radar.
It also doesn’t hurt that the game is being made by From Software, the creators of the best video game in the world.
And just when I think it can’t get any better, Atlus goes and releases this trailer, full of Boss Fights and an Stephen Hawking style voice for the hero. Thank you Atlus, and stay retro my friends.
Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
Gaming and beverages have a wide and varied history, from 7up mascot Spot’s 16-bit adventures, PlayStation’s Pepsi Man and the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice energy drink. I believe in the business world they call this synergy. In the 90′s SEGA and Coca-Cola took such cross-promotional teamwork to the next level, releasing a complete beverage-branded console bundle. In it, you got [...]
Man, Nintendo certainly had a lot of awesome merchandising back in the day. In game-branded food alone there was Nintendo-themed cereal, mac-and-cheese and fruit snacks. Way better than those shitty mint tins they now sell at FYE and Newbury Comics. But here’s a Nintendo product you definitely should not eat: The Legend of Zelda Model Set. Currently [...]
(NOTE: This was a contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. You should go read it.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted me down to their [...]
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