When I first read on Game Informer’s site that another Dreamcast game is coming out in 2010, my first reaction was, “Are you fucking kidding me?!”
No. Really. That was my reaction.
While I was/am a huge Sega fan, I never bought a Dreamcast and instead stayed with my Sega until Sony released the Playstation at which time I jumped ship. I went on to get the PS2 and I’ve since moved on to the PS3 and haven’t looked back…until now.
I headed over to the blog for Hypertension [the forthcoming Dreamcast title] and expected to be underwhelmed by a YouTube video or …read more

Tetris, you’re not so young anymore, my friend.
You’ve hit 25 and I’m curious if you’re experiencing a “quarter life crisis”. Other games have come along since you and have tempted gamers. Games with better graphics. Games with more complicated gameplay. Games with more voluptuous…erm…budgets.
Do not despair, Tetris. Everyone remembers their first love and you were mine. I can remember holding you in my hands and playing you until the wee hours of the morning, way past the time when I should have been asleep.
I can remember taking you on road trips with me so that I would have something to …read more

Sorry for the Bon Jovi reference but it just seemed to fit.
I had an interesting discussion with friends the other day about life meters. Life meters are a part of games that I have mixed emotions about.  Back in the day when arcade machines were fed with quarters, the life meter was a necessary evil.  If you were not dieing then you were not feeding the beast.
With the advent of home consoles systems, life meters were made obsolete.  Dying every few seconds to get more quarters no longer serves any purpose. It was just annoying and could ruin a …read more