Who is Zack Scott and what does he know about Nintendo and video games?
Well, borrowing from what he’s written on the About page of his blog, Zack Scott is a prolific videographer. His collection of videos, which is very extensive, focuses mostly on comedy, education, and (gasp!) his cute pets.
So what does his being a, uhmm, cute pet lover have to do with Nintendo and widely or little known facts about the company? Watch this.

You have no way of knowing this just by viewing the video on Re:Retro, but when you hop over to YouTube and check out the Zack …read more

Having dispatched Zelda to the pit from which it should never have emerged, let’s move on to Lemmings.

That link will take you directly to a small emulated version which seems to replicate the original classic exactly. Feel free to while away a day or two on it before reading on.

The Winner’s Book Of Video Games had this to say about Space Invaders:

“Space Invaders. Space Invaders. Space Invaders. It is the Muhammad Ali of the video game world. It is the Greatest. The biggest seller in the history of the world. The best game ever for the year it was introduced. The game that revitalized the industry and changed it forever. The game that made the industry the monster it is today…” And on and on in that vein.

In that spirit, I present Bonanza Bros.

Part 2 after the ‘Read More’…

“According to Sigmund Freud, humans have a life instinct – which he named ‘Eros’ – and a death drive, which is commonly called (though not by Freud himself) ‘Thanatos’. This postulated death drive allegedly compels humans to engage in risky and self-destructive acts that could lead to their own death” – Wikipaedia
When you’re blogging, a good TRICK or TIP is to start with a portentious quote, which will lend the following hem-hem ‘article’ some added weight. And now, Sim City.

Right, let’s get the title out of the way first in case I forget: Pinball Fantasies.
Almost as bad as pedophile fantasies if you ask me! But what makes it so bad?

“Report to Medical School immediately!”

Or rather, the game is the review. What is there to say about Boxxle? It spawned a thousand flash imitators, all working from the same simple principle – shoving crates around. As near as I can determine, there are no lives and little in the way of score – there’s just you and 108 puzzles, ranging in difficulty. It’s a formula that we can get for free on any number of flash game sites, so it’s only fitting that I shut up and allow you to review Boxxle yourself – by playing it. Javascript required.

Can you believe that there was once a time when you couldn’t play God with human lives, destroying them at your whim? Seems like madness, doesn’t it? But before Populous, you couldn’t even hurl a man into the sea for displeasing you.

I’ve been away for some days dealing with repercussions from my 30th Birthday, with the result that next week is going to have to be DOUBLE POSTS EVERY DAY to catch up! Will I manage it? Can I avoid it? Do you care? We’ll have to see, but in order to get to next week at all I have to talk about Thief II: The Metal Age.