Continuing a proud tradition of posting other people’s hard work and passing it off as my own, here are the top 20 Genesis games (according to Screwattack, obviously). I was a Nintendo kid, during the days of the only console rivalry that ever really mattered, so I’ve only played a few of these. The top 10 are after the jump.
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Ah, nostalgia. If you’re like me, the SNES was your first console and as such, comes with some pretty strong feelings in regards to its game library. So, in the interest of sparking discussion and debate, here are Screw Attack’s top 20 SNES games! The top ten can be found after the jump.
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I am a strange person. I’ve heard it all throughout my life. There was nothing more fun to me as a child than getting up on a Saturday morning, watching cartoons with a big-ass bowl of cereal and then spending the rest of the day gaming on any and all systems that I had access to. Growing up a gamer in the early eighties has enabled me to see the rise of every game console except for the original Pong. I’ve been gaming since I learned to read at the age of three, when I learned how to run my old man’s Commodore 64 all because I wanted to play Time Pilot.

Many of you have been fervently reading and commenting on my other posts that I’ve done since my inception to MEGATONik, and I can’t thank you enough for your support. In thanks to you, the community, I’ve decided to put in a ton of work and bring you a special post that near and dear to my heart, my Top 50 Console Games of All Time.

I will try my damnedest to explain the reasons why I think why a certain game is deserved of it’s spot. Certainly many of you will disagree with the order I have put the games in but I always welcome your comments and suggestions. It is thanks to all of you in the community that I have been able to hone my craft by subjecting you to my subjective opinions about video games. Without any further ado… let’s get this thing started! Hit the jump to be defeated by a wall of text designed to titillate and please you.

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I guess if one game a week is the exception, then two games a week is the norm. The problem with two becoming the norm, is that Nintendo doesn’t need to make one of the games great to make up for the missing game. This is evident of this week’s releases: OPERATION WOLF (NES®, 1 player, Rated E10+ for Use of Tobacco and Violence, 500 points) and Columns III™: Revenge of Columns (Genesis, 1-5 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 points). Both of these games decidedly avoid blowing you away with any awesomeness.

Now, I’m not one to spread rumors, and I’m not going to download the game to find out if this is true or not, but I hear that the Wii’s light gun won’t work with Operation Wolf; despite the fact that it is a light gun game. This means you’ll probably be aiming with the D-pad. If that weren’t enough to dissuade you from seriously considering NOT downloading this title take a look at the press release’s game description after the jump. The game gets harder as you go along!? Grenades!? Bosses with weak spots at the end of a level!? Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anything so original…ever. Well, maybe minature car racing.

Looking to Columns III for your dose of originality probably won’t help much either, as it offers the same puzzle gameplay involving organizing colors in groups as both Columns I and Columns II did, but now with mulitplayer and a story mode. It seems revenge is a dish best served stacked in organized, colored lines. I’d watch out, you don’t cross a column and live to talk about it.

All games go live at the same Bat time and same Bat channel as last week, 9 p.m. PST. Hit the jump to read the hilariously bad press release.

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The Nintendo Entertainment System was known for two things: Licensed games and platformers. Gamers of today will probably wince when they hear of licensed games, the retro era, being a licensed game did not always mean poor quality. As a matter of fact, some of the best games of yesteryear were based off of popular TV shows and movies.

The game I look back on today was everything listed above: a quality, licensed platformer. Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers was one of my favorite childhood TV shows, and the game only my increased love for the two chipmunks. In the game, you got to choose between Chip and Dale, (But seriously, who didn’t pick Chip? Chip was such a badass.) and you work your way through an assortment of levels to accomplish objectives starting with saving kittens, and eventually stopping Fat Cat and rescuing Gadget. The rest of the review is after the jump.

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Namco Bandai has announced today that they have released Pole Position: Remix for the Apple iPod today, and the game is available for the price of $4.99 through the iTunes service. Pole Position: Remix is a remake of Pole Position II, and will feature the original four levels the game had, as well as the iPod exclusive Misaki Point race track. The game can be purchased and played on any iPod Nano with video, iPod classic, or fifth generation iPod.

I can imagine that the game would be easy and simple to control using the iPod’s click wheel. I would never pay that much money to play Pole Position on my iPod, but I do think the iPod is becoming a new path for casual gaming, especially since Harmonix’s Phase was released on the MP3 player. Still, I’d love to see more Namco classic arcade games heading to this device.

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This week, the editors and I bring you the return of one of our most beloved features, MEGATONik Presents. In this installment, a few of our most worthy writers pitched in with their opinion of some of the best arcade games ever made. These aren’t the types of games that you’d occasionally toss a quarter or so into every couple of weeks and try to beat the game on one life — oh, no. These are the arcade games that you poured quarters into; they’re the types of games that kept that radiator on your car unfixed, and perhaps cost you a girlfriend or two. Hit the jump below to check out our picks!

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Miss the old school SNK games for the classic Neo Geo systems? SNK knows you damn well do, which is the reason why they’ve been making countless compilations of their old games for the PlayStation 2. SNK is releasing yet another compilation that’s due out the first half of this year called SNK Arcade Classics: Volume 1, and I can honestly say, this anthology actually has me interested. The game will be releasing for both the PSP and the PS2, and will include 16 old school titles.

Read on for the press release and a full list of the games included on SNK Arcade Classics: Volume 1.

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