Video Game Reviews

Build your own NES Classic with a Raspberry Pi 3

Retro Gaming Tech and Product Reviews June 20, 2017

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Gamers are still searching for any available stock of the widely popular NES Classic Edition. Luckily you can build your own NES Classic with a Raspberry Pi 3 running RetroPie. We’ll show you step by step how to do this in today’s Raspberry Pi Build Tutorial. Nintendo produced a wonderful product here, but came up more than short in supplying enough units. In fact, it was embarrassingly low in supply throughout its production. To make circumstances even worse, Nintendo then in a very strange move announced it would cease production, even when demand was at its strongest. We’ve jumped the gun and made our own Super Nintendo Classic Edition before the initial announcement, but we wanted to follow up with how to make your own…

Super Hydorah Review (Xbox One)

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Space shooter fans rejoice, Super Hydorah is here in nostalgic old school glory. The talented team at Abylight Studios has created a retro infused horizontal scroll shooter for the Xbox One. It’s an experience that takes players on a trip back in time to the 80’s and 90’s arcade era. It heavily favors Gradius and other classics from this overlooked genre, but at the same time has its own style, sound and unique level designs. Gamers have to stop an impending invasion and the enemies are vast, powerful and relentless in their pursuit to rule over the Omios star. You’ll start the game with the bare essentials in options, which sets the starting difficulty quite high. It’s still however right in line with the…

Guns, Gore & Cannoli Review (Nintendo Switch)

Action Adventure Nintendo Switch Reviews Shooter December 21, 2017

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Crazy Monkey Studios has released their humorous 2D shooter on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a mashup of zombies, gangsters and mob based mayhem. The streets are flooded with the undead and wise guys in a turf war. Players take on the role of Vinnie Cannoli, a veteran mafia member who has been tasked with locating a lost goodfella from Thugtown in the middle of all this turmoil. Vinnie is the type of guy that shoots first and asks questions later. Gamers will need to blast anything that moves to make it out alive in this action packed side-scrolling shooter where both the dead and living are constant threats. The arsenal is luckily vast in Guns, Gore & Cannoli, which you will need to get…

Top 10 Greatest Games for the NES

Opinion Pieces May 6, 2018

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The Top 10 Greatest games for the NES is an extremely tough list to narrow down. Having grown up on the NES, there are hundreds of games that could make the cut for me alone. For that reason, I focused on which ones I beat time and time again; and those that really hold a special memory for me. With over 800 games for the NES available, there are certainly a lot of titles to consider. My picks ranged from shooters, action adventures and amazing platformers that still stand the test of time to this very day. 10. Punch Out Punch Out and the NES went hand in hand. If you grew up with this 8-bit system you certainly spent some…

The Evil Within 2 Review (PS4 Pro)

PlayStation Reviews Survival Horror October 13, 2017

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Friday the 13th is here, as well as the Evil Within 2. Shinji Mikami and Tango Gameworks has crafted a thrilling sequel that again stars Sebastian Castellanos and it’s the darkest of times for the detective. He’s already been through hell and back, but it’s about to get even worse. In the Evil Within 2, Sebastian is in tremendous pain and tormented over the loss of his daughter. In the first game, players were at Beacon Mental Hospital. Fast forward to the present time and Sebastian has left the force. He is then made aware that his little girl is actually alive. In order to get her however, he must enter a STEM system which allows multiple minds to connect and work with MOBIUS (the organization at fault for…

The Greatest Racing Game Series

Opinion Pieces Racing May 12, 2018

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Today Pixelated Gamer takes a look at our picks for the greatest racing game series at both the arcade and home. There has always been a nice selection of racing games available, thanks to talented developers, passionate fans and the advances of technology that allow for some truly remarkable simulators. There are also some fantastic arcade racers that are incredibly popular as well. Let’s see who made the cut. Gran Turismo Before Gran Turismo, there were mainly arcade racers with very little simulation. GT forever changed this scene. With its release, gamers had to go to driving school, win races to earn new cars and continue that winning streak to further modify your collection of cars. Customizing your car was one of…

Justice Duel Review (NES)

Retro Gaming Reviews August 14, 2017

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Retro gaming is more popular than ever with gamers seeing remakes of iconic classics and brand new 2D based releases from many developers. They often feature the old school, pixelated art style from the 8 and 16-bit era. Mega Cat Studios are not only developers of some great retro infused software, but they also produce these games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis. On top of that, they manufacture their very own cartridges alongside a nice manual and product box. It’s a total time warp to picking up a game back in the era of these amazing game systems from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Today we are looking at Justice Duel for the NES. This is post World War…

The Greatest Zelda Games of All Time

Opinion Pieces May 14, 2018

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The Legend of Zelda is simply one of the most beloved video game franchises for any console to date. This is especially true for myself, having grown up with the NES and all its classic titles. After wrapping up Breath of the Wild, which was absolutely brilliant, it left us wondering what is the greatest Zelda game of all time? There are so many contenders to consider. While everyone has their favorites entries in this amazing series, here is our personal Top 5 Zelda games of all time. 5. The Legend of Zelda Where would Nintendo be without Zelda? It’s pretty hard to imagine. Without this first vision, the world of Hyrule and our hero Link wouldn’t exist. That first golden cartridge…

Nintendo vs Sega vs TurboGrafx-16: The 16-bit Gaming Generation

Opinion Pieces Retro Gaming May 15, 2018

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The fourth gaming generation, more commonly referred to as the 16-bit era, is more than likely our all time favorite here at Pixelated Gamer. We moved on from the 8-bit systems and jumped head first into the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 and eventually the add-ons such as the Sega CD, 32X and Super Gameboy. The leap in graphics and controls were mind blowing at the time; plus the amount of games available was just staggering. Let’s take a look at these systems and the games that made them truly iconic. TurboGrafx-16 The PC Engine was the result of a collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC and launched in Japan on October 30, 1987. It launched in North America during August 1989,…

Mercenary Kings Reloaded Review (Nintendo Switch)

Action Adventure Nintendo Switch Reviews Shooter February 6, 2018

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Mercenary Kings Reloaded Edition Release Trailer

Mercenary Kings Reloaded is a brand new 2D shooter for the Nintendo Switch from Tribute Games. It originally hit the PC and PS4 in 2014, but this reloaded version comes with new characters and gameplay improvements that make it quite enticing for those that have yet to play this action packed shooter. The visuals and gameplay in Mercenary Kings Reloaded certainly seems to have been inspired from classics such as Metal Slug and I can also spot some Metal Gear likeness within the communication screens between your comrades and home base. The game’s campaign is based upon a squad of elite soldiers that must bring down Commander Baron and the CLAW organization that he leads on Mandragora Island. Gamers can choose from 4…