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The Rise and Decline of the 2000s Anime Fansub Scene.

(AfroGamers.com) We’ve discussed the first boom period of anime in the West during the late 1990s starting with Dragon Ball, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Teknoman, and Samurai Pizza Cats. Those series remained in syndication until 1996 when stations skipped everything following the Pilaf Saga in DB and returned with the Raditz Saga. It was one of the most extreme timeskips because there was so much... [Read more of this review]

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Image Comics and HBO Should’ve Been the Dream Team for Superhero Content.

(AfroGamers.com) In many ways, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn was way ahead of other superhero cartoons that were out in the 1990s. The main thing is that it was the most mature of them all and this is purely because it was on HBO. The Hopeful 2025 Spawn Film The reason I brought this up is because a Spawn film is in development with an expected 2025 release. Now, being familiar with the Spawn lore, I’d... [Read more of this review]

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The Technomancer is a Fine Blueprint for Focus Entertainment Games.

(AfroGamers.com) I’ve touched on Focus Entertainment’s Vampyr and The Surge and we’ve explored reviving Outriders but amazingly, we’ve never touched on The Technomancer. It’s interesting because we went into what made Kairosoft such a great studio on mobile and one of those three strong features is the gameplay formula. Focus Entertainment has taken to that same mantra in several games. Vampyr... [Read more of this review]

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Let’s Check Out for Pirate Game Pioneers.

(AfroGamers.com) In the 2000s, there were memes centered around pirates versus ninjas. It’s a fun image featuring two historical badass warriors both being shrouded in myth and mystery. In gaming, we’ve seen ninjas get a ton of love in the form of Strider as well as the Naruto, Tenchu, Ninja Gaiden, and Shinobi among other titles. Not only that but ninjas are heavily featured in games where ninjas... [Read more of this review]

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The End of Cartoon Network 1992-2023.

(AfroGamers.com) For several years on AfroGamers, we’ve gone into cartoons whether it’s Western-style animation or anime. There was a trip in time to take just to see what rocked and wonder why some stuff existed. At the beginning of August 2023, Cartoon Network will go off the air after almost 30 years on the air. The End of an Era…Kinda Cartoon Network had several eras influenced largely by... [Read more of this review]

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Let’s Appreciate the Tournament Arc in Anime and Manga.

(AfroGamers.com) One of my favorite story arcs in manga or manhwa is the tournament arc. It’s a simple arc that usually starts with news of the tournament after a big boss storyline. The main character might be healing from getting shlacked during the fight then someone in their inner circle goes “Hey, so-and-so tournament is coming up.” Why Tournament Arcs Rock Of course, in the case of Dragon... [Read more of this review]

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ThunderCats is a Franchise That Deserves a Long-Run Series.

(AfroGamers.com) In 1985, ThunderCats aired and for those who saw it when it originally aired, it was pretty groundbreaking compared to most animated action-adventure series at the time. It had more style to it than G.I Joe and He-Man as well as better animation. If anything, it was similar to Voltron, Robotech, and Battle of Planets. ThunderCats…Hooooo! That’s because ThunderCats is anime. It... [Read more of this review]

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If You’re Unfamiliar with Roleplay: It’s Basically Pro Wrestling.

(AfroGamers.com) Back in 2021, I joined a GTA RP—Grand Theft Auto roleplay—server called Alabama RP. It was a smaller server and at the time didn’t have the mechanics that larger servers like NoPixel and IgniteRP sported. In the player application for my background in roleplay and for my character, I was asked “What is roleplay?” I’d been roleplaying in some sense since 1996. I started... [Read more of this review]

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Battletoads/Double Dragon is a Classic Beat ‘Em Up Worth Diving Into.

(AfroGamers.com) When I was younger, I was a big fan of side-scrolling beat ‘em ups. There have been many cult classics and true bangers of this subgenre of action games but one game always irritated me: Battletoads/Double Dragon. It’s a title I got during Christmas 1993 and I was pretty stoked to get it mainly for Double Dragon. That Annoying Speeder Level Normally, I’d go into the background... [Read more of this review]

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Vampyr is the Spiritual Successor to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

(AfroGamers.com) Usually when we see the spiritual successor to a game it’s created by a studio made up of the spiritual predecessor’s studio. A good example of this is the Story of Seasons series made by Marvelous—which features talent from Natsume, the studio behind Harvest Moon. You also have Mighty No. 9, developed by Comcept. The studio was headed up by Keiji Inafune who had a big creative... [Read more of this review]

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Mad Max Is an Underrated Game and Worthy of a Sequel.

(AfroGamers.com) Recently, I’ve gotten into and revisited a couple of open-world games. As I’ve expressed in the past, open-world is my favorite approach to games since the linear approach just doesn’t do it for me. If I know how the progression is going without me getting there at my own pace, I’m going to lose interest quickly. I don’t know, maybe it’s knowing the ending of the game is... [Read more of this review]

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Do You Remember When Video Games Came with Manuals and Short Tutorials?

(AfroGamers.com) The first game I ever played was Castlevania, a side-scrolling action game where you killed all kinds of monsters and demons leading up to a final showdown with Count Dracula. I was probably four when my cousins let me play on their OG Nintendo, so there was no way I was fighting Dracula. That fight wouldn’t go down until 2000, 11 years later and features many deaths on my part. That’s... [Read more of this review]

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