(AfroGamers.com) We went into four features that made games more difficult to tackle in the 80s and 90s 2D era of gaming. It mostly rested in technical limitations and decisions with the mechanics in many titles and not so much in “This Game is hell.” Let’s look at four features ...
(AfroGamers.com) Super Mario Bros. 3 tends to hold a special spot when discussing groundbreaking video games. I usually sum it up with the first SMB being significant to gaming as a whole—it saved an industry—while SMB3 is significant to the franchise. One thing I always noticed whether it was SMB ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(AfroGamers.com) I’ve recently sat and played a classic Nintendo 64 game in Duke Nukem 64. Actually, it’s more of a cult classic since it wasn’t exactly one of the blockbuster titles on the console. Regardless, it’s a game that really made me look at how good GoldenEye 007 was as ...
(AfroGamers.com) In gaming today, bringing back old games is just as popular as coming out with a brand-new game for some strange reason. Maybe it is because we know what we are getting with the old games or maybe it’s just nostalgia. Either way, Nintendo has a massive number of ...
(AfroGamers.com) There are games that you sometimes see and you’re interested in them but they might seem difficult to dive into. The best thing to do is just dive in and have patience. Who knows, it might not be as difficult as you figured. However, sometimes it’s best to have ...