(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) 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 ...
(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) 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 ...
(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) Kairosoft is a game developer that has been around for decades but really had its best period during the explosion in mobile gaming. We’ve touched on three Kairosoft games to play and went a bit into the business simulation gaming machine. It’s amazing for three reasons we’re about to ...
(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 ...