One Credit, Zero Continues Tuesday: R-Type III and Soldier Blade

It’s almost like a repeat of last week: one horizontal game I really suck at followed by a Star Soldier game that I don’t.

I’m not nearly as good at either game as last week’s selection—which doesn’t make a terribly noticeable difference with R-Type III, but I do rack up deaths a lot quicker in Soldier [...]

One Credit, Zero Continues Tuesday: Gunstar Heroes and Super Star Soldier

I do love Gunstar Heroes, the second Virtual Console game I bought—in fact, it’s probably one of my three favorite Genesis games—but I sure do suck at it. And I’ll own up to that fact with video proof!

No matter how pitiable and hysterical my Gunstar suckitude might be, though, I can’t in good conscience leave [...]

One Credit, Zero Continues Tuesday: Blaster Master

Yesterday I got a rude awakening at the hands of an early phone call. Normally I’d be pretty grumpy about it, but Nintendo’s been picking up the ball again on Virtual Console releases, I logged in to see what was on tap, and so I was greeted with Blaster Master—one of the coolest games of [...]

One Credit, Zero Continues Tuesday: Super Castlevania IV

Time for a new video series: on One Credit, Zero Continues Tuesday I’ll harken back to older and perhaps better days when extra lives mattered, checkpoints weren’t reached in under thirty steps, and story didn’t matter (and, accordingly, seeing the ending was a privilege and not a right). A playthrough of one game if I [...]