Happy New Years to everyone and it's been a good year for Retro Gamer Junction. Thanks for supporting this site as all of you helped us reach a new area. I will admit the content has slowed down a little by the end of this year. With studying for the exam in IT and trying to put together my sister site called Sacred Realm Tower has made this hard for me to keep up. However, in 2019 I will try making Retro Gamer Junction even better. I do have some ideas to bring in for Modern Gaming like a section for Indy games. Even a section dedicated to video games in media such as movies, cartoons, live action shows and comics is being considered. Maybe an area for reviewing old game magazines like Nintendo Power isn't such a bad idea.
For our last article of the year, I have a new edition of Retro Arena. It has been nearly four months since posting my last one. For this edition, I'm putting Capcom's Super Ghouls N Ghosts against Konami's Super Castlevania IV for the Super NES. Both GNG and Castlevania are ordinarily the front-runners for 2D side scrolling platformers back then. In fact, both entries came out during the Super NES' launch window. That apparently was the only time I ever saw a console get so many quality titles during the first six months. On top of that both games had tremendous development placed into each one. Konami was really smart to make SCIV one of their first to release on the new console. I wouldn't be surprised if SCIV along with Final Fantasy IV and Super Mario World encouraged kids to buy a Super NES. While SGNG has Capcom return to the old arcade style for its ghoul busting platformer. So, which one will be slayed before the night is over? Super Ghouls N Ghosts vs. Super Castlevania IV
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A new edition of Retro Corner is up and we check out one of the first generation's spinoff title called Pokemon Stadium for the N64. It's been a while since I have written anything from the N64 as the last time was on New Year's Eve a year ago. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was the last time a review got posted from this console. The truth is the Nintendo 64 is my least favorite console to ever come out from this company. From personal experience the N64 irritated me, despite the console producing many classics to grace gaming history like Perfect Dark or Zelda: Majora's Mask. However, that was a time I didn't like Nintendo because of how they acted which were a bunch of snobs. Even their logo "Get N or Get Out" and the writers from Nintendo Power from 1996 to 2001 reflected that. With limited releases of quality titles and their snobbish attitude could be why it's the worst era I had to experience from the House of Mario.
Pokemon Stadium as mentioned before was a Generation One spinoff that originally got released in Japan in 1998. However, Pokemon spinoffs are actually not that bad and I got some enjoyment out of them. In fact for a new series at the time, it sure did get a lot when they managed to make Puzzle League, Trading Card and Pin Ball titles. Now, the one that stood out the most of this generation is Pokemon Stadium. I mean it gave us an arena style game that had actual 3D gameplay for the battles. Its obvious Stadium wasn't the first when Snap and Hey You Pikachu were already released in 1999. Did those simulator 3D battles like on the Game Boy? That's difference between the earlier 3D titles and this gave us an idea what the gameplay would look like if a real console game got developed. Pokemon Stadium (N64) Review Another classic edition of Retro Corner is up, and I have an old review of Pokemon Yellow from two years ago. After many years we finally received a remake to Yellow version for the Switch. I'm honestly surprised Game Freak waited this long as we expected something like this at one point but not this late. However, I was always puzzled that they didn't produce one during the mid 2000s when Fire Red and Leaf Green came out. It was assumed by me that they were going to call this Electric Yellow and release the updated game in 2005 or 2006. Unfortunately, that idea never saw the light of day, and it's probably because of Game Freak producing the Emerald Edition. I still believe they missed an opportunity in the mid 2000s to not redo Yellow version on GBA. At least the fandom already put together a ROM hack called Ash Gray Version. It's basically a Fire Red/Leaf Green hack with some of the Anime's plot loosely put into the story.
The Special Pikachu Edition originally came out a year after the North American release of Red and Blue. Many would obviously prefer Red Version because of Charizard's popularity. For me, I always picked Yellow version since it tried emulating the Anime but on a smaller scale. That wasn't solely the reason I picked this edition as the updated game fixed some problems left in from earlier titles. In Red and Blue, the art style for the Pokemon came off odd in most cases like Raichu being an example. The Generation One art had odd design choices which I can tell originated in the Japanese releases from 1996. On a funny note, I realized that Pikachu was a little Fatty McFatty back then (yeah I gave a Dane Cook reference). Not even Dawn's Buneary who had a crush on him from the Diamond and Pearl Saga would look at him twice if he had that old look. Pokemon Yellow (Game Boy) Review |
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