TheRetroCritic

I play some of the old Star Wars NES game (badly).

I play some of the infamous Lester The Unlikely .

Luigi proves he's not the sharpest tool in the plumber tool belt throughout the Super Mario Bros. movie. 

I review the Super Mario Bros. movie!

I list 10 of the silliest lines from the Super Mario Bros. movie. Courtesy of Dennis Hopper's King Koopa.

My ongoing quest to get "good" at Beetlejuice on NES continues... For Part 1: CLICK HERE

My review of Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly . That game can eat my shorts.

My first attempt at the impossible: trying to complete the Beetlejuice NES game.

Previously a Halloween-themed video for 1MoreCastle.com , here's my review of Dr. Franken for the Nintendo Game Boy.

Originally on 1MoreCastle.com , here's my review of the Batman Game Boy game.

One of the NES games I hear the least about is Little Ninja Brothers , an action RPG developed by Nihon Game (aka Culture Brain), released in 1990 in North America. The sequel to Kung Fu Heroes (known as  Chinese Hero in the Arcade), took what made the original game so much fun and added RPG elements to it. While this kind of transition doesn't work for certain games, here it actually makes sense. You still jump around, punching and kicking your enemies in the same way except, this time, you find them in the wild and gain experience points as well as money when you defeat them. Those mini-fights become much more stressful when they pop up again before bosses. After levelling up, picking up all sorts of weapons and talismans in the towns you visit along the way, you enter various castles where you have three big fights with some of the most annoying enemies in the game before facing off against the main enemy, usually a witch or a sorcerer. You play as Jack and Ryu, t

I play some M.C. Kids , the McDonald's game for the NES.

Time to give the Beetlejuice NES game another chance. It's showtime!

I play some classic Gauntlet . You've never seen such bravery.

I rant and play along SNES hack Super Mario War . Enjoy the trip.

So it's Review A Bad Game Day again, that most magical time of year where we gather around and celebrate a bad game worthy of mention. Today, I'll be looking at the SNES version of cartoonish platformer Dennis The Menace which also came out for the Amiga and the Game Boy. Based on the live-action movie from 1993 which itself was an adaptation of the old cartoon series, the game has you take control of the titular troublemaker as he wanders around grumpy neighbour Mr Wilson's home and other locations causing all sorts of mayhem. Incidentally, it looks like Hell has already broken loose in all of those places since poor old Dennis is soon awkwardly manoeuvring around thousands of purple cats, bouncing tea cups, killer fish, giant frogs and mice. Now I'm not sure what Mr Wilson's been up to but it can't be good because his house is like the Halloween version of Pee-Wee's Playhouse . It's a bit like the Home Alone games in that everything is out to ki

I review Popeye 2 for the original Game Boy.

I rant and play a bit of X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse for the SNES as Capcom once again destroys me with yet another tough-as-nails beat 'em up.

I rant and play a bit of Capcom's  Marvel Super Heroes: War Of The Gems for the SNES. Assemble!

I crawl through the last couple of tough bosses in this final chapter of my Castlevania playthrough.