Category Archives: What I’m Doing With My Joystick

My kind of video game: zombies, cheerleaders, headless hunks, and 80s love

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Daniel

Forget the story, suspense, or scares of survival horror. Lollipop Chainsaw is a straight up hack n’ slash arcade style video game that is loads of zombie slaughtering fun. It’s just you, a chainsaw, a hot dumb cheerleader sucking on … Continue reading →

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Cursed Mountain: Emphasis on the Curse…LOTS of them

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Daniel

Cursed Mountain on the Wii had the potential to be the best survival horror game of this generation to capture the feel of the classics from a decade ago. Only one thing held it back. It’s on the Wii. With … Continue reading →

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Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: this zip code will never be the same…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Daniel

Let’s face it. The Survival Horror genre hasn’t, well, survived the horror of game companies obsessed with satisfying action fans. Recent outings of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark have mostly disappointed long time fans of these … Continue reading →

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For Adults Only: X-Arcade…the ultimate place to spend all your quarters…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Daniel

I’ve spent the last decade trying to re-experience classic 80s arcade games the way I remember them. Plenty of ‘compilation’ discs have been released for everything from the first Playstation to the Wii, but with these consoles, you’re stuck using … Continue reading →

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The zombies come home for dinner—but all they want to eat is quarters…

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Daniel

Every time I dust off my Dreamcast, I find it such a shame that the system bit the very dust I’m wiping off. If only Sega had looked ahead and included DVD support, the Dreamcast could have been a great … Continue reading →

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Day of the Dead Rising 2: brain dead thoughts and some boss battle help

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Daniel

Having finally defeated the original Dead Rising on the 360 a couple of months ago, I was so hyped for the sequel to come out. When I heard there was a download only ‘prequel’ to the second game on the … Continue reading →

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How to cheat (um…beat?) Dead Rising Xbox 360…

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Daniel

When Dead Rising was released for the Xbox 360 last decade, it was the game that almost pushed me to buy the console sooner rather than later. But it wasn’t long before the user reviews began to hit the net…and … Continue reading →

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Silent Dark? Dark Hill? Actor Sean Bean probably wasn’t even sure…

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Daniel

The 2006 horror film Silent Hill immediately became a favorite of mine when I first saw it. As a long time fan of the video game series, I felt it totally captured the atmosphere of the games but also stood … Continue reading →

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How is it possible for a video game to be Obscure twice?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Daniel

Half a decade ago, a survival horror game called Obscure was released for the PS2 and Xbox. A simple takeoff on the original Resident Evil formula and 4-years ahead of the re-vamped Resident Evil series in that it was two … Continue reading →

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Infogrames Warlords remake on PC ALMOST rules

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Daniel

Memories…like the corners of my television screen… Way back in the day—like 1983/1984—me and my friends on my block would cram into my bedroom on the hottest days of the summer, in front of a fan, and have serious sessions … Continue reading →

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