Too Much Awesome

The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy stands as one of the best grouping of video games you can possibly find, and certainly one of the best platforming experiences next to the holiness that is Mario and early Sonic. Nintendo set out to recreate the glory of DK’s finest hour, tasking Retro Studios with the job. Did [...]

Trilogies. Is there anything better? Usually, yes. Trilogies have a tendency to crash and burn in the final chapter, or even worse, they add a second trilogy with Midichlorians. Video games tend to throw off the shackles of the trilogy framework in favor of long-running franchises. However, we have some definite instances of trilogies that [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about video game music recently. I’m not sure why exactly, but maybe it’s just because I love video game music at all times. My iPod is actually full of more game-related music than non-game-related music. So I wanted to assemble a list of my favorite game tracks. 50 tracks later, [...]

This year’s E3 was full of a lot of win, assuming you were a Nintendo fanboy such as myself. While some announcements were completely out of left field, others were pretty expected. Donkey Kong Country Returns was somewhere in the middle, having been leaked as a thing currently in development by Retro Studios not long [...]

This year’s E3 is now over. As you may have guessed, I was not there. That’s not to say I’m completely without my knowledge of things that occurred during this year’s major press conferences. In fact, Other Chris is lucky and naturally talented enough to be an intern for a major game site (I won’t [...]

My Donkey Kong Country article helped wonderful childhood memories come flooding back into my mind all about the awesomeness that was Rare, the developer that owned the N64 without question. But then I started to think about the state of Rare these days and that fuzzy warm feeling rapidly faded away. If I can be [...]

A few weeks ago, OCRemix released yet another stellar album, this time for Donkey Kong Country 2. I’ve listened to it twice now and I’m quite happy with the free download. Naturally, it got me to re-listen to the soundtracks for all three Donkey Kong Country games and brought me to the realization that I [...]

You may not know it about me, but I actually think myself a pretty avid music lover. I just don’t listen to what most people listen to. What I listen to most of all are video game soundtracks, so when I want to up the stakes a bit I listen to video game remixes, and [...]

Thanksgiving is a time of year when families get together and eat copious amounts of food, then struggle to breathe as they fall into a deep stupor on the couch. What better time than this to play video games? But don’t overdo it with something overly stimulating like Ninja Gaiden or Call of Duty. Nah, [...]