Saturday, March 5, 2011

Top 10 Super Nintendo games you should play before you die

Awe the days of 16 bit gaming, when cartridges boasted of their megabyte capacities to impress the gaming public. For me this was probably the golden age of video gaming, and so here is my top 10 list of SNES games that anyone who likes games should play before they die;

10.Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
9. Final Fantasy 2 (or 4 as it is now called)
8. Mortal Kombat 2
7. Super Mario All Stars
6. Star Fox
5. Contra 3
4. Mega Man X
3. Final Fantasy 3 (or as its now called, 6)
2. The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
1. Chrono Trigger

What's your picks?

History 1700 the way it should have been!

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter may sound like a joke, but that's part of what makes seth grahame-smith's novel so brilliant. You begin reading it without much more expectation than a good chuckle, but soon discover a compelling, emotionally engaging (at times disturbing) action/horror story expertly woven into actual historical events.
Supposedly taken from a collection of secret journals, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter tells of how Honest Abe, enraged at his mother's murder at the hands of vampire, became one of the most dangerous vampire hunters of all time, and how the blood drinking demons played a part in his political career, the Civil War, and his ultimate assassination.
Cleverly written with a quirky charm, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is one of the most original takes on vampire lore that I've ever seen.

B+ for this clever treatment of American History.