Archive for the ‘Video Games’ Category

PatMan Picks TI99/4a Favorites. Munch Man.

One of my all time favorite video games and characters for that matter is the legendary Pac-Man. To this day this action/puzzle game is still simple, addictive fun. However, back in the early days of home video games and early PC gaming, developers just could not make a great port for this arcade classic. As a matter of fact, most of the early […]

Oh Look, Yet Another Game Of The Year Blog..

As the title suggests, this is another Game Of The Year blog. Hi, I’m your freelance writer, you may not remember me from such posts that started with ‘The War On..’, and they may return, but this is as the title says.. a Game Of The Year blog. Different in the sense, that the games […]

PatMan “Plays” 3DS Swapnote. Starring members of the Wpod crew!

Welcome once again to another “shaky cam” PatMan plays video. This time around I am less playing and more watching as I mess around with the latest free app for Nintendo 3DS users, Swapnote ! In the last few days I have been receiving some cool 3D messages, pictures and drawings from members of the Wpod crew, […]

PatMan Picks TI99/4a Favorites: Star Trek.

While I consider myself for the most part to be a console gamer, it would be very inaccurate to say I haven’t enjoyed my fair share of classic science fiction PC titles. And if  I go even further back in time as a kid, I also enjoyed a few of these titles on the TI994a home computer […]

Patman Picks N64 Favorites: 1080 Snowboarding

Living in Canada, you would think I am a fan of winter sports.And to be fair, I have skied down Rocky Mountains and ice skated around the Olympic oval, trying not to stare at speed skaters oddly shaped legs. But, I grew up just not really being into most winter sports, unless snow ball fights, building forts of ice and tobogganing count! So it […]

PatMan Picks Ti99/4a Classics: Tunnels Of Doom.

If  you have listened to any of the 90+ episodes of Wonderpod you know one thing about me, I am no fan of RPG’s and some dungeon crawlers. Yet, as a kid I spent hours playing what today might be considered a tedious & repetitive dungeon RPG title. That game was Tunnels Of Doom, which although available also on disk, I played off […]

PatMan Plays: Rayman Origins. 4 Mins Of Gameplay Goodness!

Welcome to another PatMan plays. This time around I bring you another “shakey cam” video of me playing videogames. Rayman Origins is one of my top games of the entire year, as you will learn when you listen to our Wonderpod Video-game year end special ! This is one of the most beautiful video games I have played in a long […]

PatMan Picks N64 Favorites: Goldeneye 007.

Before the N64, the only place for a good first person shooter was on the PC. But then came Turok with, for its time,  superior visuals filled with full polygonal graphics and a more open environment than the traditional corridor shooters on PC. PC games would, of course, very quickly catch up to the N64 with the use of 3D graphics cards, […]

PatMan Plays: Mario Kart 7. Staring PatMan’s Mii !

My favorite Mario Kart title of all time was on the Nintendo DS. It took all the fun of a console Mario Kart racer and, for the first time, actually made it possible to feel like I was playing a console Mario Kart on a hand held. Not to mention the fact that Mario Kart DS was the very first Nintendo game to go online, […]

Not All Retro Is Awesome – Badlands

Usually when I think laserdisc game with QTE, I think Dragon’s Lair. What I don’t think is cowboy anime with a hyper ass trigger finger and a level of ridiculousness I’ve not seen…well, since ever. You can click on the pic above to see a playthrough to learn more, but allow me to highlight some […]