ValuGamer

A catalog of obsolete entertainment.

Month: May, 2009

A Next Kojima Game Is?

70 hours from this message, a new Konami game will either be revealed or teased a third time, but the answer to this riddle is clear: Konami and Kojima Productions are working on the long-awaited follow-up to Super Castlevania IV for the SNES. If the pulsing “5” was not a dead giveaway, just look at […]

Duke Nukem Forever – April 28, 1997 – May 6, 2009?

These lists have been made before, but I’d like to make one of my own. It is an understatement to say that Duke Nukem Forever has had a long development cycle. I guess they’re using Scrum or Agile or something. Anyway, whole video gaming systems have launched and died in the time span between the […]

Game Boy Stuff

Lately I have been playing a lot of Game Boy games. I recently re-purchased Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for the GBA and it is great. I had it back when I first got a GBA, but it was impossible to play without proper lighting. Now that I have an SP to play it on […]

CaveVision

Okay, so I need to come clean on something. A few years ago I produced a poster for a 3D graphics course to advertise our end-of-semester exhibition. I was informed at one point that my poster could be viewed as condescending because it equated student work to blocky Atari games. That’s an understandable point of […]