Contributor Recognition : Phange

Dreamcast

Bang! Gunship Elite	Starlancer's evil cousin.....	10/01/01	7/10
Mag Force Racing	It's like F-Zero except it's no fun and you bounce around like a pinball	07/17/01	5/10
MDK2	MDK 2 is one of those games that defies description....	04/17/03	9/10
Skies of Arcadia	Final Fantasy? Never heard of it!	07/05/01	10/10
Web Browser 1.0	Yup, the world's first review of a web browser!	07/11/01	10/10
Wild Metal	Uh-Yup. This game's for bored people Uh-Yup	07/11/01	4/10

DS

Animal Crossing WW	Animal Crossing is great in short spurts, but it lacks any real depth	01/28/06	8/10
DS Hardware	Fundamentally, the DS is a good system. Realistically, it needs to prove itself.	08/19/05	8/10
Electroplankton	The problem with Electroplankton is that few plankton are worth using	09/06/06	7/10
Feel the Magic: XY/XX	Charming, but only slightly above average	12/01/04	7/10
Ridge Racer DS	All the fun of racing without those pesky "physics"	03/28/05	5/10
Star Fox Command	I appreciate what it tries to do, but it's too gutsy for its own good	09/07/06	7/10
Super Mario 64 DS	Mario 64... on a handheld?	11/27/04	10/10
Yoshi Touch & Go	Far more addicting than it should be	03/19/05	7/10

e-Reader

Donkey Kong Jr.

For the first time in ten years.... a pack-in game!

09/29/02

7/10

Game Boy

Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break	Konami delivers a solid title	07/24/01	7/10
Toxic Crusaders	Join the crusaders on the dullest side-scroller on the planet	07/25/01	2/10

Game Boy Advance

Advance Wars	If you can buy only one GBA game, make this it!	09/22/01	10/10
Breath of Fire II	The most complete, and the most flawed, RPG for the Gameboy Advance	06/25/02	7/10
Classic NES Series: Bomberman	An extremely disappointing bait-and-switch	06/16/04	4/10
Classic NES Series: Donkey Kong	Yes, it's nostalgic. But it just isn't a good version of DK.	06/16/04	6/10
Classic NES Series: Excitebike	Excitebike manages to outrace most of the NES Classics	06/16/04	7/10
Classic NES Series: Ice Climber	Definitely the odd-man-out of the "Classics"	06/17/04	3/10
Classic NES Series: Pac-Man	It's still a good game, and even a good port.... but....	06/17/04	7/10
Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros.	It's by-the-numbers, but still very good	06/17/04	7/10
Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda	Graphical problems plague what still is a good game	06/16/04	5/10
Classic NES Series: Xevious	Xevious simply lacks purpose	06/17/04	4/10
Dokapon	Crap..... advanced	08/09/02	5/10
Duke Nukem Advance	Duke is good..... REAL good	08/25/02	10/10
Final Fantasy I & II	It hasn't aged well, but Square worked its magic anyway	12/02/04	7/10
Fortress	An excellent, EXCELLENT, puzzle game!	08/16/01	9/10
Harvest Moon	Amazing as it is, there's a whole Harvest Moon game here	08/15/05	9/10
Konami Krazy Racers	Better than Mario Kart Advance in some ways....	04/15/03	8/10
Mario Party Advance	Disappointing and absurdly unlike the game it tries to be	04/08/05	5/10
Puyo Pop	Addicting is almost an understatement	07/06/02	9/10
Riviera: The Promised Land	Riviera is for the niche RPG enthusiasts, but that crowd will be pleased	06/30/05	7/10
Sonic Advance	The blue blur that raced for graphics, ingenuity, and defied an empire	02/08/02	9/10
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts	There should be prizes for people who beat this game	02/21/06	8/10
Zelda: Minish Cap	A solid GBA title with some flaws	11/12/04	8/10

Game Boy Color

Zelda: Oracle of Ages	Capcom making Zelda.... with style	09/03/01	10/10
Zelda: Oracle of Seasons	Never fear! Link is here!	09/03/01	9/10

GameCube

Metroid Prime	Wow.	11/21/02	10/10
Phantasy Star Online	PSO returns.... great, but it isn't complete yet!	11/01/02	9/10
Star Fox Adventures	A Dino Identity Crisis	09/25/02	9/10

GameGear

Sonic Blast

A disaster of epic proportions

06/05/06

3/10

Genesis

Ballz 3D	A cool fighting game with bouncy-ball characters!	07/22/01	8/10
Barney's Hide and Seek	The big purple dinosaur wouldn't make the cut in Jurassic Park	07/24/01	1/10
Cliffhanger	Is it possible to make a worse game than this?	07/21/01	1/10
Cosmic Spacehead	Rush to prove Earth exists to those darn Linoleans!	07/16/01	7/10
Home Alone	Oh wow.... this game is FUN!	07/24/01	7/10
Lemmings 2: The Tribes	Move yer lemmings, watch em squish!	07/12/01	9/10
OutRun	The famous Genesis racer is definetly in top shape	07/26/01	7/10
Phantasy Star IV	The RPG for which all others shall be judged.	07/02/01	10/10
Rocket Knight Adventures	Konami's best character ever isn't Solid Snake......	07/24/01	9/10
Terminator 2: The Arcade	An average shooter with some good and bad points	07/14/01	5/10

NES

Bad News Baseball	The greatest baseball game ever	07/15/01	8/10
Donkey Kong Jr. Math	My childhood was scarred from this game!	09/22/02	3/10
Ikari Warriors	If you can believe it, my friend and I played this game nonstop	04/25/05	3/10

Nintendo 64

Blast Corps	Smashing buildings is fun, but only for a while	07/17/01	7/10
Star Soldier: Vanishing	A nice overhead action game	07/21/01	7/10

PC

Beyond Good & Evil	Ubisoft delivers a sleeper hit in my 100th review	02/23/06	8/10
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing	You're Winner	01/17/04	1/10
Civilization II	The god of all games	10/30/01	10/10
Civilization II: Test of	Better than Civilization III	05/04/03	10/10
Civilization III	The greatest game to ever grace a computer	10/31/01	10/10
Grim Fandango	And Epic Tale of Crime and Corruption in the Land of the Dead	07/30/03	10/10
Sega Swirl	Free, fun, and even links with the Dreamcast version!	04/25/05	9/10
Sid Meier's Pirates!	Sid Meier never fails to impress	12/03/04	9/10
Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut	Its underwhelming, but still Sonic Adventure	03/30/04	7/10
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast	Jabba's Palace or Bantha Poodoo? An inside look into Jedi Outcast	04/14/02	10/10
Star Wars: KOTOR II	In some ways, it's a better overall game than the first KOTOR	04/08/05	8/10
Starlancer	Great for beginners and veterans of space sims	04/21/03	8/10

PlayStation

Final Fantasy Chronicles	You begged, they shrugged, you begged, the finally accepted	07/01/01	10/10
Rhapsody	Rhapsody is absurdly easy given its genre, but it has class and charm	06/30/05	7/10

PlayStation 2

Monster Rancher 3	Two steps forward, one step back	07/08/02	8/10
Sonic: MCP	Perfect emulation, tons of games, and a bargain to boot	06/05/06	9/10
Xenosaga Episode II	A truly terrible battle system masks an otherwise fantastic sequel	07/24/06	7/10
Xenosaga Episode III	A tasteful and well-executed ending to the series	09/05/06	9/10

PlayStation 3

Grand Theft Auto IV

An improvement, but also a step back

05/07/08

8/10

PSP

Ape Escape: On the Loose	Great for those who didn't play the original; disappointing for those who did	04/18/05	8/10
Dynasty Warriors	It's actually pretty good, but boy is it ugly	10/04/05	8/10
GTA Liberty City Stories	Flawed by the standards of the console GTA's, but impressive for a handheld	10/28/05	8/10
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee	This is the best game on the PSP, seriously.	08/18/05	10/10
Lumines	It grows on you	03/28/05	9/10
Me & My Katamari	Me and My Katamari is an excellent purchase for any PSP owner	02/01/06	9/10
PoPoLoCrois	Popolocrois succeeds where most RPGs fail; it's a totally unique world	01/23/06	8/10
PSP	Huge leap forward for portables... but at what cost?	08/19/05	8/10
Ridge Racer	Less than the sum of its parts, strangely	08/04/05	7/10
SSX On Tour	A celebration of Rock and style	10/17/05	9/10
Syphon Filter: DM	A stunning return to glory for a dying series	03/20/06	9/10
Tales of Eternia	Super RPG Fighter II: Turbo	03/06/06	9/10
The Legend of Heroes	While it's far from memorable, Legend of Heroes does a number of things right	11/28/05	8/10
THUG 2 Remix	Viva la Hawk?	09/09/05	8/10
Twisted Metal: Head-On	Pretty cool, but has its faults	03/28/05	8/10
Untold Legends	It has all the fundamentals of the genre and little else	04/08/05	7/10
VP: Lenneth	Prepare to be blown away	07/20/06	9/10
Wipeout Pure	Whoa doggy	03/29/05	9/10

Wii

Dragon Quest Swords	Too short, too easy, too sparse, and too expensive	02/26/08	5/10
Sonic: Black Knight	A terrible, half-hearted sequel to Secret Rings	04/08/09	3/10
Super Mario 64	This version of Super Mario 64 is both affordable and superior	11/25/06	10/10
Wii	With a decidedly iPod-inspired design, is the Wii the "console of the masses"?	11/21/06	8/10
Wii Play	As a game, it's practically a joke. But it DOES come with a free Wiimote	05/14/07	4/10
Zelda: Twilight Princess	Twilight Princess nearly surpasses Ocarina of Time. Nearly.	11/21/06	9/10

Xbox

Azurik: Rise of Perathia	A multitude of triumphs and failures	12/01/01	6/10
Crimson Skies	Crimson Skies is, without a doubt, the biggest turnaround success of any game	10/28/03	10/10
Grand Theft Auto Double	The ultimate version of the ultimate series of games	11/06/03	10/10
Halo: Combat Evolved	Lets see if this is better than Oddworld... pop... OH MY GOD!!!!!	11/22/01	10/10
Phantasy Star Online	Significantly better than the other versions	04/17/03	9/10
Serious Sam	This game is awesome. Seriously.	02/18/03	8/10
Sonic: MCP	At a budget price, you can't pass up on Sonic 3 and Knuckles	05/25/07	9/10
SSX 3	It's tricky...... times ten	10/28/03	10/10
SSX Tricky	EA's latest port to Xbox.... is fantastic	04/06/02	9/10
Star Wars: KOTOR	And I thought I liked Japanese RPGs......	07/18/03	10/10
The Legend of Black Kat	Pirates for Xbox is the sleeper hit of the year!	04/07/02	9/10
True Crime	A pretty good game, but not the best in its class	11/06/03	7/10
Unreal Championship	Not what I expected, but still good	03/05/03	7/10

Xbox 360

Banjo-Tooie	Due to some much-needed improvements, Banjo-Tooie has taken its rightful throne	05/04/09	9/10
BioShock	Works better as a work of interactive fiction than as a first-person shooter	08/24/07	8/10
Blue Dragon	At worst, Blue Dragon seems to suffer from a developer version of "Senioritis"	09/07/07	7/10
DDR Universe	It's not the best DDR, but it's the best for learning how to play	05/23/07	8/10
Devil May Cry 4	Incredible production values offset a good deal of repetition	02/26/08	9/10
Doom	Possibly the best version of Ultimate Doom out there	03/10/08	8/10
Duke Nukem 3D	Stupid, illogically designed, and yes, awesome. Duke is back, for better or worse.	09/30/08	8/10
Eternal Sonata	Eternal Sonata has flaws, but it also has one of the rarest gifts of all... heart	09/21/07	9/10
Lumines Live!	Yeah, it's Lumines. But it's also a punch in the kidney.	10/19/06	7/10
Phantasy Star Universe	You'll either love it or hate it, depending on your connection to the series canon	10/30/06	8/10
Rock Revolution	You know, it's actually not that bad. Not great, either.	10/20/08	6/10
Sneak King	A man in a trash can just gave me a Whopper	12/04/06	6/10
Sonic Unleashed	Sonic Team proves to be, once again, incapable of leaving a good thing alone	12/23/08	5/10
Soulcalibur	A great deal at ten dollars; sorely lacking some important modes	07/12/08	8/10
The Orange Box	Leave it to perennial Half-Life 2 to teach the new games a lesson in gaming	10/15/07	10/10