By Jake Rushing Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 64 Release Date: September 26, 1996 Genre(s): Platforming, action-adventure Mode: Single-player Rating: K-A for Kids to Adults (updated to E for Everyone) As one of the kids who grew up with the Nintendo 64 console and having Super Mario 64 as one of [...]
This Day in Gaming History: May 11th, 1995 – The Sega Saturn Receives a Surprise Launch
By Michael Mygind Twenty years ago today on May 11th, 1995, Sega released the Sega Saturn in North America. With an original launch date of September 5, 1995, just one week before Sony’s home console debut with the Playstation, Sega’s then president, Tom Kalinske, made a bold move at the 1995 E3 expo. In an [...]
How to farm for custom moves for Super Smash Bros 4
By Jake Rushing Super Smash Bros is my favorite multiplayer series to play with your friends, and the most recent entry in the Super Smash Bros franchise might be the best multiplayer game to date. One of the minor features that added to Super Smash Bros 4 a good amount of depth to the [...]
Last Token Gaming News Roundup – 5/8/15
By Marshall Garvey 1. In absolutely heartbreaking news, Sega officially won’t have a booth at E3 this year. 2. New details on the forthcoming Assassin’s Creed have been leaked. 3. If you’ve ever wondered how much someone is willing to spend on Hearthstone packs in a single night, try $3,200. 4. Surely enough, the Star [...]
Foreign Favorites: Volume 3 – Japan Pickups Edition
By Michael Mygind This time around, I’ll be focusing on four games that I picked up while on vacation in Japan. Pop ‘n TwinBee (1993, Konami, Super Famicom) This shoot ‘em up (or shmup) is the sixth game in the TwinBee series, which are often referred to as “cute ‘em ups” for their cartoony style [...]
Top Ten Most Annoying NPCs
By the Last Token Gaming Staff A little while ago, we here at Last Token Gaming vented our unbridled frustration over the 15 most irritating recurring enemies in gaming history. Before that, of course, we unloaded on the 10 most annoying sidekicks. (Somehow, every single entry wasn’t Navi and Slippy.) Today, we return with [...]
This Day in Gaming History, May 5: “Wolfenstein 3D” is released
By Marshall Garvey Ah, the first-person shooter (or FPS for short). What would our video game lives be without it? For all the evolutions in the gaming world over the years, it’s a genre that can never be phased out. If anything, it only seems to mushroom exponentially with each passing year, for better [...]
LTG Weekly News Roundup – 5/1/15
By Marshall Garvey Sheesh, it’s May already? Maybe it’s just me, but 2015 seems to be going by exceptionally fast. That feeling is certainly aided by the year in gaming so far, with so many huge titles drawing ever nearer and plenty of huge occurrences thus far. This past week alone has had quite a [...]
Alien: Isolation DLC Review – Lost Contact
By Marshall Garvey Welcome to the third installment of my Alien: Isolation DLC review series! Having finished the two packages based on the original 1979 movie, it’s now time to explore the ones that expand the story of the game’s main campaign. First up is Lost Contact, a variation of the game’s Survivor Mode that [...]
This Day In Gaming History: April 28th 1980. Game and Watch debut
By Jake Rushing Exactly 35 years ago on this day, Game and Watch debuted onto retail shelves with it’s first entry of the Game and Watch series called Ball. In this game, you just control the guy by pressing left and right buttons to move the arms to keep the ball juggling in the [...]