This column originally ran on November 17, 2009. The One-Uppers, lovers of good co-op games that they are, played a lot of New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii last night. As such, Checkpoint takes a look back at the … Continue reading Checkpoint: Mario 1/2/3
This column originally ran on November 5, 2009. Rock Band heads into a strange dimension with this week’s release of Lego Rock Band for a variety of systems. The blockheads from Checkpoint take a look back on the first two … Continue reading Checkpoint: Rock Band
This column originally ran on October 22, 2009. Many folks, including a number of media publications, have called The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time the GOAT — greatest of all-time (and so did At the Buzzer). When it first … Continue reading Checkpoint: Ocarina of Time
This column originally ran on October 15, 2009. The Halo series recently went back to its roots with the release of Halo 3: ODST (which Shaun reviewed a couple weeks ago). As such, Checkpoint takes a look back at the … Continue reading Checkpoint: Halo
This column originally ran on October 8, 2009. Tales of Vesperia came out a couple years ago for the Xbox 360, the 10th “mothership” (aka major) title game in Namco’s series. With a PS3 release in Japan last month and … Continue reading Checkpoint: Tales of Vesperia
This column originally ran on September 30, 2009. The Mario Kart series has been around for nearly two decades now — 20 years of throwing red shells at opponents and running over question boxes. Checkpoint takes a look back at … Continue reading Checkpoint: Mario Kart
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