Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 72

This time we’re wrapping up 1993 with issue #55 of Nintendo Power covering December, featuring Aladdin!

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Games Reviewed:

  • Aladdin – Capcom
  • NHL Stanley Cup – Nintendo
  • Clay Fighter – Interplay
  • The Marvin Missions – Sunsoft
  • Battle Cars – Namco
  • Tom & Jerry: Frantic Antics – Hi Tech Expressions
  • Mega Man IV (GB) – Capcom
  • Mega Man VI (NES) – Capcom
  • Tetris II – Nintendo

Film Review: Silent Running (1972)

Silent Running is a weird film to talk about. It’s clearly a film that wants to be a response to 2001: A Space Odyssey, made in the 1970s in the wake of auteur films like Easy Rider.  It’s also very clearly a film with something to say, which is cool as I really like science fiction that engages in social commentary. However, there is a bunch about Silent Running that doesn’t quite work. Read more

Film Review: Vampyr (1932)

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Vampyr. I’m pretty familiar with vampire movie concepts at this point, but most of the even most well known films of the concept really brought something to the table that gave them something extra – Nosferatu used the memories of the 1918 Influenza outbreak and leveraged that to bring a new direction to how the vampire is scary (and in a way that has aged incredibly well).

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