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If you’re like me and play the Xbox 360, you were excited to get the NXE (new xbox experience) dashboard several months back. At first, I was thrilled with it and thought it was great. But gradually over the past few months, I’ve enjoyed it less and less for one reason and one reason only [...]

Ok, so you’ve created your Japanese PSN account. The next step is to enter the Japanese Playstation Store and download the Ad Hoc Party application. The Ad Hoc Party application is found by selecting the 7th box in the left menu of the Playstation store. It is surrounded by two diamonds. Click that option and [...]

This is a detailed tutorial on how to make a Japanese PS3 account on your Playstation 3. Why would you want to make a Japanese account on your Playstation 3? You want to make such an account because the Japanese store has different videos, games, and demos (Yakuza 3) available to download compared to the [...]

Revenge of Gator (Nintendo Gameboy)
Reviewed in EGM issue 6 January 1990
HAL’s Revenge of the Gator Pinball combines alligators and pinball on the Gameboy screen much the same way the Turbo mixed aliens and sliver balls in Alien Crush. The alligator pinball game features a poor-man’s scrolling playfield that is four screens high. By performing certain [...]

Motocross Maniacs (Nintendo Gameboy)
Reviewed in EGM issue 6 January 1990
Ultra’s first Gameboy entry is very similar to the classic motorcycle action game from Nintendo called Excitebike. Motocross Maniacs is strictly two-dimensional, however, and by including a number of power-up options and Nitro Boosters for extra speed, the game is actually better as a “super” version [...]

Scramble Spirits (Sega Master System) by Sega
Reviewed in EGM issue 6 January 1990
Scramble Spirits assigns you to a search and destroy mission against an enormous armada of enemy warplanes and weapons. Loosely based on the Sega arcade game of the same name, Scramble Spirits features most of the sights and sounds from similar shooters, including [...]