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Tag: Mid-Aughts Meltdown

On-going series on video game history

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown: Voodoo Vince

October 31, 2023November 1, 2023 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello, Happy Halloween, and welcome back after…three years… to Mid-Aughts Meltdown, my ongoing series on video game history! Specifically I, your loyal hostess Lovely Lily Bones, discuss its ugly adolescence, morose mediocrities, ostentatious obscurities, the forgotten and maligned (trademark of … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown: Voodoo Vince

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Super Mario Misadventures 64

August 3, 2020August 4, 2020 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome to the debut of Lily Lovely Bones’ new article miniseries centered on the foundation of 3D platforming, the 3D Mario series that began in 1996 and manifested most recently in 2017. This is Part 1 of 5.

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown #5 – Blinx 2

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome back to the Mid-Aughts Meltdown on its one-year anniversary, fresher and edgier for a new decade in all the ways you’d expect: we’ve got publisher-mandated bolted-on multiplayer; a fursona character creator 13 years before Sonic Forces, but … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #5 – Blinx 2

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown #4: The Haunted Mansion

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome to the spookiest entry yet in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s series on video game history! This week we’ll be confronting the history of licensed video games for the first and far from last time, starting with Disney’s … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #4: The Haunted Mansion

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown #3: The End of Acclaim Entertainment

September 18, 2019November 27, 2021 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome back to the long-gestating Mid-Aughts Meltdown. This week we’re exploring the life and ultimate self-destruction of Acclaim Entertainment, through the prism of a return to my roots in bad 3D platforming in the 2003 game Vexx.  Information … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #3: The End of Acclaim Entertainment

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M-AM Mini: The Women of Resident Evil

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Lily "Lovely" Bones

From Ashley Graham to Mia Winters  This article is an expansion of previous thoughts I expressed on SingingBrakeman’s Resident Evil Franchise Festival, an amazing and wholly thorough article that I recommend for greater knowledge on the background of this series … Continue reading M-AM Mini: The Women of Resident Evil

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Legacy of Adventure: Pikmin

March 20, 2019October 30, 2019 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome to the first entry in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s new sister/sub series of Mid-Aughts Meltdown, the Legacy of Adventure! This week we’ll be delving further into my burgeoning relationship with Nintendo, and discovering the original entry in the … Continue reading Legacy of Adventure: Pikmin

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown #2 – Fuzion Frenzy

February 27, 2019October 30, 2019 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome to the second entry in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s series on video game history. This week we’ll be exploring the ongoing struggle for anybody to compete in the party game genre against the terrifying colossus that is … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #2 – Fuzion Frenzy

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Mid-Aughts Meltdown #1 – Blinx: The Time Sweeper

February 6, 2019September 30, 2021 Lily "Lovely" Bones

Hello and welcome to the debut entry in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s new ongoing series on video game history. This week we’ll be delving into a strange and scary time for game development, the often ugly adolescence of 3D platformers, … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #1 – Blinx: The Time Sweeper

 

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