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Double Dragon. One of the simpliest and easiest games to ever adapt to film. Two brothers have their girlfriends kidnapped by a bunch of thugs, and its up to them to fight through a city of enemies to get them back. Its still a shock to me that it sill has not been adapted properly on film after all these years. I mean hell even the cartoon series based on the game didn't get it right and of all things took inspiration from this monstrosity instead. A monstrosity that is so horrendous and awful that most people don't even know of its existence. I only know of it because I actually used to watch it quite a bit when I was a kid. Unlike Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon definitely does not hold up. It is just a cringe fest. The acting is atrocious, the fight scenes are pathetic, the story is a mess, its tone is all over the place, its boring, and its terminally lame. I mean it even manages to do the impossible and make Alyssa Milano unattractive. I am n

Well they ain't lying...It's not a game. It's definitely a motion picture. And a flawed interesting and refreshingly ridiculous one to boot. I am one of the few people out there that actually genuinely likes this movie. Is it a great adaptation of the game? No. But that by itself does not make it a horrible movie. You have to put things into context. Around the time of this film's production and release there weren't really any major bits of storytelling or backstory for Super Mario Bros. There were the cartoons which have aged even worse than the film has if you ask me, some comics and that's about it. So its not like the writers had this wealth of infomration to go off of for the film. All they had was the video games which essentially had one very simple plot line. To rescure the princess. And the film does have a princess and the Mario Bros. do rescue her. So in that particular instance, the film did not fail to adapt the source material. I never underst

When the game is changed, it does not always have to be something considering the mechanics, or the way the game is seen by a wide audience. It can simply just be the way it is displayed. And these two you tube titans have definitely changed the way that an entire generation has viewed video games. Pewdiepe and Markiplier have millions of subcribers between themselves and have struck gold with a demographic of young kids who are either just getting into gaming or are already immersed into it. Both started out with channels that posted "Let's Play" content that started off slow but soon started to hit the ground running and they have both surpassed any of their own personal expectations for themselves, their channels and of their peers. Before these two came along, yes, there were "Let's Play" you tubers but none that had the massive success and viewcounts that these two would recieve. A lot of people ended up playing a lot of the horror games that they origi

For the first installment of this little series I like to call Game Changers where I dive into some of the biggest names and faces that changed and helped shape the way games are viewed by the masses, I decided to pick an unlikely and unusual choice. A man known more for shitting on games, James Rolfe(The Angry Video Game Nerd). Ever since his little passion project series the Angry Nintendo Nerd spread like wildfire on you tube and the internet, James has left a massive mark of his own on gaming and gaming culture in particular. For a lot of people, his popular internet review series was the first exposure many young millenial gamers had to the games of yesteryear and for better or worse, his profanity filled rants helped shape their views on them in one way or another. For me personally, AVGN is synonumous with video games. He is that deeply entrenched into all things gaming in my eyes. And since he was one of the first to do what he did, he spawned legions of imitators as well as i