Super Air Zonk may win you over with outlandish designs, simple shoot-'em-up action, and CD-quality tunes, but it's not as good a value as the first game in the series. Side-scrolling space shooters ...

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Wii's release in North America. To celebrate, Nintendo has, as it does every Monday, added more retro titles to the system's online store. This week, ...

YES! One of the three new games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is Air Zonk. As a “punkish cyborg” you fly in the skies and shoot wacky robots with green bullets. It’s only 600 points and if you’re into ...

Finally there is a sign that Air Zonk, one of the best shmups on the TurboGrafix-16, is coming to North America. The ESRB updated their list and Air Zonk is smack on there even though it hasn't been ...

Side bonus, Air "Zonk" offers one of the rare opportunities to be part of something called "Team Cool," which seems to be about the best thing you can do. If you're still on the fence, know that ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

Virtual Console releases help remind us not only of the good parts of our gaming past, but of the absolutely awful parts too. For instance, this week, the Virtual Console releases will help you to ...

The library of Virtual Console shooters continues to expand, now to the point where I believe it's impossible to have them all downloaded onto your Wii Channel Array at the same time. That means ...

It's a complete shift in setting – as far apart as two time periods can get, jumping from a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and landing in a far-flung future filled with robots, flying ...

In the genre of shoot-'em-ups, which includes games like Gradius and R-Type, there exists a subgenre that many people refer to as "cute-'em-ups." Structurally speaking, a cute-'em-up is like any other ...