Metal Combat: Creepy Bosses

End bosses in 16-bit/8-bit games (especially Ninja Gaiden) are freakin’ vile. It was up to the imagination just how nightmarish these Cronenberg inspired abominations would look like in real life. Check out this fight in this super scope game on SNES:

Also it’s hard to tell with the youtube quality, but yes that is a multiple layer of skulls with some weird wavy psychedelic trance in the background:

HG 101: 50-1 Selections

Alright, we’re now down to the last 50 songs. Just a reminder, this list is ONLY the songs that I personally enjoyed the most and felt was worth sharing. That being said, I’m kinda leaving out the obvious, since we all are well familiar with the Zelda, Mario, and Castlevania series…. right? Anyways, let’s do this!

.flow – Tropes

I thought I would share the TV Tropes page for .flow, one of the Yume Nikki fan games that I just mentioned in my previous post. I’m about to beat it, which means I will most likely write a more in depth post on it. Anyways, check out the page and video to get some brief explanations and cultural tropes that are embedded within the strange, dark zones of .flow…

.flow on TV Tropes