An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
The first appearance of John Landis on this list.
This movie is fucking hilarious. Don't get me wrong, it's a horror movie, and not a comedy that just happens to have horror elements in it (ie Ghostbusters, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, etc.). But for a horror movies, it's fucking hilarious.
I don't wan
The Shining (1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Stephen King superfan, remember? And even though King himself wasn't the biggest fan of this adaptation (probably because he had already entered his booze and coke phase), I think the rest of the world is in agreement that it's sublime.
This is yet another movie that I
Halloween (1978)
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
John Carpenter's first appearance, and let me tell you, it was extremely hard not to populate this list with like 15 of his movies. Even the lesser ones are so fun, and endlessly enjoyable, that I'm constantly watching them. Hell, I bought an entire set of his films on DVD, and then
The Omen (1976)
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Make no mistake, The Omen is clearly a movie that was designed to one-up The Exorcist, with the campiness factor unintentionally ramped up to 11.
But you know what? I don't consider that a bad thing. I'm down with camp. And I'm down with this silly tale of Damien, the devil's son, and everyone around him dying in the gories
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
It feels a bit lazy to have a bunch of the horror heavy hitters like this on the list. I mean, everyone and their sister likes this movie. It's why they remake it every three or four years, while always keeping the plot exactly
Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Mr. De Palma's first appearance on this list, with one of my favorite films of his. One thing that will trend more and more as I get into the 1980s and 1990s, are certain beloved filmmakers showing up multiple times here. You can probably guess what some of those films will be.
This is a movie that I spent ten plus years waiting for an HD release. It (and
The Birds (1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
This is one of the few horror movies my dad showed me when I was super little, and I was traumatized for quite a few years. I'd imagine birds coming for my eyeballs, pecking
faster than I could react. One day my mom brought home a pet parakeet of all birds, and I a
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
It's unbelievable that this came out all the way back in 1960. There are certain scenes that are so far beyond the pale as far as what society would have been used to at the time, I have a very hard time imagining an American audience sitting in the theater and watching this. At least, not without walking out. Probably why it didn't g
M (1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
The oldest film on the list (by a decent margin), and one that I wrestled with quite a bit as to whether or not I should include it in this list. Is it generally classified as "horror?" Not usually. Does it have enough horror elements that I think it can slip in? Absolutely. Child killers are horrifying. Child serial-killers are especially horrifying. And Pe
What brought you to VGS/NA? My buddy, Kid Chris from NA, would hit up garage sales, swap meets looking for old school games, records, movies, or whatever funky stuff we could get a deal on. What was your best old school game haul? So we would usually hit up the flea market over by Cut and Shoot (Yes.) And on the way we would always see this antique store that was never opened. We pull up and it was pretty sketchy, looked like they modified a barn. We find like a shoebox of various games and ask
(this interview took place over 6+ months) What brought you to VGS/NA
I don't remember the exact context, but I was looking for Discord servers with other NES and SNES homebrewers. I joined the NA one at the same time as the dedicated actual NES Homebrew one, and ended up spending more time in NA's Brewery channel than I did the more focused discord. The latter has way more activity, and is incredibly good when you are actually working actively on a project and need people to share your
What originally brought you to NA and VGS?
Let's see - I don't remember how I heard about NA since it has been awhile - might have been from Bighab or Daria who were also fellow members at Shining Force Central Forums. And then someone from NA contacted me about VGS...
Yeah, me! 😆
I wasn't sure but I thought it was - verified it in the banned thread later. Anyway, I decided to lurk about (under a different name) at first since I had some misgivings about NA - VGS seems to have a
What originally brought you to NA/VGS?
I didn't own a NES as a kid, but I always wanted one. Emulators started become popular when I was in college, so I was finally able to replay all the games I had experienced at my friend's houses growing up, along with many unfamiliar ones. I would often think about which games I would have wanted to own, if I'd had a console back in the day. In 2014, I had just read Console Wars by Blake Harris and my interest in retro gaming was at an all time peak,
What originally brought you to NA/VGS?
Black Friday, 2015, I was striking out finding anything to buy. My future wife and I met up with her friends at one of our favorite bagel spots on Long Island (Strathmore, Ronkonkoma). We were talking and somehow, we got on the topic of video games. She mentioned that she had an old Super Nintendo and some games that she no longer used and I could buy them if I wanted, since I didn’t find anything for black Friday. I always ask people if they still pla
What originally brought you to NA?
I'd first heard about NA probably sometime around 2014 or 2015 listening to Pat the NES punk bitch about it on his podcast. I was just getting back into collecting at that time after a pretty long hiatus during my college years. I lurked there for a while before finally signing up in the start of 2017, at which point I worked tirelessly to bring the website down from the inside. Didn't take long. 😉
What's the story with your username?
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Okay, so to start off, tell us what originally brought you to VGS and/or NA.
I joined NA around 2011 but I didn’t post much, I mainly lurked and bought and sold stuff. VGS is a lot more open and friendly than NA was imo.
And what is the meaning behind your username? Or usernames, in this case.
Started with SHMUP because I really love the genre (especially bullet hells) even though I’m not very good at them. Then deci
We're trying out something new here on VGS. Well, sort of new... Some of you may remember a series of interviews I did with various members of NintendoAge that centered around the Weekly NES contest. This is a partial reboot of that effort.
And to kick us off is the one and only @Estil. The good-natured, cat-obsessed Kentuckian that loves to post his cherished YouTube clips! And he threw me an early curveball by changing some of the questions I asked him. 😆 Enjoy!
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...along with a ton of changes to the UI.
...and I sorta overlooked a page that lets you easily skip around to different sections of the rankings. I'll work on that tonight.
...and the dropdown menu is pretty annoying and covers up the other links. I'll work on it tonight.
...and some of the links are dead because I had to cut them at the last second. I'll work on those soon.
...and I sorta broke how it looks on mobile. I'll work on that next.
...and there's still a
(graphic courtesy of @CasualCart)
Well, it was a marathon, but I finally did it. After almost 6 months I finally crapped out wrote up 50 more games.
COVID-19 couldn't stop me. Losing my home office couldn't stop me. Buying and selling a new home couldn't stop me. Losing some of my cartridges couldn't stop me. Playing Survivor couldn't stop me. Hosting Werewolf 3: The Deafening couldn't stop me. Getting a repetitive muscle injury from too much... reading, couldn't stop me.
Many years ago I had this horrendously stupid brilliant idea: Why not "rank" ALL of the games? The Super Nintendo games.
After all, I was rapidly accumulating piles upon piles of carts, and my compulsion to finish things meant I was seeing more of their content than most people. I've also long considered myself to be a pretty fair and even-handed critic. One who had enough of a frame of reference for all of "video gaming" that I knew what made up a good platformer, or a good RPG, and wha
