Tag: 1Up

Continuing our coverage of 1UP’s Cover Story this week, our suspicions have been confirmed: Retronauts Lunch Break will be taking on Mega Man Legends, “the series’ three-dimensional debut that didn’t receive the critical reception it deserved.” For those unfamiliar, Retronauts Lunch Break (which debuted with the NES Mega Man games) is a video game livestream […]

If I might be allowed to break from the third-person for a moment: Wow, that was quick. I knew when I posted about the 1UP Cover Story yesterday that I a few of my own writings would come up, but I didn’t expect them so soon– much less two on the same day. If you […]

This week, 1UP.com is running a new Cover Story called “Mega Man: 25 Years of Theme-Park Levels and Stolen Robot Powers.” As you might guess from the title, this is a look back at the quarter-century reign of the Mega Man franchise in its many shapes and forms. As of this writing, there are only […]

The cover story featured this week on 1UP is all about Gaming’s Greatest Mysteries, and none other than Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Parish chooses to ponder one which has remained near and dear to many of us over the years: “What Happened Before Mega Man X?“ We’ve all had our theories, and as the article points out, […]

This week’s cover story over at 1UP is about “Community in Games,” and kicking things off is a feature by Nadia Oxford which focuses on the Mega Man community, noting that the Blue Bomber has “fallen on hard times, but that’s only brought the remnants of the community closer together.” “Mega Man: A Community with […]

This week, 1UP is continuing with its countdown of what its readers consider “The Essential 100.” This week’s portion covers numbers 75 through 51, and to the surprise of no one, Mega Man 2 has made the list, beating out such titles as BioShock and Earthbound for its spot of prominence on the list. Written […]

1UP has posted an article about Mega Man father-figure Keiji Inafune as a part of their “Daring Games and Designers” cover story for this week, one which looks back at some of Inafune’s comments about the state of the Japanese video game industry and Capcom from his time working at said company. If nothing else, […]

…along with every other game, according to a recent 1UP feature written by Jeremy Parish. As part of the site’s week-long cover story about “How Comics Shaped Games,” Parish takes a special look at the influence of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and how– despite rare involvement with games himself– his work has inspired many a […]

Over the past week, 1UP has run a series of themed articles under the common theme of “What If?: Gaming’s Alternate Realities.” In these hypothetical situations, we get an idea of how the video game industry might have been different had it not been for certain influential factors and events taking place. Naturally, as you’ve […]

Earlier this year, Mega Man Battle Network turned ten (and made us all feel a little bit older). Now on 1Up, writer Jeremy Parish has a feature running commemorating the series, with a focus on how it saved Mega Man, if at least for a time. I don’t know if I agree with all of […]

I have mixed titles just to make a catchy headline, and for that, I apologize. With that out of the way, the newly-crowned 1UP Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Parish has at last resurrected the long-dormant Retronauts classic gaming blog, and has done so by posting an article about one classic game near and dear to many of […]

Just a heads-up, for those of you who like watching other people talk about games while playing games: 1UP is hosting a Mega Man X edition of their Retronauts call-in program tonight at 3:45 p.m. Pacific time/6:45 p.m. Eastern. Following their podcast, Jeremy “Toastyfrog” Parish, Christian Nutt of Gamasutra, and Scott “Solid” Sharkey will talk […]