Email Author Harold Goldberg

2005 Stories by Harold Goldberg

• Eat Human Brains; Run a Zoo

  published July 5, 2005

  Plan 9 from Outer Space was probably the first so-good-it's-bad sci-fi film. Sadly eternally etched within my gray matter is the line,... More >>

• New 'Batman' Fails to Scare

  published June 21, 2005

  Along with the dark, moody movie comes the game BATMAN BEGINS from Electronic Arts. This is a decent enough action-adventure game with... More >>

• 'Apocalypse Now' Creator Makes War; Tiny Baseball

  published June 14, 2005

  The most salient thing you need to know about the latest version of MEDAL OF HONOR EUROPEAN ASSAULT is that John Milius, the potent writer... More >>

• The Literary 'Kirby'; a Mini 'Wario' Avalanche

  published May 31, 2005

  I keep hearing young parents, faces scrunched and cooing, telling their kids that food is "delicious." It's a cloying ploy and kids should rebel.... More >>

• Two Tiny Ways to Spend Time

  published May 24, 2005

  The LG MM-535 has a biggish two-inch screen that is more than adequate for cell phone games. Yet the makers of PAC-MAN PINBALL still saw... More >>

• Best of E3 Expo 2005

  published May 17, 2005

  There are thousands of games at E3, and I was like a tick sucking blood, getting full on the blood of video game demos. Below is what appears to... More >>

• Save Summer Camp in a Stunning Original; Blow $50 on a Lucas Vehicle

  published May 10, 2005

  Can it really be true? An inventive, creative, new game and not some mephitic sequel or franchise? Here's the thing: Tim Schaefer is the... More >>

• Popeye Straddles a Rocket; Special Forces in WWII Italy, on Your Phone

  published May 3, 2005

  They just don't make comic strip/cartoon heroes like Popeye anymore; Popeye simply ain't PC, punching out people to protect his seemingly anorexic... More >>

• Alien Game's Truth Is Way Out There; Old Skool Phone Fun

  published April 26, 2005

  What in the name of Gillian Anderson was David Duchovny doing when he made the bomb Connie and Carla? Thankfully, AREA 51 is no such... More >>

• Math Geeks: Your Brain on Crack

  published April 19, 2005

  Someone wake up Alexey Pazhitnov. LUMINES is the best thing that's happened to the Tetris concept in 10 years. There's so much... More >>

• Indulge the Nerd or Release Ayurveda on a Defensive End

  published April 12, 2005

  Leggo my LEGO! Don't groan. The newest Star Wars video game gets its inspiration from LEGO, the manufacturer of those decidedly low-tech... More >>

• screens

  published April 5, 2005

  Forget Crichton and King when it comes to games. With his Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell action series, Tom... More >>

• Wanna Go Greek—or Save the World?

  published March 29, 2005

  Wanna go Greek? Sony's omniscient GOD OF WAR redoes the most popular and lurid stories of the Greeks. But this isn't just a banal version... More >>

• iEverything

  published March 22, 2005

  Call Sony's new PlayStation Portable the Killer (with the requisite apologies to Jerry Lee Lewis). The PSP isn't just a multi-tasking... More >>

• Racing Games That Rock

  published March 22, 2005

  You thought it was dead and you were happy about it. But TWISTED METAL: HEAD-ON surprisingly revives a franchise that towards the end... More >>

• screens

  published March 15, 2005

  Playing this sucker comes as close to the zen feeling Roger Kahn spoke so poetically about in the seminal The Boys Of Summer. MLB... More >>

• Got Blood? Or Seek the Original

  published March 8, 2005

  Combine the bloodiest aspects of Kill Bill with the grace of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the hardcore idiocy of Bully... More >>

• No Fun in Hell With Keanu, But Racing Sim Achieves Perfection

  published March 1, 2005

  "Smile pretty, you vain prick." So begins this horror shooting game based on a predictable movie starring a snarling Keanu Reaves (which is based... More >>

• screens

  published February 22, 2005

  It's 44 B.C. and Caesar's been offed. So let the Roman bloodletting commence. This history-influenced action game, SHADOW OF ROME, ... More >>

• Play Ball With the Beasties or Go Smarty-Pants With a Stripper-Agent

  published February 15, 2005

  When the pseudo-hip narrator in this latest version of street roundball compared the game to poets reading literature to refine their chops, it... More >>

• 'Playboy' Goes Naked, But 'Wario Ware' Touched Us the Right Way

  published February 8, 2005

  PLAYBOY: THE MANSION For: PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox Publisher:... More >>