• Spring Cleaning Update

    Spring Cleaning Update

    We are doing some Spring Cleaning on MiscRave, trying to modernize the site, make it a bit more Web 1.0 / Metro style hybrid as we’ve always tried and see how things go. Excuse the look for the next couple of days as we slowly make changes live.

  • Super Mario Special Sequels by Hudson

    Super Mario Special Sequels by Hudson

    Hudson soft had a good partnership with Nintendo in its early days. They were able to port a few games to PCs like the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6601, Hitachi S1, IBM-JX and Sharp X1. What is important is that they basically made some Super Mario universe sequels that never came out on Nintendo consoles, these…

  • Every Super Mario Bros. Ports, Remakes & Remixes, oh my!

    Every Super Mario Bros. Ports, Remakes & Remixes, oh my!

    The original Super Mario Bros is probably the most influential video game in gaming history, with that said. It’s also a game that has seen various ports, remakes and general releases. Each one has something unique so I thought I’d go over each of the ports the original Super Mario Bros has. For consistency sake…

  • Mario Tennis History

    Mario Tennis History

    Mario has a long history with sports, specifically Tennis. I want to dwell deep into the history of Mario Tennis, and go obscure and even not much talked about details. In fact Mario Sports was not really a thing until Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64. Before that even if Mario Golf existed it felt…

  • Pokemon Colosseum Trilogy lore

    Pokemon Colosseum Trilogy lore

    Pokemon Stadium suffered a transformation when it moved to next-gen systems where they took things a different direction. Pokemon Colosseum the name makes sense as a name of the follow up, a bigger Stadium title. XD Gale of Darkness and Battle Revolution not as much but they’re all by the same developer even if they…

  • Pokemon Orange Version That should’ve come out

    Pokemon Orange Version That should’ve come out

    Pokemon the Orange Islands League started airing and I think many thought an ‘Orange’ version seemed logical, at least I did. Generation 2 felt so far away and yet Yellow version programmed me into thinking they could just re-release the original Gen 1 game with some slight changes like with Pokemon Pink Version. A 36…

  • The 3D Pokemon Stadium Trilogy

    The 3D Pokemon Stadium Trilogy

    It wasn’t my intention to write a whole article for the Pokemon Stadium games but there were plenty of things I needed to talk about. The first games to use a transfer pack and allow us to play Pokemon in 3D by transferring them from our Game Boy games. This was a huge deal that…