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Creepy Video Game Characters Who Will Send Chills Down Your Spine

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Red Stewart presents five video game characters who will make you shiver… Sometimes the best way to distinguish a character from their surrounding cast is to give them a colorful personality. Take this one way and they’re the comic relief. Take it the other way, though, and you now have a borderline-sociopath in your setting: […]

How Nicalis Crashed The 90’s Arcade Racer

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CryMor Gaming on Nicalis and The 90’s Arcade Racer… It’s always sad when a game genre dies. Sometimes it’s because its mechanics haven’t aged well, other times it’s because of pure oversaturation in the market. But still, there are other times wherein it’s a company that has deliberately ruined any goodwill that could be gained […]

The Rise and Downfall of Gearbox Software

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CryMor Gaming presents the rise and downfall of Gearbox Software…. Can you separate the art from the artist? This is a debate that has hit every single medium known to mankind, from literature to movies to, yes, even gaming. We all have our favorite franchises and series, but we have to acknowledge that sometimes the […]

10 Amazing VHS Era Villain Actors

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Marvelous Videos presents ten amazing villain actors from the VHS era… One of the joys that zoomers will never understand is the VHS. Kids these days are so “spoiled” with DVDs and Blu-rays, and 4K resolution that they have missed out on an entire video storage format that dominated the world from the 70s till […]

The Biggest Baddest Best Boss Battles!

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Red Stewart presents 5 epic boss fights in video games… What is it about giant bosses that makes them so fun to fight? “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Well yes, but that doesn’t quite answer our question. Maybe it’s because of the whole ‘David vs. Goliath’ trope. The idea of you, a […]

8 Great Peter Weller Movies That Aren’t RoboCop

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Marvelous Videos presents 8 hidden gems from Peter Weller’s filmography… Corporate marketing, hyperviolence, overly-optimistic hope in the future. It wasn’t hard to see what director Paul Verhoeven and writers Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner were trying to tackle in iconic 1987 picture RoboCop. American society had been so consumed by these aspects that it begged someone […]

Yakuza, Gambling, and Love Hotels?! The Crazy History of Nintendo Revealed

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CryMor Gaming presents a look into the backstory of the Nintendo Company… When you think Nintendo, images of family friendly, coop fun probably swarm your head. Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Donkey Kong, heck even the darker franchises like Metroid and Star Fox don’t run into the gritty trend seen from other game companies like Sony and Microsoft. And yet, […]

Long Live the King: Underrated Stephen King Adaptations Worth Your Screams | Marvelous Videos

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Marvelous Videos presents 10 underrated Stephen King adaptations…. It’s appropriate that author Stephen King has such a last name- he has been widely credited with both pioneering and expanding on the horror genre, significantly building on the contributions of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown and H.P. Lovecraft. King’s name is so iconic in the […]

8 Bad-Ass Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies Worth Another Look

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Marvelous Videos with eight entertaining Schwarzenegger movies that are worth another look… When you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, what comes to mind? Chances are you, like 99 percent of the film-going populace, will give an answer including, but limited to: Terminator, Total Recall, Commando, Conan, and/or Predator. There’s nothing wrong with this. After all, it’s rare for an action […]

5 Seriously Disappointing Boss Fights in Video Games

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Red Stewart presents a look at the most disappointing boss fights in video games… Boss fights don’t quite make or break a game, but they can definitely be a big plus. Fighting an enemy that requires smarter playing than usual can be a rewarding experience. And when a developer puts the time into it, these […]