As a child in suburban Ohio, I loved baseball. I had two favorite teams for very different reasons. I loved the Cleveland Indians because I had been going to games since I was a toddler (it was easy to go to these games when about 72,000 of the 78,000 seats were empty) and I loved the Chicago Cubs because they were on TV during the daytime over summer and on days I stayed home from school. Many of my baseball-loving friends were the same way; WGN managed to be on the Cleveland cable package and that was all it took.…
Author: Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye grew up near Cleveland, was educated at Ohio University and was re-educated by living in Chicago and doing improv and sketch comedy. He is a triple threat of mediocrity.
Hey man. Can you believe this party? No one is even here yet. Jess told me that there were gonna be a ton of people here and I’ve been here like an hour but…nothing. I don’t even think she’s here. She’s not answering my texts. Whatever. I feel bad because I don’t know anyone here, but it’s Jess’ fault. If anyone asks, make sure to blame her. Fucking Jess. Maybe I just missed everyone. I don’t get why people don’t show up to parties on time. Why not just come sooner so you can have fun for longer? It makes no sense.…
Fall is upon us. Crisp air, crunching leaves, school back in session…the list of things to mark the turning of the season is almost endless. With fall, of course, we lucky few with a designer’s eye have the luxury of pulling out all the stops and even changing the color schemes of our homes! With that in mind, this autumn, here are four colors that you just HAVE to use to help mask the fact that you’re paying 20% of your monthly income toward college loans! 1. Sienna and Merlot This orange-brown color is as classic autumn as they come. When…
We’re trying out a new column here at RB and it’s called The Test of Time. We’ll be periodically looking at things from the past – notably our collective childhood in the early 1990’s – and determining whether the fond memories for those things are deserved or just rooted in nostalgia. These things might be video games, TV shows, clothing fads, or pogs (spoiler alert, I still don’t get pogs). This column is partly coming now to draw attention to how stupid our obsession with nostalgia is. We’re seeing movies rebooted and people are losing their minds over good/bad instead of just accepting…
Pageantry. Fans. Parties. Violence. Strength. Anger. Broken controllers. Impossible plays that could never happen in real life. These are just a few of the critical things a truly great football video game needs. When the idea to write an article for each sport’s best video game came up at RB, football was basically the top discussion. While some of the guys hadn’t played Mario Tennis or Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey, everyone played several different titles in the American football realm. Football video games have been dominated by the Madden franchise since John Madden Football began on MS-DOS in 1988. Madden is so…
People who don’t fly much want to know what it’s like to fly on budget airlines. Currently, the biggest budget airline in the states is Spirit, which operates largely how you’d expect: Everything costs extra. You pay to choose seats, pay to check a bag, pay to take a full-size carry-on, pay to have a glass of water, etc. Some other ways that they pinch pennies include making you print your own boarding pass ($10 or something if they have to do it for you at the airport), baggage fees that are way extra if you don’t order them online…
We’ve been slowly making our way through the best sports video games of all time, sport by sport. We’ve served up tennis, checked on hockey, and hit baseball out of the park. Now, with the NBA Finals under way (and with our quota of puns covered in that last sentence), it’s time to address basketball. This one is no contest. Winner, Best Basketball Video Game NBA Jam is the best basketball video game of all time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition is technically slightly better than the original NBA Jam, but the two will be lumped together as one because they were an original…
The French Open is upon us, and while not everyone gets into tennis, it’s a big deal around the world. Not only is it the first major tournament in the past five months, it’s also the unofficial beginning of summer for many people. While I can’t resist a good rally on the clay court, I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. However, video games save you the energy of actually playing tennis by playing it virtually. Everyone wins! The history of tennis video games is checkered. At a glance there has not been a clear-cut, miles-ahead-of-the-rest winner like we…
The Stanley Cup playoffs are upon us. Much like any playoff, there’s intrigue, passion, rivalry, and guys getting their teeth knocked out and returning to the ice. The RB staff has mixed hockey emotions, as several of us are from an area that doesn’t have an NHL team, but that doesn’t stop us from volleying worthless opinions out into the web. Being born a fan of other sports aside from hockey allows me to look at the task at hand more clearly: I am not jaded by any allegiance to a hockey team, nor a hockey game. I am simply…
We at Robot Butt like video games. Sometimes that means we play Fallout, sometimes we talk about Bloodborne, and sometimes we talk about Pokemon. Sometimes we write fantastic articles about video games, like this one, this one, or plenty of others. But we also know a thing or two about sports video games. Sports video games seem to get a different reputation than other genres and that’s not necessarily fair. To help remind readers that sports games can be excellent, we’re starting a series that highlights the greatest sports video games ever to represent each sport. We’re starting with an easy…