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Introducing Saturn Saturdays
After more than 5 months – nearly half a year! – I am finally back with a new series of mini-reviews. Next console up? The inimitable Sega Saturn. I never had a Sega Saturn growing up and, as far as I can recall, never knew anyone who had one. Even my friend, Steven, who would…
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Super Nintendo Sunday (3)
First update with 4 players! Alex and Peter both showed up this weekend, so we replayed recent games with more players. I’ll update the reviews to reflect my thoughts upon additional plays with additional players soon. Street Racer: We played this one with 3 a few weeks ago, but we somehow played a beta version…
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Game Review: Pieces (SNES)
Pieces was developed by Prism Kikaku, a company which would later change names to Nippon Icchi and gain much greater acclaim in subsequent gaming generations with games like Disgaea. Honestly, I like this much more than their later work for which they’re much more famous. Pieces is an extremely simple game. There are a few…
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Super Nintendo Sunday (2)
Just a quick weekend update. Another one with just me, Tiff and Alex! I was tempted to play either Lost Vikings or Crystal Beans From Dungeon Explorer since they both play up to three. But the former only plays three on Genesis (which I’ll eventually get to but not yet) and the latter is a…
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Introducing Super Nintendo Sundays
I usually play games with my friends on weekends. I’m setting a goal for myself to start logging these plays and posting at least brief thoughts on the games. One fun way (well, fun to me) is to work my way through my backlog based on console. Super Nintendo is the most classic retro system,…
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Game Review: Firestriker (SNES)
Firestriker surprised me. On the surface, the idea of using Breakout-style gameplay in an action-adventure setting didn’t seem like it would work for me. I’m not a huge fan of Zelda games, a comparison I’ve seen a couple times, and Breakout is at best okay. But I was wrong! The addition of different kinds of…