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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
First, to level-set, I want to be clear that I would never have voted for Act 851 of 2023 that was snuck through at the end of the session. It takes away what should be an obviously legitimate authority of local government. My view on preemption is that states should set a basic set of…
By chance, opening Steam during this most recent Steam Winter Sale, I stumbled across Fallout 1 for a couple bucks – and many other cRPGs besides. It’s partially what kicked off revisiting these games, and what inspired me to start writing about it. I’ve installed the small/fixes only version of the Fallout Fixt mod and…