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11 / 1 / 2024
Despite the screenshot, I thought we’d take a break from casino stuff today … Dokapon Kingdom is a board game riff on Itadaki Street/Mario Party, but with RPG elements as its unique gimmick. Is it any good? Click the link bud, support a small site, I can’t just give it away here.
10 / 9 / 2024
Today: Quick Hit Slots, a free(mium) app that contains much more than just the Quick Hit games. And for a good slot for the Halloween run how about Hand of the Devil. And for non-casino stuff, how about The Dodgeball.
10 / 2 / 2024
Comin’ from Alabamy with the banjy on my knee today with The Golden Banjo, and for slots we also have the older WMS version of Press Your Luck. For non-slots … Doomsday Racers has a boss name but is a huge disappointment when you fire it up.
09 / 19 / 2024
Some more slot reviews with Invaders From the Planet Moolah and one last summer cookout with The Flintstones: Summer BBQ, and if that’s not your thing, how about promising and free fan game Mario Kart: Ultra Circuit?
09 / 07 / 2024
Well, I said there would be a final update to the free NFL Pick Em links before opening weekend, but I couldn’t find anything new and interesting other than confirming that NFL.com for some reason does indeed only run their contest in Canada now.
So today we’re back to degenerate slots action with Rich Little Piggies, a game that has generated some buzz in the last couple years as an advantage play … but is it really? And continuing the exploration of the Quick Hit series as a source of low-rolling grindery with Quick Hit Blitz.
08 / 22 / 2024
All right I got the Free NFL Pick Em Contest List for 2024-25 up and going while I was thinking about it and had a big block of free time today.
As with last year this lists all the free contests I can find that have real weekly and/or overall season prizes, and I’ll very likely add to and update it prior to the start of the weekend games of Week 1 (some sites launch their contests just days before the first game and I haven’t checked social media and some other sources yet).
08 / 21 / 2024
We’re on those grinder slots again with Quick Hit Platinum, Hot Hot Habanero, and all-time champ Texas Tea!
Hey, this bit reminds me … the start of football season is really sneaking up, I guess I gotta throw together this year’s list of free pick ’em contests before the 5th …
08 / 09 / 2024
The Simpsons Wrestling really isn’t a good wrestling game, but it does allow you to beat Lisa Simpson unmerciful with a rake.
08 / 04 / 2024
I got in the mood for a golf game, I tried Outlaw Golf … I was very disappointed. Also trying to keep the Olympic spirit alive with … Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Games?
08 / 01 / 2024
XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association … you know, I was known as something of an Extreme G myself! Anyway, if you like the prior-gen futuristic racers in the manner of F-Zero and Wipeout, you might give this underlooked series a look. Also trying to keep the Olympic flame burning by adding the original Track & Field to Track & Field.
07 / 26 / 2024
Alright, trying to get some Olympic spirit going here with two of Sega’s arcade jams on the subject: DecAthlete and Winter Heat.
07 / 20 / 2024
WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain … I think that’ll hold me for Smackdown games for a while. Maybe not for wrestling though …
07 / 13 / 2024
Man … after enjoying that last Smackdown game I kinda wanna just spend the summer playing them all in sequence. But, in the interest of variety, here’s Wild Wild Racing (first offroad racer for PS2) and Top Trumps: NBA All Stars (just orange ball, no Orange Man)
07 / 05 / 2024
Do they REFUSE to SEE the CHANGE in YOU?? Well, maybe WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth is the answer. Probably not, but it was the first of the Smackdown series to really feel like a complete and top-quality wrestling title IMO.
06 / 27 / 2024
My first foray into Square’s Itadaki Street series with Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street … I thought I would enjoy it, but I really didn’t :(. Being unsatisfied I also included VT Tennis in this update … and also that wasn’t any good 🙁 :(.
06 / 16 / 2024
Cracking into the sprawling 128-bit era of the WWF/E Smackdown games today with WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It, the first of that console generation and the first to jump to PS2. Also digging around for bargain slots in forgotten corners of casinos again with IGT’s Leopard Spots, a true nickel slot that’s still hanging in there from the early days of video slots.
06 / 04 / 2024
Wacky kart racing and good-natured brawling today with Wacky Races and Heracles Chariot Racing
05 / 24 / 2024
We added a new correspondent? I’m the only one here, how did I not know about this? I guess this is what I get for not taking business classes.
Anyway, we have a new blog devoted to gambling strategy, debuting with a quick leveling guide for POP! Slots (for those trying to make some money off it at Swagbucks and those type of sites). Please enjoy! And for new reviews here at home, how about the very odd WWE Crush Hour, which is kinda like if WWE Superstars had to do Death Race 2000.
05 / 21 / 2024
Checking out World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets today … why 2008 specifically? It was the last offline home console/handheld release for the brand (as the “poker boom” of the 00s was really flatlining) and it focuses on playing competent CPU poker with bluffing and individual game styles, though I found its appeal will be limited. Also Alien Poker, an older and simple title that’s extremely basic but more colorful and fun (and fast to get into).
05 / 10 / 2024
Don’t strain too hard man, that’s how they got Elvis. Anyway, Super Rugby is one of the very first rugby video games ever made, and possibly the only one made for consoles during the 8-bit era … but if you’re looking for some simple fun or an easy introduction to the sport, this isn’t really it.
On the casino gaming front we have the odd High Stakes Gambling, whose plain and oddly Fruitopian box cover provides no hint you’re going back to the Roaring 20s (previous edition) to gamble it out with Mafia bosses, and two new slot reviews: Wild West Gold Megaways and Sticky Bees.
04 / 10 / 2024
“Rawhide slot machine … Rowdy Yates”. That’s our slot entry for today, and for casino gaming I also updated the Caesars Casino page with a review of the current Caesars Slots app. For non-gambling we’ve got RedCard 2003, an underlooked title from Midway that was basically an NBA Jam/NFL Blitz-ification of soccer that didn’t end up getting over (but really isn’t a bad game and allows you to cut loose with Double Dragon jump kicks on some flopper).
03 / 23 / 2024
You know, I was known as something of a Diesel Man myself. Slots time with Lotus Flower and Totally Puzzled, and let’s wind down with a little Air Hockey.
03 / 03 / 2024
“You’re ALL stuck with Lucky Larry!” I should have known the Zoidberg slot would be a loser 🙁
Another passel of slots today (since I’m fresh off a little casino trip) with China Shores, Cleopatra and Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2. If you don’t care for slots the best I can offer is Slingo Quest, which is bingo with a little slots.
02 / 21 / 2024
Crack a pack of Hawaiian Nuts and get comfy for Clubhouse Games … kinda a card game, board game and bar game compilation all in one … it just doesn’t do any of these remarkably well, but some categories are remarkably awful. Also, of course, Technos’ highly Engrishy US Championship V’Ball.
02 / 14 / 2024 💕
A very hartoful Valentines Day to you with Cutie Suzuki’s Ringside Angel and Super Caesar’s Palace (hey, when it falls on the long weekend here in the US tons of people go to casinos for Valentine’s Day)
02 / 04 / 2024
A little vintage racing today with Persona 4: Racing All Afternoon, which proves a Persona kart racer could indeed work pretty well, and Sega’s forgotten arcade racer Turbo.
01 / 29 / 2024
One of those busy periods of getting a little behind on the updates, so I got something together with the last of the slots I had some notes on, Konami’s Dragon’s Law (with its randomly appearing dragon that 💩s wilds all over the screen) and the forgotten-but-pretty-decent Pac-Man/Namco kart racer Pac-Man World Rally.
01 / 19 / 2024
Trying to bust through the last of the PlayStudios social casinos here with MGM Slots Live, and a proper review finally added to the existing MyKonami Slots page. And a couple more individual slot reviews to finish off the Pragmatic games I’ve been dabbling around with: Wild Beach Party, and Return of the Dead.
01 / 14 / 2024
MORE NEWMAN THAN NEWMAN! In a future where people refuse to recognize binary gender, will cyborg enhancements be the only path forward for competitive athletics? 🤔 We ponder the course of sports today with Numan Athletics.
If you just wanna gamble we got plenty of that too though. Social casino POP! Slots (part of the MyVegas ecosystem with its real-world rewards) and two slots: Tundra’s Fortune and Super X.
01 / 07 / 2024
I said nothing about John Hunter and the Secret of Da Vinci’s Treasure. And then I died! But first I uploaded reviews of slot Starlight Princess and PlayStudio’s new-ish Tetris Mobile. Why Tetris on this site? ’cause it’s linked in with their whole umbrella of social casinos such as MyVegas, POPSlots, etc and shares its reward points pool with them.
01 / 01 / 2024
Happy New Year! Our first update of the year involves … Hello Kitty? Yep, Sanrio (with the help of Mother/Earthbound and Pokémon developer Ape) snuck out a Japan-only title called Sanrio World Smash Ball that’s actually pretty fun. I guess the closest analogy is air hockey, but it’s its own whole thing.
If this does not please you, how about free slot tournaments for real money prizes? Such a thing is indeed possible with Social Tournaments.
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