12 / 27 / 2022
Doin’ the bull dance, feelin’ the flow. Checking out Anime Happy Gilmore with Pro Golfer Saru and a pretty good mini-golf title for Famicom, Putt Putt Golf.
12 / 20 / 2022
“Well it’s a marvelous night for a moonball …” A Squaresoft pinball game? Well, don’t get too excited for MoonBall Magic, it was from back in their “struggling to survive before the RPG Gravy Train started” days and it was actually made by a pretty big outsourcing house of the 80s and 90s. Don’t get too excited for PachiCom either, our first pachinko game on the site.
12 / 8 / 2022
Few know that taking away Rollergames led directly to the formation of Antifa … we must retvrn
Anyway, the first two (not exactly realistic) cracks at roller derby video games are here with Roller Jammers, which is more like Pole Position, and Rollergames, which is more like Combatribes
7 / 25 / 2022
Racing Lagoon has exactly 0 lagoons or those crazy bayou fan boats, I demand a refund. It turns out it’s actually an odd experiment from late ’90s Squaresoft, just before all the mergers and changes, that mashes PS1-era racing up with RPG trappings. Interesting, but deeply flawed, and now available to western barbarians for the first time thanks to a late 2021 fan translation.
7 / 18 / 2022
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland … I don’t generally play skateboarding games, and never really played a Tony Hawk game seriously before, but something about the name really jumped out at me.
Also, Sega Soccer Slam, which has pretty much nothing to do with Sega somehow.
7 / 7 / 2022
“You’ll own tennis trophy and you’ll be happy.” With a new Hard Rock casino brewing in Vegas we take a look at Hard Rock Jackpot Casino for its earnings potential today, also Konami’s forgotten Japan-only tennis title Konamic Tennis.
6 / 23 / 2022
Punchin it up with Doc Louis’ Punch-Out, maybe the most challenging demo to get in gaming history … while we got the Wii fired up how about Excitebike: World Rally as well, and I re-reviewed Excitebike because the original was from the 00s and pretty crappy if I can be honest.
6 / 2 / 2022
Our first Go game at the site is THE first Go game for consoles, or at least so my cursory research says: Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku for the ol’ Famicom Disk. Then there’s Kick And Run, which I thought was gonna be a THAT’S MY PURSE I DON’T KNOW YOU type situation but turned out to be a soccer game when I fired it up in MAME.
5 / 20 / 2022
Checking out one of the “off-Strip casinos” of the online gaming world today with Skillz.com, ostensibly a place to win money by beating down other people at mobile games and seeing them driven before you with your superior Skillz. Does it hold up? Will DA MONEY be yours? Well I’m not gonna tell you right here on the news page. Also, Golf (and its various Famicom Japan-only expansion disks) by Iwata and 1980s Nintendo.
4 / 27 / 2022
Nintendo’s first dabble in racing slapped Mario behind the wheel … so how is it that almost no one knows about these games? Well, the biggest factor was probably the Japan-only Famicom Disk release. They also couldn’t seem to settle on a consistent engine for the series with Famicom Grand Prix doing the top-down view precision racer thing and Famicom Grand Prix II suddenly switching to a sprite-scaling Outrun knockoff but with offroad elements.
4 / 15 / 2022
Buncha little miscellaneous stuff today, I dunno what’s going on. Started in on a nice casino playlist, played some Exciting Soccer even though I still don’t know if it actually has a single player mode, and uh took a look at this NBCSports Predictor app for trying to win some monies.
4 / 6 / 2022
Delving into Konami’s little run of mostly-Japan-only Famicom sports games today with Exciting Baseball and Exciting Billiard, also updated the Double Dribble page to add Exciting Basketball
3 / 26 / 2022
Backgammon doesn’t get much attention in the video game world, but Nintendo took it on with a Famicom Disk System installment in that system’s final days. It has their customary polish + Koichi Sugiyama even got in on the soundtrack.
3 / 20 / 2022
Checking out the social casino for Connecticut’s Foxwoods today, which is one of a dwindling few still offering real world money rewards for your play money play.
2 / 17 / 2022
How about a tag team match playa? Today’s entry is WWF Smackdown, the first major wrestling game for the company on the PlayStation and also the cornerstone of what would eventually be the modern WWE 2K series.
2 / 10 / 2022
So we have a section called “Card Games” here, which you would think D3/Agetec’s Card Games would slot right into … but actually it’s a casino game (ツ). Not a particularly great one but it does have a surprising level of Vibe to it and the gameplay isn’t bad at all.
1 / 20 / 2022
Ever wonder what you would get if you tried to make a Goldeneye-style shooter out of the PS1 Need For Speed engine? Well, we answer this question that absolutely no one ever asked today with 007 Racing! (Sean Connery sold separately)
1 / 9 / 2022
Who needs the Metaverse when you got 3D Ultra Pinball and 3D Pixel Racing?