Spooky season begins with Pac-Man At Home.
“But we already have Pac-Man at home.”
Shut up.
Also… yes, it’s another one of these accursed AI thumbnails that Youtube’s Inspiration tab provided before its retirement. But I whitened the fellow’s hair and added in a screenshot as well as the usual material. Last time we’ll use one of those. Next time, we steal images off Google Search as per usual.
From PC Game Pass comes another beat-em-up brawler inspired by the 90s. Because it saves me a few bucks from having to play a game that I’m probably going to abandon not long after this video is done… which I probably will. Sometimes, being able to “rent” games online is a better deal than outright “buying” games… especially if you’re going to make no pretense about ownership or whatever the case may be.
I might keep the Game Pass thing for another month or so before abandoning it, see what else I could mine for video fodder next year… but I think we’ll be heading back to older stock for the remainder of the year… with maybe one or two exceptions.
Yeah, I’ve been on the fence with this one. Not necessarily a “bad” game or anything like that, but definitely has enough of that bootleg pirate original stink that I can’t exactly call it the hidden gem that the folks at Super Fighter Team and Piko Interactive thought that it was. Sometimes, these games are unlicensed by Sega for a reason.
Anyway, Wednesday should see Marvel get the spotlight with their non-Playstation new game… well, fairly recent, anyway… and then we’ll be doing “Spooky” stuff or something.
Who do you think this game is I am… is not featured in this video.
From a game that could have used a knob to a game that does use a knob. Let’s check this game out and see how bad it really is… or something. I don’t know. People like this game, apparently…
“You know somethin’, mean Gene? Those kids whose parents got them that 2600 from the 70s need something new to compete against those Japanese wankers, jack!! So whacha gonna do, mean Gene, when the 10.1 inch box runs wild on you? Huh?! WHACHA GONNA DO?!”
“How about Breakout with ethnic foreigners and you can only play with a joystick?”
“That works for me, brother.”
On the tenth anniversary of Comcept’s other released project, we review the PC port that is supposed to be the definitive edition of that title.
There’s a lot of background notes behind this review, which was largely assembled in two days with only enough footage to go around. Stuff that I had before ended up being lost, so another session was in play, which explains why you have varying levels of footage involved. The bulk of the work was done throughout the day before it eventually (finally) made it to Youtube just before midnight.
This review is a tale of two computers; a mini PC that is barely keeping up with the framerate for this thing and a much bigger computer that can keep up with this thing, but chooses not to. I blame Game Pass, which is what allowed me to play this thing in the first place.
Also worth of mention is that this is the one hundredth video review released for this year, which isn’t even the big milestone review to look forward to.
A different kind of pits… or something. I don’t know.
Part of this was filmed from the Antstream service while the other uses an emulator when I discovered that the Antstream version didn’t play as well.
Banging out another duology of racing games this week… and then no review on Friday because that’s when the bad news hit.
Yeah, a cold struck me down, but I’m not out… I do need to reshuffle some videos around. But hopefully, the big Sunday video won’t be an issue… the big Monday episode, on the other hand, might be. Fiddle sticks. We’ll let you folks know tomorrow.