Category: Video Reviews

Review #1340 – HyperBlast (Atari 8-Bit)

It’s about time that we started mining this Antstream service for potential video fodder and sure enough, if this had been developed in Montreal, the developers would be accused of not having French in their company name.

Fortunately, English Software is a UK outfit that nobody outside of the UK computer gaming scene from the 80s would have ever heard of. They’re safe for the moment.

Review #1339 – Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures In Nimnul’s Castle (MS-DOS)

The thought occurred to me… sure, why not? What’s the worst that can happen besides good ol’ JR suing a puppy? It’s better than being generated by A1 Sauce.

Full playthrough will be posted on the Extra Bits tomorrow… fun times, ya?

Review #1338 – Sonic & Knuckles (Genesis)

I am legally required to identify this video upload as a “video review of Sonic & Knuckles for Sega Genesis.”

Because calling this “a cavalcade of technical calamities and seemingly endless hours of video capture and audio dubbing to say that any game that hosts a level as insipidly dreadful as Sandopolis should be disqualified from being deemed the greatest at anything” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

This was meant for yesterday as a special Sunday upload, but the fact is that a lot of stuff had to be redone before it was marginally within acceptable parameters. Honestly, if there was a better note to take a week long break on, this would be it.

Reviews will resume on July 6th.

#FuckSandopolis

Review #1337 – Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)

Raise the flame shields, kids. We’re diving into the holy cash cow of 2D Sonic games… or was that Sonic CD? Who even knows anymore?

Before anyone asks, yes, there is a means of getting vintage Sonic & Knuckles Collection from 1997 running on modern Windows. There’s also a thing that creates your own save files so that you don’t have to. These are required tools that saved me a lot of anguish for what are essentially throwaway video fodder.

Perhaps some day [REDACTED] will get their time in the sun. For now… the Sonic 3 video review. Sonic & Knuckles video coming out tomorrow night… maybe earlier if you’re lucky.

Then I’m off.

Review #1336 – Sonic The Hedgehog CD (Sega CD)

The good news is that this is going to be the longest review of a single game this week. The bad news is that it’s the only review that’s going to be up on schedule… although purely for reasons that satisfy my desire to make you people wait longer for the inevitable.

Less than thirty-six hours to rip.

Review #1334 – Bomber Raid (Master System)

Despite the name, Bomber Raid does not ape the style of another game involving the bombing of ground targets… which is a shame because it would have been the more interesting game. Oh well…

But yeah, we’re veering away from Intellivision for a spell to toss out a couple Master System reviews that have been just sitting there. And also, it’s no fun just ragging on Intellivision hard for three straight weeks, not when there’s Sega hardware to rag on.