Category: Video Reviews

Review #1380 – Fester’s Quest (NES)

Technical issues, last minute edits… such is the folly of doing yet another video on everyone’s favorite punching bag, Fester’s Quest.

To be honest, I’m not quite sure how I feel about this one. I didn’t quite like playing the game all that much and yet didn’t dislike it as much as I feared. There’s ideas that I like and yet the execution is rubbish… typical licensed fare this is not, but no hidden gem, either. Eh.

So if things go according to plan, no more NES games this year. I’m saving those for next year and that’s when some notable games on the bucket list finally get the spotlight. In the meantime, we’ve got other crap from other consoles to visit. What fun.

Review #1378 – Buzz Bombers (Intellivision)

Actually, you know what? Screw it. You get it early.

This was literally cooked up in less than an hour. Roughly 10-15 minutes worth of quick gameplay to get a feel, coming up with words in about half the time, doing the dub, assembling the piece in Vegas, rendering and uploading all this morning before I spot off to the rest of the day. It’s not perfect, but it’s… well, you know.

Review #1377 – Donkey Kong (Intellivision)

The true horror lies in the fact that someone at Coleco considered this to be acceptable. Setting aside the (largely disproved) urban legend of Coleco making non-Coleco ports purposefully awful to make their own console version look better, it amazes me how someone at Coleco thought that THIS was good enough for Intellivision owners.

Alas, here we are… for better or worse. Mostly worse.

Review #1376 – Ghost Hunter (Atari 8-Bit)

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.

Review #1375 – Marvel Cosmic Invasion (PC)

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.

Review #1374 – Xiao Monv/Magic Girl (Mega Drive)

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.