Category: Video Game Reviews

All the video game reviews

Review #1300 – Star Wars (Master System)

Feeling a disturbance, alright…

Yes, we’ve shifted gears from our originally intended 1300th review (which will now be 1400th) to a Star Wars game on Master System that… is the only Star Wars on Master System and will hopefully be the thing that gets me to covering that Game Gear version of Star Wars that is much more interesting.

Just so we’re clear, the “faux THX” sounding sound is the Super Mario World keyhole sound effect stretched out to last longer than it actually does. So if anyone should CID’ing this thing, it’s da Mario, not the Mouse. The mouse can fly a kite up… well, you know.

Review #1299 – Tetris X (PSX)

Oh lookie… it’s another Tetris game from Japan on Playstation… and that’s about all I’ve got on that front unless I can somehow get that Cardcaptor Sakura variant that costs a billion dollars or something.

On the bright side, Review #1300 is on Friday and it won’t cover a Tetris game.

Review #1297 – Aerofighters Assault (Nintendo 64)

I’m doing you a solid of sorts by putting this one up early. Next Friday’s though… tough one.

Star Soldier did a solid by sticking with what worked for the series. Aerofighters, on the other hand, went in a different direction… and effectively killed the series. Yes, they called the recent one a reunion, but it’s more like a revival of a long dormant brand that probably should have stayed dead if I’m being honest… but, hey, the more nostalgia you can dig out of mothballs, the better… allegedly.

Anyway, there may or may not be one more N64 game before we close out the month depending on how things turn out over the weekend. Honestly, I’ve been under the weather as of late and also there are other issues at work. I am hoping that things work out where we’ll have some sort of stream as scheduled, but if not, I’ll cook up something else in the interim and move the live show for another time.

Review #1296 – Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth (Nintendo 64)

Kind of last minute while also at the same time sort of lingering in the backlog and bucket list of reviews that desperately need to get knocked off. And this one’s nice and quick, too.

Oh, and Star Soldier continues to underwhelm on Nintendo. Oh goodie.

“But WAIT!” you yell, “What about Star Soldier R, which you are?”

To which I say, “You mean the WiiWare one? The one you can’t get anymore?”

Exactly.

Review #1295 – WWF No Mercy (Nintendo 64)

Happy 3:16 Day. Celebrate the occasion with a listless episode of RAW that tries to sell you amateur hour rehearsals at the community theater as “cinema” while praying for the one bald guy to show up and raise some hell…

Or you can watch this video that covers an old WWF video game that people really like for some reason. And it’ll take less time than an episode of RAW, Smackdown, or even NXT, for that matter! Wrestling is fun (allegedly)!

You want mercy? Take your ass to church.

Review #1293 – Magical Tetris Challenge (Nintendo 64)

After almost three years of untouched and unloved dormancy, Nintendo 64 returns to the spotlight in grand fashion… in the form of a video review spotlighting a Tetris game featuring classic Disney characters. Did you honestly expect anything less?

But if that doesn’t tickle your fancy… No Mercy hits Monday. That’ll be a jam up game.

Review #1292 – Parodius (Famicom)

Yes, we are doing a Parodius game before we’re even sniffing a Gradius game… though it’s not for a lack of trying, let me tell you. But yes, it’s about time we dive into that stash of Famicom carts that I’ve got laying around here and start playing these bloody things for once.’

Been doing some trial runs with adding borders to the NES/Famicom widescreen footage and then I found myself playing a bunch of Parodius and having a blast with it, so I figured why not? Not the first time that I’ve tackled a series out of order, nor will it be the last.

Yes, we’re reshuffling reviews here. A couple changes here and there, but we should be on track… somewhat.

Review #1291 – City Connection (NES)

The game so awesome it got a video game company named after it… and just for shits and giggles, I’ve even included a mild tribute to a long defunct personality of sorts that has been a frequent subject matter of this webzone years ago. Hope he’s doing well these days.

Honestly, I think this review needed to happen sooner than later and I was surprised that I had never touched this one back in the day considering it was the game being covered.

For those who want to watch the video commentary, you can do so here.