Video Game Reviews – Page 2

Review #1358 – Metal Force (Famicom)

Diving back into the realm of unlicensed bootleg fare… except this one is actually quite good. In fact, I am genuinely surprised by how well Metal Force held up. This almost could pass for something out of the Tengen camp… almost.

Review #1357 – Target: Renegade (NES)

British developers attempt to make a gritty sequel to a redressed version of a beloved Japanese arcade classic. They fail… miserably… at least on NES.

Review #1356 – Renegade (NES)

Going from the terrible to the less than terrible was probably for the best and honestly, I didn’t think Renegade was as bad as I expected it to be… or maybe my dread for the next game on our list was such that it bled over to this title.

Either way, the redress of the Kunio Kun that Kunio’ed it Kun is spotlighted here and I wonder why I even bother.

Review #1355 – My Hero (Master System)

Traditionally, Review A Bad Game Day – a relic of the old 1MoreCastle site that I adopted for myself – would land on August 8th… but that’s on a Saturday and I’ve better things to do on a Saturday than waste it on today’s offering. A prime example of something that doesn’t always go well on a card.

We didn’t end the week on Super Boy, which turned out better towards the back end of that series, but we do end on a bad game, so it all works out.

Review #1354 – Super Boy 4 (Master System)

It took us four games, but Super Boy finally graces Sega Mark III proper and the quality is a step up. Whether that means a good game is… oh, come on, you should know better by now.

Good news is that they stopped making Super Boy games. Bad news is we’ve still got one more bad Master System game to look at tomorrow, but at least, it’s licensed by Sega… man, and I was worried I’d have nothing for Review A Bad Game week here.

Review #1353 – Super Boy III (Master System-ish)

Calling this a “Sega Master System” game is a misnomer because this entry is a strictly SG-1000 release… which would technically make this the first time we’re reviewing a game from Sega’s older console that never made it to American soil… but much like Akumajo Dracula on Sharp X68000, it’s on a console that I am never going to touch again and I am playing this on a Master System gimmick anyway, so whatever, who cares? The game still sucks… or does it?

Review #1352 – Super Boy II (Master System)

Hey, kids. Remember that Super Boy game we played yesterday? Well, here it is, again, because sure, why not?

Review #1351 – Super Boy I (Master System)

Yes, we’re tackling the infamous Super Boy series on Master System… or so they tell us. And yes, we’re doing the entire series this week. Joy.

Review #1350 – Rafa’s World (Switch)

The One-Cent Adventure! Literally. When on discount, anyway… oh well.

This review also serves as a sort of unofficial conclusion to the series of videos that began with a Five Dollar Nintendo Shop Gift Card. Whatever was left on the balance was probably spent on taxes and stuff. Either way, I’m done with this experiment and we can move on to something else.

Thank fuck for that.

For other videos in our little Five Dollar saga

Sunday Gimmick Table #51 – The Five Dollar Nintendo Gift Card
Review #1289 – Space Intervention (Switch)
Review #1316 – Minepull (Switch)

Review #1349 – The Amazing Spider-Man (MS-DOS)

Nostalgia can be a hell of a drug, kids… but sometimes, it can also suck ass. As much of a time killer as this was back in the day, this is one of those games that simply do not hold up. And I don’t even think it’s that bad of a game… up to a point.