It’s always nice to get to review a game I really wanted to play.  It happens less and less nowadays.  So as a big Bluey fan and genuinely interested in good games for kids, I’m glad I got to review this first game on my review blog list.  So please click on as many GamerDad game reviews as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s do this!

I got a little break here waiting on an oil change. Here's what I've played this week so far. 

I can't resist. My April is going to be themed around Console Generation 4, which is Genesis, SNES and Game Boy (just to name the most popular systems). I want to explore platformers, but ones that have more than just straight 2D jumping/running challenges. I like exploration and a lot of action and so the "action-platformer" genre seems right for me. But, I'm also choosing platform games that I've always been interested in trying. Here's the list I have so far. 

I feel like I may run out of twin-stick shooters (and those closely related isometric shooters) soon and so I made a list of "blobbers" (games with a party of characters that move together) to check out. It fits my theme because it started in 1981 with Wizardry. Here's the list. 

Earlier this year, the ESA announced they would be cancelling E3 yet again and they wouldn’t have it anymore.  So I wanted to say my final goodbyes and reminisce on my favorite E3 memories here.  The reasons why I didn’t do this earlier when they first announced it I was pretty busy at the time, and I figured I’d do it when E3 usually occurred around now.

There are so many games on the SEGA Genesis Mini 2 that I had to split this blog into two parts.  So make sure to catch last week’s installment if you missed it.  Anyway, here we’ll go over the rest of the Genesis games as well as the unreleased stuff and SEGA CD titles.  OK let’s begin!

I’ve got a new batch of sweet and sour reviews I’ve recently cooked up over at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  Ok grab those chopsticks and let’s dig in!

Last year there was a game that came out that I really wanted to review called Arcade Paradise.  I requested a review code three different times and was denied each time!  I really wanted to review it, too, because it’s a time management sim where you must run a laundromat business, but you are secretly running an arcade in the back with dozens of fictional arcade games you can actually play!  I actually had an idea for a business that was half laundromat, half arcade, and I was going to called it Quarters: Good Clean Fun.  So this game really resonated with me.  If I had gotten a chance to review it last year, it definitely would’ve showed up on my Game of the Year list somewhere.  But this year I used some Christmas present PlayStation Store points to buy it, and sure it was only 20 bucks so I was kind of cheap, but this stuff adds up if you’re not careful.  Anyway, so now that I’ve played the game, I thought I’d write a blog about the arcade cabinets you can play on it.  Oh yeah, and slight spoiler alerts here and there, but I don’t think it matters much.

For BaD I thought I'd reveal the shortest games I played recently that I finished and actually enjoyed.

First two I played for Game Pass rewards. The rest trying to clear up my harddrive. That 111GB Forza Horizon 5 has installed but is not playable yet. That's a lot of Gigabytes - the new norm I'm told for triple-A games. 

I played this game in Game Pass last week. It was for rewards points, but I really liked it and kept playing. Here's the trailer. 

Don't ask me. I jumped into the portal and found myself in a swirl of psychedelic color with strange creatures and farm implements circling round me like I was in the eye of a tornado. Every single button made me sick to my stomach with zero-g movement, so I quit, watched a tv episdode and played the following seven games instead. 

What's a rpg/action platformer/brawler mashup where you also harvest resources like? It's just like Rogue Blob Heroes and its Gears Farm expansion. Thing is, I got annoyed that while I was away jumping and slashing my way to fame and fortune, my farm was getting raided by vacuum goblins sucking up all my juicy fruit. It drove me so nuts, I rage quit and played the following five games instead. 

Hurry, hurry, hurry!  Step right up for the latest theme park attraction!  It’s a theme park based around Mr. Driller, and it’s all underground!  Sounds safe enough, right?  Anyway, Mr. Driller Drill Land was an awesome GameCube title, but it only stayed in Japan.  But now you can download it on Nintendo Switch in the US!  Finally!  Each attraction represents a game mode in this theme park, and I’m going to take you on a tour of all of them!  So let’s begin!

I played a lot of different games the last two days, mainly for rewards points, but also for fun. I would start a game for rewards points and then stay with it until it started to not be fun anymore. My real goal was to get to my legacy game, Bioshock, and delete all these Game Pass games so I would have enough memory to install Bioshock: The Collection. So here are all the games played.

Lately I’ve been watching a series on Netflix that I’ve really gotten into.  It’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.  And it’s REALLY GOOD!  I’m a big Jim Henson fan and a lot of his works were a huge part of my childhood.  TV shows such as Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and The Muppet Show, for instance.  And movies like the original The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.  Heck, the very first Muppet Movie was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater.  The new Dark Crystal series feels like something I would’ve watched as a kid, and I don’t want to make too many assumptions, but I feel like Jim Henson would be happy with it.  So I highly recommend you watch it if you have Netflix.  It makes me really want to play the upcoming video game that I saw at PAX, even though I don’t like tactics strategy games.  Can you guess my favorite character from the new series?  I’ve given you a couple of easy clues, so you should be able to figure it out.

I played all 50 games in this collection. Then I focused on the ones with achievements attached. Some of those I didn’t think much of first time around, but once I was tasked with an achievement, I found the fun. I’ll begin with just the arcade games I have something to say about. There are 14, total.

Hey guess what?  You know what Saturday, September 15 is?  It’s my birthday!  Yay!  So you know what that means.  You’re invited to my pretend birthday party!  Please give me a pretend present in the comments section.  It won’t cost you anything, and it’s the thought that counts…literally!  Plus I always have fun seeing what you folks come up with.  Anyway, even though it’s my birthday, I’ve got some presents for YOU!  Links to game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com!  I know, just what you’ve always wanted.  Please read as many as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK, let’s begin.

The end of summer is almost here, so let’s have one last big summer fling with some game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on as many links as you can, and maybe even post a comment or like or two.  I’d really appreciate it.  OK, let’s begin!

Played a lot of Super Mega Baseball 2 today, tried out Mega Man Legacy Collection, and cooled down with some deBlob 2.