Big sale on Xbox the other day. I got several games. Played a few too. Here's all.
A while back I reviewed the PlayDate, a new handheld gaming device that has a crank on the side that you can wind to control some of the games. The other unique thing about this device is how you get the games. They come two at a time and are downloaded automatically on the handheld each week on a Monday. I talked about a few of them when I wrote my initial review, but since I didn’t have all the games yet in ‘season one,’ I said I would talk about more of the games later when I get a good amount of them. So now that I’ve got a few more, let’s go over what they are here!
It's interesting that feeling when you go from a superficial experience to a deeper one. Suddenly things get more interesting and intense. I wouldn't say Power Wash Simulator gets much deeper but it does help with engagement when you can think about more things than just hosing down an object to wash it.
I got called into work on Thursday, so it was just a half-day gaming with my buddy Mark. Tues/Thurs is my "normal weekend" right now.
Welcome to the Pac-Man Museum+! My name is Cary, and I’ll be your tour guide today. Oh man, wouldn’t it be cool if there really was a Pac-Man Museum and I worked there? I’d be in heaven. Anyway, Pac-Man Museum+ is a collection of arcade and console games featuring Pac-Man. Kind of like the Namco Museums, just with Pac only. It’s available on most current consoles and PC, but I got the PS4 version because it was cheapest at 20 bucks. Plus it was a physical version, which I always like. Although I’m tempted to get it on Switch as well so I could have all those games portable. And I hear it’s also on Xbox Game Pass as of this writing, so if you have an Xbox One or X/S, check it out! All right, so come along with me on the tour of the 14 games on this collection!
I’ve cooked you all up a Sunday Easter Brunch with all sorts of game reviews I’ve recently written 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 really appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
The Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom is another kid-friendly tv licensed game I tried on Xbox's Game Pass. Published by Outright Games who also published two other games I blogged about, Paw Patrol: On a Roll and Ben 10. I can't seem to discover the developer. It was fun though and short.
Today the flooding shut down work so I played. I caught up with my general and Game Pass rewards quests, bought a new game, and dove back into Minecraft for a bit.
With Mario Golf: Super Rush on Switch coming out at the end of this month, I thought I’d make a list of my favorite golf video games in honor of that. I usually don’t dabble in sports games, but golf games translate pretty well to video games and can be very arcade-y and cartoony, so I tend to gravitate to those. I’m also doing this list in honor of Father’s Day this month as well, since my dad likes to play golf and has enjoyed at least one of the games on this list. And the games on this list aren’t in any order of preference or anything, so keep that in mind. OK, let’s tee off!
I call my chasing rewards points "game chores". I usually start with them. Today I had three achievements to get for weekly/daily rewards points and two weekly Game Pass quest games to play. I got to one of them.
This out December 2001. It's an isometric view adventure game. You shoot things with the magic of four basic elements. It feels a bit like an action RPG like Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance except this is a single-player game and all you use are magic spells. I played as if there was permadeath, so let's see how I did.
Lots of stuff. Some I've spent more time with, others just briefly. It's a list.
Renomus spent long years casting spells and doing magic for questing parties. He made a lot of dough, and wanted a rest. So he bought himself a small farm and sold corn and apples out on the highway. With his magic, he may have influenced a few deals, but by and large he was an honest farmer, and satisfied. Then one day a forest gnome brought him a curious message. . .
I'd like to see Marvin the Martian be the leading character in a game. You could pour out different aliens to fight for you as you attempt to take over earth. It'd be like Overlord meets Destroy All Humans.
It's a shark racing game. Get in your custom shark and race underground waterways. It's a spin off of the well known series Dungeon Inquisitor which is a totally unrelated mystery, walking simulator. Who thought this was a good idea?
The arcades were my first gaming experiences, and I've alwasy had a soft spot for the arcade classics. Thanks to Atari, Namco, and the Arcade Archives series, my Nintendo Switch looks like the arcade of my fever dreams. But I've always enjoyed the look and feel of arcade cabinets. When I was a kid in Arizona, the local Ak-Chin commissary always had arcade cabinets like Dig-Dug, Donkey Kong, and Ms. Pac-Man, plus arcades were at grocery stores, movie theaters, travel plazas, and of course, shopping malls.
I've actually been playing a lot, thanks to the Genesis Mini (even booted up the SNES Mini to play Secret of Mana yesterday), GameFly, and Yakuza, so I'm just going to dump brief takes on all the games I've been playing.
Like GoAztecs, I've decided to write more blogs in an attempt to entertain myself (and you guys) in these trying times. Today though I have some sad (but more annoying) news - my shitbag Razer laptop, which has caused me nothing but trouble since it was shipped to me from China a few years ago, has finally gone kaput. It's been about two weeks since it last started up, and I've now packed it up in my ottoman storage area to deal with it at a later date. I'm not especially heartbroken about this... like I said, it was a piece of shit computer. But I am a little frustrated. I mostly use my iPad for everything these days, including writing and editing, but I still like having a computer for some tasks.
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This week’s gaming included two long deathful sessions with Witcher III and Minecraft, then a crashing demo and a deathful indie game.
In this second batch of games found in the SEGA Genesis Mini, we’ll look at a variety of first party and third party games. Some of these have been on previous Genesis collections, but most of these haven’t. The only other thing most of the games in this section have in common is that most of them didn’t impress me much when playing them now. But don’t worry, like I said, we’ll get to the good stuff in the next blog, I promise!
Let’s spring into Spring with more game reviews that I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even please post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
It’s February and so, in my plan, it’s the decade of the 1910s. I’m reading various books that summarize the events of the decade this month and thinking about gaming and what people might have done to game during those years. I stumbled across the midway at carnivals.