An undead shinobi am I,
Searching the past for the lord of dragons
Who I serve faithfully through death.
No dog of war or shrieking spearman will stop me,
Although giant crickets and man-eating goldfish harrow my steps.
Sega has done a lot of great things with emulation as of late. On the 3DS, they released 3D remasters of a handful of games, which boasted a handful of improvements to the source material. Their Sega Ages line marks another batch of games that are seeing improvements to the original games as they release on the Switch. However, Sega Genesis Classics is more of a compilation of classic Genesis games with some additional features that make it a great collection to have on your Switch if you grew up with these old games.
Happy New Year! Let’s ring it in with some recent reviews I’ve 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. Let’s begin!
Last week we looked at some games on the SEGA Genesis Classics collection out now on consoles. But there were so many games on this collection, that I had to split it into two parts! So here are the second half of the games found on this massive 16-bit collection. Do be sure and read the first part, too, if you haven’t already!
February is usually a bad month and I’m ready for it to be over. But this year, February wasn’t TOO bad for me, but it’s still nice that it’s March now and we know Spring is coming soon. So to celebrate, here’s a new blog with game reviews I’ve written recently over at GamerDad.com. Please click on and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a like or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s begin.
Recently I reviewed Namco Museum on Nintendo Switch. So now I thought I’d go over each of the games in this arcade classics collection in more detail. So welcome to the Namco Museum! My name is Cary and I’ll be your tour guide today on this virtual tour! There is no smoking and please stay with the group!
Damn that was quick, so many games coming out this month. I'm really looking forward to Final Fantasy XV, it crazy to think its been ten years since the game was announced. The last two demos do kind of make me worried about the performance of the game. I'm just wondering now, if there will be any sort of boost or stability in framerate if played on the PS4 Pro. That's another thing, I'm kind of on the fence on getting the PS4 Pro. On one hand, I don't have a 4k television and one the other, the possibility that some games might run better with the extra processing power of the PS4 Pro. It would be nice to get FFXV on the PC but that seems unlikely for a while.
So I decided that I missed playing Master System games. However, I didn't want to purchase a Master System console because frankly, there just isn't the space for more console. So what did I do? Sega Power Base Converter to the rescue (pictured here)!! For those of you unaware of what it is, the Power Base Converter was an early Genesis hardware add-on that allows you to play most Master System games on the Genny. Here's the Master System games I purchased:
Project X-Zone 2 is a strategy RPG game that stars popular video game characters from game companies Bandai Namco, SEGA, and Capcom (also Nintendo)! This game and its predecessor are on the 3DS, but they are actually sequels to a game that came out only in Japan on the PS2 called Namco X Capcom. Since all three games have characters in them that I like, I decided to do a blog series about all the video game stars you can find in Project X-Zone 2. So we’ll start with the characters from SEGA!
It was a really great year. I was able to beat more games this year than last, which was my goal. I finished a total of 27 games! Most of these were retro games, but some of them were also new ones. All of these games are worth beating, btw. Here they are in the order in which I beat them.
By the time the Super Nintendo was introduced, games that combined multiple genres were nothing new. Games like The Legend of Zelda, Crystalis, and The Guardian Legend were outstanding pioneers of the action/adventure variety. But developer Quintet partnered with Enix to publish ActRaiser in 1991 on the Super NES. Released just 3 months after the new home console, it was one of the earliest post-launch SNES games. Particularly outstanding is that it combines side-scrolling action with building simulation gameplay elements. Usually, building simulations send me running for the hills because I'm terrible at them. But after spending a little time with the game, I was able to put my fears aside.
This is going to have to be done in three parts. Sorry for the length, but it's impossible when you're playing retro arcade games. You can rip through so many of them so quickly. They were designed to be played in less than five minutes at a time. What are modern games average play time, ten, maybe fifteen hours (not counting phone games of course)?
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2014 was a great year for me, and a great year for gaming. Lots of great games! Daftman suggested to me that I make a list of games to beat for the year, so that's what I did. Actually, I made two lists: one for games I beat, and another for games I bought. I won't bore you by telling you the 73 games I bought last year; many of them were old games 'cause I love old games and used many of those for Retro Game of the Week. Some were fairly recent and just a few of them were new. Anyways, I beat 24 games in 2014, easily the most games I've ever finished in a year. They were all good games, worthy of being finished. Here they are, in the order in which I beat them.
"Give me a little bit of bass with those 88s" sings The Capitols in the song "Cool Jerk". . . What to play then. For NES we've got: Metal Gear, Zelda II, Double Dragon, R.B.I. Baseball (I mistakenly put it with '87), Contra, Ikari II, Super Mario Bros 2, Bump n' Jump, and Castlevania II; for Arcade: Super Contra, Splatterhouse, Altered Beast, Gradius II, New Zealand Story, Vindicators, Alien Crush, and Double Dragon II; for SMS: Phantasy Star, Miracle Warriors, Shinobi, Wonder Boy, and Ys: Vanished Omens (good year for SMS!); and for PC: Ultima V, Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance (the first of the SSI DnD games), Exile, Bard's Tale III, and Wasteland. I must've been in a bloodletting mood because I chose Splatterhouse.
The idea of games being hard stems from just that hard games.
I have been meaning to beat this game since the 90's on my Sega Genesis. Well, fast forward to 2014, and I finally beat it on my Sega Genesis collection on my PSP. It is near Sega Genesis exact in porting. Here is my review. Forgive me if I'm rusty at this!
Happy No Meat Friday Pixlbit! It is 9:36 am in breezy Southern California, and already I miss bacon. Last night it was steak night so I can prepare for this, and today it’s looking like I’m going to hit McDonalds for the Fillet O’Fish (like all the other lazy Catholics) Since it’s Friday, it is time for another edition of Quick Hits with Chris. Today’s topics include, Chris goes nuts with Real Racing 3’s new customizations, new sports uniforms, random find at Walmart, and of course pickups. So let’s get this blog started!