The classic puzzle game Chip's Challenge, which made its debut on the Atari Lynx thirty-five years ago (oy vey), has now resurfaced on the Nintendo Switch. For those curious, this is the Lynx game running on an emulator, as opposed to the PC version, which has a higher resolution and a wider view of the playfield, but unsettling...
Sarah Sowertty of Gaming Hell sets her sights on Growl, an obscure Taito arcade game where four men who are legally distinct from Indiana Jones open a can of justice on dastardly poachers. A stern warning or light prison sentence won't be enough for these ecological threats to learn their lessons... you'll have to break out the...
Okay, this isn't as great a deal as Game Tengoku Cruisin' Mix Special was, and the games themselves aren't as good, either. But these two side-scrolling platformers nevertheless provide a certain twisted sense of entertainment with their oddball play mechanics and a downright bewildering East-meets-West presentation. Did you...
Westone's Clockwork Aquario is the quintessential arcade game... loud, colorful, and unapologetically dumb. Perhaps a little too dumb, considering that it missed arcades entirely and was instead ported to modern game consoles like the Nintendo Switch. While it's great from a preservation standpoint that Clockwork Aquario was...
Chip's Challenge hits the Switch. Yeah, I didn't see that coming, either. (www.nintendo.com)
The classic puzzle game Chip's Challenge, which made its debut on the Atari Lynx thirty-five years ago (oy vey), has now resurfaced on the Nintendo Switch. For those curious, this is the Lynx game running on an emulator, as opposed to the PC version, which has a higher resolution and a wider view of the playfield, but unsettling...
Nintendo... Focus? Might I suggest a different name?
Grr! Animals! Sarah Sowertty explores Growl on Switch (cohost.org)
Sarah Sowertty of Gaming Hell sets her sights on Growl, an obscure Taito arcade game where four men who are legally distinct from Indiana Jones open a can of justice on dastardly poachers. A stern warning or light prison sentence won't be enough for these ecological threats to learn their lessons... you'll have to break out the...
Price Alert! The Samurai Collection (First Samurai, Second Samurai) on sale for $4.99! (www.nintendo.com)
Okay, this isn't as great a deal as Game Tengoku Cruisin' Mix Special was, and the games themselves aren't as good, either. But these two side-scrolling platformers nevertheless provide a certain twisted sense of entertainment with their oddball play mechanics and a downright bewildering East-meets-West presentation. Did you...
Semi-sweet nothing: Clockwork Aquario
Westone's Clockwork Aquario is the quintessential arcade game... loud, colorful, and unapologetically dumb. Perhaps a little too dumb, considering that it missed arcades entirely and was instead ported to modern game consoles like the Nintendo Switch. While it's great from a preservation standpoint that Clockwork Aquario was...