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I’ve been on a stop motion animation and Wallace and Gromit kick lately, thanks to watching the new movie on Netflix a month or so ago and playing new games and DLC based on the franchise.  So I declared last week to be Wallace and Gromit Week at GamerDad!  We looked at their movies, shorts, and games, so please click on the links and read them, too!  So grab your cheese and crackers and let’s begin!

I've been away far too long. Where'd everybody go? Now that I'm in a better headspace, I'm hoping to be back to blogging regularly. Maybe we can lure some of the others back. Anyway...

Played this week. 

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. 

In this post, I play some of the hack 'n' slash games after the Genesis/SNES era. 

I found a few more NES era games in the hack 'n' slash genre and I'll retell what I've played so far in the Genesis/SNES era. 

This is your lucky day!  I’ve got more 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 appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

There are a lot, so I may save some to mention later. The earliest of the games either didn't grab me, which means I only played them for 15 minutes or so, or they did, in which case I beat them in about an hour. I found some more of them than I mentioned before by cruising through collections too. I'm being pretty arbitrary strict in my choices: it has to say "hack 'n' slash" in the game's description or as part of the genre on wikipedia. So here's what I played (most of it) this week. 

On our last few podcasts we’ve been talking about our favorite cartoons.  We did one on our favorite Saturday morning cartoons, and one on our favorite adult cartoons and one on kids cartoons.  And now we’re doing one on our favorite Japanese anime cartoons!  I’m not really that big into anime but this ended up being one of our longest podcasts anyway, so I hope you get to give it a listen please!  Just click on the link below!

So for March I have console Generation 3 as the time period (NES, SMS, Arcades, Atari 8bit, C64, Amiga, Apple II and such - you know, second half of the 80s). To limit the choices, I thought about what genres were interesting at that time to me and Beat 'em Ups came up first but more specifically Hack 'n' Slash games are really my more focused favorite. Also a limit of 20 games, although, I did make a much bigger list in case I run out. Let's get into it.