PixlBit

There’s a fishing game in Japan by Namco called Ace Angler, and you view the screen horizontally to the ground like you’re looking into a fishing pond.  It’s pretty popular, and I think I even played it once at Round 1 arcade here in the US, or at least an imitation of it.  And now you can play a home version of the arcade game on the Switch with Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits.  It was available digitally in the US last year, but I imported a physical copy of it because I’m a freak about stuff like that.  But the game is entirely in English so there’s no language barrier here.  I asked for it for Christmas, but since imports can sometimes take a while, I actually didn’t get it until around Easter this past year.  And I finally got around to playing it recently.  The cool thing about the Switch game is that they made the arcade game like it has its own amusement park and aquarium.  So it’s like a cross between a Namco Museum game (albeit for only one arcade game) and Animal Crossing.  You even create your own avatar that looks like something out of Animal Crossing, and since I like the aquariums in those games, as well as Namco Museums in general, this game really ticked off a lot of boxes for me!  The game says it’s Ace Angler’s 10^th anniversary, which I didn’t realize it had been around that long!  But anyway, let me take you on a tour guide through the Ace Angler Aquarium and Arcade Amusement Park found in the Switch Fishing Spirits game!

September 15 is my birthday, but the presents are for you!  More recent game reviews I’ve written over at GamerDad.com for you to read and post ‘likes’ and comments on.  And thanks for doing that.  And since it’s my birthday, in the comments section here, please give me a pretend birthday present!  It’s the thought that counts, literally!  And it’s fun.  OK let’s begin!

If you can get the reference in the title, you win a tasty RAM chip.  Anyway, here’s my latest batch of 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 appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

I have some friends that I’ve known and talked to on the Internet and in person for a long time.  Like, since college, which was about 25 years ago!  They have a podcast about cartoons now, and when they talked about the Pac-Man cartoon from the 80s, they had me be on the show with them!  I am the biggest Pac-Man fan out there so why wouldn’t they?  But seriously, it was an honor to be on the show with them and meant a lot to me that they included me and I was very thankful.  So please give it a listen and let me know if you have any questions.

On this episode of the podcast, we’re doing something a little bit different.  Usually one of my brothers hosts the show with me, but this time we’re having a special guest.  A good friend and co-worker of mine named Noah is here this time.  And we’ll be talking about our favorite video game based movies, as well as a bunch of not so favorites!  Please click on the link and give it a listen, and let me know your favorite video game based movies as well! 

OK everyone, time to get buff with an exercise regiment of reading my recent game reviews over at GamerDad.com.  Please read as many as you can and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  And if you do, you’ll be super buff in no time!  OK let’s begin!

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!

While they aren’t as huge as they were a few years ago, mini consoles are great because they package some of the systems’ best games onto one tiny console you can relive the classics on.  But the problem is they don’t put ALL the great games onto one console!  Luckily last year SEGA released a second version of their Genesis Mini console with more different games, including some unreleased and SEGA CD titles.  I heard it was kind of hard to get, and even though I paid a tiny bit more for mine than I wanted to, it still wasn’t that bad.  So let’s take a look at what’s on the Genesis Mini 2!  There are so many games (60 in all) that I’ll have to split this blog into two parts.  So look for the next part in a week!

Hear those chimes?  It’s me in my ice cream truck serving up scoops of game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

When I was a kid back in the 80s, there were a couple of years when I was really into the Transformers toy line and cartoon.  Many years later when my brother Ben was a kid, he got into Transformers as well.  So I thought it would be fun for us to talk about them in this episode of the Pizza Pixel Podcast!  Please click on the link and give it a listen if you can!