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I'm using May as board game month this year. My theme for the month is the 1950s. I think board games might have been the most popular form of gaming back then. So it's a good excuse to explore them myself this month. First up is Stratego. 

Back during the PSOne days, Square released a mascot kart racing game featuring cute versions of their Final Fantasy staple characters.  You know, chocobo, moogle, white and black mages, etc.  It was called Chocobo Racing.  I wanted to get this game when it came out, but I was poor college student at the time and couldn’t afford to get it at full price.  Plus I heard it was getting a lot of bad reviews, so I decided to wait for a while.  Shortly after I graduated college, I found a new copy of Chocobo Racing at a flea market and it was only 20 bucks.  And since I had a bit more disposable income by then, I decided to get it.  And you know what?  Despite it having such bad reviews, I really liked it!  Sure it was no where near as good as Mario Kart or other mascot racers at the time such as Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing.  But I really liked how they implemented Final Fantasy themes and tropes into the gameplay and presentation.  So when Square-Enix showed a sequel of sorts last year coming to the Switch called Chocobo GP, I was really excited and wanted to get it.  So now I finally have it and I wanted to talk about it and all the characters and tracks found therein.  So let’s get started!

I always download every Games with Gold freebie on Xbox every couple of weeks and give them a try. Sometimes I find something I like and stick with it for a while. MX vs ATV Alive, out originally in 2011, was one of them.

I've gotten a bit frustrated with my randomized game lists. I've got some great choices upcoming but I can't seem to get to them because of Gems of War. My friend and I have been playing it obsessively for weeks now, maybe it's been months. It never seems to end. So I created a new list of most recent games I'd like to try and I'll see if I can't wrench myself away from Gems with it. Here's my Spring 2022 list (covers months March, April and May): 

It’s time to work out and get buff with a strict regimen of reading my recent reviews over 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 really appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

G Darius

I always save any game ads I see in comics. Some of them are pretty cool. They don't seem to do this in recent comics though. Here are three I found recently.

Shinobi, the 1987 arcade game, seems pretty good but I don't much like the way enemies act the same everytime you restart a level. I get quite bored of that pretty quickly. However, I'm not sad I spent $5 on Xbox Series S to play it again. I played it before as an unlockable in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection when you played Shinobi III. I liked that game a lot more. Well, I'm taking it off the random list. It's not something I am looking forward to trying again even though I believe it's a quality retro title. Below is a video.