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BaD #4: 5 Wii U Games that Nintendo hasn't ported to the Switch yet


Posted on 02/05/2022 at 06:53 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I definitely want to see Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD come to Switch. It would make the Switch that much closer to having a comprehensive Zelda collection. At that point, you'd just be missing the handheld Zeldas after Link's Awakening. And I personally wouldn't mind the Oracle games, Minish Cap, or A Link Between Worlds getting the LA HD treatment. Not sure how they would do the DS games since they made them so dependent on the touch screen.

I actually never played Xenoblade Chroncies X, so that would be a new experience on the Switch.

Pizza Pixel Podcast: Episode 6: Top Five Favorite Educational Games


Posted on 02/03/2022 at 01:03 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I found the game I was thinking of. It was Tooth Invaders, for the C64.

OST So Good! #2: Final Fantasy VI


Posted on 02/02/2022 at 04:09 PM | Filed Under Blogs

The main FFVI World of Balance theme, Terra, is one of the best overworld themes I've ever heard in a game. One track I like that doesn't get a lot of love is The Floating Continent, which is one of the final precursors before things go to hell at the halftime mark.

The Legend of Nihon Falcom: The Wanderers from Ys


Posted on 02/02/2022 at 04:07 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Nowadays you can get it on Steam. But I'm really digging Ys 9 right now.

The Legend of Nihon Falcom: The Wanderers from Ys


Posted on 02/02/2022 at 04:07 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I rented the SNES version of Ys 3 a long, long time ago. Before that I was a fan of Faxanadu. But for a long time, the only place I saw Falcom games was on sites like RPGamer, though I know they did Brandish on SNES and Popful Mail on Sega CD.  Ys VI and The Legend of Heroes on PSP really seemed to kick-start Falcom in the US in the mid 00s. 

I did watch that video last year, on my blog on Falcom's Dragon Slayer/Legend of Heroes games.

BaD: Shortest Games #1


Posted on 02/02/2022 at 04:03 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Sounds like a simple version of Super Mario Sunshine.

BaD #2: Space Gun


Posted on 02/02/2022 at 02:28 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Most US developers were doing games like this with blue-screened live actors (Area 51, Revolution-X).

Pizza Pixel Podcast: Episode 6: Top Five Favorite Educational Games


Posted on 02/01/2022 at 09:55 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I never played much in the way of educational games unless you count The Oregon Trail as one. The Oregon Trail was a strangely addictive game. I did have an edutainment game on the TI-99/4A called Beginning Grammar which went over the parts of speech. In Oklahoma, there is a science museum called the Omniplex. They had a bunch of educational video games that looked like they ran off of Apple IIs. One of them was a tooth brushing game where the evil plaques were represented by scary Russian music, namely the Volga Boatmen's Song (the theme that plays when Soda Popinski is introduced). Gotta love the Cold War.

This Year's BaD is......


Posted on 01/29/2022 at 03:06 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I usually manage to come up with one or two BaD posts. Which may or may not be bad posts.

Retro Review: Winback


Posted on 01/29/2022 at 06:14 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I do remember WinBack getting covered in Nintendo Power, though it didn't get a cover feature. I rented it back in the day. It was an interesting game and I might have bought it a year or two earlier. But after Ocarina of Time and Castlevania came out, I pretty much moved on from the N64.  I was all into the RPG library on PS1. 

I'm playing it on the Switch. Honestly, with Nintendo's close relationship with Koei Tecmo, and all the recent consolidation of the game industry lately (I'm not saying any more), Nintendo ought to consider reviving this series as its own in-house version of Metal Gear. 

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