Jayenkai

Is it AGameAWeek??!
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No

o/yeayo/!

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But I'm still oddly uncomfortable with Minifigs without Minifig heads..

New Arcade Pool.. Job done..

Over at AGameAWeek, I used to have a feature called AGameAWeek Gold, where I would (much like this) pluck out some old forgotten gems.
But people hated it. Because I wasn't picking the good stuff like Tetripong, Retro Raider, Alien Deathmatch, SpikeDislike and more, and was instead rummaging through the archive for things like Mr Money Grabber, BeHandy and Monoblast.

I had to drop it as a feature because, even when giving away free games all the time, and even with the solid amount of stinkers that writing at a rate of AGameAWeek brings... Some people just have a threshold for the quality of games they'll put up with.

I played a couple of these BITD.. And that's where they'll stay.

@Jacoby fingers crossed, then, eh?

It's not as bright and vibrant, which is a shame, but if you try and display that on a TV, it can be incredibly garish.
I do wonder if there's a "Handheld style" option in the menu, though. Would Nintendo do that sort of thing? shrugs

I've seen a bunch of these "CD Style" animations since the Mania edition arrived, and each time they've felt like they worked just right. .. but this one.. I'm not sure why, this one feels like it really needed Voice Artists.
Something about it felt really off.
Maybe it's the music? I dunno, it just feels very very silent. And like something important was missing.

Still loved it, though, and the more of these we get, the better.
How cool would it be to be able to actually play something that looks like that?
Cuphead, I suppose..? Or WarioLand Shake It, with its hand drawn style.

Personally, I preferred ICQ messenger.

@BTB20 They did? Well, that sounds better, then. Honestly, I prefer not to watch people playing a game. Full of spoilers and stuff. If they want us to see amazing new things, they should kinda put that in the trailer, especially if the trailer is a 15 minute Direct. If they can't showcase "The bits that make this different" in that, then .. ..
I guess that's more of a marketing issue than the game.

My interest wained when they started the presentation with "Look at all these amazing new environments.. ... Grass, Fire, Ice, Desert.." and the whole thing carried on as if all these things were new and amazing things we hadn't seen in the past 170,000 Mario games.
"Look, it's a map you can walk around in!!"
Ugh..

I was super-hyped with the reveal trailer, but this latest Direct made it out as if there's not "that" much new going on.
"over a thousand, 2,000 ideas" is all well and good, but I'm really not seeing much beyond "and an elephant suit".
I hope there's more to it.
I really do.

That bottom-right screenshot, Tommy in a purple/green land, is giving me Bubba'n'Stix vibes..
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No, it's not Bubba'n'Stix.. It's the other one.. What was the other one called..!?! Man, my memories are fading..

..some googling later..
Bubble and Squeak.. That's the one!

Just had a go on Apple Arcade. .. probably can't recommend that version, if I'm honest. This game lives or dies on the motion controls.
Get it on Switch!

@Kiwi_Unlimited There's plenty of VR Pinballs out there, but the one I've been playing is Zen Pinball on Quest. Mostly because I've not had anything near a VR capable PC for well over a decade!
Sure would be nice if my MacBook with all its power could do a few VR things, but, well, you don't buy a Mac and expect games out of it!!

I love a good pinball game, but ever since trying it on VR, I just can't go back.
Not unless they re-release Pinball Dreams/Fantasies again. They released fantastic HD editions of those on iOS about a decade ado, but they vanished after one of Apple's Appocalypses, and they never got re-released. Ya, boo, sux. etc..
.. Those'd be nice in VR.
Mmmm...

And I bet the fan screams like a Jumbo Jet engine!

I'd love to get into this current trend of handheld PCs, but .. Man, the fan issue really has to be sorted.
I have a 1st gen GPD Win micro handheld, in a shell not too dissimilar to the 3DS's, and it's a lovely little thing, but I can barely enjoy it over all the fan noise, and apparently that's quiet compared to some of the more recent devices.

Windows on Arm, properly, with proper gfx support and a capable processor that handles it all, can't come quickly enough.

I grew up with an Amstrad CPC. Nobody else in my school had one. I kept ALL my games!!! Every single one of them!
.. Come the Playstation Generation, and friends and family one by one borrowed my huge collection, until there was barely anything left. I must've had about 50 or so games at one point. I have 5 now. Beatmania, Parappa, Um Jammer Lammy, Vib Ribbon and Road Rash.. .. Because, back then, nobody understood how cool music games were, so those were the only ones I got to keep.
tsk
Nowdays I'm much more protective over my game collection, and everyone hates me for being "so selfish."
If I had more than 5 Playstation games left, maybe I wouldn't be such a [snip]

"Played for 185 hours or more"
I can't yet tell you the percentage.
I haven't got that far.
I enjoy the aimless wandering.

Shoebox of Games!!

It doesn't look "bad"
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It just doesn't look "right".

@nhSnork Aaah, but if they didn't put in all that stuff, in the first place, they wouldn't have to teach parents how to block their nefarious ways.
It's pure evil, I tell ya!!

"Be sure you know how to stop our evil practices, and keep your kids safe, because we're doubling down on being money grabbing predators!"

At this point, the only game that could possibly outlast Mario Kart 8, in terms of continued sales, would be Mario Grand Theft Kart 5...

Make it so that any other person within your sight will run up to you and start prattling on endlessly, telling you that you still haven't defeated the pirates at Lurelin Village, and asking you if you think their relatives are alright. The difficulty level will be how much A-Button mashing your right joycon can take before it explodes.

LOL, Shoebox of Games. LOL...

We're currently downsizing from the family 3 bedroom large semi-detached home, to a smaller 2 bedroom bungalow, and the amount of game cases that went into a skip last month would shock and stun you all.
Now all my Gameboy/Gameboy Advance/DS/3DS carts are inside those little wallet things, where they take up a whole lot less space!
I kept all my WarioWare cases, though!
Cassette/Floppy/CD/DVD based games can't really be stored like that, though, so I definitely need to install some nice big shelving units once I get to the other side.

Gotta love how my old eyes are definitely not struggling to comprehend what on earth is going on in half of this video.

I played through Mania and Origins just fine on a tiny switch handheld, yet I'm struggling to make this out on a larger iPad screen.
Odd that, huh..?

Yeah, my head went straight towards a new multi-franchise kart-racer, until I saw the logo.
That logo looks very child-like.
I wonder if it's something Leapfrog or otherwise targeted? Maybe some edutainment titles for mobile? (Is Leapfrog still a thing?!!)

Chris Barrie, plz! KTHXBAI

I'm not closing the game just for this!!!

My kind of racer!! Yup yup yup!!

Not me. I get bored too easily. Next game, please!
Thankfully I grew up in the UK in the 80s, so my collection of games was mostly made up of £2.99/£3.99 budget titles, or games I could make myself. I can't imagine how expensive my childhood would've been had I had a console.

Idea for Sega. Jot down on little pieces of paper, the names of every IP you haven't redone endlessly every 2 or 3 years, and chuck them all into a giant bowl, then pick a few out and make those.
I swear if we see the same set of games from the Shenmue Arcade once more....

Would've loved to have seen proper economies worked into the game. Like buying x item at a low price in one town, selling in another. It's a shame that didn't happen.

I clicked for the Captain Disillusionment content.

I was disappointed.

I don't want to be grumpy old man, though I do love being grumpy old man, but in a franchise where some of the characters are near-identical but for their colour scheme, I find it somewhat unnerving that a majority of the actual ingame footage had "fancy" lighting that made the characters colours mostly muted and indistinguishable.
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/grumpy old man.

Aww, man, I have to reboot the game again!?!?!
Why can't it just stay loaded indefinitely!!?!?!

.. But ... but... .... ..Making games is the best bit!!!!

I'm playing "Solicitors forms for the house move"
It's so much fun, and I'm not pulling my hair out in the slightest.

I reckon they should release Bingo Party on its own, and then compare sales Vs this disappointing pile of mush.
I bet a "Nintendo Bingo" would go down great as its own thing.

All they really need to do is a nice new handheld console with a slot for Switch games. And a slot for DS/3DS games. And a slot for Gameboy/GBA games. And NES games. And SNES games.
Shove all that into a little handheld, and we'll be sorted.
Oh yeah, and a combo drive for the Wii/U/Cube games.
It's easy, really!
Get on it, Ninty!!

@-wc- I learned to die in Manic Miner. I also learned to try again.
Kids need harder games!

Gosh, that'll be fun to watch. Just like old times. Sonic vs Mario in shop stores, battling for marketplace supremacy...
But which is better!?!
Only one way to find out!
FIGHT!!!

@Sisilly_G In the UK we were taught never to add that extra S on the end. I guess that's a cultural thing. I wonder if the localisation will take that into account?!!

Yeah it was down to the motion sensor in it. (Was it Mercury based or something?)

I'm a HUGE WarioWare fan, and have owned everything bar the unreleased-over-here Twisted..
But going back to play Smooth Moves after my brain-surgery left me dizzy, unbalanced and I could barely play for more than 5 minutes without getting nauseous.
I hate to even consider this, but.. .. I might not buy this one!!
And that makes me so very very sad.

You're getting my hopes up..
Dagnabbit..

@Sisilly_G Oooh, a new WarioWare DIY would be amazing, but I get the feeling this is probably the direction they're going instead. Which is a shame. I thought the tutorial for WWDIY was really well made.

Such amazing content. Bravo to all.
I really really struggled to get into the methodology of this thing. Growing up in the 80s with Basic, through Amos and Blitz, and lately SmileBASIC... I'm a "typing" coder, and the "drag/connect" stuff didn't work for me, but..
Daaang, that's some some great examples of the power that can be accomplished if you know what on Earth you're doing with the tech!

@BlueBCA well, ok.
But if it's bad, I'm coming back here and shouting at you for getting my hopes up!

@BlueBCA Aye, but it's that "it only got worse as more and more of the game was shown off" bit that worries me.
That seems to be the recurring theme with Sonic Team since.. .. Well, it's been a while!!

Sonic 4 was also impressive. Until the Sonic players played it.