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Let’s ring in the new year with game reviews I’ve recently written 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 appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

Sonic the Hedgehog at TopGolf

TopGolf is a chain of high tech golf driving ranges.  You reserve a spot and can use these clubs (or bring your own), and you can scan your club to eject golf balls from a machine.  Then you swing and hit the ball and try to get it to go into big holes on the playfield for points.  I’m not totally sure how it works, but there are trackers in the ball so you can see the ball’s trajectory on a TV screen after you hit it.  A dumb way to describe it is that it’s kind of like bowling, but it’s golf.  A few years ago, they teamed up with Angry Birds for a special game option you could pick from.  I even wrote about it here.  And now they’re doing the same thing with another video game franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog.  They have a TopGolf in the same city where I live, so I had to try that out, and here’s how it went.

Taito Milestones Volume 3 (Switch)

Taito was a force to be reckoned with in arcades back in their heyday, as they are the ones who created Space Invaders after all.  And now here’s another batch of their games that you can play on Nintendo Switch.  Rastan fans would be especially interested in this one, as it has pretty much every game in that series on here!  So let’s take a look at all the games.

Irem Collection Volume 2 (PS4)

Irem was a video game publisher who made a lot of arcade classics like Moon Patrol, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Kung Fu Master, and R-Type.  They also made a lot of console games, including a couple of my favorites: Kickle Cubicle on NES and Steambot Chronicles on PS2.  Sadly they went out of business in 2011, but now you can play a handful of their arcade games in this collection.  This one includes a vertically scrolling shooter and a couple of run and guns, so let’s take a look at them.

Minecraft Gingerbread House

When I went to the Five and Below store a while back, I saw a Minecraft Gingerbread House kit for only 4 bucks or so.  I picked up a couple of them.  One for my nephew and twin nieces to do, since my nephew loves Minecraft (what kid doesn’t?).  And I picked up another one to do with my other brother’s stepson when we would do Christmas at my mom’s house.  So I thought I’d share that with you and show you what it looked like.

Zero to Dance Hero (Switch)

Learn Hip Hop style dance moves step by step in Zero to Dance Hero.  It’s a motion controlled dance game on Switch, and you can even pick instructors from the Fitness Boxing games (I think they’re made by the same folks).

Rage of the Dragons NEO (Switch)

I’ve seen many a NEO GEO arcade cabinet in my time, but I don’t ever remember seeing this game in any one of them.  Supposedly, Rage of the Dragons was going to be a sequel to another NEO GEO Double Dragon one-on-one fighter that I reviewed about ten years ago.  But they didn’t have the rights to Double Dragon but they made it anyway.  I mean, it does have two red and blue characters that look the same named Billy and Jimmy.  And another character is a big fat guy who looks similar to Abobo and his name is almost the same too.  Not sure how they got away with that, but now you can play this one-on-one fighter on all current consoles and PC (reviewed on Switch here).

Neko Bento (Switch)

A Bento Box is a Japanese style lunch box.  They’re usually pretty small, so arranging the food in them to fit as much as you can, and make it still look aesthetically pleasing has become somewhat of an art form.  And now you can do that with Neko Bento on Nintendo Switch.  It’s pretty much exactly like some games I’ve reviewed this past year featuring cats, dogs, and zoo animals.  And now it’s with food.

Pretty Girls Pop Match (PS4)

Play a match three style puzzler with an RPG style party of pretty ladies as you match jewels in Pretty Girls Pop Match.

And that’s all for now!  Thanks for reading my reviews and posting ‘likes’ and comments on them.  I really do appreciate it!  Happy New Year!  --Cary