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Yeah I think Jeff told me when he was writing his review that the monster synthesizing stuff was giving him trouble, too.

I had an opportunity to review that Retro Bowl game when it first came out.  But I passed on it as I'm not a big football fan.

I reviewed a game a few months ago that was a rip off of Vampire Survivor called Catlord.  The game didn't sell me on the concept, but that's probably because it wasn't a very good clone, I would think.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2023/10/11/catlord-switch/

My brothers showed me a Yakuza game that was set in the 80s and all I did in it was play Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone in the arcade and talked to the cute arcade lady.  I'd be a horrible gangster I guess.

Looks like it might be a good time to 'break out' (so to speak) games like Activision Anthology, Atari 50, and maybe a Namco Museum.

Yeah I've noticed that as a trend lately.  Another trend I've noticed lately are games that are solely made for people to stream on YouTube, Twitch, etc.

Since you played Shivering Stone earlier:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/01/31/shivering-stone-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

Alien Hominid Invasion is still hard, but it's WAY more approachable than the original game.  See if you can try and play it with friends!

I'm not too big on Pinball FX anymore since they moved to a subscription service.

I don't know if would be easy for you to play these now, but my favorite video pinball games are from the Pro Pinball series.  My favorite one of those is Big Race USA, but there's also Fantastic Journey and Timeshock.  Check them out if you can!

Yeah The Behemoth supported Microsoft's consoles first for the most part.  Only a few of their games like Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers made it to other consoles.  It's a shame.  Another really cool Microsoft-only company was Twisted Pixel.  They made some awesome indie games on the 360.  And they were located in Texas, my home state!

Those PDA games in Alien Hominid evolved into BattleBlock Theater, you know.

Yeah and the game that Crisco is most famous for is The Lard's Tale.