As a Ridge Racer fan, I was kind of curious about Unbounded, but I heard it's not anything like the regular Ridge Racer games, just the name is the same.
Check out the reviews on my newest blog if you can. I reviewed the LEGO Movie 2 game and it's actually different than most LEGO titles!
Yeah it'll power you up with sugar! Most cereals anymore just aren't very good for you.
Everyone seems to really like Solaris. Sounds like someone is sitting on a gold mine.
I would love it if Activision would just port the Activision Anthology to modern consoles. Especially since the last ones it was on were the PS2 and PSP (the GBA had a version, too). It's such a good collection.
I'm pretty sure Iwata did all the classic arcade games that HAL released on NES, since he used those games to convince Nintendo to let HAL work for them. So yeah, he did Millipede, Joust, and Defender 2. I still like Joust better than Balloon Fight, though. Sorry Iwata.
I got a press release for the EDF game but I probably won't review it. Too many other games to play right now.
The Konami collections look neat. Wish they had physical releases. And why no Gyruss? I'll have to see if I have a PR contact for Konami so I can try to review it.
Right now I'm playing Yoshi's Crafted World. It's very fun, but I think I liked Yoshi's Woolly World a little more.
Before the N64 I was pretty much strictly a Nintendo customer, as I never got into the Genesis or Master System. So I was pretty excited for the N64. And I really did enjoy it a lot, especially games like Mario 64, Zelda, Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel, DK64, and many more.
However, a year after the N64 came out, their big holiday title was Diddy Kong Racing. And as much as I like Diddy Kong Racing, at the time I felt that wasn't going to cut it and I needed another gaming system. Plus I was reviewing games at The Dallas Morning News at the time, and the N64 wasn't providing enough games for me to review, especially since I was getting paid for it then. So even though I was a poor college student and really couldn't afford it, that next Spring I got a PlayStation. That ended up being one of the best gaming purchases I ever made, as I was reviewing games left and right for it after that. It also ended up being one of my favorite game consoles, with titles such as Tron Bonne, Puzzle Fighter, Brave Fencer Musashi, Namco Museums, Tail Concerto, Ridge Racer Type 4, and many, many more.
So yeah, while I did like my N64 a lot, it really was the first console that made me want another competitor's console.
I learned how to play Chess via Battle Chess, so I could see all the animations.
The other thing that Battle Chess taught me is that I don't like Chess.
I wanted to get Stacking when I played my 360 a lot. But it fell through the cracks and I never got around to getting it. There were so many games on the 360! Definitely one of my favorite consoles, surprisingly. I've never heard of Headlander, though.
I've always been fascinated by Xevious for some reason. Not sure why, since I'm so bad at it. I guess I've always been a Namco fan, even when I didn't know it.
Have you seen the cabinet for the US version of Xevious by Atari. It's pretty sweet, and what grabbed me to the game in the first place.
Here's a funny childhood story about Xevious. You remember dot matrix printer paper, right? And how it was all connected and you had to rip them out via the preforations? Well, when I was a kid, I got some of my dad's computer dot matrix printer paper. I spread it out on the floor from the front door to the back door. Then I got out my pencils and crayons and made a Xevious map on one side and a Zaxxon map on the other side. Then I would get out my toy spaceships and play 'pretend Xevious' over the printer paper! Yeah I was a weird kid I guess. I did get in a little bit of trouble for wasting so much of my dad's printer paper, though!
I read somewhere that Xevious was the first game to use pre-rendered graphics in the sprites. I always thought the backgrounds you were flying over looked like a golf course, though.
I think I've played nearly every Xevious game in the series except for Solvalou, which used the StarBlade engine. I especially like Xevious 3-D/G+, and the music in Xevious Arrangement. Gotta love all the Xevious cameos in other Namco games, too. Too many to mention here, though. Did you know that Grobda is a spinoff to Xevious and uses the tanks from that game? Also I can't believe how extensive the Xevious story is! They've written whole volumes of books about it in Japan!
