It's back! The first new episode in a really long time. Live from some made up... I mean live from a real convention. It's the Retrokaiser live panel from TNR Talks '21. In this episode I discuss games, suicide, and more pop-culture stuff. Out in both audio and video forms. Hell yeah!
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"I love being alive." These are lyrics from the theme song for the classic Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Black. Yes! A Kamen Rider Black game! With all the crazy stuff that went down in the show, it sure needed a video game. Sadly, be careful what you wish for. Not all that glitters is gold and this game is one of those cases. They need to change one of the lyrics of the show to, "I don't like being alive!" it's that bad. Why is it bad? Read my review to find out. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
In a time before Masked Rider aired on American TV back in 1995, there was another attempt of exposing Kamen Rider to an American audience. In the previous year of 1994, America got an unexpected release for the Sega Mega CD. (Yeah, I know it was just called the Sega CD in the US. I'm Australian. Get over it, mates.) Kamen Rider ZO the game hit US shores under the name, The Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO. A silly name for sure. It translates to The Masked Rider: Masked Rider ZO. But that's enough of the Wikipedia history lesson. Let's see if this sucka is any good or not. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
Going to do something different with today's review. Normally I like to stick to the stiff, basic formula of breaking down a game (if you can call it that) by categories such as sound, graphics, gameplay, etc, etc, etc. Those are gone for this article. My experience is going to be presented as one solid piece. Some may like it, some will pick on me for it (mainly my fellow co-workers), but stiff. This is my experiences with the Mario Game & Watch. Will it be a must have throwback? Or will it be just another novelty for you to throw back into your closet. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
Prepare your rods, master your bait, and get ready to have a reel good time. This is Umihara Bazooka, the arcade-ish spin-off to the Umihara Kawase series. Not gonna lie, the title lures me into this game and what mysteries it beholds. So let's dive in and fish for answers. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
You know how some gamers swear that a game is good because they spent a ton of money on it? (*Cough* The people that bought the Double Dragon 4 Collector's Edition *Cough*) Well, today's game is a very expensive one to find and it's a tokusatsu game. So, going by that logic that means that this game should be a twenty out of ten game that only the game collecting gods should experience. This is Kamen Rider for the Super Famicom and I have huge doubts that this game will be worth spending a king's ransom on. Let's see shall we? (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
There's a lot of puzzle games out there on Steam. A lot of them are crappy, a lot of them are pornographic, and a lot of them are both. There are quite a few good ones on there too, but sifting though the crap to get to one can be a difficult task. However, Pepper's Puzzles could be one of those diamonds in the rough. Then again, that bar is set so low on Steam, even roadkill can jump over it. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
When it comes to getting Kamen Rider game released in English back in the day, we got the short end of the stick. Out of the many Kamen Rider games released in Japan, we only saw so few. We got a pretty decent arcade game (which you can read my review of that right here) and a very lousy Sega Mega CD game. Oddly enough, the Sega Mega CD game got rated T in America. Sure, most of the Kamen Rider games are lousy and I've reviewed a few of those stinkers here. Some of them are surprisingly decent and should've been released outside of Japan. This is one of those Kamen Rider games. This is your captain speaking! Today's gaming cruise ship voyage takes us to Kamen Rider SD: Shutugeki!! Rider Machine! A game released for the Nintendo Super Famicom. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
You'd be amazed at how many deep cut PS4 games are so widely overlooked. (They wouldn't be called deep cuts if they weren't overlooked.) There's more than you'd think and I am reviewing another one of those games today. This is MOP: Operation Cleanup for the PS4. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
When you think about games that were released for the Playstation 4, you're normally thinking of stuff with incredibly good graphics. However there'll be a game that comes out every now and then that'll leave you thinking, "How the hell did this get released on this console?". Miko Mole is one of those games. Looks can be deceiving and maybe this game will end up being a diamond in the rough... Maybe. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
It's about bloody time that we've covered something Ultraman related on this site. Nope, it's not an episode from one of the television series. (That job is reserved for UltraSam AKA Candy Cane Diamond.) Instead I dive back into the amazing world of Tokusatsu arcade games. This is Ultraman Club - Tatakae! Ultraman Kyoudai!! It sounds exciting. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review.)
