Let’s set the mood: It’s currently 99 degrees with a high of 115, the AC is on, I have a floor fan next to me, listening to a 90s R&B playlist on Spotify waiting for my breakfast sandwich to defrost so I can burn my mouth. The setting is set so let’s get started.
In this game you learn the power of observation. Microsoft's new, and smaller, halo ring orbits earth so you can observe your gears farms and take notes. The stats help your farmers know what to grow next and complete innovative machines for Microsoft. It's like a sports management sim except for tech. You highlight things as you speed past the farms and then pour over spreadsheets. Then you call up your middle managers to tell then what to do. I liked the visuals from space but gameplay is more like a real job than I could stand, so I played these other five games.
Even in the early 80s I was a video game fan, and I consumed the very limited media at the time for video games where I could. Other than the Pac-Man cartoon, one of the earliest cartoon shows related to video games that I remembered was Saturday Supercade, which aired on CBS from 1983-1984.
Solitaire played with a mandatory five people, couch co-op, with one controller. This series is absurd. Who does this sort of thing? Apparently it's quite popular though. In this fifth installment you use the solitaire gameplay to fight mythological beasts and outwit a complex conversation system in an epic tale of desperate battles, betrayal and deceit. I would've loved it if I didn't need five couches for social distancing. I played the following seven games instead.
I finished my breakfast sandwich, and my Pepsi is almost empty which means I should update you good people before I go about the rest of this hot as heck Friday. It’s going to be a “cool” 117° and I will be inside. I would go to the pool but you know everything is closed and besides that water would be warm too…although I could buy a kids pool and some bags of ice. Hmmmmm. Before I make a random trip to Walmart for a kids pool and bags of ice let’s get started.
'02 was fair for me. Nothing special happened for me that year, just more pizza delivery and jam sessions, two great tastes that taste great together.
And here’s the last of the blogs about the games on the Turbo Grafx-16 Mini’s US releases. Well, mostly. I’ll combine a few of them that had both US and Japanese releases on here like I did last time. So let’s take a look at the rest of them!
Sorry I've been gone for so long. Having a ball with the Switch. Mostly Animal Crack Crossing, but I have picked up a few more games. Spirit of the North, Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II, Dragon Quest III, and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
I just finished the sewer level, holy shit! This part was very annoying and the backtracking sucks. Hopefully the next section will be better.
The morning ritural: either wait for breakfast sandwich to thaw before tossing it into the microwave or wait or the breakfast sandwich to cool down a bit from Surface of the Sun to Burn Your Taste Buds Pizza Rolls hot. Oh the simple things…I have an ice cold Pepsi going so let’s catch up.
The Grand Gears series gets a Disney DLC pack where you can farm with Disney characters. Make them happy and they'll join your party with special magical powers in battle. Or, it's just the following four games I played earlier today.
My oldest son was obsessed for a few days with watching gameplay of the original Mario Kart and playing it on our Super NES Classic. He kept asking about the other games in the series and eventually—almost randomly, it seemed—he asked to play the GBA game, Mario Kart: Super Circuit. He didn't stick with it very long. I played a lot of that game when it came out but it is easily the most forgettable game in the series. Even my least favorite entry, Mario Kart Wii, is at least memorable in the ways it is terrible. So I picked up the GBA SP after my son was done and played through a couple cups. I do not like the way it controls! Something about the slide is off, not sure exactly how to articulate it. It just doesn't feel right. So while it's cool that I still have the game (complete in box!), Super Circuit has reinforced its position as the most forgettable Mario Kart.
2001 seems like a great year to me from a media perspective but it was kind of hell for me. I left my job that summer and started a new one (no better than the old one) where I began working late night again. 911 happened. I woke up just in time to watch part of it happen live; one of those "never forget" moments. Then rent went up, and I moved to a new place. After all that, things picked up because Adult Swim started on Comedy Central, members of The State comedy troop made a movie, and a game appeared that would define the next decade for me, Halo.
For the next two parts of the games on the TG-16 Mini, we’re going to look at (mostly) the US releases. Some of the same games are also on the PC Engine Japanese side, but I’ll let you know which ones are like that when we get to them. OK let’s begin!
It could be another solitaire variant but it's actually the collective title of the four games I played today.
It’s been awhile since I have done one of these but welcome back to Quick Hits with Chris! Yes this is where I ramble on about nothing really, just stuff I’ve watched, stuff I’ve read, and any other some what interesting things that are happening here. Let’s get started!
2000 was the year I started playing some live shows with my band in Philly and several other states. I had to upgrade all my gear for this and it cost me a pretty penny. I did some music on my own as well with a four track and a drum machine. It was music all the time that year, except when I saw, played or read the following.
It’s the usual routine, wait for the breakfast sandwich to get to a temperature where it doesn’t burn off my fingerprints, I am here. I just noticed that the spot on my toolbar where the office program should be doesn’t have the little icon so I searched and found out that I have Solitaire on my laptop. I’m gonna play that in a bit but first let’s catch up on other games I played.
Miniature versions of classic game consoles with pre-loaded games has become very popular in the past few years. First we got mini versions of the NES and SNES, and then SEGA came out with one for the Genesis. And now we have the Turbo Grafx-16 Mini! It was supposed to come out last year, but got delayed. Because of the Corona virus, I didn’t think it would ever come out. But a couple of months ago, I got mine in the mail! I just now got a chance to play it, so we’ll take a look at all the games on it. Because there are so many games (almost 60), I’ll have to split this up into several parts over the next few weeks.
Renomus spent long years casting spells and doing magic for questing parties. He made a lot of dough, and wanted a rest. So he bought himself a small farm and sold corn and apples out on the highway. With his magic, he may have influenced a few deals, but by and large he was an honest farmer, and satisfied. Then one day a forest gnome brought him a curious message. . .