Month: December 2024

2024 Game Of The Year Eligible Games!

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It’s just about time for my top ten games of the year list! If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know the rules, but here they are anyway. To be eligible for my list a game needs to have its first release in the United States happen in the year 2024, full remakes count but not remasters, and I have to have played them. I thought I’d do something different this year and post every game that is eligible. Now, when your favorite doesn’t show up, you can look here and see if I even played it.

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Random Game Wednesdays On Friday: High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge (Sega Saturn)

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I thought I’d try something new this week and do a Sega Saturn game for Random Game Wednesdays. Earlier this year, I did a Genesis game and was disappointed when instead of getting any of the cool games I own, the random number generator gave me Warlock, a licensed game for a movie I had never even heard of. My Saturn collection is quite a bit smaller, but there’s some cool stuff in there like Nights Into Dreams and the first Panzer Dragoon. But of course, instead of getting something like that, the random number generator picked High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge.

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Review

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We’ve been seeing something of a beat ‘em up renaissance lately. We’ve seen successful revivals of Streets of Rage, River City Ransom (as River City Girls), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and others. One I really didn’t expect to see happen was Power Rangers. While there were Power Rangers beat ‘em ups on consoles, and were pretty good, they’re not something I regularly heard people asking for. But that didn’t stop Digital Eclipse from putting out a brand new Power Rangers game in the genre.

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Random Game Wednesdays: Aladdin (Genesis)

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Once again, the random number generator decided that I needed to play a licensed game. This time, it gave me Aladdin for the Sega Genesis, made by Virgin Interactive and not to be mistaken for Aladdin for the SNES by Capcom. If you grew up in the nineties, you’ve probably heard people claim that this was the superior Aladdin game because it’s the one where Aladdin holds a sword. Is that enough a reason for this to be a great Genesis game?

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Epic Mickey Rebrushed: First Impressions

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It feels a little weird to be doing a first impressions piece on a game that came out back in September, but I picked up Epic Mickey Rebrushed on Black Friday, so it’s new to me. I’ve also played the original Wii version of the game back in the day, but I honestly don’t remember much of anything about it. It was a Mickey themed platformer. That’s about all I remember. So, what did I think of the opening moments of this year’s remaster of the game?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Justice League Task Force (SNES)

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Following the success of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, there was a rush of new fighting games hitting the market in the early 90’s. A lot of them were straight up rip offs of those other games, but there were also several that used popular characters from already existing franchises. Today, we’re talking about one of the latter. Justice League Task Force is a fighting game for the Super Nintendo by Blizzard Entertainment and Sunsoft featuring characters from DC Comics. Is it any good though?

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Crow Country Review

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The original PlayStation gave us some of the most genre defining survival horror games. Games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, and many more introduced us to the idea of puzzle solving and inventory management while overwhelming monstrosities tried to kill us. This approach would later shift to being more about action after the success of Resident Evil 4, but many people missed the slower, scarier style of the older games.

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