Posts Tagged ‘action’

#457 Super Monkey Ball

Posted: 13th May 2019 by Jeroen in Games
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783rd played so far Genre: Action Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Amusement Vision Publisher: Sega Anyone who knows us is probably not surprised that as I write this, we’re going through a fairly major monkey phase. There’s a monkey pillow, some small decorations and quite a few in joke references that I won’t […]

#560 Ninja Five-O

Posted: 15th April 2019 by Jeroen in Uncategorized
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776th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Game Boy Advance Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Konami Sometimes, you know, I’m just checking boxes. Ninja Five-O is another 2D action platformer, although released a decade or two after they were popular. Still have to play it, we’ll see what’s in there. Our Thoughts […]

#133 A.P.B.

Posted: 11th April 2019 by Jeroen in Games
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775th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games An APB or All Points Bulletin is a message send to cops and law enforcement officials usually to make them aware of criminals to look out for. It’s a common enough term that finding out about the […]

768th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC/Playstation 3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games I’m playing this set of one hundred’s GTA game nice and early. The final few don’t have quite as much staying power – The Lost and Damned, today’s entry, is an expansion pack sequel for […]

#797 The World Ends With You

Posted: 26th February 2019 by Jeroen in Games
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764th played so far Genre: Action/Role-Playing Platform: Nintendo DS Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Square Enix/Jupiter Publisher: Square Enix Square Enix always seems to try to create new RPGs, playing around with the set formulas to see what new things they can create. This happens both in the changes to the Final Fantasy series as […]

762nd played so far Genre: Action Platform: Gameboy Advance Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Publisher: Konami I’m moving on with the Castlevania series – two handheld titles left, one of which I’m covering today. The second is the DS Dawn of Sorrow, so I assume there’s a link between the two […]

#335 Blast Corps

Posted: 10th February 2019 by Jeroen in Games
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760th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Finishing my Rare Replay games, Blast Corps feels like an odd dead end. It was built to be a building destroying game, and so that’s what we’ll be doing. We apparently have a variety of vehicles to work […]

#679 Ninja Gaiden Black

Posted: 17th January 2019 by Jeroen in Games
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754th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Tecmo The video games list has a sad group of repeat entries, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes being the most quoted remake on the list. Ninja Gaiden Black is another – a remake of the original Ninja Gaiden […]

#784 Retro Game Challenge

Posted: 22nd November 2018 by Jeroen in Games
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741st played so far Genre: Action Platform: DS Year of Release: 2007 Developer: indieszero Publisher: Namco Bandai Games/Xseed Games I feel I’ve referenced Ultimate NES Remix before, the game that takes old NES games and has you do a Warioware style minigame on a smaller part of it – see how well you do at […]

#841 Spelunky

Posted: 18th November 2018 by Jeroen in Games
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740th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Mossmouth, LLC Publisher: Mossmouth, LLC When listening to recent gaming podcasts, people whose taste I generally agree with or at least respect mention Spelunky as a game they really enjoy, its daily challenges especially being something they love to engage in as […]