We spoke to Tomomi Sakai, the original designer of the NES / Famicom cult classic Gimmick!. (Repost)
"Gimmick! is a completed work, so I can’t imagine there being a sequel"
I had the pleasure of reviewing UFO 50 for PC Gamer! Click this way to check it out: www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
Some of this 8-bit collection's gems truly could've been standalone games.
It's almost maddening that they give so much for so little.
You know there was once a famous carpenter with long hair and some crazy ideas that turned out to be wise teachings. His name was John Carpenter and he taught us it's more fun to be stoned and play video games than work.
Here is an article from Login (March 1986) about Yuji Horii's unreleased adventure game called 白夜に消えた目撃者, which would have been set in Russia. This was going to be Horii's next big ADV on the PC before he moved fully into making Famicom titles. archive.org/details/logi...
What's your "no one but me remembers" game? Xenon. Not the shmup, but the 1995 shareware artillery game for Win3x. It's never on shareware compilations.
A remake of a historically significant PC and Famicom game designed by Yuji Horii (Dragon Quest) was released this week and it seems almost nobody in the west is aware of it. It has a full English loc but AFAIK like zero marketing whatsoever: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Buy The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~ and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
That one jumped ca. 50 meters vertically into the air when I met it!
Been such a long time since Google Play recommended me a game that's actually kinda neat? Bricky Boy is a pinball/Breakout mix that's styled like an old LCD handheld (but not really - it's got smooth movement and animations). Bit heavy on the forced ads, but there are means to get rid of those.
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