Yesterday I just wanted to chill so I played a little Puzzli. This is a cute match-3 game about a boy and his cat engaging in a little reverse-fishing for reasons that are never adequately explained. I also like the sequel, Super Puzzli 2, which is caveman themed for some reason.
Finally, I decided to poke at my stack of SG-1000. That whole thing started because I realized the entire library was like 2.5MB??? And a lot of them look pretty good. Anyway I uh... I like Pippols? Not really sure what's going on there tbh. It's an automatic vertical scroller where you must navigate between rows to grab items and shoot enemies.
Batsugun is Grandpappy Bullet Hell and I have a little trouble with this one on my tiny retro screen but sometimes you just need to Iceman it. 🧊 There's a nice port on GOG.
An eclectic night. I really enjoy Mr. Do! and the Neo version, which was never ported elsewhere, is so visually fun and obviously made with love. The ball mechanic makes Mr.Do! slightly more compelling than similar games (another favorite: Digger by Windmill Software). This was the game that drove me to get arcade games working on my handheld.
Konami released four GB Collections in Japan and Europe. I'm partial to #2, which has Parodius and Frogger. This is honestly a great Parodius port, and while a lot of visual details are lost it's fun to play. The Frogger version here is just a solid, standard Frogger that looks wonderful on GBC. Frogger 2, not to be confused with Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, is... something else. It's a timed adventure puzzle game with gallows humor, and a stripped-down port of F2SR I play for Frogger + general weirdness. (I love Frogger, btw. You will see more Frogger.)
There are sections of the game that do not allow immediate backtracking, so I've had to re-do a few levels when I'd rather not. But this game continues to be stupidly cute and calling in your buddies for a kirby riot is very satisfying.
More Kirby, which continues to be stupidly cute. Also, my first time trying a Spryo game... ngl handheld Spryo doesn't do it for me. Also Hunter up there is slightly cursed.
ChuChu is an interesting Lemmings-programming puzzle game I'll continue to pick at. I haven't played a Kirby game in ages, and Amazing Mirror is stupid cute. The powers 'feel' big and it's pretty chill. Probably gonna play this for a bit.
Messing around with arcadey stuff. I squirreled away every version of Boulder Dash I could find and EX is the cutest one. City Connection has an awesome aesthetic and is hard as balls. And then there's Crush Roller (my beloved)
