Bye bye Game-A-Day

Paul an I are busy people.  We use our precious time to bring you interesting things to look at and read.  Despite how exploding we are, we have to unfortunately announce that Game-A-Day will no longer be Game-A-Day but rather Game-A-WheneverTheHellWeFeelLikeIt.  However, in the time it took to write those short and bitter posts, we will be able to focus our energy on more interesting things.  Do not fear, we are not leaving, but rather, we are leveling up.

Love,

Alex & Paul

Floating sky asteroids destroyed: 6
What can be said about Axelay? It's basically "Mode 7: The Game 2" (sequel to Pilotwings...). Even at my age, I was like WOW IMPRESSIVE GRAPHICS, then I got nauseous and had to sit with my head between my knees for 30 minutes.

Shooters (or "shmups") like this are very aggravating, and just take so many playthroughs to memorize that it is often not worth it. I especially hate the mechanic of enemies forming a circle around you, requiring you to quickly switch to yous shoots-in-circle mode to survive. Bleh

This is the last "A" game in my sea-warped box of SNES games. At first I felt so relieved - it's been a rough journey. But looking ahead, it looks like things are only going to get rougher. Batman games, Battletoads, Bass fishing games, and Bubsys litter my path forward. I thought this would get easier, but the view from here breaks my neck. Maybe I'll rethink my alphabetic policy...

More of this!

Time played: 5 minutes.

People/animals kissed: 4.

I felt bad taking this game because Paul must be playing it soon on SNES since he takes his games in alphabetical order, but i really wanted to play this.  I forgot how it played form back in the day, but after about 2 seconds I remembered that this is actually a fun game.   Remember Three Vikings?  Each one had a unique ability, and you solved puzzles by using the right ability it the right time.  It plays out like a puzzle game rather than an action platformer.

One has a hammer, one has a ping pong paddle, and one blows kisses.  For some reason the hammer lights fuses to bombs and cannons?  That took me a long time to figure out.  It's a funny game (T-Rex with robot legs running by for no reason?  Yes please.)   It's not perfect, the controls are a little finicky, but I really enjoyed this game.  I want to go back and see all the levels which have a movie set theme to all of them which gives it variety, yet an interesting play on the scenery.

Time played: 3 minutes.

Matches won: enough.

Every time I see that i have chosen a fighter for the Game-A-Day section, I get really excited.  I like unique fighting games, and I wish I could play Bio F.R.E.A.K.S for Game-A-Day because that game is just so freaking cool, at least in my memories.  So I was excited for world heroes, and for the screen you see to the right.  But this game can't get any more generic or less technical.  It would have been more fun if they took Battletoads and made is versus.  I realize why i shouldn't get excited about fighting games I've never heard of because that simply means they are bad and not worth hearing about.  This game isn't an exception.  DERRRRRP!

Notice that it says "CD disc"

Time played: 4 minutes.

CDs Shot: 23.

Back before you were playing Aerosmith songs on your plastic instruments like idiots, Aerosmith was super hardcore by appearing in a little classic known as Revolution-X.  The arcade shooter, and by shooter i mean 2 machine guns attached to the cabinet,  was flawfully ported to the Genesis back in the day.  I owned Revolution-X on Genesis and I loved it.  The game is super shitty, and your health is just slowly depleted as enemies shoot you, with no real indication that you are getting hurt.

There is a lot to be liked behind the terrible gameplay and controlling a light gun style game with the dpad.  The whole idea about rock rebelling against an oppressive military government using machine guns and exploding CDs (because CDs are crazy new future technology) is hilariously amazing.  And it could only be led by the most hardcore anti establishment band Aerosmith!  I do really enjoy shooting all sorts of crazy stuff in the background to get upgraded weapons and more CDs, also the multi-part vehicles are great.  I wish more light gun games had you shooting cats walking on fences.

Time played: fuggit

Faces broke: GRAHH

I hate fighting games. But I want to love them. My problem is that playing against any of my friends is impossible because they're WICKED good at fighting games. I only have a chance of surviving if we play a shitty fighting game (or Dead or Alive). And this is a shitty fighting game. But I can only play on my computer by myself only have one controller so had to play by myself. Feh!

Where'd Mom go!?!?

Time Played: 90 minutes

Bricks broke: all of 'em

Hot damn, Arkanoid - Doh It Again is the winner! I played this sucker for almost 2 hours on a bus ride from New York to Boston. I don't know if it was just the fact that I was stuck on a bus that ensnared my attention or the fact that Arkanoid - Doh It Again is just a rockin' version of a rockin' game. Hell if I know what makes this Arkanoid different from others. I do know it came out in 1997 for the SNES which is MAD late, yo! I think I already had thrown my N64 out by then (JK I still have it hooked up to the TV). The only thing that would make this better is playing it on a huge projected screen in a park at night time. Yeah. Arkanoid! Does insane things.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ardy Lightfoot

Time played: 8 minutes

Expectations reversed: 1

I was really ready to hate this game, expecting something floaty and bad like Bubsy. Color me surprised when I found a charming, interesting platformer that borrowed elements from other games - not to be derivative, but to make a better game.

Ardy Lightfoot is this animal person who has this little floaty bubble creature that follows him around and he uses to attack enemies like Kirby. Ardy can run fast like Sonicwhen you push hard to the right. He can bounce on his tail like Scrooge McDuck in those rad Ducktales games.

The feel of the game was very high quality, with accurate controls and good sprite animation. I was surprised to even see a detailed overworld once I finished the first level. The game is presented as a film, with opening credits and "scenes". There is very little dialogue though, which is nice.

My only problem with the game is that after getting hit once, Ardy loses his little helper. This means that you cannot attack, and basically means that you'll be dying soon.

This is probably the first "hidden gem" I've found in the many Games-A-Day I've been playing. If I found this game with an old SNES in a house that I was renting on vacation, I would love to sit and play though all of it on a rainy afternoon.

Time played: 1 minutes.

Resemblance to Super Off-Road: 100%

Every played Super Off Road?  This game is that game. Yeah.

Okay okay.  I'm sorry for this lame post, but this episode of South Park I'm watching is about Facebook is so bad it's distracting.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Arcana

Time played: 4 minutes

Beasts slain: ARSFja;lsdkjfals;j

I only played this for four minutes so that I could get a picture that full encapsulated how boring this game is. Because... it's super boring. I really hate dungeon crawlers, especially unimaginative ones with slimes and 16-bit pain-graphics. I'm not going to dignify this game with a check of Wikipedia to see if anyone cares about it.

One good thing, the main character says "Take this!" when he hits an enemy. S'pretty funny.