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thunder cracks, mysterious rattling sounds ⊟ door creaks, rectangular form standing in doorway silhouetted against the intermittent flashes of lightning unknown figure shuffles into the light of the room, revealing Tiny Cartridge, risen from the grave DUDES there’s a slime pet bed now [via Noisy Pixels , thanks bdorf!]
Make Your Own Mon-Yu ⊟ Hi, everyone! It’s been… four months?! since the last Tiny Cartridge post, which was about a toilet game, and I’ve been dragged out of de facto retirement for an equally important reason. And that reason is Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When…
The wait for Gekisou! Benza Race - Toilet Shooting Star is almost over After learning about this game, a toilet racer, I am now retroactively spending the last year anticipating its May 15 release. An exciting toilet racing game that lets you experience a toilet revolution. Many circuits and toilet racers are waiting for your challenge. After customizing the toilet and getting your stomach ready,…
IREM game collections for me to collect ⊟ Tozai Games, who memorably brought me Spelunker HD , has announced five volumes of collected IREM games for Xbox, PS5, PS4, and Switch, with big ol’ physical versions coming from Strictly Limited. This first release comprises Image Fights 1 and 2 , and X Multiply , three shmups that I definitely haven’t played and definitely want to. I also, in…
Wonder Boy, Bust a Move, New Zealand Story today⊟ Hey y'all, it’s been a while, as evidenced by my trying to spell “Tumblr” with an O while logging in. Tomblr. Tumblor. Toumblro. Anyway I’m back with more old games on Switch. It’s becoming my brand and I’m ok with that. Today’s Nintendo Download includes a whole entire Wonder Boy Collection (also on…
Big news for exactly me: new Arkanoid, from Pastagames Tiny Cartridge faves Pastagames (Pix the Cat, Rayman Legends, Maestro: Jump in Music) releases a new game today, and… it’s a new entry in a legendary franchise, Arkanoid (that one big NES box I bought when I was like 7, the game that used that cool paddle controller on DS). Arkanoid Eternal Battle updates the formula with, what…
I’m a fool for not already being hyped for SpiderHeck ⊟ I’ve gotten a few press releases for SpiderHeck from publisher TinyBuild, but such has been my Situation recently that I made a point to get back to them and then, I don’t know, gone to deal with the toilet that fell apart or adopt kittens (!) or whatever. Today, the game is actually out on Switch and basically everything…
There’s a new Puzzle Bobble and it’s very important ⊟ Don’t just take it from me, the person who drinks coffee from a Bubble Bobble mug every morning and is on stage 1174 (oh no) of Bub’s Puzzle Blast, a game I only found by accident while looking for a new Bust a Move/Puzzle Bobble. Look at the above video, with its four-player co-op (including Story Mode), hi-res Bub,…
Publishers old and new bring me games old and old ⊟ One of the most weirdly unlikely domino-meme developments recently is the one that starts with THQ’s bankruptcy in 2012 and ends with me playing a Sunsoft Famicom game from 1992 on my Switch. But that’s basically what happened? Nordic Games Licensing bought a lot of the THQ back catalog, then went through a series of acquisitions,…
Romance of the three Kunios today ⊟ Put me on record as a Kunio Liker (actually, I guess across over a decade of writing, I have put myself on said record dozens of times) and my favorite development of late has been the Weird Alternate Kunio. Take the River City Ransom crew and recast them as fantasy wizards, or give WayForward a chance to remake the universe from a different perspective, and…
Cool DIY Super Famicom kit turned into cooler mini-TV kit ⊟ I’m pretty impressed with Columbus Circle’s barebones DIY kits, basically just clone Super Famicoms or Famicoms without cases. You can then put it into whatever container you can imagine, like this toaster! What Youtuber LimoneWorkshop did, however, is to put the tiny kit into a custom-built miniature Sharp SF-1 . And it…
Corporate consolidation is good, actually (in this one weird specific case) ⊟ Toy company Bandai and video game developer/publisher Namco merged in 2005. Four years later, Koei and Tecmo merged their game-making operations. Now, the two megacorporations have leveraged Tecmo’s beloved Monster Rancher series and Bandai’s long-standing Ultraman license to create this weird-ass thing , a…
My Famicase Exhibition opening in LA ⊟ My Famicase Exhibition, the gallery of imagined games displayed as Famicom cartridges, will come to the USA for the first time in 18 years tomorrow. Traditionally hosted by Tokyo game shop Meteor, the annual exhibit will open with a special Los Angeles show at the Capsule Corner gashapon booth and art gallery (located in the Hive Gallery & Studios).…
A match made in the eShop ⊟ I don’t know much about Why pizza? the “platformer, physics puzzle and delivery job simulator at the same time.” The visuals are somewhere between “intriguing” and “deeply off-putting,” and it looks challenging in a QWOP/marionette kind of way, and I do believe I want to try it. With 100 percent certainty, though, I can say this…
Are you the absolute maniac who will buy Bob with no Bub ⊟ I don’t think such a person exists, yet First Press is selling plushes of the player 2 Bubble Bobble character separately from the more well-known Bub . Nothing against Bob, and in fact I prefer the blue color, but I feel like Bob has yet to achieve Luigi-level breakout status. Both are also being sold as pricier, more…
What if you… listened to Retronauts this week ⊟ I don’t need to tell you this, since the Venn diagram of Tiny readers and Retronauts listeners is probably one tiny Tiny circle inside another much larger circle, but what’s the point of having a website if I can’t use it to brag on my co-editor when he kills it on a podcast? Sure, the latest Retronauts episode tackles the…
Gotta Protectors is back and a little weirder on Switch ⊟ Pretty excited to play the next iteration of Ancient (and Yuzo Koshiro’s) Gotta Protectors , the Famicom tribute game that’s also a legit action-tower-defense-that’s-still-cool-if-you-don’t-like-tower-defense! This time, in addition to rad music, meta humor and wild musou-esque combat, there’s… a castle…
Taito Milestones out April 15 ⊟ I’ve been obsessive about retro compilations on Switch recently. I want to gobble them all up. Even so, I’m unconvinced about Taito Milestones, the collection of 10 mostly ancient, mostly historically interesting arcade games. Without knowing a price, I’m not sure how into Alpine Ski or Wild Warriors I’ll be, or how willing I am to try a…
PAC-MAN MUSEUM + - Release Date Announcement Trailer Great news for your PAC-PASSION ⊟ No longer will you have to keep your PAC-PASSION repressed. There’s a place for people like us, and it’s the Pac-Man Museum+ . I may sound like I’m joking, but anything that includes Pac-Man Battle Royale , one of my all-time favorite games, stokes the flame of my PAC-PASSION. Though it seems…
Give me all the PC Engine ports ⊟ When Moto Roader originally came out on Turbografx-16, it totally failed to get my attention, my brain just filing it away in the “sports games I’m not interested in” category next to Takin’ it to the Hoop. But now, with the benefit of time, I know that any TG16/PC Engine game I get to discover for the first time is precious and wonderful.…