# small game (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover small game. Page: Feed: --- ## [Think you can’t catch prairie walleye in summer? Think again!](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/summerwalleye/) _2026-08-21 · Michael Hungle · Outdoor Canada_ 5 tactics to help you whack western walleye—even on summer's hottest dog days The post Think you can’t catch prairie walleye in summer? Think again! appeared first on Outdoor Canada . ## [How Manitoba’s Master Angler Awards help boost conservation](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/how-manitobas-master-angler-awards-help-boost-conservation/) _2026-08-20 · Ken Bailey · Outdoor Canada_ Now in its 66th year, Manitoba’s popular Master Angler Awards program sets the standard for angler recognition programs across North America. Along with celebrating individual fishing achievements, the program adds just the right amount of fun and friendly competition to the sport, while also promoting ethical angling practices. It’s a successful formula that other provinces could benefit from… ## [Solar-powered trail cameras offer fewer trips into the woods and more scouting](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/solar-powered-trail-cameras-offer-fewer-trips-into-the-woods-and-more-scouting/) _2026-08-19 · Outdoor Canada · Outdoor Canada_ A trail camera is only useful when it has power. Every hunter has checked a camera and found out the batteries died days or even weeks earlier. That means missed intel, wasted time, and one more trip into an area you may have been trying to keep quiet. For hunters who rely on trail cameras through preseason scouting, hunting season, and year-round monitoring, power matters just as much as image… ## [Wild mushrooms can poison your dog—here’s how to train Rover to avoid them](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/wild-mushrooms-can-poison-your-dog-heres-how-to-train-rover-to-avoid-them/) _2026-08-18 · Lowell Strauss · Outdoor Canada_ Dogs are naturally curious and will often eat things in the field that smell good to them, including mushrooms. While some fungi are non-poisonous, others can lead to illness and even death. Since you can’t be sure which of these unauthorized treats your dog finds, consider all wild mushrooms to be poisonous. With proper training, supervision and the use of treats or a muzzle, you can… ## [To find and catch river-dwelling fish, you need to think like one. Here’s how](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/to-find-and-catch-river-dwelling-fish-you-need-to-think-like-one-heres-how/) _2026-08-17 · Scott Gardner · Outdoor Canada_ Why is the fish doing that? I wondered. One early piece of fly-fishing advice that stuck with me was to observe moving water before plunging into it. On this summer morning, I was watching a trout near a boulder rise every few minutes. The confusing part was that it was clearly upstream of the boulder—not behind it, where I’d always been told to cast. At that point, I’d spent much more time… ## [Erementar Gerad: Matoe, Suifuu no Tsurugi (PS2)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/08/erementar-gerad-matoe-suifuu-no-tsurugi.html) _2026-08-14 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ So this game is based on an anime that I've never seen (and which seems to be officially known in English as Elemental Gelade, and I did have to look up both spellings to get the exact right arrangement of Ls, Rs, and vowels), but it's a fighting game by Taito, which in my mind, makes it worthy of some attention already. Then I looked it up on GameFAQS, and they say that it was only published by… ## [2026’s best new hunting gear: Essential accessories and awesome apparel for your upcoming hunts](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2026s-best-new-hunting-gear-essential-accessories-and-awesome-apparel-for-your-upcoming-hunts/) _2026-08-14 · Ken Bailey · Outdoor Canada_ Want to see more great new hunting gear for the upcoming season? Check out the year’s best new rifles & shotguns, ammo, bowhunting gear and optics. And for the complete round-up, see all of this equipment in one place at: 2026’s Best New Hunting Gear. FLEX-RANGE In remote hunting areas where cell coverage is weak or non-existent, Spypoint’s new Flex-Range trail camera can transmit images to your… ## [2026’s best new hunting gear: Outstanding optics for your next great Canadian hunt](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2026s-best-new-hunting-gear-outstanding-optics-for-your-next-great-canadian-hunt/) _2026-08-13 · Ken Bailey · Outdoor Canada_ Want to see more great new hunting gear for the upcoming season? Check out the year’s best new rifles and shotguns, ammo, bowhunting gear and apparel & accessories. And for the complete round-up, see all of this equipment in one place at: 2026’s Best New Hunting Gear. RFZ.1 Maven’s RFZ.1 laser rangefinder offers industry-first variable magnification, providing 6x to 12x zoom and accuracy out to… ## [2026’s best new hunting gear: Everything for the Canadian bowhunter](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2026s-best-new-hunting-gear-everything-for-the-canadian-bowhunter/) _2026-08-12 · Brad Fenson · Outdoor Canada_ The best new bowhunting gear of 2026 is here, and Canadian hunters have plenty to get excited about. Speed, performance and accuracy are the defining qualities of this year’s crop of new bows and related accessories, along with ongoing technical advances to keep gear as light and ruggedly sturdy as possible. Here’s what stands out. Want to see more great new hunting gear for the upcoming season?… ## [2026’s best new hunting gear: Top ammo options for the Canadian wilds, from woods to wetlands](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2026s-best-new-hunting-gear-top-ammo-options-for-the-canadian-wilds-from-woods-to-wetlands/) _2026-08-11 · Ken Bailey · Outdoor Canada_ Want to see more great new hunting equipment for the upcoming season? Check out the year’s best new rifles and shotguns, bowhunting gear , optics and apparel & accessories. And for the complete round-up, see all of this equipment in one place at: 2026’s Best New Hunting Gear. AMERICAN WHITETAIL TIPPED Hornady is building on the success of its proven American Whitetail line of rifle ammunition by… ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cjsh3cuAJ9wa) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [2026’s best new hunting gear: The top rifles and shotguns for Canadian hunters](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2026s-best-new-hunting-gear-the-top-rifles-and-shotguns-for-canadian-hunters/) _2026-08-10 · Ken Bailey · Outdoor Canada_ Want to see more great new hunting gear for the upcoming season? Check out the year’s best new ammo , bowhunting gear , optics and apparel & accessories. And for the complete round-up, see all of this equipment in one place at: 2026’s Best New Hunting Gear. MARK V BACKCOUNTRY CAPRA Tipping the scales between 4.1(short-action) and 4.4 pounds (long-action), the Mark V Backcountry Capra may well be… ## [Spirit of Speed 1937 (Dreamcast)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/08/spirit-of-speed-1937-dreamcast.html) _2026-08-07 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ If you've heard of this game, it's probably due to its presence on various "worst Dreamcast games ever" lists. However, it doesn't look too bad in screenshots, and it's a Dreamcast racing game, so I assumed it couldn't be as bad as people say. Plus, the old timey setting was a pretty appealling gimmick, so I gave it a try. And at first, it seemed like everyone was being too harsh on Spirit of… ## [Bass fishing’s oddest new lure is winning elite tournaments—with Canadian pros leading the way](https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/bass-fishings-oddest-new-lure-is-winning-elite-tournaments-with-canadian-pros-leading-the-way/) _2026-08-07 · Chris Hockley · Outdoor Canada_ The hottest new bait craze in North American bass fishing right now does not have a settled name, or even rigging. Yet tournament wins are stacking up north and south of the border with this new presentation, and manufacturers are racing to enter the category. And even the pros who are catching fish on these new baits are still working out how best to fish them. So, what exactly are these magic… ## [Meikyuu Jiin Dababa (Famicom Disk System)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/08/meikyuu-jiin-dababa-famicom-disk-system.html) _2026-08-01 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ I feel like whenever I look into the library of the Famicom Disk System, I find a lot of games that are kind of interesting as curiosities, as well as the seedy underbelly of the 1980s Famicom boom. But in Meikyuu Jiin Dababa, I've managed to find an FDS game that is actually a lot of fun to play! It being one of those rare games to be set in mythic India is a nice little bonus, too. You play as a… ## [Pipe Mania (DS)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/pipe-mania-ds.html) _2026-07-25 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ 1990's Pipe Dream was a favourite of mine among the games inclided in the thirty-two game Game Boy multicart I had as a kid and I know there's probably been a ton of updates and sequels and so on, with or without the approval of the original developers, but this one (which does seem to be official) is the only one I've played. It's something of a mixed bag, being a true sequel in the sense that it… ## [Tiny Bullets (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/tiny-bullets-playstation.html) _2026-07-18 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Judging by the title, I really expected Tiny Bullets to be another one of those excellent 3D shooting games secretly hiding in the Playstation library, like Gungage and Cosmowarrior Zero . Instead, it's more of a combination of Tomb Raider's meticulous 3D platforming and Resident Evil's simple "put the item in the hole" puzzle-solving. Also, the player character looks like a babyfaced Sonic… ## [New game: “Because you are part of their memory and you are going to disappear”](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2026/07/14/new-game-because-you-are-part-of-their-memory-and-you-are-going-to-disappear/) _2026-07-14 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ I have a new game out! It’s a tiny one, made for Neo-twiny Jam 2026, which requires all entries to be 500 words or fewer. My game, which clocked in at 499 words, is basically a television inspired by Kentucky Route Zero and the music of Belbury Poly. It’s a companion to “I am inventing \[ \] ## [Buccanyar! (Switch)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/buccanyar-switch.html) _2026-07-10 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ A quick disclaimer first: after I'd already bought a physical copy of this game, and then played it for a week and a half, I found out that it actually has a western release (though I don't think it has a physical version), under the title Cats Away. But the Japanese version (technically) has an English translation included, that's the version I've been playing, and that's the version I'm… ## [Pocket of Horror: Lighthouse (Game Boy Color)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/pocket-of-horror-lighthouse-game-boy.html) _2026-07-04 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ This is a demake of World of Horror, a game I haven't yet played (though I'm sure I will eventually), but which drew me in simply for the novelty of being a horror game made for Game Boy Color. Because I haven't played its inspiration, I can only judge it as a game in its own right, and am unable to compare the two. It uses a few elements that it seems like a lot of the new wave of Game Boy Color… ## [Battle Athletess Daiundokai GTO (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/06/battle-athletess-daiundokai-gto.html) _2026-06-20 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ While looking up which came first out of the Battle Athletess anime and videogames, I found something surprising: it was neither! It originated as a radio drama! Then, the Saturn game was released before there was an anime. That Saturn game, is, I believe, a kind of girl-raising sim in the vein of Princess Maker or Graduation, and has never been translated into English. I guess they wanted to go a… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yAfm8egY5z9Q) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Skate Attack (PS2)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/06/skate-attack-ps2.html) _2026-06-13 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ As a publisher, Midas were famous mainly for two things: localising occasionally interesting Japanese budget games , and also publishing mostly-terrible original budget games. Skate Attack isn't one of the former, so my hopes for it weren't high. But I tried it anyway, being the fair-minded person that I am, and for a little while, I was pleasantly surprised! On initial inspection, this seems like… ## [Parser poetics, ShuffleComp, and Game Poems](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2026/06/11/parser-poetics-shufflecomp-and-game-poems/) _2026-06-11 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ Rosebush article: I have recently published an article in The Rosebush, Parser poetics in Portrait with Wolf. It s about Drew Cookʻs 2025 Spring Thing Back Garden game Portrait with Wolf, a game that is part parser; part poem, while at the same time being neither parser nor poem. The article tries to unpack what PwW \[ \] ## [Gekifu Bakegyamon Ayakashi Fighting (DS)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/06/gekifu-bakegyamon-ayakashi-fighting-ds.html) _2026-06-05 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ This is a game I've been meaning to write about for a long time, and finally, I'm getting around to it (the roadblock being that I misplaced my original DS and have now finally got ahold of a gizmo that can satisfactorily emulate the DS and take screenshots while doing so. Unfortunately, the 3DS can only do one of those things at the same time.) It's a licensed fighting game (based, unusually, on… ## [Old Coin Pusher Friends 3 (Switch)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/05/old-coin-pusher-friends-3-switch.html) _2026-05-30 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ In real life, coin pushers are a hated scourge, the disease that has overrun and essentially killed off everything fun and interesting in the UK's seaside arcades. But when I noticed there was a series of videogame adaptations of the concept, my curiosity was piqued: how would you turn such a simple concept, that's so reliant on physicality and prizes into a videogame that is inherently unable to… ## [The Great Waldo Search (Mega Drive)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-great-waldo-search-mega-drive.html) _2026-05-22 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Under normal circumstances, I'm a defender of short games. One of my most-loved games is the Mega Drive port of Altered Beast, and with a bit of practice, you can reliably get through it in under ten minutes. Something a little different, however, is The Great Waldo Search: the first time I loaded it up, I'd seen the ending in a similarly short time. I didn't measure it, but I was sure it was… ## [Wonder Trek (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/05/wonder-trek-playstation.html) _2026-05-16 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Among the many prominent and exciting translation patches that have been released in recent times, it feels like Wonder Trek kind of fell by the wayside, and didn't really get the attention it deserved. Which is strange, since I'm sure a basic description of what kind of game it is has at least one element that appeals to a wide range of different tastes and interests: it's an isometric open world… ## [Angelian Trigger (Switch)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/05/angelian-trigger-switch.html) _2026-05-08 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Space Harrier is obviously an excellent game, but since the hard of thinking like to assume that there's no place for sprite scaling in a world with polygons, and that there's no place for rail shooters when free roaming flight sim-style shooters exist, there hasn't been a lot of iteration on its principles over the years, not by SEGA nor by anyone else. But Pixel, who made a name for themselves… ## [Undercover Cops Gaiden - Hakaishin Garumaa (Game Boy)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/05/undercover-cops-gaiden-hakaishin.html) _2026-05-03 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ It never really became a mainstream hit like Streets of Rage or Final Fight, but for a short time after its original arcade release and subsequent Super Famicom port, Undercover Cops had at least built up a sizable cult following in Japan. Which makes sense, it's a fun game, with great-looking, unique, and stylish graphics. Its popularity didn't last long enough for it to get a sequel… ## [Hokuto no Ken 6 Gekitou Denshouken - Haou heno Michi (SNES)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/04/hokuto-no-ken-6-gekitou-denshouken-haou.html) _2026-04-24 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Though I think nowadays, when people think of Hokuto no Ken games on 8- and 16-bit consoles, they're more likely to think of the ones on Master System and Mega Drive, there was a series of them on Nintendo's consoles, too. And while the Nintendo games carried a sequel number across seven games (so yes, this is apparently a part of the same series of games as the Famicom beat em up Hokuto no Ken 2… ## [Simple 1500 Series vol. 99 - The Kendo ~Ken no Hanamichi~ (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/04/simple-1500-series-vol-99-kendo-ken-no.html) _2026-04-18 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Something interesting about budget hames in particular is the way in whih the best of them manage to get a maximum amount of game with a minimum amount of resources, especially when they manage to do it without resorting to boring grinding or other timesink tactics. And The Kendo is a good example of that! Most of the characters in the game are represented by the same model with different coloured… ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iX4tCVxfcZyW) _2026-04-18 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [Steel Dragon EX (PS2)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/04/steel-dragon-ex-ps2.html) _2026-04-11 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Steel Dragon EX is a compilation of two games: Steel Dragon, which is a port of the 1997 arcade game Shienryu, and an all-new game, Steel Dragon Evolution, which was called Shienryu Explosion on the Japanese version of the disc (Simple 2000 Series Vol. 37: The Shooting ~Double Shienryu~). I'm going to be talking here mainly about the latter, though, since there's a much more interesting home port… ## [Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (Mega Drive)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/04/tiny-toon-adventures-busters-hidden.html) _2026-04-01 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Circa 1991-1993, alongside the earliest burgeonings of my interest in Sonic, there was another intense interest, though one that would turn out to be significantly shortler lived: Tiny Toon Adventures. For a couple of short years, I loved the TV show, the comic, and when it came to pass that a Mega Drive game was coming, I became obsessed with wanting to play it, even using the screenshot maps in… ## [The Invention of Chris Marker: A postcard from Ouvroir](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2026/03/27/the-invention-of-chris-marker-a-postcard-from-ouvroir/) _2026-03-27 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ When I visited Ouvroir, filmmaker Chris Marker’s archipelago in Second Life, it was night. A handful of stars were visible, and the ocean was calm except for a few inlets where waves were breaking in the wrong direction. Guillaume the cat implored me to dance but instead, I fell through the floor. Nobody else was \[ \] ## [Blood Lines (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/03/blood-lines-playstation.html) _2026-03-22 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ Everyone loves to read about Japan-exclusive Playstation games, but Blood Lines is part of a much rarer breed: PAL-exclusive Playstation games! Despite that, someone at Sony Europe must have had some faith in it, as I remember playing it on a magazine demo disc back at the time. I especially remember the line "LOSING BECOMES YOU!" that one of the characters shouts after winning a round, in an… ## [The Terminator (Mega CD)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-terminator-mega-cd.html) _2026-03-13 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ It might seem a little odd for me to be writing about a game that's a tie-in to an incredibly popular mainstream movie. But there's a few mitigating factors at play here. Firstly, it's a Mega CD game, and almost every Mega CD game can be considered at least a little obscure. Not only that, but it's also a platformer on the Mega CD, and it was released in 1993, and to the magazines of the time,… ## [Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher (Switch)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/03/ultra-kaiju-monster-rancher-switch.html) _2026-03-06 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ The Monster Rancher series is one with which I'm not very familiar. I do remember, probably more than twenty years ago, spending an afternoon playing one of the GBA Monster rancher games via emulation, keeping the fast forward button held down almost constantly. Even further back, I remember people complaining online that there weren't enough female characters in the anime about whom to write… ## [Moero! Justice Gakuen (Dreamcast)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/02/moero-justice-gakuen-dreamcast.html) _2026-02-27 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ I know this game isn't particularly obscure, but this is a special case. This is specifically the Japanese version of the game also known as Project Justice, and a big difference between the two versions is that Moero! Justice Gakuen had a whole mode that was removed from Project Justice. That mode is Nekketsu Nikki (Hot-Blooded Diary), a character creation mode, combined with a board game with a… ## [Yoyo's Puzzle Park (Playstation)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/02/yoyos-puzzle-park-playstation.html) _2026-02-20 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ There's some slightly odd circumstances surrounding the release of this game. Firstly, it's one of those games with a massive gap between its Japanese release (1996) and its western release (1999). Also, in Japan, it's called Gussun Paradise, which is a better name for it than Yoyo's Puzzle Park for two reasons. The first is that it lets you know that it's a spinoff from the Gussun Oyoyo series of… ## [Happy! Happy!! Boarders in Hokkaido Rusutsu Resort (PS2)](http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2026/02/happy-happy-boarders-in-hokkaido.html) _2026-02-13 · Jonny · lunatic obscurity_ The first thing that stands out about Happy! Happy!! Boarders upon starting it is the way it sounds and looks: it's going to be a feast for those "Y2K Aesthetic" appreciators out there. Then, with the snowboarding game I've played most of being another PS2 game, Alpine Racer 3, it's striking how much slower and more realistic this game is. You have quite a lot of control of your boarder in this… ## [Three small games](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2025/07/29/three-small-games/) _2025-07-30 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ I made three small games this summer as a way of avoiding my larger WIP. The games are Querent, a tiny, humorous game of spirit communication created for the second annual Really Bad IF Jam. What was most fun: Writing a self-absorbed rogue. What was most challenging: Getting the timed text just right: a long \[ \] ## [From poem to game redux: From workshopping to beta testing](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2025/02/02/from-poem-to-game-redux-from-workshopping-to-beta-testing/) _2025-02-03 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ I never really understood writing workshops when I was in my MFA program. I was too arrogant to really listen to people’s feedback on my work, and, when giving feedback to classmates, I got so tied up trying to balance praise with critical feedback that I never really took the time to experience the piece \[ \] ## [Recent collaborations: Weather Room and the Maze Gallery](https://lavieenmeow.blog/2024/10/05/recent-collaborations-weather-room-and-the-maze-gallery/) _2024-10-05 · lavieenmeow · La Vie en Meow_ Weather Room: A wind-up toy is a random weather generator created for Neo-Twiny Jam 2024. I did the writing and “coding” and my friend Jesse Perlstein did the sound. This game arose from my thinking about automata and diorama games. I’m excited to share that it’s just come out in Indiepocalypse #57, a monthly compilation \[ \]