It looks really great, and sounds really great and it’s fun to play ^_^Ī really interesting air hockey type game. It’s really hard though.Ī great platformer that I think most people know about already. A really fun platformer where you can change between different cat characters that have various abilities :)Īn entertaining platformer based on a heavy metal band. Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)Īnother game I added today. I love this shooter!! Great music, great gameplay ^_^ You can check them all out in my Famicom Collection >Ī really fun platformer, where each boss battle is like a boardgame race to the finish line, even though it’s in japanese it’s quite easy to follow ^_^Ī fun puzzle game, kind of like Columns where you have to match colors and shapes falling down in pairs, except here you first have to stop the slot-machine-like pieces so it’s quite random what you will get and if you don’t stop them fast enough you won’t have time to place them correctly. BTW, I really love the japanese store stickers, they are always so easy to just peel off without any effort! :D And from this Ebay seller the stickers even had a corner folded in so it was really easy to grip and rip ^^Īpart from that I have been updating my Famicom Collection, now I am finished with “S” which was the largest letter! 64 games just starting with the letter “S”! I also added a few other new additions like Lot Lot, Mississippi Satsujin Jiken, Madara, Maniac Mansion, Meikyuu Jima (Kickle Cubicle), Ninja Jajamara Kun, Obake no Q Tarou, Paaman, Perfect Bowling, Puzslot, Quinty etc. Sorting, cleaning, organizing and trying them all out has been taking some time. first I got this huuuge package of games from Japan: In 1990, when a 10-year-old kid thought about video games on a home computer, they would have probably been picturing Sinclair, Amstrad or Commodore.It’s been a busy week. One brand that tended not to feature in playground conversation was Apple. In fact, my 10-year-old former self was barely aware that Apple existed. The only reason I’d heard of the future richest tech company in the world was my Uncle. He’s a prolific composer of library music and had a Macintosh Classic in his home studio. Being the child of an actor, music tech didn’t impress me much as a kid. I do recall visiting my uncle one wet autumn Saturday and asking him: “Do you have any games on that computer?”įortunately for a bored kid on a rainy day my Uncle was able to answer that he did have a game for me. As he fired up the Mac, I was initially disappointed by the monochromatic display. Playing games in black and white was not something I was used to. I was impressed however by the detailed illustration of the café’s (ironically) colourful characters. The game was originally going to be a shuffleboard sim, hence it not being called Air Hockey Cafe!Īs I looked at the faces of my potential opponents staring back at me, my eye was drawn to the display board at the top of the image. It proclaimed proudly the name of the Current Champion. On my Uncle’s Mac this read: “Some Cunt”. “What does that word mean?” I asked, wide eyed and oh-so innocent!Īfter quickly navigating beyond this slightly embarrassing moment my Uncle set me up with my first game. Shuffelpuck Café uses a perspective trick to give a somewhat 3D feeling of playing air hockey against an opponent directly in front of you. You can choose to take on a single opponent from the eight occupants of the Café or play them all in a tournament.Įach opponent has various quirks to their game play to test your skills. Defeat Princess Bejin and she’ll provocatively reveal some cleavage When you get the puck past them there is a satisfying smashing sound accompanied by a brief but bizarre animation of the screen cracking where the puck left the table. This is my favourite part of the game mechanics. The action of sliding the mouse to hit the puck makes the game feel incredibly immersive. Add to this the smooth animation of the puck and the expressive drawing of you opponents and you have a seriously addictive game.īut, oh my god is it hard!! Once you get through the first couple of matches the difficulty really ramps up.
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