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One hit kill from dragon fire. I envy the dead.
17/01/2025

One hit kill from dragon fire.

I envy the dead.

The Indie Gamer Chick Retro Review Index is now officially presented by Able To Play. I've given them the space in perpe...
17/01/2025

The Indie Gamer Chick Retro Review Index is now officially presented by Able To Play. I've given them the space in perpetuity. Folks, this is an amazing thing that's being actively developed. A database based around game accessibility in every single form it takes, curated by the community in order to make gaming better FOR EVERYONE. I've lived with epilepsy since I was 16 years old, and gaming is always going to be a risk for me, no matter what. My doctors have made that very clear. Able To Play can't fix that, but they can turn my risk into a more calculated one. They can also help people with color blindness, cerebral palsy, vision or hearing limitations, and so much more. This is a fantastic cause and I'm so incredible proud to use my platform and my ever-growing index to promote them, and I look forward to working with them on some fun but educational special features for their site and for IGC in the future. So, check out Able To Play at https://abletoplay.com/

And check out the IGC Retro Review Index, currently home to links for every retro review I've done. This includes:
-27 Real and hypothetical retro collections.
-31 New games on old consoles.
-152 Arcade games.
-396 Games for console, handheld, and classic PCs.
-158 LCD games.
https://indiegamerchick.com/retro-review-index/

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Bob Uecker has passed away. 14 career home runs, one of which came off Sandy Koufax. Uecker joked that home run alone wo...
17/01/2025

Bob Uecker has passed away. 14 career home runs, one of which came off Sandy Koufax. Uecker joked that home run alone would keep Koufax out of the Hall of Fame. When asked how to catch a knuckleball, he replied "wait until it stops rolling and pick it up." One of the great sports wits of all-time. Cheers to the great Bob Uecker! Jussssssssst a bit outside.

Want to know why I'm adding extra games to a Kung-Fu Master review? This is why. This is Lady Master of Kung Fu, aka Nun...
17/01/2025

Want to know why I'm adding extra games to a Kung-Fu Master review? This is why. This is Lady Master of Kung Fu, aka Nunchackun in the United States, which is no direct relation to Kung-Fu Master but it shares some DNA. Call it the second cousin once removed from Spartan X. As far as I can tell, it's never seen an official re-release (I don't count Antstream, though if you use Antstream, by all means I'd like to hear what you think of these games on that platform). This has never been re-released, not even a PC port. This is a genuine hidden gem, and so far, early on, I like it.

Commodore 64 Kung Fu Master, starring Billy Crystal as "Gripper" and Danny DeVito as "Tom Tom."
16/01/2025

Commodore 64 Kung Fu Master, starring Billy Crystal as "Gripper" and Danny DeVito as "Tom Tom."

Suddenly this review feels more important.
16/01/2025

Suddenly this review feels more important.

Mario & Wario Platform: Super Famicom Developed by Game Freak Published by Nintendo First Released August 27, 1993 Exclusively Uses SNES Mouse NEVER BEEN RE-RELEASED Now that Devil World finall…

Switch 2: Revealed
16/01/2025

Switch 2: Revealed

Wonder Woman fighting Daleks and Cybermen. I can't imagine why Sega never re-released FlashGal (1985, Arcade). Figure ou...
16/01/2025

Wonder Woman fighting Daleks and Cybermen. I can't imagine why Sega never re-released FlashGal (1985, Arcade). Figure out how to work Star Trek into this and every nerd reading this will climax on the spot.

I've merged the My Hero Arcade and SMS reviews into one. Therefore, I'm adding another game.
16/01/2025

I've merged the My Hero Arcade and SMS reviews into one. Therefore, I'm adding another game.

This feels like it should be a meme. "Waaaaaa?!"
16/01/2025

This feels like it should be a meme. "Waaaaaa?!"

Me: The last boss is a disembodied pair of legs named "Jonathan." Mom: Does he know how to use them?Me: Huh?Mom: Does he...
16/01/2025

Me: The last boss is a disembodied pair of legs named "Jonathan."
Mom: Does he know how to use them?
Me: Huh?
Mom: Does he know how to choose them?
Me: Oh.. I think I get it.

Well, poo. Looks like I'll have to educate myself on the Sega SG-1000 because apparently builds look different depending...
15/01/2025

Well, poo. Looks like I'll have to educate myself on the Sega SG-1000 because apparently builds look different depending on the emulator. See? That's the first level, same ROM, different emulators. Mother f*cker, why does this stuff always become so complicated?

Dragon Wang (stop giggling) is SHAMELESS in how much it rips off Kung Fu. HEY LOOK, knife throwers on both sides. HEY LO...
15/01/2025

Dragon Wang (stop giggling) is SHAMELESS in how much it rips off Kung Fu. HEY LOOK, knife throwers on both sides. HEY LOOK, the first boss uses a stick. Fancy that.

15/01/2025

Jesus Christ, the thing isn't even out yet and people are freaking the f*ck out.

Look, I'm not a Nintendo apologist over here. But a console that's fully optimized for video games does not need to match other consoles that are meant to be all-in-one home entertainment solutions like PS5/Xbox Series S/X number-for-number to be their equal. If you want a good example: the Nintendo GameCube was under-powered compared to the Xbox, but I felt well-made games on both looked, more or less, the same. Nothing on Xbox really looked unfathomably better than Metroid Prime, and most GameCube games looked a teeny tiny bit better than PS2 games (Resident Evil 4, for example), which was, if not difficult to program for.. time consuming to optimize. So, assuming the numbers floating around are true (and I believe they are), this is a GameCube v OG Xbox situation. It's fine, people. The games will look amazing and you won't miss the less-than-one TFLOP less it computes over Xbox Series S, because the Xbox Series S is doing a ton of other things at the same time that the optimized Switch 2 isn't doing because it's just a game machine. Okay? Calm down.

A second after this was taken, Thomas said "you know I'm allergic to hugging, right?" Then he died.
15/01/2025

A second after this was taken, Thomas said "you know I'm allergic to hugging, right?" Then he died.

Shao-Lin Road, aka Kicker, is one of 25 games that will be reviewed in Kung-Fu Master/Spartan X: The Definitive Review. ...
15/01/2025

Shao-Lin Road, aka Kicker, is one of 25 games that will be reviewed in Kung-Fu Master/Spartan X: The Definitive Review. It really doesn't belong exactly even if Dave insists this is a high tide rider. I believe him, but this shares a lot more DNA with Nintendo's 1983 Mario Bros. than Spartan X, but after kicking it around (see what I did there) I'm including it anyway just for my own sanity because Knuckle Joe was f*cking abysmal and I need a good game. This is on Arcade Archives for $7.99 and I recommend it. Lot of fun! Can't wait to do co-op (turns out there's no co-op. Seemed like it would be perfect for it). Thanks, Dave!

Ever seen this? It's Knuckle Joe, one of 25 games (I added Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, and it's LOCKED. Angela said sh...
15/01/2025

Ever seen this? It's Knuckle Joe, one of 25 games (I added Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, and it's LOCKED. Angela said she's deleting what I've worked on if I add another) in Kung-Fu Master aka Spartan X: The Definitive Review. Originally I was ONLY going to do Kung-Fu Master and a couple rip-offs, but Dave convinced me to do every rip-off from major publishers. During this era, EVERYONE had "their version" of every hit game, and Kung-Fu Master was no exception. Taito had THEIR VERSION. Sega had THEIR VERSION. Namco eventually had THEIR VERSION, and the argument is that a game's legacy is also defined by the games that rode its coattails. I agree, so these games are included in the feature.

Knuckle Joe (Arcade, 1985)
Shao-Lin's Road (Arcade, 1985) aka Kicker
Dragon Wang (Sega SG-1000, 1985)
My Hero (Arcade, 1985) aka Seishun Scandal
Lady Master of Kung Fu (Arcade, 1985) aka Nunchackun
My Hero (Sega Master System, 1986) aka Seishun Scandal
Mr. Goemon (Arcade, 1986)
Kung Fu Kid (Sega Master System, 1987) aka Sapo Xulé O Mestre do Kung Fu
China Warrior (TurboGrafx-16, 1987) aka The Kung Fu
Kuri Kinton (Arcade, 1988)
Splatterhouse (Arcade, 1988)
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (TurboGrafx-16, 1991)
Splatterhouse 2 (Sega Genesis, 1992)

This time, there will be rankings at the end of the feature.

The logic of my plan to do a bunch of Kung Fu Master games that only last 10 minutes had a slight flaw in it. I assumed ...
14/01/2025

The logic of my plan to do a bunch of Kung Fu Master games that only last 10 minutes had a slight flaw in it. I assumed I'd just fly through them. It took me hours to beat the MSX version even with cheating. The pots basically take half your life.

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Here's a clip of Earthshaker for Pinball FX crashing in the middle of a multiball. The ROM itself is what resets, as apparently it couldn't handle.. ahem.. the shots being made. You can see it happen, then it returns to the attract screen. This didn't even take that long to trigger. First game of the day. Second overall game played of Earthshaker. So much for that. Shocking as this might be, my family doesn't really want to put any effort into a table that could just randomly reset the ROM. Who wants to have a game going that might be a world record pace only to have it reset apparently at random in the middle of, you know, hitting the shots you're supposed to? That's never happened in Pinball FX, but given the fact that Black Knight and Banzai Run aren't awarding Extra Balls despite saying they're supposed to right in the instruction books, I don't have faith that they caught this in play testing. Hell, at this point I'm not convinced there's any play testing at all.

The third and final table from Pinball FX's brand new Williams Pinball Volume 8 pack is the first one that was revealed: Earthshaker. I rated the Pinball Arcade build #19 of 100, and it's one of Angela's all-time favs (she rated the TPA build #11 of 100). Sasha has never played it. This will be a trip. And I decided to set the camera low for this clip. Hell, why not? Feels great, too. Unlike the other two Volume 8 pins, which have physics that induce moments of annoyance, Earthshaker plays like a dream. I wish there was an option to tone back the siren lights. In real life we'd just remove those lights entirely.

There's no question that Zen Studios made the better version of Banzai Run. Here's the (ultra rare) Nintendo Switch version of Banzai Run from The Pinball Arcade, which, like real life Banzai Run machines, is prone to breakdowns. As in the magnetic capture doesn't always, you know, capture.

Betcha you've never seen anyone else with this before. On Nintendo Switch, The Pinball Arcade's Season 1 - 7 bundles, including Williams/Bally tables were only sold for only a few minutes on April 6, 2018, before being immediately delisted. They didn't actually have publishing rights for Nintendo Switch for those tables and were soon to lose the Williams/Bally license anyway. I didn't actually buy these. Years after this happened, someone who appreciated the work we'd put into this, a fan, sent me copies of them. I don't actually have a complete collection of Switch TPA tables. I'm missing AC/DC and Star Trek, plus Big Buck Hunter and Whoa Nellie never came out at all on Switch. So, how rare is this? I don't have the exact numbers, but apparently it's a very low number. As in there's more legitimate copies of the Nintendo World Championships 1990 floating around out there than there are the Bally/Williams pins for Pinball Arcade on Switch. You know, we didn't do this stuff for gifts or anything. We did it because we love pinball. I literally cried when I got these. And I still play them all the time. Doctor Who by Bally is f'n awesome! (BTW, if you're bummed on missing out, truth is I think these builds are prototypes that were never meant to release and a series of miscommunications happened, because some of them have a touch a lag. The worst two are Cirqus Voltaire and Scared Stiff)

Double Donkey-Kicker to f*ck-up a good game. I love this table. It don't love me.

Banzai Run for Pinball FX, the oddball double decker that is easily the best gimmicky table in pinball history. It really helps that the bottom playfield combines a single ramp with some damn satisfying sharp-shooting targets. Designed by Pat Lawlor, who went on to dominate the early 90s with Funhouse, Addams Family, and Twilight Zone, but the bottom table doesn't FEEL like a Lawlor. It's closer to something you'd expect from Steve Ritchie.

Here's Black Knight 2000 running on an Xbox Series X. It's one of three new-to-Pinball FX tables in Williams Pinball Volume 8. This is the "Normal Physics" as opposed to "Realistic Physics" which we'll look at tomorrow. None of us have made a verdict yet but I'll say the normal physics are, ahem, not great. The ball has far too much side spin. I dunno. Maybe Hungary has like some weird magnetic phenomenon that I've never heard about that causes pinball there to play with a lot of unmotivated spin on the ball. Angela said "steel whiffle balls" and jeez, that really does sound accurate. Steel whiffle balls. Lots of curve for no reason.

Sasha 8, me 3. First to ten, and one of those was the lucky "first guess" on my part. Sasha is heir apparent to IGC so hey, this is reassuring that she'll be better at this stuff than I ever was.

OH MY GOD!! I just guessed Mastermind on my first turn! The odds of this are 1 in 1,296 (same odds as rolling a Yahtzee on your first attempt).

(blinks) Welp, I'm now down 0 to 3 against a third grader in game also known as "Mastermind." I don't know if that's good for her or bad for me. Heh, little from Column A and a little from Column B.

Welp, I just went full pony on this sh*t (I screamed until I was a little hoarse). I tell you, the 9 year old has some kind of dark arts sh*t going here.

Yea, that's actually crazy easy to force a win, even on the hardest difficulty level. Now TECHNICALLY the game of Mancala in Clubhouse Games 51, which is really called Kalah, is also First Player Wins Solved, though I took one look at the formula and my body said "nope" and I suffered a bout of stigmata, which I took that as a sign to stop. Connect Four is so much easier to understand. I mean, I *don't* understand the math itself, but the basic strategy is easy to follow.

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