September 2010
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Xtreme Xrunch Kart
Platform: iOS Developer: A Bunch of Carrot Farmers (AKA Bolthouse Farms, et al)
Bolthouse Farms changed the way you eat. Now they want to change the way you play games. The innovator behind full-sized carrots packed in cellophane (you know, without the tops), they also introduced year-round fresh carrots to America by successfully introducing the delicious salad root commercially to...
Trivial Pursuit: A Strange New Beginning
Platform: Atari ST Publisher: Domark
Ok, let’s get to the box shot, right away:
I recently switched jobs. One cool thing about my old gig was I worked in an suite built for about 12 people, but it only had four people in it. So, I had tons of free space to store things like giant lots of vintage microcomputer software purchased from eBay and Craigslist. I had a little collecting...
stroupnp asked: Hi Chris,
My name is Nick and I am a long time fan of Game Players and your reviews. What spurned me to look you up randomly remembering your hilarious and scathing review of Cosmic Race. I'm sure you get people complimenting you on that all the time, but I want to tell you that reading Game Players is a really great memory from my childhood and in particular, your review of...
My name is Nick and I am a long time fan of Game Players and your reviews. What spurned me to look you up randomly remembering your hilarious and scathing review of Cosmic Race. I'm sure you get people complimenting you on that all the time, but I want to tell you that reading Game Players is a really great memory from my childhood and in particular, your review of...
CNN Goes Strange
Hey look, CNN did an article on strange games!
Unfortunately, the games the article focuses on are all kind of tame (much less strange than the ones it references in the intro, like Fat Princess). I mean, to me, Prison Tycoon and Baby Sitting Mama barely raise the strange bar, when you have box software gems like Berg & Tunnelbau Simulator in your life.
And to me Naughty Bear just looks...
Nice Ms. Pac-Man Glitch
I’m a big Ms. Pac-Man fan. I even ran the East Bay’s largest Ms. Pac-Man tournament of all time last December (I think about 7 people showed up). I really enjoy glitched Ms. Pac-Mans too. Hegenburger on Hegenberger in Oakland has a nice Ms. Pac-Man with no power pellets. You can’t clear a board, but just running from the ghosts on level one is pretty fun. (It’s actually one...
Awesome Hats
Any rhythm action game that features anthropomorphic drums is OK with me, but I was reminded on Namco’s fetish for character hats while trolling www.pictureisunrelated.com, when these Taiko Drum Master hats burst back into my consciousness . Sadly, the only US source for these hats (and the likely source of this image), NCSX, has been sold out since, basically, forever.
Luckily, you can...