Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom | Retro Tech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2023-05-01 | Whippin' other men in a dark cave as children look on from cages... WHAT IS THIS?!
Chilled monkey brains! Oscar Winning Child actors! Speilbergs Ex Wife!
#arcadechallenge #indianajones #atariThe Austin Powers Games | Playstation & Gameboy Color |Weird Game LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-10-15 | Mike Myer's turn of the Millenium spoof tribute to the earlier Bond movies was a tremendous parody, but not an obvious choice for videogames and yet he had 3 for the home consoles? Are they Groovy, Baby or do they deserve shooting with a frickin' laser?
A spooky game, and certainly a small amount of cursed goings on with my microphone. Sega's 1982 Monster Bash is an interesting title, not bad for a relatively unknown early effort.
#sega #arcadegame #arcadeTurn The Spectrum Up To 100! 52 Additional Great GamesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-10-08 | The Spectrum sounds very exciting doesn't it? Do you know how you can make it even better? Adding a load of nostalgiac favourites to create your own personal, perfect 8 Bit machine. I round the the number of titles up to 100 with my picks... but what did I miss?
#thespectrum #zxspectrum #retrogamesWardner | RetroTech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-10-06 | Taito's obscure 1987 platformer Wardner comes into the fight arena this week for the RetroTech 100 20p Challenge. The main character is called Dover, so let's use this excuse to talk about the infamous British adult movie mogul Ben Dover!
#taito #arcadegame #videogameDogs Life | Playstation 2 | 2024 Halloween SpecialJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-10-02 | A bit of a change of pace this Halloween, as The WerePug uses his yearly platform for something important: Dog Representation In Video Games.
Is Playstation 2 title Dog's Life the game to buck the trend for all canine kind?
#dogslife #playstation2 #retrogamesGeordie Racer | BBC Micro | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-10-01 | Newcastle. Running. Pigeons. Together at last, in this educational title that haunted classroom BBC televisions and Micro's in the late 1980s.
Sega's Japan only top down racer features a duck that looks like Jack Nichoson, which is fine. Coming out in 1990, on the System 24 Hardware, Rough Racer is perfectly playable fare, if a little unremarkable.
Lets see how far I get while talking about people getting rough in the sack!
#sega #racinggames #arcadegameGold & Glory: The Road To El Dorado | Gameboy Color | Games Based On Flop MoviesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-09-24 | No, it is not a documentary on the making of the failed 1990's BBC sitcom, but instead an animated musical from the talented folks at Dreamworks.
2000's Road To El Dorado wasn't a terrible movie, but it wasn't particularly good either. The Ubisoft platform game, in this regard, ends up being a spot on conversion.
Mid 90's SNK brawler King Of Fighters '96 has come up on the Challenge wheel, and I'm no good at it. Lets talk of the Phish girl and think fondly of the sex scandals of the 1990's.
#arcadegame #snk #fightinggamesHagar The Horrible | Amiga | Weird Game LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-09-20 | VIKINGS! They're a rowdy bunch! Hagar was one such seafaring rough neck, a ginger bearded, beer quaffing legend of newspaper comic strips. He also had a computer game. Does this Euro Platformer sail to Valhalla or should it be ransacked, pillaged and left facedown in the mud?
#retrogaming #platformer #amigaMurder, She Wrote | PC | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-09-17 | Jessica Fletcher knows what you did and she will make you pay! A PC point & click game, but not in a good way. Murder most horrid!
A fairly run of the mill shooter courtesy of Taoplan with a canine themed name, but no actual dog content. So I give you 5 dog related facts to make up for it.
#retrogaming #arcadegame #taoplanBritneys Dance Beat 💃| Gameboy Advance | Games Based On Musicians 2️⃣0️⃣J Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-09-10 | Britney Spears was huge at the turn of the Millenium, and by that I dont mean she was a chonker. She was the Millenial Taylor Swift such was the height of her fame. Within 3 years, she had a THQ published videogame. A version of this came out on the GBA, and it's... perfuctory.
#arcadegame #blazingstar #neogeoBlues Brothers 2000 🕶️ | Nintendo 64 | 🎮 Games Based On Flop Movies 🎞️ 3️⃣3️⃣J Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-09-03 | The Blues Brothers was one of the greatest movies of the 1980s. Did anyone ask for a sequel? Especially one, without the great John Belushi. It didn't do very well, which left Titus with a bit of a dead duck of a license, that didnt come out until 2 years afterwards.
#retro #arcade #ninjagaidenDino Rex | RetroTech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-08-26 | Taito had the temerity to release this thunder lizard fighter back in 1992, and it is every bit as bad as you've been told \ remember.
James Herbert's The Rats is one of my favourite series of books. Games based on an entirely literary source are pretty rare, so you can imagine my delight when I found that this not only something that exists, but is also pretty darn good!
#retrogaming #pingu #playstationCalifornia Raisins: The Grape Escape | NES | Weird Games LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-08-12 | Raisins! The sweets of Mother Nature! Capcom were about to release a game based on an advert about dried fruit in 1990, before coming to their senses and stopping that kind of nonsense.
Were we robbed of a classic in The California Raisins: The Grape Escape? My guff:
#retrogaming #nintendo #videogameBonks Adventure Arcade | RetroTech 100 20p ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-08-11 | One of the PC Engines most iconic franchises found a home in Japanese arcades in the mid 1990's, and didn't shame itself! PC Kid AKA Bonk is a caveman with a hard head and a dislike of dinosaurs, and he will be combining the two in this Kameco Co. coin op platformer.
Namco's 1993 Track N Field inspired effort Numan Athletics has you pushing metahumans to their limit. Very nicely presented. One to recommend, I'd say!
#namco #arcade #olympicsJim Hensons The Hoobs | Playstation | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-08-05 | A fairly forgotten product of the Jim Henson Company, The Hoobs was cracking very early morning fare for "recent crotch droppings" or if you prefer, Tiddlypeeps.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe had West Yorkshire coders Runecraft make a faithful representation of the Channel 4 show, but does it's respect of the source material equal a good game?
#playstationgames #retrogames #muppetsWWF European Rampage Tour | PC, C64, Atari ST & Amiga | Wrestling GamesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-07-30 | There weren't too many WWF games on the UK home computers, and those that were... well, they weren't very good. Ocean's 2nd attempt: WWF European Rampage Tour might well be the worst. This Commodore Amiga & 64, Atari ST & PC attempt stinks like Bastion Boogers jockstrap, it is worse than a Marty Jannetty singles run, it is as rotten as one of the Undertakers clients.
China Gate was a 1988 Technos Japan side-scrolling beat em up. It is based on 17th Century folklore tale Journey To The West. This week it shows me that I have little in the way of "Monkey Magic"
#retrogaming #arcadegame #videogameIzzy & The Quest For The Olympic Rings | Super NES and Sega Megadrive | Weird Games LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-07-23 | Certainly the strangest use of the Olympic license, and I'm including the later efforts starring Sonic & Mario in that. One of the last games released by US Gold, this SNES & Megadrive platformer is interesting, albeit fairly plain.
A Namco Puzzler from 1992 is this weeks challenge, which means I have to press on with my fading brain matter. Cosmo Gang: The Puzzler is better known as Pac Attack on western consoles... but how do I get on, especially while talking about Thai Lady Boys.
#retrogaming #arcadegame #namcoAntz World Sportz | Gameboy Color | Weird Games LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-07-16 | The human Olympics are overrated. The best pound for pound athletes in the world care not for sports and are under our feet. Ants! Yes ants, though ants voiced by Sly Stallone and Woody Allen.
A strange use of (what is now) an obscure license, Antz World Sportz is a European only exclusive featuring the diminutive stars of the late 90s animated movie.
Tennis is an exhausting high energy sport, which makes you think that maybe Droopy isn't best suited to it. You would be wrong though. He's excellent at Tennis. His game, Droopy Tennis Open, is similarly brilliant. A European Gameboy Advance title only release too, to make me feel super special.
#retrogaming #droopy #tennisPuzznic | Retrotech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-07-07 | A Taito puzzle game from 1989 procratinates it's way onto our super funtime arcade challenge wheel. Am I smarter than wall? No. ME BRAIN SMOOTH.
#retrogaming #arcade #taitoRoy Of The Rovers | Atari ST, C64, Spectrum, Amstrad | Weird Football Game LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-07-02 | Gremlin Graphics released this football comic inspired game in the late 1980s. It's pretty novel, but will Roy and his Melchester chums be facing relegation or will they be championship contenders?
Anco supplied the coding for this fantasy football effort on the Amiga, based on the late night soccer review hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner.
#euro2024 #footballgame #retrogamingDouble Dragon II: The Revenge | RetroTech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-23 | The sequel to the Technos Japan megahit has finally come up on the wheel of Challenges so its time to put fist to maw! Double Dragon 2: The Revenge.
#retroarcadegames #doubledragon #arcadechallengeThe Mission | Playstation | Weird Football Game LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-18 | Hidetoshi Nakata, Francesco Totti and Dwight Yorke were in the 2000 Nike advertising campaign titled "The Mission". They did, however, not appear in the Microids Playstation game adaption, unlike their peers Figo, Cole, Davids, Hamann et al.
Allow me to pronounce the exempted trio as the wisemen of turn of the Millenium soccer, as the game is the pits.
#footballgames #playstation #badgamesTaito Cup Final | RetroTech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-17 | As Euro 2024 continues, as do the soccer games.
Taito Cup Finals was another entry into the long running Taito Football Champ series, otherwise known as Hat Trick Hero. That's a lot of names for one game series isn't it?
Taito's Football Champ was an absolute fixture of many a video shop, chipp shop, flat roof pub and indeed arcade in the UK in the early 1990s. A soccer game with so much flash and pizzazz it looks like one of Cristiano Ronaldo's bloodmoney watches!
#euro2024 #footballgames #arcadegameKeith Van Erons Pro Soccer | C64, Amiga, PC & Atari ST | Weird Football Games LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-11 | In a departure for weird licences we're not looking at how odd the game related to the inspiration is, but rather asking just WHO the inspiration is? Is Keith Van Eron the least famous footballer to get his name on a soccer game? At least we know a lot about the game itself, as it's the US release of a classic: Microprose Soccer!
#c64 #euro2024 #footballgamesFamily Fortunes | Nintendo DS | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-04 | We asked 100 people to name "A Quiz Show You Wanted A Video Game Of...". You said "Family Fortunes". Our Survey said: EEEEKKK ERRRRR. Family Fortunes (the UK version at least), has had surprisingly few video games. Is there a reason for this that we're about to find out? Probably!
#retrogaming #nintendods #familyfortunesOrdyne | Retro Tech 100 20p Arcade ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-06-03 | A Namco sidescroller, Ordyne was a colourful romp from 1988. Ordyne was released on the PC Engine/TurboGraphix 16 but not a lot else.
#retrogaming #spectrum #oinkRobocop 2 | Retro Tech 100 20p ChallengeJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-05-26 | Robocop, the shiny cyborg policeman, has always had a bit of a mixed bag of quality in the videogames that bear his likeness. Data East's 1991 arcade tie into the poorly recieved movie Robocop 2 is a lightwieght but fun amalgam of beat em up and shoot em up, that plays quite a lot like Konami's Aliens coin-op.
Libble Ribble is a 1983 twin stick Qix-alike Arcade from Namco. Tricky to get to grips with, not brilliant to play but pretty original. Can you round up the Mushlins in the garden?
Given that it's tricky to handle, I've gone for threesomes in the genital facts. Naturally.
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#1000subscribers #retrogaming #badgamesThrough The Dragons Eye | BBC Micro | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-05-14 | A quirky old TV show that is frighteningly niche. A BBC Edutainment game based on a show primarily broadcast at 10:30am on a weekday in 1989. Pretty obscure then!
#phoenix #megaphoenix #arcadechallengePorkys | Atari 2600 | Weird Games LicensesJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-05-07 | A game based on an early 80's smash hit sex comedy is surely an unusual thing indeed, and this Atari 2600 multi-stage title is a strange product indeed. How does it measure up though? Is it Meat, or more.... Pee Wee?
Those Marvel mutants finally land feet first into the Retro Tech 100 20p Arcade Challenge, with a good old fashioned Konami scrolling beat 'em up from 1992.
#arcadechallenge #xmen #xmen97Star Wars: The Clone Wars Games On Nintendo DS | Games Based On TV ShowsJ Is Manchild (Retro Gaming)2024-04-30 | George Lucas' Star Wars Prequels weren't a tremendous success, in terms of following the unfollowable. Two thirds of the way through that series, between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith, was a several year war between the Republic and the Seperatists called "The Clone Wars". That was explored in a 7 season animated series going by the same name.... which start poorly but got a lot better, and ending triumphantly.
Those early series had a pair of DS games related to them: Jedi Alliance & Republic Heroes. Armed only with a poor introduction and a couple of hours play, I seek to find if they hold up: are they more Empire Strikes Back than Rise Of Skywalker?