#Blog The Other Mini Consoles

So I made a little post about the Mega Drive Mini (and the other Nintendo and Sony minis).

I decided to get my hands on the remaining missing Minis. We'll talk about the Neo Geo mini arcade cabinets another day. Today let's have a look at the...

The 64 Mini

This Commodore 64 mini was released with 64 retro titles. Both a "Mini" and a regular-sized clone of the Commodore 64 with actual working keyboard (along the digital keyboard on the emulator).

It looks slick and modern actually. I dig the quality of the Mini here.

And here's the C64 Mini next to my Master System for scale comparison:

PC-Engine Mini

 

I like how they called the European release the "PC Engine Core Grafx Mini", to combine both the Japanese and the American name of the original system.

The system itself has a great list of pre-loaded titles, which you can select easily by switching between the American and the Japanese list of selected games.

Here's the Mini right next to my actual PC Engine Duo, for size comparison. It's so tiny!!!!

A great list of games, probably my favorite selection of all these Mini consoles. Why can't they cover entire "classic must have series", though? Bonk 1 and 2? Where's Bonk 3?? The Mega Drive Mini couldn't have all main Sonic titles either..

VGR Lost in Shadow

Shadow puppets: the video game!

VGR Bonk 3

Can you believe it? The last time I reviewed Bonk was back in January 2011! How time flies... 

Mascot platformers you ask? Check out the following reviews!

Aero the Acro-Bat - 2 / Astal / Bonk - 2 / BUG! - Too! / Clockwork Knight - 2
Crash Bandicoot 1 / Croc / Donkey Kong and DK Jr.
Earthworm Jim 1 - 2 - cartoon / Felix the Cat / Greendog / Psycho Fox
Rayman - 2: The Great Escape - 3: Hoodlum Havoc - Origins
handheld Rayman games - The Animated Series
Rabbids Go Home

Rocket Knight Adventures - Sparkster - RKA2
Sonic 1 - (8 bit)
Tomba! - 2: The Evil Swine Return
Tempo - Jr. - Super Tempo / Tonic Trouble / Wild Woody / Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel

VGR Inspector Gadget (SNES)

Go-Go-Gadget-Video game adaptation!

Go-Go-Gadget-O-Reviews with these following links!

Inspector Gadget
Gadget on the Orient Express
Inspector Gadget (film) / IG2
Gadget Boy & Heather / Gadget & the Gadgetinis

Ad - The higher energy video game system

I love the TurboGrafx, I really do.
I adore this such underrated almost-unknown system.
Loads of fun games, great visuals and sounds. (in a way, closer to arcade games than the Megadrive or the SNES did later)

Here's an old commercial for the TurboGrafx 16 through the eyes of people in 1989:



Extreeeeeme!!~

Drawing - On The 22nd Day Of Christmas

...On the twenty second day of Christmas...
 

asked for Bomberman, so here he is!

I'm taking YOUR ideas, all your ideas, into consideration!
Just drop them on this NEW poll~

Drawing © Eyz.2011
Character © Hudson Soft

FanFilmFriday: BOMBERMAN The Movie

Here's a pretty fun take on Bomberman.

Bomberman turned into a stereotypical Hollywood action flick!



From the guys at TheGameStation

Gamin' NEWS! HUDSON IS DEAD! LONG LIVE HUDSON!

I just learned Hudson is no more...

The end of an era.

Hudson Entertainment will be shutting down at the end of the month.
All the future games and projects they were working on were canceled.

Some of the quoted reasons have been the bad communication and collaboration between Hudson's Japanese and American divisions and the growing indie movement (which, most Hudson titles, aimed for the same audience).

And what about the Japanese house Hudson Soft? They were aquired by Konami earlier in January 2011. They will now work on some Konami adaptations and focus on social gaming.

So it is the end of an era for me.
As a fan of the Arcade titles Hudson created during the 80s and 90s and Bonk, Bomberman and the PC Engine... It is sad news for us fans :(

I didn't had any proper fanart of Bomberman I did on my hands

apart from this little pixel-art experiment.

Source: a blog announcement by brand manager Morgan Haro

VGR Bonk 2

After a heckuva long time, I decided to finally go back to one of my earlier reviews and move on the sequel of Bonk!

What did you do this weekend?!

Long time since I did one of those on the blog, heh?
Anyway, here's another WDYDTW!

VGR Felix the Cat

And finally, here's the very first NES review on teh blog.
I wasn't going to review your usual super-popular gaming franchise or cult game.

Instead I went for a little game by Hudson that didn't really made people talk about it either back then or nowadays.

Warning: Review for Retrogamers and game collectors, since this is exactly the kind of game you can only play on the original system and won't be republished nowadays on the digital market :/

Gamin' NEWS: A Shadow's Tale recap

I already talked about this one not long ago, in this post here.

Time for a little recap, shall we?!

Gamin' NEWS! Some more obscure little gems to follow

Everbody's got all their attention to the big Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo future games...
But there's always some more obscure little gems that deserve our attention.
Since I'm always for these kind of "underdogs" in our modern blockbuster era of gaming, let's have a look at two games YOU SHOULD be awaiting!

VGR Bonk 1

Here's a game I really like, a underrated cult favorite of mine.
Despite it being almost forgotten nowadays, I consider it as one of the nicest 2D old school platformer!
The sequels are kinda better, but that's for another review another time!

The system is known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the USA but I always use the official names or international names in my reviews!

PS: YEAH! I know there's a new BONK 2,5D game coming on Xbox live. But THIS is about the first, the original Bonk!

Edit29/12/2010: Edited this old review with my current template, instead of the huge jpg picture I previously had...