Video Review by Tristan W.
They had this to say about the Gameboy:
I got my console as a “hand-me-down” from my mom on January 31st, 2010. She had two consoles, AC Adapters, and two copies of Tetris. Due to an incident happening at school, I wasn’t allowed to play them… yet. Over the years, I’ve grown more fondly over the GameBoy, I do feel like it was the console that pushed the handheld market.
This month’s game is Solar Striker. I chose this game for several different reasons. This was the second Game Boy game I ever got as a kid besides the system’s pack in game, Tetris. I have always been a fan of spaceship shooters. I loved Galaga and Xevious already and seeing the box art for this game as a kid made it an easy choice to spend some birthday cash on. If you’re a fan of either of those games I think you’ll really enjoy this game too. I learned later in life that this game was produced by our patron saint Gunpei Yokoi which made picking this as a game of the month an easy choice. Nintendo hasn’t developed many shoot ’em ups themselves over the years so I think that this being a first party game also makes it something special. I haven’t played this game much in recent years so I look forward to going back to it again. It’s a fairly cheap and common game so I hope you’ll all join me this month in blasting the forces of Reticulon! -Erik Pierson
I think we all screwed up by not noticing that there was an evil broken legged hedgehog boss in Speedy Gonzales.
Rick V. draws comics and does a lot of other things. Check it.
Pure beauty.
Derek Hunter is an animation designer monkey living in Los Angeles. In addition to his animation work on shows like DuckTales and Adventure Time, he also writes and draws Pretty Violent for Image comics. His favorite things are Game Boy and Slurpees because he’s perpetually 9 years old. Check Derek out on Twitter or Instagram.
Jim wanted to play a game for the 30th anniversary of the Gameboy. We’ll take it. We only had one submission for this amazing game.
Drink a Beer and Play a Game are two friends, Jim and Brian, who enjoy talking about games as much as they enjoy trying new beers.
Nolen Speaks! A lengthy conversation with Nolen (Yokoi Kids Collective member) about his love for the Gameboy and the very hated Speedy Gonzales game.
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A little sketch by Mike Anthony.
From Mike:
“I threw this together for Burgertime this month. It’s not great really but I thought I’d try to submit it nonetheless.”
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Jim from Drink A Beer and Play a Game plays a bit of BurgerTime Deluxe for the first time. I think he likes it!
Drink a Beer and Play a Game are two friends, Jim and Brian, who enjoy talking about games as much as they enjoy trying new beers.
YOKOI KIDS AUDIO THING EPISODE 12! All about Balloon Kid. Featuring fake children, Sarah Dunevant and music!
We are fully aware that we got absolutely zero of you clever kids with our month-long Speedy Gonzales April Fools joke. It’s time to play a legit fun game. That’s right! A FUN game made by Data East. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. BurgerTime Deluxe (picked by Ian Ferguson) is 24 levels of cutesy, enjoyable yet frustratingly difficult levels. I for one am delighted to take a chomp out of this game. See what I did there?
This game may cost you a little under $15 in the cartridge market. But it’s only $3 at the 3DS store. And again, we do not care if you emulate the Bajeezus out of these games.
Here’s what we want from you: Play the game. Tell us what you think in any format you feel necessary. There better be some Gatderned recipes submitted in the next two months! You do know you can submit anything for the next two months, right?
Anywho, have fun. Next months game will be picked by Erik Pierson. Cool? Cool.
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