Game Reviews
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 15
F1 Racing Championship (Ubisoft, 2000) Apparently the PS2 version of this was notable for having GPS-modeled all the tracks and using a 360 degree camera to capture even small track details, but obviously none of that comes through on GBC. F-1 World Grand Prix (Video System, 1999) A much better racing game that has an…
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Hotshot Racing Review: Drift Away
Hotshot Racing doesn’t directly say that it’s inspired by Cruisin’ Exotica, but it clearly was. It’s a series of races on tracks with everything from cartoonishly massive eight balls to actual dinosaurs hanging out behind the barriers. There’s even a countdown timer that refreshes when you pass checkpoints. The old Cruisin’ games were unashamedly designed…
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Heeey! Park-Boy Review: Dehydrated
Heeey! Park-Boy was the bonus game in January’s Humble Choice. It’s pretty clearly inspired by early 2000’s “little guy, big world” games like Chibi-Robo and Katamari, and admits to as much on its itch page. HPB follows U-Boy, an alien whose head looks like a U, after he crash lands on Earth because negative emotions…
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Train Station Renovation Review
Train Station Renovation follows in the footsteps of games like Viscera Cleanup Detail and House Flipper by focusing on dropping the player in a messy location and asking them to clean it up. Levels are, unsurprisingly, mostly train stations, and they’re covered in litter, graffiti, broken windows, and other problems that can only be solved…
