Toys & Games of 2024

Normally I separate games and toys on these lists, BUT 2024 has been a pretty lean year for me gaming wise.  Sure I bagged a fenrir for my Sega Saturn which was a worthwhile purchase, but since it has opened up many games, I am in two minds as to whether to include them here.  Mainly because I can't remember the ones I played.  And despite having amasse a rather nice collection, I find myself spending all my time playing the translation of Grandia on it.

Androgyne's Toys and Games of 2024

It’s that time again. This one’s a long read so i’m skimping on the intro, let’s get straight into it!

A text review of F-Zero Maximum Velocity for Game Boy Advance

 So if F-Zero X made me a fan for life, how did this game slip under my radar?

A text review of F-Zero X for Nintendo 64

Come to think of it, probably one of the other reasons I never bought F-Zero in the SNES era was because I only got to play it near the end of that generation, and by then the hype for the then called Ultra 64 was at fever pitch! All my pocket money was being saved for those tasty Silicon Graphics. Nintendo was on fire with their early N64 releases and so when F-Zero 64 started to appear in lists of upcoming games, you can bet I was excited!

A text review of F-Zero for Super Nintendo

Who else misses old games magazines? I would read and re-read my magazines as a kid and truly miss those days. A video review is nice sometimes too, but often there isn’t as much detail about the game as you’d like in these reviews. This review of F-Zero aims to be a bit like an old one you might read in a magazine, with a bit of personal history thrown in for good measure.

Konami Brawlers That Didn't Make the Cut.

You know, I remember a day when I used to see the Konami logo and hear the little tune and immediately think to myself:

Oh yeah, good times are coming baby

Rocket Knights, Tiny Toons, Sunset Riders (in the arcades), Contra and a bunch of others.  It was a mark of quality.  Now though.... Let's move on shall we?

So continuing on with my Brawlers list, I will add in Konami games here.  They made a fair few and initially this was going to be a post about why the Turtles games didn't make it, but I decided to broaden the spectrum for reasons which will soon be very clear.

AquaShooters! 12 Kit build

 

Well, for something different, I thought I would go through my building process of these little Gachapon Aqua shooters figures which I have been somewhat enamoured with the past few years.  For a 500 yen roll, you'll find yourself blessed with either a kit action figure, to be assembled, or some kind of weapon set, also to be assembled.

Admittedly, like the GashaponQuest  items, it feels kind of crap if you just do a single roll and just get a a weapon set, which is exactly what happened to me on my first try when I discovered these super late only to find the weapons were the only two left in the machine. Sigh.  Oh well moving on.

I'll be building the Aquashooters! 12 series Izumi Motohashi, the one that took me longest to get (I think)... I went a bit overboard with these guys and I think I got the whole set a lot earlier than I thought.

Moving on, let's build a figure! (and weapons!)