Tets plays Rabbit for the first time.

Yes, oddly enough, that is a game's name.  Strange.  So long story short, was cruising some shops for some classic Saturn game goodness, bought Destruction Derby and as I was finishing the cruise of the shelf, I came across a game with "kanji" and "Rabbit" in the title.

Well, I'll be, a game called Rabbit. Gonna have to chuck that in my basket.

And so I did.  The back of the case had some small photos of the game, but it was rather hard to tell what was going on.  I refused to have my impressions soured by others on this game and thought I would go in blindly.

This is the result:

Shadow of the Colossus - Aural Ambiance. Great Gaming Moments Ep:7

A look at Shadow of the Colossus and how it uses it's audio to enhance the game to be even MORE epic!

TAV15 Lockdown

 

Oh TAV. your craziness makes me happy.  After the surprising joy of TAV Swoop, I am pleased to announce the fact that I have my grubby mitts on TAV Lockdown.  Lockdown was the main figure that made me buy TAV Swoop, so I guess I am kind of working backwards from this.  But Anyway…

TAV Lockdown (hereby referred to as Lockdown or LD), was one that really took my eye.  I think I have made it known that I like the Animated toy line and this version, he has a really nice paint job for robot mode.  I really am a sucker for an insignia used in clever ways, like Dion and Dropkick.


Sadly though, this goes against the wishes of Derrick J Wyatt, who has stated he was unhappy with the paint job because of SPOILER reasons.  Can that be a spoiler?  Can there really be spoilers on a dead line now? Moving on.


Despite the objections, I think the paint job looks rather nice.  He is packaged in robot mode and now that I think about it, this is the 6th version of this toy that I own.  It’s quite nice (obviously) and rather clever.  Remember folks, that this guy is still a deluxe figure and yet he stand in robot mode as tall as other voyagers! 

TAV09 Swoop

I picked this guy up as I have been eyeing him off for a while and I rather liked the Animated version.  He reminds me very much of Raziel from Soul Reaver, which is part of the reason I like him as well I guess.

Power Drift - Unwrapped

Hm, I think it's wonderful that I can occasionally find a minty fresh still factory sealed game from the 90s.  That's exactly what I have here too.   Or Had.  Otherwise I couldn't play it and the only that irks me more than an unplayed with toy, is an unplayed with game.

So here's a video of me playing Saturn Power Drift for the first time.

...and also sucking at it quite a lot.

Alpha Bravo

Hasbro meeting:

Right we need to think of a name for this new toy!
Roger that Red leader.
You need to finish with over, over.
Oh, Ok. um... Over?
That's better, what about this characters name? Over
Well, He's a flying vehicle, since we're using this army speak, and I want a coffee, let's call him Alpha Bravo. Over
Roger that

And that's how he got his name. True story


So lets check out old Alpha Bravo.

Great Gaming Moments Ep 6: Gran Chaser's Delightful Mediocrity

I think the title of this one summarises it up nicely.  Yup, somehow I am still going with Great Gaming Moments and Gran Chaser is featured today.

I picked this game up for 80Yen while cruising some local second hand shops.  I looked at the back and though "Haven't found any of the ones I am really looking for, and this one doesn't look too bad.  Why the hell not?"  Turns out that it's actually on OK racing game for the SEGA Saturn.  I believe that in places other than Japan it's called Cyber Speedway and had the story mode cut.  So to add to the glorious mediocrity, that's included too!