After almost a decade, Metroid Prime 4 Beyond was finally recently released.  And of course they have amiibo figures and I got them so let’s take a look! Here they are in the boxes. And here they are out of the boxes. When you scan the Samus amiibo in the game, you can refill your […]

Help Bob the Brick Breaker (as opposed to Bob the Builder), break bricks by bouncing a wrecking ball with a girder.  Yup, it’s a BreakOut or Arkanoid clone.  But is it as good as those classics?  You’ll just have to read on to find out!  The game is available on Switch and PlayStation consoles, but […]

My two favorite video game consoles are the Super Nintendo and PlayStation.  I played so many great games on those systems, and there were so many more that never came out overseas!  That’s why I like when a company snags a Japan only classic and brings it over here.  Such is the case with Milano’s […]

Did you know that in Japan, they have café restaurants with a Kirby theme?  You can get Kirby themed food, get Kirby souvenirs at the gift shop, and even the music in the background is remixed music from the game!  I would totally go to one of those if I ever went to Japan, but […]

Seeing as though I’m old enough to have experienced Pac-Man when it first came out, I’m pretty familiar with most retro games.  However, sometimes one comes along that just flew under the radar for me.  Montezuma’s Revenge was one such game.  I remember seeing it back then, but never playing it.  Many years later, at […]

Paws of Fury was a movie released in theaters a couple of years ago.  I never bothered with it then, as it looked like a Kung-Fu Panda rip-off.  But before writing this review, I did manage to watch the movie on Netflix.  I found it interesting that Mel Brooks did one of the voices and […]

Back in November, Burger King was doing Sonic the Hedgehog toys in their kids meals.  They’re not doing it now, as of this writing it’s now SpongeBob.  But I managed to snag a few of the Sonic toys in November so I thought I’d show them to you. Supposedly, they also had Sonic paper crowns […]

When I was a kid, I loved reading newspaper comic strips.  And I still have a strong interest in them today!  Some of my favorites include Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, and of course, Peanuts.  When I was little and a Peanuts TV special was on, you can bet I was planted in front of […]

When I was young, I loved watching stuff on the kids’ cable channel Nickelodeon like Danger Mouse, Double Dare, and You Can’t Do That on Television (yeah I’m THAT old school).  But even years later as a teen and young adult I liked watching Nicktoons like Rocko’s Modern Life and Invader ZIM.  And once my […]

Kirby Air Riders was recently released, and of course I got it.  I’m a big fan of the first game on the GameCube (and Kirby in general) and this was really the game that sold me on the Switch 2.  And of course they have amiibo figures to go along with it.  The first batch […]

I was a kid in the 80s, and because of that, there are a lot of movies around then that really shaped my childhood.  These include trilogies like the original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future films, as well as others like Gremlins and Ghostbusters.  But one 80s movie that I wasn’t […]

One of the most popular ‘casual’ tower defense style games has to be Plants vs. Zombies.  The original game was even reviewed on this site (not by me) way back in the day (2009).  There’s been a few spinoffs as well.  I reviewed a pinball game based on the franchise in 2012, and there’s also […]

Normally Kirby welcomes you to Dream Land, but with Alarmo he now can help you leave it.  Nintendo’s alarm clock, which I’ve talked about last year, lets you download new alarms and characters every so often, and earlier this year I’ve even written about that.  And now there’s a Kirby themed alarm for Alarmo as […]

Originally homebrew NES games, Gruniozerca Trilogy is a trio of puzzle action games starring a little black guinea pig named Grunio.  It’s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. The first game is super simple and reminds me of Pyoro from WarioWare.  You move Grunio back and forth on the […]