A photolog of the arcades I have visited. This is the first batch, from my first Japan trip. Enjoy! Images are free to use for personal projects – for commercial projects please contact me directly.
Author: Admin
Zoom Reviews – American 3D Pool by Zeppelin(C64)
Rapid fire reviews of a single game – brief and to the point (theoretically) Developer: Steven WaltersPublisher: Zeppelin Games Billiards. A game with endless appeal to a purveyor of precision sports such as myself. Skill and accuracy are the key to the game of hitting small balls with a stick into holes. Simple to understand,… Continue reading Zoom Reviews – American 3D Pool by Zeppelin(C64)
A-Z of Sports – Tiny Toons ACME All-Stars – Multi-sport mayhem
Football? T-T-That’s not all, folks!” – Segazoom In 2024, Looney Tunes Wacky World Of Sports was released to limited fanfare and limited quality. Every time I see it in a digital storefront, I wistfully remember when the Warner Brothers cartoon properties were used to play sports with such joy. The year was 1994, the console… Continue reading A-Z of Sports – Tiny Toons ACME All-Stars – Multi-sport mayhem
The process of mitigating luck: Why I hunger for roguelikes and deckbuilding
If you have any powers of observation in the world of video games, you may have noticed a sudden explosion of the concept of drafting your tools to advance through a one-life-only run where you’re expected to die, a lot, and try again. Now there are a few signs as to why this appeals to… Continue reading The process of mitigating luck: Why I hunger for roguelikes and deckbuilding
Speed Puzzle Power: Cleopatra Fortune
Speed Puzzle Power is my place to highlight the wonders of speed and reflex oriented puzzlers. We’re starting right with my personal favourite. -Segazoom Taito was a powerhouse in the 1990s. Best-in-class shooters in Darius, unique experimental fighting games in Fighters Impact and Psychic Force, pursuing perfection in single-screen platformers with the Bubblun dragons and expanding on that clear-the-screen… Continue reading Speed Puzzle Power: Cleopatra Fortune
The A-Z of Sports Videogames: Darts, Leg 1
I never said I was going to do this in order, okay? -Segazoom It’s time to learn about your dear writer again. I love Darts. Love watching it, love playing it. I’m maybe at pub level, but don’t have a good place to practice. I also love all kinds of sports games. We all know… Continue reading The A-Z of Sports Videogames: Darts, Leg 1
The Court of Tennis Games – A(ce)
The Tennis Court has a rating system as a fun not-at-all-tired gimmick. The ratings, known as Service, are: Ace- The strawberries and creme-de-la-creme. First Serve- Getting your heavy flat serve in play, but it’s getting returned. Very playable, but not tip top. Second Serve- Your 140mph rocket goes straight into the net. You have to… Continue reading The Court of Tennis Games – A(ce)
A-Z Sports Jam-boree: a 12-leg relay
Feel free to use this video of each event in the game I prepared earlier as a reference point. Segazoom This is a confusing thing to exist. The Venn diagram of minigame collection connoisseurs and sports aficionados surely has minimal overlap. The fact to take away from this, however, is that I sit squarely in… Continue reading A-Z Sports Jam-boree: a 12-leg relay
Almanac Of Golf Videogames: Arcade Course
Hitting a ball with a big stick into a small hole in some finely manicured grass. Sandpits, babbling brooks and a stroll through some countryside. When you make a complex sport pick up and play, do you pick up the appeal with it? The arcade would like to demonstrate – well, at the very least… Continue reading Almanac Of Golf Videogames: Arcade Course
Projects to come
There’s a few things I want to commit to aiming for with this fresh site. What better way to commit to them than by telling you all I’m committing to them? Feel free to keep me aggressively accountable, I will appreciate it really. So, I want to: -Expand my S Tiers page to all platforms… Continue reading Projects to come