Just finished Digital Air Glider Man - definitely up there with the Pilotwings series. @matt summarised it best as the thinker’s Pilotwings. No game has captured the joy of flight so well as this, once piloting a glider ‘clicks’ it’s so engrossing, and the presentation (especially the soundtrack) often feels like a celebration of the air glider’s majestic ability.
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I love Heretic!
I tried to play it recently but found that it gave me motion sickness 
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I’ve played a bunch of retro FPS games recently, and found it to be good but not as good as I remembered.
My main gripe is that even on the 2nd hardest difficulty, it’s way too easy.
The weapons all feel weak, and all the enemies start to feel the same (magical projectile). There also seems to be something going on with the way you deal damage that’s random. Sometimes you can kill a Gargoyle with 4 shots of the Elven Wand, and other times it can take up to nine shots! This randomness turns most of the enemies into bullet sponges, and it gets really tedious.
Anyway, I gripe about it, but I did have fun. It’s a really good game, but I think those that claim is better than Doom are crazy 
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It’s not better than Doom, but it’s pretty great.
The game I want to play again is Heretic II. That’s completely lost to time and it totally sucks that it’s not available anywhere legally today. It is a unique experience all its own.
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Yeah I somehow only learned about II about a month ago (thanks half-life). Looks pretty fun, though!
Psychic World on Game Gear. Interesting platformer, you have these ESP abilities which give you flexibility with its enemy encounters, while also making traversal a bit more interesting than usual. This is best shown off in stage 2 where you’re encouraged to create icicle objects to stand from.
The balancing is all over the place, though, and running into an enemy or moving object will slowly drain your health. This exacting approach is probably why the designers put in an invincibility ESP power, which trivialises the difficulty somewhat. Still, it’s an enjoyable adventure, one that doesn’t manages to not feel derivative despite the saturation of the genre even in modern times. And the ESP select interface is rather lovely - you move a carousel left/right.
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I really need to get an everdrive and mcwill installed in my game gear. I recapped it a while back and it works beautifuly, but I still don’t use it.
Recapped! I’d love to see some photos of the original display, the non-square pixels intrigue me.
I still want a Game Gear of my own to play the cartridges I’ve picked up but I don’t know where to start given the lifespan of the original units. For now M2’s 3DS VC implementation is my go-to, the motion blur emulation is uncanny levels of good!
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Wow thanks, good to see this.
I wish the Game Gear Micro had a pixel grid like that, instead you get a stretched output. And the Micro display is definitely oversaturated, poor display calibration.
Well you’re the inspiration that finally made me order one. Mcwill and Everdrive GG X7
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Hello there fellow table top mode player. I love playing like that at my desk.
Hello! Tabletop mode really is wonderful, especially for games that support Tate configuration. My wish for a future Switch is a more robust kickstand.
I’ve had Baku Baku Animal sitting unplayed on Saturn for a long time, after playing the Game Gear port on the Micro it made me wonder why I never did get round to playing it sooner. Great, frantic puzzler!
So I did a round on Saturn. Not with one credit alas - the final stage destroyed me a fair few times! This being an ST-V conversion, the AI certainly puts up more of a fight than in the Game Gear release, where you’d sometimes win without feeling like you earned it, even on the hardest difficulty.
If Sega ever gets tired of releasing more Puyo Puyo games there’s always this one…
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I’ve been playing Way of the Samurai over the last few days, too many playthroughs to count. Finally reached an ending today though - was hoping to reunite the two Samurai clans but instead things went horribly wrong.
I can’t wait to get more endings and discover more secrets about the combat, the flow of time across the two days, and the character motivations. This game is amazing, normally I find Acquire titles charmingly janky with unique ideas but here everything works together in harmony to create something very special.
Finished Jurassic Park on the Game Gear!
There are 4 initial stages, and you can choose to do them in any order you wish. Each stage starts off with a driving stage where you have to shoot dinosaurs, then a small mini boss. These stages are pretty easy, and you can shoot gas canisters to give yourself a permanent health boost for the rest of the stage.
After that, each stage has a couple side scrolling stages which are quite varied and fun, then a boss.
I think overall the entire game took me about an hour, maybe an hour and a half at most.
Great little game.
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Way of the Samurai Portable!
Surprisingly superb port from Acquire, very faithful to the original game, even the credits started with the original credits, crediting the game under its original PS2 name 侍, or Samurai, before having credits for 侍道 Portable. I urge anyone who hasn’t played this on PSP or PS2 to give it a go, I’m firmly convinced it’s one of the best action-adventure games around.
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