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2026-03-06 06:00:08 UTC

~マチカネビットバン~ :bunRetro: on Nostr: Okay I did end up doing that 9 games thing with a slightly different theme. I tried ...

Okay I did end up doing that 9 games thing with a slightly different theme. I tried to think of older games I enjoyed but wouldn't really call them defining or favourites of mine. Something weird that I spent more time playing than probably I'd care to admit, or a game I recall liking but don't remember too well otherwise.

Don't take these as recommendations, most of these games probably aren't very good. Play them at your own risk, and also my game taste is bad anyways so :blobcatdab:

1. Cookie & Cream - it was just a fun co-op game I would play with my siblings, I remember enjoying it a lot, it was neat to help the other player on the other side of the screen in some levels.
2. Super Puzzle Bobble - This is the one with that dreadful, "worst box art of all time" American box art. The game itself is actually quite good, and the JP box art is great - that game oozed style, and was actually a pretty good entry in the Puzzle Bobble series. A shame the US box art sucked so hard.
3. Sin & Punishment: Star Successor - On my original list of 9 games I put "Mischief Makers", but if I had to choose another Treasure game I'd probably pick this one. Mostly because I think other Treasure games are already well-liked enough. I like how fully they utilized the main mechanics of the game.
4. Kirby's Dream Course - I actually thought this was a well-liked and popular entry, but I'm always running into people who haven't played it. I bet this game is still fun, honestly.
5. Digimon World - Probably sucks, but I spent way too many hours in that game to ignore it. It's one of those games when you were a kid and had a ton of time it was fun to get lost in, and felt very mysterious to me (relatively speaking, for Digimon game, that is).
6. Rakugaki Kingdom - Again bad US name/boxart, but in this case also bad game (really)! The US name is "Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color". It's not actually a good game, but I always thought the idea was super interesting. Think like monster battles but you draw the monsters to make them - I wish the main story and battle system were better because back in the day that tech was kind of impressive I thought.
7. Megaman Soccer - okay I bet anyone who knows this game likes it. I don't like sports games, but sometimes a game like this pops up and surprises me. I remember playing this with friends a lot back in the SNES days, but oddly never owning it. It was just always at a friend's house and I always had fun playing it. (EDIT: Apparently mostly disliked! So I dunno what to tell you, I remembered enjoying it as a kid.)
8. RayCrisis - I like the whole trilogy, but I gotta say RayCrisis perfected the concept (the final and best of the series). I still occasionally go back and play this game, but a lot of it is probably nostalgia blindness, really. Music is dope, too - the tracks are really long, and I don't think they loop actually (but I could be wrong about that).
9. SkyGunner - This one I barely remember, but I recall it surprising me and having a lot of fun with the flying and fighting mechanic. Really, I should give it another go - I always remember it being "that fun weird flying game I was surprised to like", but I never remember it much more specifically. I only rented it, never owned it, but enjoyed it a lot.