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Addams Family, The - GAAAA - 60% (5)
Daedalian Opus - GAGAA - 70% (5)
Double Dragon - GGGGGA - 92% (6)
Pachinko Saiyuuki - BB - 0% (2)
Skate or Die: Bad N Rad - BAB - 17% (3)
Tower of Druaga, The - ABBAAA - 33% (6) (1 SR)
A surprisingly solid start for the Addams Family. Spoiler alert, I owned a different Addams Family game when I was a kid that I'm quite looking forward to covering when we get to it, but that's a topic for another time. You might also be wondering if Tower of Druaga is the lowest-rated game to ever get an SR, but it's not even close, several games that scored only 20% have gotten SRs on past systems.
Games for this topic:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Black Bass: Lure Fishing
Fastest Lap
Fire Fighter
Klax (Hudson)
Xerd no Densetsu
Game Boy is at it again, there are not one, not two, but THREE separate games on the platform with the name "Klax". This is the JP-only release from Hudson, not the later Mindscape version or the GBC version. Speaking of GBC versions, there's also a GBC version of Black Bass, but unlike Klax, this is basically the exact same game except with color and minor graphical enhancements, so in this case we won't be rating the GBC version separately. I can already tell this is going to become a confusing mess. However, there's no reason to be confused by Sailor Moon because there's a fan translation available for it.
Monday, April 27, 2026
GAB PS1 #214 - Eagle One, Excalibur 2555 AD, Tokimeki Memorial
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Last Topic's Ratings:
Dragon Knight 4 - GG - 100% (2)
Heart of Darkness - GGAGGAA - 79% (7) (1 SR)
K-1 Oujya ni Narou - GG - 100% (2) (1 SR)
Sled Storm - GGGGG - 100% (5)
Tsuukai: Slot Shooting - AB - 25% (2)
Weakest Link, The - AAB - 33% (3)
A pretty high-rated topic for having a fair number of games that weren't especially well-known. I feel like Sled Storm in particular kind of came out of nowhere.
Games for this topic:
Alnam no Kiba
Bike Race: Kamen Rider
Eagle One: Harrier Attack
Excalibur 2555 AD
Pool Academy
Tokimeki Memorial
To be honest, it was never my intention to cover Tokimeki Memorial. When it comes to Visual Novels and Dating Sims, it's generally my belief that although current translation tools make them somewhat playable, it's hard to evaluate them accurately for two reasons. First, the quality of the writing is critical to the quality of games like these and you simply can't gauge this accurately using translation software. Secondly, the sheer volume of text to translate also butchers their pacing and makes them feel overly slow even if this wouldn't have been the experience for a native speaker. As such, the game I was originally planning to cover for this topic was instead Mitsumete Knight, though while looking into it I found out that it is basically a spinoff of Tokimeki Memorial and shares almost the same gameplay. I also quickly found that I recognized a lot of its mechanics from various other games, both ones we've covered here and more recent games like Accel World Phoenix Festa, so I figured we probably needed to evaluate it after all. There's actually a fair number of english guides that can explain how to play the game, as well as a fan translation for the slightly downgraded but still largely similar SNES version, so it shouldn't be inordinately difficult to play for english speakers.
Last Topic's Ratings:
Dragon Knight 4 - GG - 100% (2)
Heart of Darkness - GGAGGAA - 79% (7) (1 SR)
K-1 Oujya ni Narou - GG - 100% (2) (1 SR)
Sled Storm - GGGGG - 100% (5)
Tsuukai: Slot Shooting - AB - 25% (2)
Weakest Link, The - AAB - 33% (3)
A pretty high-rated topic for having a fair number of games that weren't especially well-known. I feel like Sled Storm in particular kind of came out of nowhere.
Games for this topic:
Alnam no Kiba
Bike Race: Kamen Rider
Eagle One: Harrier Attack
Excalibur 2555 AD
Pool Academy
Tokimeki Memorial
To be honest, it was never my intention to cover Tokimeki Memorial. When it comes to Visual Novels and Dating Sims, it's generally my belief that although current translation tools make them somewhat playable, it's hard to evaluate them accurately for two reasons. First, the quality of the writing is critical to the quality of games like these and you simply can't gauge this accurately using translation software. Secondly, the sheer volume of text to translate also butchers their pacing and makes them feel overly slow even if this wouldn't have been the experience for a native speaker. As such, the game I was originally planning to cover for this topic was instead Mitsumete Knight, though while looking into it I found out that it is basically a spinoff of Tokimeki Memorial and shares almost the same gameplay. I also quickly found that I recognized a lot of its mechanics from various other games, both ones we've covered here and more recent games like Accel World Phoenix Festa, so I figured we probably needed to evaluate it after all. There's actually a fair number of english guides that can explain how to play the game, as well as a fan translation for the slightly downgraded but still largely similar SNES version, so it shouldn't be inordinately difficult to play for english speakers.
Monday, April 13, 2026
GAB GBC #16 - Daedalian Opus, Double Dragon, Tower of Druaga
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Last Topic's Ratings:
Battle Ping Pong - ABB - 17% (3)
Battle Unit Zeoth - BAAGGA - 58% (6)
Dexterity - GAGA - 75% (4)
DuckTales - GABAB - 40% {5}
Shounen Ashibe - BA - 25% (2)
Rolan's Curse - GGAAGA - 75% (6)
DuckTales getting a squiggle bracket was not on my bingo card, much less it almost falling into the low range. Yikes. I'm a bit worried about how other NES ports will fare.
Games for this topic:
Addams Family, The
Daedalian Opus
Double Dragon
Pachinko Saiyuuki
Skate or Die: Bad N Rad
Tower of Druaga, The
I'm kind of curious to try The Tower of Druaga, as it has appeared or been referenced in various Namco games but I don't really know anything about it, other than that apparently it's very important to use a guide. I'm also curious to see how Double Dragon makes the conversion to Game Boy.
GAB PS1 #213 - Heart of Darkness, K-1 Oujya ni Narou, Sled Storm
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A2 Racer 3 - BAA - 33% (3)
Descent Maximum - AAGGG - 80% (5)
Dragonseeds - BABBB - 10% (5)
Kururin Pa - ABBB - 13% (4)
Makeruna Makendou 2 - GAA - 67% (3)
Sitting Ducks - BABA - 25% (4)
Kind of a weak topic this time. I guess not every topic can have an End Sector to carry it.
Games for this topic:
Dragon Knight 4
Heart of Darkness
K-1 Oujya ni Narou
Sled Storm
Tsuukai: Slot Shooting
Weakest Link, The
We finally get the chronologically next game in the K-1 series after a mere 6 and a half years since we originally covered K-1 Grand Prix (which I mistook for the first game in the series even though it was actually the third). As K-1 Grand Prix was one of my favourite early finds for GAB I'm curious to see how this one turns out. Don't worry, I haven't made the same mistake with Dragon Knight, this is the only game in the series that's on PS1 (there's also a pretty detailed guide for it). I'm also kind of curious to play The Weakest Link, which I remember being a big deal for a few months back in the day but I remember absolutely nothing about it.
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