Monday, April 15, 2024

GAB SAT #67 - Gun Frontier, Resident Evil, Super Tempo

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Capcom Generation 4 - AGAA - 63% (4)
Maximum Force - AAAB - 38% (4)
NASCAR 98 - ABA - 33% (3)
Ogre Battle - AGAAGGA - 71% (7)
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru - AAGAG - 70% (5)
WWF In Your House - BBAA - 25% (4)

Capcom Generation 4 is the first of the series to fall out of the high range, while Ogre Battle just barely holds on.

Games for this topic:

Gun Frontier
Heiwa Pachinko Sou Shingeki
Machine Head
Resident Evil
Side Pocket 3
Super Tempo

The games in this topic have such short names compared to the PS1 topic, I probably could have fit 4 of them in the topic title.

GAB PS1 #161 - Gundam Battle Assault, Motorhead, Stray Sheep

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Chessmaster 3D, The - AAAB - 38% (4)
Initial D - GABB - 38% {4}
Lake Masters - BB - 0% (2)
Note, The - AA - 50% (2)
Spectral Tower - GAB - 50% {3}
Super Dropzone: Intergalactic Rescue Mission - AA - 50% (2)

Not the best start for the games that were newly added to the PS1 GAB list (both Lake Masters and Spectral Tower were added more recently), but I'm confident that some of the new games will end up being good.

Games for this topic:

Army Men World War: Land, Sea, Air
Gundam: Battle Assault
Motorhead
Olympic Soccer: Atlanta 1996
Shanghai Banri no Choujou
Stray Sheep: The Adventure of Poe and Merry

I suppose technically Army Men probably should have been the headlining game for this topic, but I'm quite curious to try out Stray Sheep, as at least from a visual standpoint it seems like something I'd like. Also, there's apparently a million versions of Shanghai on PS1, so we'd probably better get working on them.

Monday, April 1, 2024

GAB SAT #66 - Maximum Force, Ogre Battle, WWF In Your House

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Asuka 120% Limited: Burning Fest Limited - AGAA - 63% (4)
Gunblaze S - ABB - 17% (3)
Legend of Oasis, The - AGA - 67% (3)
Saturn Bomberman - GGGGGGG - 100% (7) (2 SR)
Space Jam - BGA - 50% {3}
Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001 SS - GGA - 83% (3)

An interesting duel between Syphon Filter 2 and Saturn Bomberman in the previous topic. I was actually a bit surprised that Syphon Filter 2 got more votes, but I guess the PS1 board just gets a little bit more traffic.

Games for this topic:

Capcom Generation 4
Maximum Force
NASCAR 98
Ogre Battle
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru
WWF In Your House

I kind of wish I had a troll game for April Fools day, but Saturn doesn't have many and I never plan these things out well enough. Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru does look like an interesting game, though.

GAB PS1 #160 - Chessmaster 3D, Initial D, Spectral Tower

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Doraemon 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni - GG - 100% (2)
Kickboxing - AA - 50% (2)
Love Game's: Wai Wai Tennis Plus - BB - 0% (2)
Motor Mash - BB - 0% (2)
Stahlfeder: Tekkou Hikuudan - GA - 75% (2)
Syphon Filter 2 - GGGGGGGG - 100% (8) (2 SR)

I was a bit worried by the total post count that we were starting to drop to lower vote counts even on popular games like Syphon Filter 2, but actually the vote count was fine, since pretty much everyone who posted rated it.

Games for this topic:

Chessmaster 3D, The
Initial D
Lake Masters
Note, The
Spectral Tower
Super Dropzone: Intergalactic Rescue Mission

When I originally created the PS1 list many years ago, I was more strict with what I would allow in terms of Japanese RPGs. However, since phone translation programs have gotten better, it's become more possible to play them, so I recently went back and added some more to the list, to bring it a bit more in line with what we have for Saturn. Spectral Tower is one of the first of the newly added RPGs to show up, though I checked it ahead of time to make sure it wasn't overly difficult to play.