GAB GBC #12 - Adventures of Star Saver, Jordan vs Bird, Yoshi

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Castelian - BBB - 0% (3)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch - GAAA - 63% (4)
Family Jockey - BAB - 17% (3)
Football International - ABB - 17% (3)
Knight Quest - AGAAG - 70% (5)
Palamedes - BAB - 17% (3)

Hard to say much good about this batch, though at least with 3 games getting the same score it was easy to tally up.

Games for this topic:

Adventures of Star Saver, The
Crystal Quest
Jordan vs Bird
Kininkou Maroku Oni
Turn and Burn
Yoshi

We previously covered NBA All-Star Challenge, which includes a mode that plays like Jordan vs Bird, so here we have the real thing. There's also a fan-translation available for Kininkou Maroku Oni, and I think it looks like an interesting series.

GAB PS1 #209 - Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2, Strider 2, Winter Olympics 98

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Brian Lara Cricket - AGA - 67% (3)
Choro Q Marine - GG - 100% (2)
Momotarou Dentetsu 7 - AA - 50% (2)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - AAGGGGAAGGG - 81% (11) (2 SR)
Starborders - BB - 0% (2)
Visiteurs, Les: La Relique de Sainte Rolande - BBB - 0% (3)

I was quite impressed with Oddworld pulling down 11 ratings. I never think of the Oddworld franchise as one of the most recognizable on PS1, but I guess it actually is.

Games for this topic:

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2
F1 World Grand Prix
Game no Tetsujin: The Shanghai
Nagano Winter Olympics 98
Ningyo no Rakuin
Strider 2

Ha ha! For once we have a very timely game to be rated here. If we didn't do Winter Olympics 98 now we probably would have had to wait another 4 years, so I'm glad we didn't miss it. Speaking of not missing things, I recently went through the list of PS1 RPGs and added a few more that weren't originally part of the list but I think are now feasible due to improvements in translation technology, Ningyo no Rakuin is one of them. And of course, we finally have Strider 2, which we are rating alone, as Strider 1 was rated a long time ago.

GAB GBC #11 - Gremlins 2, Knight Quest, Palamedes

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Bill Elliott's NASCAR Fast Tracks - BBAAB - 20% (5)
Caesars Palace - BBAA - 25% (4)
Pachinko Time - BBB - 0% (3)
Parasol Henbee - BGG - 67% (3)
Prince of Persia - GAGAA - 70% (5)
Zoids Densetsu - BBB - 0% (3)

Our first very lowly-rated GB topic, with only Prince of Persia making it to the high range and only just barely. I didn't really expect it from this list of games, but I guess Pachinko always has a tendency to be a dead game. I remain hopeful that one day we'll all be blown away by some Pachinko game that totally rocks. Surely there has to be one, right?

Games for this topic:

Castelian
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Family Jockey
Football International
Knight Quest
Palamedes

I thought we had played Palamedes a bunch of times on different systems, but it seems like it's actually only on one other platform, the NES. It must just have a catchy name. I'm also kind of looking forward to Family Jockey. There are like a billion Japanese-exclusive Horse Racing games, but this seems like the first one that might be simple enough for us to properly cover here.

GAB PS1 #208 - Brian Lara Cricket, Choro Q Marine, Oddworld Exoddus

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Grind Session - AAG - 67% (3)
Kowloon Jou - GG - 100% (2)
Persona 2: Innocent Sin - GGGGAG - 92% (6)
Power Move Pro Wrestling - AGBG - 63% (4)
Pro Pinball: Timeshock - BB - 0% (2)
Votoms: Woodo Kummen - BB - 0% (2)

I was surprised there weren't more votes for Grind Session. Even though I'd never heard of it previously, it seemed like something that probably would have been more well-known.

Games for this topic:

Brian Lara Cricket
Choro Q Marine
Momotarou Dentetsu 7
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Starborders
Visiteurs, Les: La Relique de Sainte Rolande

An interesting topic here. First of all, we have Choro Q Marine, which I wrote a guide for a long time ago but haven't played since, so I'm curious to revisit that one. We have one of the Momotarou Dentetsu games, which we didn't cover in previous GABs but one of them was recently localized on Switch and I spent some time playing it so I now generally know how it plays (if you want to learn how to play it, look up the Switch game, they explain the rules on the website). I'm also kind of intrigued by Les Visiteurs, this is the first French-exclusive game we've ever covered. I'm curious to see if what little french I remember will be enough to play this game without using a translation app (it probably won't be). Oh, and there's also Oddworld. It's been almost 7 years since we covered the first one!