GAB GBC #13 - Atomic Punk, Mortal Kombat, Motocross Maniacs

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Adventures of Star Saver, The - AAABB - 30% (5)
Crystal Quest - AGAAA - 60% (5) (1 SR)
Jordan vs Bird - ABAA - 38% (4)
Kininkou Maroku Oni - AG - 75% (2)
Turn and Burn - BBBBB - 0% (5)
Yoshi - AABAAAG - 50% (7)

A solid set of ratings. I'm always happy to see obscure games getting a decent number of votes.

Games for this topic:

Atomic Punk
Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly
Monster Maker
Mortal Kombat
Motocross Maniacs
Spot: The Video Game

I have a long history of hating on Mortal Kombat here at GAB, but I feel like Gameboy could be the one system where its excessively simplistic gameplay might actually be a good fit. Also, we have the first of many Bomberman games here. I was ready to make fun of them for changing the IP to make it more "cool", but actually they did this in the Japanese version too.

GAB PS1 #210 - Air Race Championship, MSH vs Street Fighter, Neorude 2

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 - AAABG - 50% {5}
F1 World Grand Prix - BAG - 50 {3}
Game no Tetsujin: The Shanghai - AB - 25% (2)
Nagano Winter Olympics 98 - BB - 0% (2)
Ningyo no Rakuin - AAA - 50% (3)
Strider 2 - GGGGAGGG - 94% (8) (1 SR)

I meant to mention this last topic, but I accidentally closed it first, but I really enjoyed CyanRouge's detailed writeup on Ningyo no Rakuin. I sort of wish it had been for a slightly better game, but one of my goals with the PS1 GAB was to explore the mysteries of PS1's Japanese library, which has been very interesting even if the need for translation tools makes it take somewhat longer.

Games for this topic:

Air Race Championship
Lucky Luke: Western Fever
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Neorude 2
Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001
Yetisports World Tour

I feel like this is an unusually eclectic mix of games even by GAB standards. Cowboys, mechs, superheroes, yetis, fantasy heroes, and biplanes, all in one topic. Playstation is such an absurdly diverse console.

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.