THUNDER CRACKS, MYSTERIOUS RATTLING SOUNDS ⊟ door creaks, rectangular form standing in doorway silhouetted against the intermittent flashes of lightning unknown figure shuffles into the ligh...
MAKE YOUR OWN MON-YU ⊟ Hi, everyone! It’s been… four months?! since the last Tiny Cartridge post, which was about a toilet game, and I’ve been dragged out of de facto retirement for an e...
The wait for Gekisou! Benza Race - Toilet Shooting Star is almost over After learning about this game, a toilet racer, I am now retroactively spending the last year anticipating its May 15 rele...
IREM GAME COLLECTIONS FOR ME TO COLLECT ⊟ Tozai Games, who memorably brought me Spelunker HD, has announced five volumes of collected IREM games for Xbox, PS5, PS4, and Switch, with big ol’...
WONDER BOY, BUST A MOVE, NEW ZEALAND STORY TODAY⊟ Hey y'all, it’s been a while, as evidenced by my trying to spell “Tumblr” with an O while logging in. Tomblr. Tumblor. Toumblro. Anywa...
Big news for exactly me: new Arkanoid, from Pastagames Tiny Cartridge faves Pastagames (Pix the Cat, Rayman Legends, Maestro: Jump in Music) releases a new game today, and… it’s a new entry...
I’M A FOOL FOR NOT ALREADY BEING HYPED FOR SPIDERHECK ⊟ I’ve gotten a few press releases for SpiderHeck from publisher TinyBuild, but such has been my Situation recently that I made a po...
THERE’S A NEW PUZZLE BOBBLE AND IT’S VERY IMPORTANT ⊟ Don’t just take it from me, the person who drinks coffee from a Bubble Bobble mug every morning and is on stage 1174 (oh no) of Bu...
PUBLISHERS OLD AND NEW BRING ME GAMES OLD AND OLD ⊟ One of the most weirdly unlikely domino-meme developments recently is the one that starts with THQ’s bankruptcy in 2012 and ends with me ...
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KUNIOS TODAY ⊟ Put me on record as a Kunio Liker (actually, I guess across over a decade of writing, I have put myself on said record dozens of times) and my favorite dev...
COOL DIY SUPER FAMICOM KIT TURNED INTO COOLER MINI-TV KIT ⊟ I’m pretty impressed with Columbus Circle’s barebones DIY kits, basically just clone Super Famicoms or Famicoms without case...
CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION IS GOOD, ACTUALLY (IN THIS ONE WEIRD SPECIFIC CASE) ⊟ Toy company Bandai and video game developer/publisher Namco merged in 2005. Four years later, Koei and Tecmo me...
MY FAMICASE EXHIBITION OPENING IN LA ⊟ My Famicase Exhibition, the gallery of imagined games displayed as Famicom cartridges, will come to the USA for the first time in 18 years tomorrow. T...
A MATCH MADE IN THE ESHOP ⊟ I don’t know much about Why pizza? the “platformer, physics puzzle and delivery job simulator at the same time.” The visuals are somewhere between “intrig...
ARE YOU THE ABSOLUTE MANIAC WHO WILL BUY BOB WITH NO BUB ⊟ I don’t think such a person exists, yet First Press is selling plushes of the player 2 Bubble Bobble character separately from the...
WHAT IF YOU… LISTENED TO RETRONAUTS THIS WEEK ⊟ I don’t need to tell you this, since the Venn diagram of Tiny readers and Retronauts listeners is probably one tiny Tiny circle inside ano...
GOTTA PROTECTORS IS BACK AND A LITTLE WEIRDER ON SWITCH ⊟ Pretty excited to play the next iteration of Ancient (and Yuzo Koshiro’s) Gotta Protectors , the Famicom tribute game that’s also...
TAITO MILESTONES OUT APRIL 15 ⊟ I’ve been obsessive about retro compilations on Switch recently. I want to gobble them all up. Even so, I’m unconvinced about Taito Milestones, the collecti...
PAC-MAN MUSEUM + - Release Date Announcement Trailer GREAT NEWS FOR YOUR PAC-PASSION ⊟ No longer will you have to keep your PAC-PASSION repressed. There’s a place for people like us, and ...
GIVE ME ALL THE PC ENGINE PORTS ⊟ When Moto Roader originally came out on Turbografx-16, it totally failed to get my attention, my brain just filing it away in the “sports games I’m not in...