Brian
@pucman.bsky.social
Classic systems video game player, 3DO enthusiast, Tree planter, Chiefs fan, Disc golfer
I loved Maze Craze. My favorite is 2-player w/invisible maze; it's like trying to find your way out by feeling along the walls. Another cool feature is dropping a fake wall piece that your opponent can walk through, but which looks like a wall. A great way to confuse & delay your opponent's progress
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I loved Maze Craze. My favorite is 2-player w/invisible maze; it's like trying to find your way out by feeling along the walls. Another cool feature is dropping a fake wall piece that your opponent can walk through, but which looks like a wall. A great way to confuse & delay your opponent's progress
Mystic Defender is an action platformer game w/cool weapons that you charge up before using (repeatedly) during attacks. Good execution of game & level design. Fun to play
Coming out just 3 months after launch of the Sega Genesis it was a solid run-n-gun game to buy w/the Genesis for Christmas 1989
Coming out just 3 months after launch of the Sega Genesis it was a solid run-n-gun game to buy w/the Genesis for Christmas 1989
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Mystic Defender is an action platformer game w/cool weapons that you charge up before using (repeatedly) during attacks. Good execution of game & level design. Fun to play
Coming out just 3 months after launch of the Sega Genesis it was a solid run-n-gun game to buy w/the Genesis for Christmas 1989
Coming out just 3 months after launch of the Sega Genesis it was a solid run-n-gun game to buy w/the Genesis for Christmas 1989
This looks awesome and the logo is familiar. I remember a Hydlide game I played as a youngster and I only remember a could area of a building and that being the area I couldn't figure out what to do next and quit playing. I'll have to try to find Super Hydlide and play it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This looks awesome and the logo is familiar. I remember a Hydlide game I played as a youngster and I only remember a could area of a building and that being the area I couldn't figure out what to do next and quit playing. I'll have to try to find Super Hydlide and play it.
I love playing Joust with (against?) my friends on the PC with MAME using the XArcade dual joystick.
Ahh, so dusty, I need to clean up!
Ahh, so dusty, I need to clean up!
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I love playing Joust with (against?) my friends on the PC with MAME using the XArcade dual joystick.
Ahh, so dusty, I need to clean up!
Ahh, so dusty, I need to clean up!
I was going through my Switch games last night and decided to play Dadish, which has such awesome game difficulty/balance. I have a game well in progress, & I think I may be on the last level, but its so hard, deliciously so.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I was going through my Switch games last night and decided to play Dadish, which has such awesome game difficulty/balance. I have a game well in progress, & I think I may be on the last level, but its so hard, deliciously so.
My first computer was a PCjr, & I typed in BASIC games from COMPUTE! magazine. IBM PC DOS & extensive manuals helped me learn DOS
Best games: Jumpman, Kings Quest, Ultima III, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, StarFleet Battles, Zork, Gato, & HardHat Mac. Every one of those games is worth playing
Best games: Jumpman, Kings Quest, Ultima III, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, StarFleet Battles, Zork, Gato, & HardHat Mac. Every one of those games is worth playing
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My first computer was a PCjr, & I typed in BASIC games from COMPUTE! magazine. IBM PC DOS & extensive manuals helped me learn DOS
Best games: Jumpman, Kings Quest, Ultima III, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, StarFleet Battles, Zork, Gato, & HardHat Mac. Every one of those games is worth playing
Best games: Jumpman, Kings Quest, Ultima III, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, StarFleet Battles, Zork, Gato, & HardHat Mac. Every one of those games is worth playing
Warlords was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games, especially playing 4-player with my cousins at Christmas.
I never did understand what the player icon was supposed to represent. It looks like the ship from Defender.
I never did understand what the player icon was supposed to represent. It looks like the ship from Defender.
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Warlords was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games, especially playing 4-player with my cousins at Christmas.
I never did understand what the player icon was supposed to represent. It looks like the ship from Defender.
I never did understand what the player icon was supposed to represent. It looks like the ship from Defender.
I think of the 3DO daily, and it's my #1 played system.
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I think of the 3DO daily, and it's my #1 played system.
Oh my.... can I.. see the cars close up please!
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Oh my.... can I.. see the cars close up please!
I love the GameGear & always used it at home, so didn't worry about batteries. I had a period of time where I moved to a new apartment & didn't have a TV. I used my GameGear w/TV adapter. I want to remember that I played Sega Genesis games using the GameGear screen as the monitor. #thoseWereTheDays
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I love the GameGear & always used it at home, so didn't worry about batteries. I had a period of time where I moved to a new apartment & didn't have a TV. I used my GameGear w/TV adapter. I want to remember that I played Sega Genesis games using the GameGear screen as the monitor. #thoseWereTheDays
A review of SC1 would be a nice prequel retrospective for your SC2 retrospective. SC1 is more direct strategy with resource building & starship fleet management as you navigate a rotating 3D nebula of stars, which can have mines, bases, & precursor ship upgrades. I liken it to Chess with spaceships.
September 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A review of SC1 would be a nice prequel retrospective for your SC2 retrospective. SC1 is more direct strategy with resource building & starship fleet management as you navigate a rotating 3D nebula of stars, which can have mines, bases, & precursor ship upgrades. I liken it to Chess with spaceships.
When Travolta tries to get money for the mob by robbing a bank, the teller Olivia Newton John decides to give him a bag blank paper, while stealing the money for herself. While the 2 lead characters are American sweethearts, the angels (& the Devil) provide the most fun as they try to interfere/help
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
When Travolta tries to get money for the mob by robbing a bank, the teller Olivia Newton John decides to give him a bag blank paper, while stealing the money for herself. While the 2 lead characters are American sweethearts, the angels (& the Devil) provide the most fun as they try to interfere/help
Two of a Kind: Olivia Newton John & John Travolta.
When God comes back from vacation & decides to flood the world & start over, a group of Angels has to prove humankind is worth saving, using Travolta as an example--trouble is, the mob is after him for money he borrowed to invent edible sunglasses
When God comes back from vacation & decides to flood the world & start over, a group of Angels has to prove humankind is worth saving, using Travolta as an example--trouble is, the mob is after him for money he borrowed to invent edible sunglasses
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Two of a Kind: Olivia Newton John & John Travolta.
When God comes back from vacation & decides to flood the world & start over, a group of Angels has to prove humankind is worth saving, using Travolta as an example--trouble is, the mob is after him for money he borrowed to invent edible sunglasses
When God comes back from vacation & decides to flood the world & start over, a group of Angels has to prove humankind is worth saving, using Travolta as an example--trouble is, the mob is after him for money he borrowed to invent edible sunglasses
I like Club Paradise. Great cast: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Brian Doyle-Murray, Twiggy. It has sweet Reggae music & a nice message about standing up to developers coming to take everything, including the small resort Robin Williams just bought into, Club Paradise.
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I like Club Paradise. Great cast: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Brian Doyle-Murray, Twiggy. It has sweet Reggae music & a nice message about standing up to developers coming to take everything, including the small resort Robin Williams just bought into, Club Paradise.
CD-I was never a legit gaming system. The 3DO had the best Madden football available, FIFA, Slam n Jam basketball, PGA golf, Gex, & Star Control. Crystal Dynamics & EA were the best of 3DO. Not having a great 1st party studio killed the system when 3rd party devs went on to the next great console
September 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
CD-I was never a legit gaming system. The 3DO had the best Madden football available, FIFA, Slam n Jam basketball, PGA golf, Gex, & Star Control. Crystal Dynamics & EA were the best of 3DO. Not having a great 1st party studio killed the system when 3rd party devs went on to the next great console
I worked at Babbages (pre-GameStop), and after closing the store one day, we had 6 employees playing FIFA Soccer on 3DO using the daisy chain controllers. Until the mall cop came and ran us off from our own store, just because the mall was officially closed. Great multiplayer gaming.
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I worked at Babbages (pre-GameStop), and after closing the store one day, we had 6 employees playing FIFA Soccer on 3DO using the daisy chain controllers. Until the mall cop came and ran us off from our own store, just because the mall was officially closed. Great multiplayer gaming.
To be frank, I played it through, was not greatly impressed with the gameplay of then pack-in game, Altered Beast, and proceeded to play all the other games I got for the system instead.
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
To be frank, I played it through, was not greatly impressed with the gameplay of then pack-in game, Altered Beast, and proceeded to play all the other games I got for the system instead.
Sadly, I've only played it 1P vs. computer. How was it better for 2P, was the screen split differently?
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sadly, I've only played it 1P vs. computer. How was it better for 2P, was the screen split differently?
Killer Cuts is one of the best videogame music soundtracks ever.
August 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Killer Cuts is one of the best videogame music soundtracks ever.
Genesis had the plastic cases at retail (except for some releases like the Ballistic games (Hardball, Star Control, Turrican) and a few others.
I do like the big artwork on the Intellivision boxes. Their cardboard durability wasn't great though. Most of mine have a smashed look to them.
I do like the big artwork on the Intellivision boxes. Their cardboard durability wasn't great though. Most of mine have a smashed look to them.
August 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Genesis had the plastic cases at retail (except for some releases like the Ballistic games (Hardball, Star Control, Turrican) and a few others.
I do like the big artwork on the Intellivision boxes. Their cardboard durability wasn't great though. Most of mine have a smashed look to them.
I do like the big artwork on the Intellivision boxes. Their cardboard durability wasn't great though. Most of mine have a smashed look to them.