All tagged arcade
Something new and strange has happened in the world of One Credit Reviews. I played a game at random, as per usual, but I ended up playing an arcade game that doesn't suck, and is, in fact, quite fun to play. It's actually a shame I had to stop after only one quarter. What you get for that quarter is a hell of a lot of value. Even if this game is 50 cents, it's still quite some value. If it costs a dollar, you are in one of the worst arcades imaginable.
The title 'Atomic Punk' sounds way more awesome than the off brand Irem made port of Bomberman this game actually is. I wasn't expecting such a well known console game to pop up in a random sampling of MAME emulated arcade games. I was hoping for a new gameplay experience, and I have experienced plenty of bomber men in my life. I actually did get a new experience though. I had the chance to learn what Bomberman would be, if it was bad.
Every major Japanese development company has established their own major fighting franchise over the years, sometimes more than one if they lean into the fighting genre. Sega has Virtua Fighter, Capcom has Street Fighter, Namco has Tekken. Nintendo has Hogan's Alley. There is one major player missing though, Konami…
To my detriment, I am obsessed with niche titles, niche music, and even nicher hip hop remixes of niche video game music. It's a curse to want to dig this deep, but someone has to keep digging. Well maybe that person does not need to keep digging but you can't stop me so stop trying to stop me.
As a child of roughly kindergarten age at the opening of the 90s, I spent much of my time playing video games. At that age, I understood that there were two types of games, platform games, and puzzle games. That was all we owned, so that was all I played. In that narrow field of vision I came across a classic arcade game. It was BurgerTime.
