Spy Muppets: License to Croak

The credits are longer than the game in this classic Gameboy Advance caper…

November 25, 2024 · 2 min · 404 words · Tipa

Retro Haul: Tactics and Sea Monkeys

We found ourselves once again awash in a sea of retro games. We found some winners, maybe…?

June 9, 2024 · 6 min · 1264 words · Tipa

Retro Game Haul: March 30, 2024

I have way too many games to ever play, but still I can’t help it. Today’s haul: Othello (NES), Spinball (Vectrex), Colossal Cave Adventure (PS5), Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (GBA). Read on for more details…

March 30, 2024 · 5 min · 1025 words · Tipa

Retro Game Quick Look: Sword of Mana, LotR: Two Towers, Iridion 3D

I shuffled through the Gameboy Advance discount bins at some local retro game stores, and this is what I came away with.

February 20, 2024 · 5 min · 1005 words · Tipa

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis FINISHED!

It’s a tale of love, loss, betrayal, alliances, war, peace, redemption, and a young knight’s journey to discover his place in the world.

January 6, 2024 · 9 min · 1739 words · Tipa

Christmas Loot: Knight of Lodis and Prince of Zenobia

For Christmas, I got two more entries in the Tactics Ogre/Ogre Battle series… one I have played before, and the other is going to need some work to be able to play… and understand.

December 29, 2023 · 4 min · 780 words · Tipa

The Hobbit (Gameboy Advance)

See, it’s a story about a little man who lives in a hole dug into a hill…

December 5, 2023 · 3 min · 517 words · Tipa

Once, I had a life. Now, I have Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.

I haven’t played the sequel to my favorite Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy Tactics, in ages. And even when I played it before, back in the Gameboy Advance days, I never got that far into it – the tiny screen just didn’t work for JRPGs for me. So I spent a lot of money getting a Nintendo DS – the one with the GBA slot – and a complete copy of the game, and decided to give it another shot. ...

January 23, 2022 · 8 min · 1535 words · Tipa