An RPG played like a grid like board game? The concept used in Dokapon Journey for the Nintendo DS isn’t really a new one. A childhood friend of mine used to draw up maps on a big piece of grid paper and from there he’ll populate it with monsters, traps and most importantly, he maintained [...]

I love pinball games, and back during the heydays of shareware, Epic Pinball was one of the main stays in my “big” (back then) 420 MB harddrive. But I wonder whatever happened to that shareware distributor, I  remember subscribing to their newsletter (which was more like a huge listing of shareware stuff) on Computer Shopper [...]

As requested by a commentor on a previous post, check out the following gameplay video for The Guild DS: For my review of the game, click here.

When it comes to occupation, I really can’t imagine myself as a travelling salesman, going from door to door selling wares. The work seems incredibly hard, travelling from town to town (by bus, car or plane), living in motels, and a lot of talking with perhaps not so desireable outcomes. Take this back several centuries [...]

This month’s bargain-of-the-week on Play-Asia is the Japanese RPG  titled Lux-Pain, for the Nintendo DS. While I’ve not played the game before, it’s going for a really attractive price of USD 14.90. For details of the game (synopsis, screenshots) as well as purchase details, please click here. Free international shipping applies to certain countries when [...]

My earliest memories of the side-scrolling beat-em-up genre were mainly limited playing Double Dragon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on the Micro Genius console, and I wasn’t really good at them. In the case of Double Dragon, it didn’t take long for Billy and Jimmy to get the crap beaten out of them, as I [...]

If someone decided to take the Tamiya Mini-4WD experience and put it on the Nintendo DS, what would you get? In a nutshell, Trackmania. Like the real-life counterpart where it seemingly takes inspiration from, Trackmania can be a really fun experience. Races are divided into three different categories and while each category features a different [...]

Still on the subject of neoDS, a Neo Geo emulator for the Nintendo DS, here’s a video of Pulstar being played on it. A bit of background here, Pulstar was conceived for the Neo Geo as a Gradius clone, so much so that people actually thought the company responsible was staffed with ex-Gradius developers. The [...]

While most Nintendo DS gamers would first encounter “snaking” a.k.a “straight stretch turbo boosting” in Mario Kart DS, the technique was a staple in two of Nintendo’s games for the now defunct GameCube. The games in question are F-Zero GX and Mario Kart: Double Dash. Check out the following snaking videos for these old school [...]

There’s one game that is eating up my time now, it’s Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (The Director’s Cut) for the Nintendo DS. And it’s nothing short of genius. A 2D adventure games, it features graphics done by Dave Gibbons, the same man who was the co-creator of Wathcmen. Outsanding 2D graphics aside, Broken [...]