thunder cracks, mysterious rattling sounds ⊟ door creaks, rectangular form standing in doorway silhouetted against the intermittent flashes of lightning unknown figure shuffles into the light of the room, revealing Tiny Cartridge, risen from the grave DUDES there’s a slime pet bed now [via Noisy Pixels, thanks bdorf ..read more

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 equally important reason. And that reason is Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroes Defeat The Devil King. Now, I have yet to play Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroe ..read more

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 Bub’s Puzzle Blast, a game I only found by accident while looking for a new Bust a Move/Puzzle Bobble. Look at the above video, with its four-player co-op (including Story Mode), hi-res Bub, Bob, Peb, and Pab, little Miniroons, and so many bubbles. Everybubble, in fact! Puzzle Bobble Everybubble will be out on Switch next year. New Bubble and/or Puzzle Bobble games aren’t always… good, but I’m getting my hope ..read more

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 playing a Sunsoft Famicom game from 1992 on my Switch. But that’s basically what happened? Nordic Games Licensing bought a lot of the THQ back catalog, then went through a series of acquisitions, later adopting the apt name Embracer Group, and just opened a subdivision called Embracer Freemode to focus on retro games. Part of Embracer Freemode is Bitwave, who is developing a port of Gimmick! for Xbox, P ..read more

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 merged their game-making operations. Now, the two megacorporations have leveraged Tecmo’s beloved Monster Rancher series and Bandai’s long-standing Ultraman license to create this weird-ass thing, a game where you can use songs or NFC cards to generate monsters from Ultraman shows, then raise, battle, and, why not, merge them. I don’t think it really makes sense to apply Monster Rancher’s semi-random gen ..read more

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 “intriguing” and “deeply off-putting,” and it looks challenging in a QWOP/marionette kind of way, and I do believe I want to try it. With 100 percent certainty, though, I can say this is such a perfect pairing with this week’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Whatever eShop sommelier (or more likely, total coincidence, but let me live in my beautiful fantasy) put these together, magnificent. JOIN CLUB TIN ..read more

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 collection of 10 mostly ancient, mostly historically interesting arcade games. Without knowing a price, I’m not sure how into Alpine Ski or Wild Warriors I’ll be, or how willing I am to try a different version of the Bubble Bobble precursor Chack'n Pop (I have the Famicom cartridge). But The Ninja Warriors is cool, and Qix is always fun. Also, I want everyone to keep making these collections. JOIN CLUB TINY AND OUR D ..read more

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 it’s the Pac-Man Museum+. I may sound like I’m joking, but anything that includes Pac-Man Battle Royale, one of my all-time favorite games, stokes the flame of my PAC-PASSION. Though it seems weird to do a furniture collection and room layout minigame while still playing Animal Crossing daily, I also really, really want to design my own arcade in this thing. I’ll be picking up the Switch version on the May 27 ..read more

This is an Animal Revolt Battle Simulator blog now ⊟ This is a really interesting eShop release week in a lot of ways; Banjo-Kazooie is on Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack; Windjammers 2 is out!; SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash; To Be or Not to Be, the Hamlet interactive fiction from Ryan North; … Baby Storm… Those are all very worthwhile things that I couldn’t possibly think about for one second because I saw this video for Animal Revolt Battle Simulator, the game where you build, customize, and add weapons to a variety of animals real and mythical, alive or extinct, and make ‘em f ..read more

New Game Buddy games from an alternate universe ⊟ I love a fictional handheld, and this series of three “Game Buddy” games is extra cool. Not just because they appear to be excellently accurate pastiches of early Game Boy games, playable on Switch. And not just because WOW is Oumuamua a really inspired theme for an Arkanoid-alike. The coolest thing for me is that all of these were created using Pixel Game Maker MV, which I guess is pretty capable software! JOIN CLUB TINY AND OUR DISCORD Support Tiny Cartridge ..read more