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Posts Tagged “portable”

Michiru Yamane and Tsuyoshi Sekito – Motocross Maniacs BGM3

Posted on January 17th, 2015 by Hitstun

You know, I really should post music here more often. I’ve got a ton that I want to put up, and I’m starting with the motorcycle puzzle platformer Motocross Maniacs. Before developers got a handle on the Game Boy’s sound hardware, they had to dedicate two of the Game Boy’s sound channels to music and […]

QBillion

Posted on December 7th, 2014 by Hitstun

From my pile of forgotten Game Boy carts comes QBillion. You have a top-down view of stacks of boxes. The goal is to reduce these boxes to a single flat layer. Once you wrap your head around that, it’s intuitive, but the puzzles get downright fiendish. 15 years later, the developer is gone, the copyright […]

Yumi’s Odd Odyssey/Sayonara Umihara Kawase Stage Time Attacks

Posted on May 28th, 2014 by Hitstun

Two months ago, I told you I was hooked on this game. Since then, I’ve played for 47 hours, reached every door, collected every backpack, and got every survival mode ending. I’ve also brought the heat to the North American version’s leaderboards with dozens of stage times in the top three. Since this game helpfully […]

Yumi’s Odd Odyssey/Sayonara Umihara Kawase

Posted on March 28th, 2014 by Hitstun

The best grappling hook in video games has finally made it to the West! In the hands of an expert, the title character can climb all over everything and fling herself across the screen while stressing the elastic fishing line to its breaking point. Beginners can stick to the main route, but everyone else gives […]

Wallpaper Watchface

Posted on January 17th, 2014 by Hitstun

For Android Pebble users, Canvas for Pebble makes plenty of information available to your watchfaces. It’s hard to display much information on such a small screen and still look nice. For Wallpaper Watchface, the time is still large and in charge, and the other two lines are stuffed with so much small text and icons […]