Recapping February’s big features on Dragon Power and Walk it Out!; summarizing the Tecmo Super Bowl 2024 season; talking about the SEGA Master System; and checking out the new Splatoon 3 DLC and season.
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In the Lab: Little Mac’s left punch versus right punch
The Punch-Out!! instruction manual suggests Little Mac does more damage with right punches. No one ever brings this up, so I was beginning to wonder if I had completely made up this statement. I decided to take the game to the lab to figure it out!
Kinuyo Yamashita convinced me to try Walk it Out! [Nintendo Wii]
A longtime video game musician made me remember Konami’s Walk it Out! existed. What followed was an absolute journey to track down this game, multiple obscure memories unlocked and a dive into a developer that has actually contributed a lot to gaming over the years.
The Dragon with No Balls: Dragon Power (NES)
Booting up Dragon Power on NES unlocked several memories of 7-year-old D.J. being extremely confused. To put all of this behind him, he tried to break down the game over the past week and get a fresh perspective on this NES cart.
January 2024 Housekeeping
I’ve been wanting to start publishing occasional GemuBaka newsbits, and I figured 2024 would be a great time to get going on this. Includes items on the Detroit Retro Video Game Show, Capcom Vs. SNK 2 preview trailer, recent professional wrestling, weird PocketStation games and proof other DCM issues exist.
Friday Night Pizza and WCW: Feb. 7, 2001
Every once in a great while I’ll do a feature on professional wrestling. This one celebrates a tradition I don’t get to do very often: A Friday night to myself, a pizza and a late-era episode of WCW programming!
The List: A GemuBaka recap of games played in 2023
I did a couple of things to switch up the GemuBaka year in review, and an idea that came to mind was compiling a list of all of the games I cleared in 2023. See how I ranked the 60 games I cleared last year!
The Best of GemuBaka in 2023
It’s that time of year again when I look at what happened with GemuBaka in the previous year and try to make sense of a variety of statistics. How was GemuBaka’s 2023?
DJ Plays Pinball Poorly: Super Mario Bros.
On a first play, this Gottlieb table from 1992 seems to check all of the boxes for a decent pinball machine based on Mario – powerups, Yoshi, destroying castles … and a Charles Martinet Mario voice?
The GemuBaka 2023 New Game Kamige: Theatrhythm Bar Line
I declare that Square-Enix’s Theatrhythm Final Bar Line was my favorite new video game released in 2023!
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