Indie Gamer Chick    Starship 1 Platform: Arcade Released July, 1977 Designed by Steve Mayer, Dave Shepperd and Dennis Koble Developed by Atari Originally Utilized Yoke and Thruster Controls NEVER BEEN RE-RELEASED (?) The Killer List of Video Games and other sources list 1976 as the date, but GameFAQs and Wikipedia...

Indie Gamer Chick    Cloud 9 Platform: Arcade Unreleased Completed Prototype Designed by Paul M. Resch Developed by Atari Originally Utilized Trackball Controls NEVER BEEN RELEASED Originally this was going to be a bonus review for Atari 50, which I’m FINALLY devoting real time to. Part One has been up for a while and...

Indie Gamer Chick    Punch-Out is a legitimate contender for my favorite Nintendo franchise. Actually, the only bad one really is the original coin-op. That would be more impressive if there were more games in the series, but I’ll get to that in a moment. I wanted to start my 2026 at IGC with something big. I was going...

Indie Gamer Chick    I haven’t done an IGC review since Luigi’s Mansion over a week ago. I spent the last week of the kids’ Christmas vacation playing Zaccaria Pinball with Dad, Angela, and Sasha The Kid (capital T, like Sonic The Hedgehog). We’re hard at work on a Definitive Review of the 40 table Zaccaria Pinball...

Indie Gamer Chick    Luigi’s Mansion Platform: Nintendo GameCube Released September 14, 2001 (JP) November 18, 2001 (US) Directed by Hideki Konno Published by Nintendo Available with Switch Online Expansion Pack EXCLUSIVELY on Switch 2 My first day one Nintendo console was the GameCube. I was SO excited, even though...

Indie Gamer Chick    Marvel Cosmic InvasionPlatform: All Current PlatformsReleased December 1, 2025Directed by Fred GemusDeveloped by DotemuPublished by Tribute Games 29.99 Hulk-Smashed baddies in the making of this review.This review was played on a Nintendo Switch 2. SOME SMALL ROSTER BOSS SPOILERS AHEAD Yep, this...

Indie Gamer Chick    I like Jeff Minter. We both come from very different generations, and in fact, at the time I wrote this, you can reverse our ages. I’m 36. He’s 63. I’m an American. He’s English. He’s a game maker. I’m a game critic. But I firmly believe any two people who genuinely LOVE video games can [&]

Indie Gamer Chick    The Rocky Horror Show Game Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Steam Released October 20, 2024 Developed by Freakzone Games 9.99 kept incorrectly adding the word Picture in the making of this review. It’s JUST The Rocky Horror Show Video Game. The Nintendo Switch version was played for this...

Indie Gamer Chick    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Platforms: Everything. I think even refrigerators have it. Released December 10, 2024 Developed by Digital Eclipse 34.99 has a headache in the making of this review. The Nintendo Switch version was played for this review. Last year, I reviewed all twelve...

Indie Gamer Chick    Hey gang I wanted to provide a quick update since it’ll be a few more days, maybe a week, before the next IGC review is posted, but it’s going to be a big one. I’m currently working on Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story The Definitive Review. It’ll contain full reviews for all forty-two games [&]