jc-fletcher    thunder cracks, mysterious rattling sounds door creaks, rectangular form standing in doorway silhouetted against the intermittent flashes of lightningunknown figure shuffles into the light of the room, revealing Tiny Cartridge, risen from the graveDUDES there’s a slime pet bed now via Noisy Pixels,...

jc-fletcher    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...

jc-fletcher    The wait for Gekisou Benza Race Toilet Shooting Star is almost overAfter learning about this game, a toilet racer, I am now retroactively spending the last year anticipating its May release. An exciting toilet racing game that lets you experience a toilet revolution.Many circuits and toilet...

jc-fletcher    IREM game collections for me to collect Tozai Games, who memorably brought me Spelunker HD, has announced five volumes of collected IREM games for Xbox, PS , PS , and Switch, with big ol’ physical versions coming from Strictly Limited.This first release comprises Image Fights and, and X...

jc-fletcher    Wonder Boy, Bust a Move, New Zealand Story todayâ Hey y’all, it’s been a while, as evidenced by my trying to spell Tumblr with an O while logging in. Tomblr. Tumblor. Toumblro.Anyway I’m back with more old games on Switch. It’s becoming my brand and I’m ok with that. Today’s Nintendo Download...

jc-fletcher    Big news for exactly me: new Arkanoid, from PastagamesTiny Cartridge faves Pastagames Pix the Cat, Rayman Legends, Maestro: Jump in Music releases a new game today, and... it’s a new entry in a legendary franchise, Arkanoid that one big NES box I bought when I was like, the game that used that...

jc-fletcher    I’m a fool for not already being hyped for SpiderHeck I’ve gotten a few press releases for SpiderHeck from publisher TinyBuild, but such has been my Situation recently that I made a point to get back to them and then, I don’t know, gone to deal with the toilet that fell apart or adopt kittens ...

jc-fletcher    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 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...

jc-fletcher    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 and ends with me playing a Sunsoft Famicom game from on my Switch. But that’s basically what happened Nordic Games...

jc-fletcher    Romance of the three Kunios today Put me on record as a Kunio Liker actually, I guess across over a decade of writing, I have put myself on said record dozens of times and my favorite development of late has been the Weird Alternate Kunio. Take the River City Ransom crew and recast them as...

jc-fletcher    Cool DIY Super Famicom kit turned into cooler mini TV kit I’m pretty impressed with Columbus Circle’s barebones DIY kits, basically just clone Super Famicoms or Famicoms without cases. You can then put it into whatever container you can imagine, like this toaster What Youtuber LimoneWorkshop did,...

jc-fletcher    Corporate consolidation is good, actually in this one weird specific case Toy company Bandai and video game developer publisher Namco merged in . Four years later, Koei and Tecmo merged their game making operations.Now, the two megacorporations have leveraged Tecmo’s beloved Monster Rancher...

ericisawesome    My Famicase Exhibition opening in LA My Famicase Exhibition, the gallery of imagined games displayed as Famicom cartridges, will come to the USA for the first time in years tomorrow. Traditionally hosted by Tokyo game shop Meteor, the annual exhibit will open with a special Los Angeles show at...

jc-fletcher    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...

jc-fletcher    Are you the absolute maniac who will buy Bob with no Bub I don’t think such a person exists, yet First Press is selling plushes of the player Bubble Bobble character separately from the more well known Bub. Nothing against Bob, and in fact I prefer the blue color, but I feel like Bob has yet to...

jc-fletcher    What if you... listened to Retronauts this week I don’t need to tell you this, since the Venn diagram of Tiny readers and Retronauts listeners is probably one tiny Tiny circle inside another much larger circle, but what’s the point of having a website if I can’t use it to brag on my co editor when...

jc-fletcher    Gotta Protectors is back and a little weirder on Switch Pretty excited to play the next iteration of Ancient and Yuzo Koshiro’s Gotta Protectors, the Famicom tribute game that’s also a legit action tower defense that’s still cool if you don’t like tower defense This time, in addition to rad music...

jc-fletcher    Taito Milestones out April 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 mostly ancient, mostly historically interesting arcade games. Without knowing a price, I’m not sure how...

jc-fletcher    PAC MAN MUSEUM Release Date Announcement TrailerGreat 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...

jc-fletcher    Give me all the PC Engine ports When Moto Roader originally came out on Turbografx , it totally failed to get my attention, my brain just filing it away in the sports games I’m not interested in category next to Takin’ it to the Hoop.But now, with the benefit of time, I know that any TG PC...