Author: Grumpy Old Gamers
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Rob’s Top Games of 2023
Another year come and gone here at Grump central, and once again….I have played absolutely 0% of any of the triple A games. Yep. In one of argueably the greatest release years of games….I am still playing remakes of Donkey Kong. Hopefully, that is one of the reasons you continue to check us out….but if you are
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Ryan’s Top Games of 2023
2023 what a crappy year!!! It was like when we all said 2022 was the worst, 2023 was like “hold my beer” and went on to be even worse then 2022… and it didn’t even have a global pandemic to back it up, just crap crap crappy all on its own. For me 2023 was
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Damon’s Top 5 Games of 2023
Most gamers might agree that 2023 was the year that the next-gen (current gen?) has been waiting for. This year in particular has seen an astounding amount of high calibre games being released. Also as such, has that pile of games that I have mentally noted as “must play!”; the ever robust BACKLOG What’s also really
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Brent’s Top 5 Games of All Time
Editors note here…at Brents request, as he did not feel he’d played enough games this year to fashion a Top 5 list, this list will be a Top 5 of ALL TIME! Please enjoy! Number 5 In the bygone days of yore back in 2004, the PlayStation 2 was taking the world by storm. With a
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Xbox Elite Series 2 “It’s not a controller, it’s a device.”
August 8, 2020|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Posts — by Damon Harris Being a mature gamer has it’s merits. Sure, I may not have ridiculous precognition-like twitch-reflexes or seemingly endless hours to absolutely pour into videogames, like younger gamers do. But I have something else. I have a bedtime, because I have to work in
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The SEGA Genesis Mini (A Grumpy Old Gamers New Fangled Review)
September 26, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review By Rob Leggo The Sega Genesis man…even though I always owned a Nintendo, the Genesis was like the cool edgy cousin who came to visit once a year and “totally” knew a way to get weed from a guy. I admired the edgy hedgehogs from the safety of
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The Power Player Super TV Game (A Grumpy Retro Review)
March 25, 2020|All Reviews, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo Picture it…. it’s the year 2000, and a younger Rob, coming down to the big city for a weekend is walking through West Edmonton Mall. Walking by the Pretzel King and the Orange Julius, he is stopped by a vendor promising value beyond worldly comprehension. Why
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The Magnavox Odyssey 2 (A Grumpy Old Retro review)
August 10, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews The Magnavox Odyssey² was always in my opinion, the red headed stepchild of the second generation of video games. Growing up, I was aware of the Odyssey² but didn’t know a single person who had one. All of my friends were rocking either an Atari 2600, Intellivision or Colecovision,
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Nintendo Direct Sep 2019
September 4, 2019|Posts https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/09-04-2019/ Nintendo held another Direct today and as usual there was plenty to digest. They opened the show with the not so secret anymore announcement of Overwatch coming to the Switch and let the flood gates go from there. Here’s a list of games and dates they announced: Overwatch – October 18, 2019
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The Collectorvision Phoenix (A New Fangled/Retro Review)
November 13, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews The Phoenix is a labour of love from the folks at Collectorvision, a small group of developers based out of Chateaugay, Quebec. They are primarily known for making new homebrew games for a variety of Retro systems, from the Atari 2600 all the way to the
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