Author: Grumpy Old Gamers

  • A New Fangled Review of the Hori D Pad Controller (L)

    May 25, 2020|New Fangled Review, Posts  Ryan shares his 2 cents on the Hori D Pad Controller (L), here is a preview… he’s in love with it. 

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  • A New Fangled Review – Assault on Metaltron

    September 12, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review I picked up this game on my Nintendo Switch for 2 very good reasons, first it is an tower defense style game, and I loves me some tower defense and secondly it was on sale for 60% off, and this Grumpy Old Gamer loves a great deal even

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  • Box VR (PS4 VR) A Grump Fitness Review

    October 10, 2019|All Reviews, Grump Fitness By Rob Leggo BoxVR, developed and published by a company called FitXR, is a virtual reality exercise game available for Occulus, Steam and PS4, the latter of which I am playing. Released in April of 2019, the game attempts to mash up a rhythm game with a fitness game,

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  • Ducktales, Woo-Hoo! (A Grumpy Old Gamers Retro Review)

    With Capcom suddenly pulling the plug this month on all digital sales of this, I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit a remaster of a game that I grew up loving, Ducktales.  I’ve got some extremely fond memories of the original, having spent many a day renting this bad boy

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  • Fitness Boxing (Nintendo Switch) A Grump Fitness Review

    By Rob Leggo Developed by Imagineer Games and published by Nintendo, Fitness Boxing for the Nintendo Switch was released in early January 2019, no doubt timed to take advantage of the “I’ve eaten all my feelings away at Christmas, and now I’m going to change my life, this time for sure” resolution makers….myself included! Right

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  • New Fangled Review of 8BitDo Lite Gamepad

    Objects in mirror are smaller then they appear One of my favorite peripheral companies released a Bluetooth controller to coincide with the release of the Nintendo Switch lite.  Now when I first saw pictures of this I was really unsure what to think with its candy bar shape and lack of analog sticks.  But I

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  • Original Switch owners upset with lack of official D-Pad options

    So if you are like me and have had a Switch since day one there has been one thing that you’ve grown to miss, an official D-Pad on a Joy-Con.  With the amount of indie games that are side scrolling tributes to the retro era and the releases of the NES and SNES apps on

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  • Over The Top Tower Defense (A New Fangled Review)

    I picked up this little gem on my Nintendo Switch and I’ve been playing it like crazy.  I have to admit I am sucker for tower defense games.  I can’t even begin to count the hours I have put into games like Field Runners, The Creeps, and the Kingdom Rush series. (these were all played

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  • A New Fangled Review of Hyperkin 3 in 1 HDTV Cable

    March 7, 2020 Ryan took some time to review Hyperkin’s 3 in 1 HDTV cable for use with the SNES, N64 and Gamecube.  Check out the review below.

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  • Nintendo Indie World Showcase (Aug 2019)

    Nintendo dropped their Indie World Showcase today and it did not disappoint.  Of the 25+ titles announced, most are coming out before the end of the year, and we also got 2 Beyonce drops Super Hot and the Hotline Miami Collection.  Here is what was presented and their release dates: – Risk of Rain 2 Summer 2019

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