Cartridge game reviews, without ads

About

Everyone else is making videos, so naturally I'm writing. My first computer was a Nintendo Game Boy (yes, I count it), and decades later I still work with computers, which probably explains a lot. Here you'll find reviews of cartridge games - not too much reading, though, since I'm no writer - often with a few minutes of uncommented gameplay, so you can see the game for yourself.

How I rate

These are my (very) subjective opinions, of course.

Diamond A masterpiece. Buy it blind.
Gold Good. Worth playing.
Silver For fans of the genre.
Copper Weak. For collectors only.
Stone Leave it on the shelf, preferably the one in the shop.

I play on PC too, so retro games get no slack - the question is whether they are fun today, not whether they were fun in the nineties. I make allowances for the hardware's limits, but not for the standards of the era.

Why cartridges

Corporations like to sell us minimum viable products, preferably as a licence or a subscription, so we never really own anything. I prefer the way it used to work, where you buy a thing and it is yours. Back then a cartridge also had to be finished on the day it shipped, because there was no way to patch it later.

Old cartridges were made before AI, too, and each one is a piece of history shut in a small plastic box. Plenty of what I review here, though, is homebrew - new games for old hardware, still made by hand by people who do it for love.

No ads, cookies, or trackers

This is a hobby, not a business. There will never be ads, tracking, paid reviews or affiliate links here. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

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Instagram and YouTube are linked at the bottom of every page, and comments under the gameplay videos reach me too.