Backyard Baseball '97 | 110% More FUN Than The Big Leagues! YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

It took longer than it should have, but it's finally time to look at a childhood favorite of mine: Backyard Baseball!

All Japan Pro-Wrestling featuring Virtua | SEGA Walks The King's Road YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

Did you know that the Saturn has a GOOD wrestling game that isn't Fire Pro? And that it features the stars of All Japan at their peak? AND that it's a crossover with freaking Virtua Fighter!?

youtu.be/lxfIXKvgHB0

My thought was that it looks closer to a late Amiga game, but I can sort of see it as a Jaguar title. There's definitely something about the aesthetic that wasn't common on the other consoles.

Claw | Monolith's Forgotten Treasure of a Platformer YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

Let's kick the New Year off with a look at the criminally underrated platformer, Claw!

...

What do you mean it's February?

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster | The One vs The Many YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

L-l-l-look at you, Swanny... A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Constantly forgetting to post about his new videos.

#retrogaming

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption | The One BEFORE Bloodlines YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

Nearly two weeks late, it's my Halloween video as we look at Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption:

Reason no. 239 why I can't get videos out on time: I just spent an hour and a half rambling to my mom about wrestling from before I was even born.

Nocturne | The BloodRayne Guys Made a Survival Horror? YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

I am very tired and even more behind schedule, but I finally got the damn Nocturne video done!

#retrogaming #survivalhorror

Star Ocean: The Second Story R | PS1 Goodness Becomes HD-2D Greatness YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

It's RPG time again as I take a look at Star Ocean: The Second Story R!

Eddie, no... No, you're better than ending a match like that!

Brütal Legend | When the Game in Your Head Isn't the Game in Your Hands YouTube video by SwannyTheMike

Let's journey to a land of metal, metal, and more metal with Double Fine's Brütal Legend!

...What do you mean they focused on the multiplayer!?

#Promosky

Once again, Josh Allen is the only light in my life as a football fan.

Please let him be the only Kid in the Hall like that. I don't want to have to feel anything but joy when I hear Kevin McDonald's voice.

Apparently, Gabriel Knight 3 originally came with a comic that served as the prologue. Would have been nice if the digital versions included it...

A game for babies? I could barely make it through the first few levels as a kid! And don't even get me started on The Lion King game from around the same time!

Me, a Vikings fan: "I think I might actually have a bit of hope for this season!"
[Micah Parsons traded to Packers]
Me: "Never mind. Business as usual, everybody!"

Important Reminder

That they felt the need to emphasize that Tomb Raider isn't affected makes me think it actually is. Perfect Dark cancellation or not. You don't lay off tons of people and NOT have it affect the one series your studio makes.

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but it's on my ever-growing list of games I really need to play.

So I watch Forbidden Door, an AEW/NJPW co-promoted show and it lead me to watching... CMLL.

In my defense, lucha is more fun.

Oh God... it just hit me that the DS and PSP are over twenty years old! This is the worst birthday ever!

I'd love to play those too! I'm so close to just trying to learn Japanese so I don't have to wait for fan patches anymore.

Don't forget the part where you'd have to gaslight yourself into liking the awful game you bought because of the cool cover. Fuck, I was born in 94 and still had that shit happen!

I have not, but thanks to this post I now know the English translation I'd been waiting for is out!

Haven't sat down and watched a whole wrestling PPV in forever, so I have no recent comparisons, but Forbidden Door was pretty good. I got what I wanted out of the IWGP title match. Could've done without the fork in Darby's ear though.

#AEW #AEWForbiddenDoor #Wrestlesky #IHateUsingHashtags

I knew Nigel wasn't going to beat ZSJ, but damn if I'm not still disappointed...

Nigel McGuinness talking with Johnny Saint and Marty Jones made this dumb American pop harder than it probably should have. #wrestlesky

Kyle Fletcher's buttery smooth avalanche back suplex on Takahashi was the coolest move I've seen in a long time.

I swear, this is half of what I get recommended whenever I watch a video walkthrough or anything else game-related. Half the reason I started doing my own videos was my annoyance with ragebait.

(He says, all too aware that one of his most successful videos was about how he didn't like Suikoden III)

Maybe it's because we grew up watching ineffectual idiots addicted to social media slacktivist their way through life and then pass the buck to us the moment they had to do something besides hold a sign for a couple hours or key someone's Tesla?