Indie Gamer Chick

30/07/2025

"SLAP FIGHT!"

30/07/2025

The Nintendo Direct tomorrow is going to be a "Partner's Showcase." If there's not a Ghosts 'n Goblins 40th Anniversary Collection announcement tomorrow, it ain't happening. I'll still give it until the end of August but I'm going to begin the preliminary work on it.

30/07/2025

Jordi is back and we're all updating the Pinball Chick scorecard for AtGames Magic Pixel tables. Jordi is playing on Steam but the Steam version and the AtGames versions are functionally identical and he's ONLY scoring for the 3 Ball Simulation. The lamest thing of AtGames is there's no options to play the tables in modes besides the one set mode. No missions. No lamp chaser. No 5 ball.

30/07/2025

Okay, so the Frontline table has been reworked too. The upper left zone is completely different. With that said, I think history is likely to be made with this one. I think it's going to sweep MASTERPIECE ratings.

30/07/2025

I suppose I had one Super Mario game left from the 80s/90s left I haven't done. It's Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. I started this review back in January and I never finished. That's pretty ominous right there. Over half a year later and now I'm really done with the Super Mario series and can move on.

Wait, isn't the first Wario Land technically called "Super Mario Land 3?" SON OF A BITCH!

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsPlatform: Game BoyFirst Released October 21, 1992Directed by Hiroji Kiyotake and Takehiko HosokawaDeveloped by NintendoAvailable with Switch Online Subscription (S…

29/07/2025

Whoa, hold on. AtGames exclusive Darius, part of Taito Pinball Pack 1 and a rebuild of 1985's Bounty Hunter by Gottlieb, just scored two MASTERPIECE rankings and came one vote short of entering the Pinball Chick Pantheon. With a scoring average of 4.5 out of 5, it's now the highest-ranked AtGames exclusive we've rated.

WTF? I didn't see that coming. The MASTERPIECE votes were from Sasha the Kid and Dad. GREAT from Angela and myself. It's a really fun shooting table. Also, hold on because the one in that picture does NOT match the one we have. There is no horseshoe loop in the upper left hand corner.

29/07/2025

Mario Paint just dropped on Switch Online. How far behind can the long awaited global release of Mario & Wario be? It's a mouse-only game directed by the creator of Pokemon that was originally going to be a Super Scope game. Is this a lost treasure?

Mario & Wario Platform: Super Famicom First Released August 27, 1993 Directed by Satoshi Tajiri Developed by Game Freak Published by Nintendo Exclusively Uses SNES Mouse NEVER BEEN RE-RELEASED …

28/07/2025

And here's Metroid: Zero Mission. I really thought I'd like this more than I did. "Wait, she's not saying she didn't like it, is she?" I guess you'll have to read the review to find out.

But no, I'm not saying that.

Metroid: Zero Mission Platform: Game Boy Advance Released February 9, 2004 Directed by Yoshio Sakamoto Developed by Nintendo Available with Switch Online Expansion Pack Subscription Listing at Metr…

28/07/2025

Apparently I've now reached the level where people researching classic gaming platforms are using my site to pool the "modern consensus" on classic titles and calling me notable. Huh. Okay, well, and I'm so flattered an honored by it, but that got me thinking that I'm part of the conversation for modern evaluations, how about we all really use this platform I've fallen ass backwards into having.

Right now, the plan is to use the rest of the Summer to finish knocking out big Nintendo games. Yeah, July isn't enough. I'm having too much fun. Otherwise, I have nothing really planned. I'm giving Capcom until the end of August to announce a Ghosts 'n Goblins 40th Anniversary Collection, and if they don't, I'm doing my typical "review a fake collection" thing, but that will be my Halloween 2025 feature.

But otherwise, when the summer is over, I have an idea and I need YOUR help. Instead of just looking for under the radar games, my question is "what games got F*CKED historically by critics?" I'm looking for games that got middling to outright poor reviews that didn't deserve it. I've given some YES! votes to plenty of games that are in that boat, but now I'm curious what ones REALLY had the hammer put to them when they released that are worthy of a look with decades of retrospectiveness (it's a word. I think). Any nominees? No, not E.T. Already done it and it's still a NO!

Originally set to be part of Atari 50: The Games They Couldn’t Include, I separated it from the feature.

28/07/2025

ARE YOU F*CKING SHATTING ME?

How the f*ck did I miss 33% of the items?

28/07/2025

This is f*cking ridiculous.

28/07/2025

This is the most convoluted item pick up in the entire history of Metroid. I spent an hour trying to figure this crap out and had to look it up.

I shinespark in Brinstar to get missiles and also get super missiles.