Game Sack

I've looked at the 8-bit Castlevanias, the 16-bit Castlevanias, and the 2D Metroidvanias. Time to finish this up with the rest of the Castlevania franchise!

Let's check out some more games that more people need to be playing!

Some popular games have sequels that sometimes fly under the radar, so let's check a few of them out!

The Evercade is a handheld device that plays dedicated cartridges, and the $130 Evercade VS is a stand-alone console that lives connected to your display. There's also a $100 version that comes with only one controller and only the Technos cartridge. So let's see how this thing works!

Sega's very first home console never came to North America and it only saw limited release in Europe. How does it stack up? Let's take a look at the console as well as every game released for it!

It's time for me to take my first dedicated look at Nintendo's Wii, a console which sold over a million units! Wow!

Taito has a new miniature arcade cabinet featuring a bunch of their arcade games that play in a crazy roTATEing screen!

New consoles used to mean "out with the old in with the new" when it came to the styles of games they played. but these days that's just not the case and 2D games are quite prevalent in the gaming landscape. This is a good thing. So let's check out some of these games.

Let's look at the last officially released games for a bunch more consoles.

It's Left in Japan 14, but with a twist! This time let's look at games with IPs that originated in the West that we didn't get to play because they were only released in Japan.

Old consoles are still coming out with brand new games physically. Let's take a look at several.

Sometimes they make minor changes when bringing games to the west from Japan... and something they make pretty big changes. Let's check out some of those changes which I find interesting.

Anyone remember that oooold console called the Xbox 360? You must be 90+ years old if you do. Well let's look at the console and a bunch of games I find interesting, listening to the 5.1 surround sound that many of these games natively provided!

The Neo Geo was an interesting arcade and home system that was very expensive, and the games weren't cheap either! So let's take a look at every game officially released in its lifetime, all played on real Neo Geo hardware!

Here's a review of the new 2D beat 'em up for modern consoles from Bitmap Bureau and Numskull Games.

Time to check out some more games that might make you think the console is less capable than it really is, if you didn't know any better.

Ports to home consoles from the arcade often require great sacrifices due to hardware limitations. what was lost and which version holds up the best? Let's find out!

This episode focuses on controversial publisher/localizer Working Designs and all of the games they released here in North America. Check out some addendums in the pinned comment.

More new releases for these ancient game systems that you can physically buy. How are they? Let's see!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is quite the enduring franchise, and it spawned a ton of different videogames for about every platform you can imagine. So let's take a look at a bunch of the games released on various consoles and handhelds.

D&D aficionado and all around cool guy Pat Kilbane (MadTV, Evolution, The Dreams in Gary's Basement, etc) shows up to discuss how faithful a few games are to the Dungeons & Dragons world while videogame aficionado and all around bore-fest Joe (Game Sack, etc) evaluates if they are decent videogames or not.

Ever wonder what difference the Expansion Pak makes in certain games? Well let's look at the changes it makes to each game that uses it.

Let's look at some new(ish) community hacks for some of your favorite (and perhaps no so favorite) games and as well as some community homebrew which is new software made mostly from the ground up, and offered for free. I love seeing what fans come up with.

Time to look at some more games that were never released outside of Japan. Once again we'll be looking at games that featured Western IPs that for some reason stayed in Japan.

Sega recently released the Genesis Mini 2 and Mega Drive Mini 2 in their respective regions. 61 games are on this thing so let's see how it is.

The Sega CD had a lot of good games and a lot of bad ones as well. 145 games were released in the North American region, so let's look at each and every one of them!

Sometimes games get made but don't get released. Or at least partially made. Or partially localized for release in this language that I'm typing this in right now. Let's look at some more of these games!

2D gaming will never die, nor is it in any kind of danger with tons of 2D games coming out every year. Let's take a look at some choice titles!

More games that we could only play in an arcade and were never blessed with being officially ported to a home platform. Thankfully there's always ways to play this stuff at home these days via emulation.