• Dog Witch Header
    2020s,  Bakage,  Review

    Review – Dog Witch

    Appropriately, Dog Witch is about a dog that is also a witch. You face off against a wizard, which is just the more socially acceptable magic user. It's time to show them that withholding treats from a good boy is absolutely unacceptable.

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    1990s,  Arcade,  Bakage,  Review

    Review – Cool Riders

    If you don’t look too closely, it looks like a bunch of thrown-together digitized sprites trying hard to look cool. Like Pit Fighter; exactly like Pit Fighter. But upon closer inspection, you realize that it isn’t just some ill-advised, thrown-together racing game. It knows exactly what it is. I still do not know what chaotic ritual conjured this game, but…

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    1980s,  Arcade,  Bakage,  Review

    Review – Ben Bero Beh

    I have a confession to make: I’m attracted to weird Japanese arcade games. There’s a word for it: Bakage (Ba-kah-gey, not ba-cage). It means stupid game. It’s not to be mistaken for kusoge (koo-so-gey) which means crappy game. I have made the mistake before, but merely because I didn’t know there was a name for bizarre games. 1984’s Ben Bero…