If you’ve been hankerin’ to become a master of wizzing then Quickshot’s got the product for you.

The trick to wizzing comfortably is to have no wires to get tangled up in. Thankfully this Wizmaster comes complete with wireless receiver and wireless controller allowing you to wiz in any room in the entire house now!

Sometimes I have a few friends over so there’ll be multiple wizzes operating at the same time. It’s incredible, really – there’s no sign of interference from one wiz to another!

Unfortunately it’s limited to one console, so you can only wiz on the NES at the moment.

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Everyone’s favourite cautionary fable used by school teachers across the globe is now available on an 8-bit cartridge!

BreakThru is the high-octane sequel to The Adventures of Bayou Billy, and it picks up where Bayou Billy left off, with players passed out on the floor after blowing in the cartridge for ten unrelenting minutes.

But once players get that new 72-pin connector installed, it becomes clear what BreakThru is: Billy’s Sunday drive away from the dangers of the bayou in his tricked-out jeep. To pilot this machine, players make use of the directional pad in order to move around the screen, the ‘B’ button to shoot’, and ‘A’ button to initiate hydraulics.

This time around players will have to look out for landmines, falling rocks, and an impenetrable rock wall that appears halfway through the first level, making it impossible to continue living and advance in the level.

Not so much a game as it is a metaphor for life.

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Fasten your seatbelts and put your baby in the glove box – it’s time for the journey of a lifetime!

Battletoads are back following their two hit sequels (Battle Baseball and Battle Formula). This time they’ve dropped the baseball playing and being automobiles to become fighting toads again. It’s good to see the developers return to the roots of the franchise.

They’re joined by Double Dragon – two of the most lethal homosexuals to ever don jean jackets and passionately kiss each other.

You’re given the choice of selecting one of the three ‘toads, or one of the two dragons. My personal favorites are Zit from Battletoads and Rupert from Double Dragon.

The game’s difficulty is pretty steep, requiring that you learn both “Punch” and “Kick.”  It didn’t come with a manual so I spent an entire morning pressing ‘Power’ and ‘Reset’ trying to fight off foes before I realized the controller was necessary.

Overall it’s a decent beat-em-up, it’s just a shame there wasn’t room for Raphael, he’s my favorite Battletoad.

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…Definitely a video game!

Burai Fighter – the lesser-known prequel to the popular Pit Fighter – was the first and last release by Tito Jackson Interactive LLC before the franchise was sold to Konami for a muffin and one page from a newspaper.

In the loosest sense of the word, Burai Fighter is also a game: there are images on screen and one of those images often corresponds to ‘input’ from the player’s ‘Nintendo Entertainment System keypad’.

Unfortunately, the only peripheral I have is the Nintendo Power Pad, so I may have missed out on part of the experience – such as being able to move ‘left’ and ‘right’ or ‘at all’.

Unlike most games at the time, Burai Fighter encourages players to select which bird they would like to play with. This feature wouldn’t be seen again until later tonight when I go to bed.

Valuable addition to the shooting man genre.

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The largest collection of Bomberman titles outside of a shelf full of Bomberman titles.

If you love Bomberman and/or collecting things, you’re in for a treat today.

As soon as I hit ‘Start’ I knew this was going to be the experience of a lifetime. There was an energy – a positive vibe – coming from the controller. The floor model RCA looked a little brighter, the shag carpet a little less covered in Kool-Aid stains. This was something special.

Level one loaded and I saw the first map – it was gorgeous. The colors were so vibrant, the atmosphere was perfect.

Then I got blown up.

So I started again.

And got blown up again.

Then I held the ‘Left’ button the d-pad, and I seemed to avoid being blown up briefly, but eventually blew up.

It was everything I’d hoped for. Bomberman lived up to its name – I was being bombed, and today I became a man.

A Bomber Man.

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This ain’t your Grand Pappy’s caveman platformer!

With Bonk’s Adventure, the developers of the game set out to take the size of an NES character’s head to the absolute limit – and they did just that.

Scored primarily on head size, Bonk is a 10/10 – no question. Look at the size of that head. It’s enormous.

Aside from the lead character having a large head, there are also the underpinnings of a “Video Game” included on the cart. After daisy-chaining several Game Genies I was able to find a code to allow me to move from side to side in a fashion not unlike a human being.

Overall it’s a decent effort in the large-head genre.

Item was shipped later than expected and package was damaged upon arrival – would not buy from again. Overall experience: F

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