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Review #12129 Trivial Pursuit A true digital bored game. I mean, board game. Sega CD 1994 Virgin Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game F 53 / 100 Not Bad, but Flawed Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 3 / 5 Gameplay Other than slow loading times, this is a great digital version of the board game. It shows a picture with each question and then reads the question to you. You don't have to type in an answer like on Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune. Instead, you just choose whether or not the player gave the right answer. Again, the slow load times are my only complaint. 2 / 5 Level Design There are no configuration options. No difficulties to choose, for example. Just choose the number of players and jump into a game. Actually, you can choose between ...

Review #12120 Star Wars Chess Come for the animations, leave for the laggy controls Sega CD 1994 The Software Toolworks Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 30 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay It's chess. Yes, it's got some great animations showing Yoda tossing Boba Fett like a ragdoll, R2-D2 shortcircuiting an AT-ST, and Darth Vader impaling Chewy, but it's just a game of chess. And one with long load times and inexplicably bad digital controls. I mean seriously, how do you mess up the controls in chess? Software Toolworks found a way, but giving a second or more of lag when making a directional move around the board. It's the weirdest thing. Tap in any direction and you can feel the lag, but tap several times in rapid succession and expe...

Review #11102 Shanghai III: Dragon's Eye How to not win at a puzzle game PCE CD 1992 ASK Kodansha Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 36 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Same game as its predecessors, with one important improvement - the option to shuffle the remaining pieces. This ensures that all games can be finished. 2 / 5 Level Design Lots of tiles and layouts. None good but whatever 0 / 5 Theme Boring Chinese game. No personality. Just a static board 1 / 5 Art Style Incredibly pixelated, boring artwork with nothing but a board and tiles. You can turn on a background picture of a river with a bridge over it but there's only the one backg...

Review #11101 Shanghai II How to not win at a puzzle game PCE CD 1990 Hudson Soft Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 24 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay Move a cursor, pick matching tiles to remove them, but only if one of the sides of the tiles is free. Uggh, Mahjong is the dumbest game ever. Imagine playing a board game where 90+% of the time you cannot win. Unable to select only winnable boards, like in the Genesis version. This makes the game not worth playing imo. There's something therapeutic about clearing a board. It's aggravating most of the time but there's satisfaction in finishing something. 2 / 5 Level Design Lots of tiles and layouts. None good but whatever 0...

Review #8124 Shanghai How to not win at a puzzle game PCE 1987 Hudson Soft Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 19 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay Move a cursor, pick matching tiles to remove them, but only if one of the sides of the tiles is free. Uggh, Mahjong is the dumbest game ever. Imagine playing a board game where 90+% of the time you cannot win. There's something therapeutic about clearing a board. It's aggravating most of the time but there's satisfaction in finishing something. 1 / 5 Level Design Only a handful of boards to choose from. No configuration settings. 0 / 5 Theme Boring Chinese game. No personality. Just a static board ...

Review #6065 Puzzle & Action - Ichidanto-R WarioWare as a party game - in medieval England MD 1995 Sega Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game G 40 / 100 Bad Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Plays exactly the same as its prequel. A bunch of minigames, like a multiplayer WarioWare. 2 / 5 Level Design It's an endless series of minigames. The gameplay loop is somewhat like Mario Party, such that you stop a 4 sided dice to select between four randomly offered games. This allows you to see repeats or even avoid those you don't like. The games themselves are quite juvenile, seemingly aimed at a very young audience. I lost interest before long. 2 / 5 Theme Modern-day setting. The cutesy characters ar...

Review #6066 Puzzle & Action - Tanto-R WarioWare as a party game MD 1994 Sega Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game G 40 / 100 Bad Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Seems intended to be a 2-4P party game. It's a series of one button minigames that range from QTE games, to memory, to spot the difference puzzles. Each game is explained by Japanese text, but most are understandable without the explanation. They're simple but not frequent enough, which is the main drawback when compared to something like WarioWare. 2 / 5 Level Design It's an endless series of minigames. The gameplay loop is somewhat like Mario Party, such that you stop a 4 sided dice to select between four randomly offered games. This allows you to see repeats ...

Review #6019 Dragon's Eye Plus - Shanghai III How to not win at a puzzle game MD 1991 Home Data Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 32 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Same game as its predecessors, with one important improvement - the option to shuffle the remaining pieces. This ensures that all games can be finished. 2 / 5 Level Design Lots of tiles and layouts. None good but whatever 0 / 5 Theme Boring Chinese game. No personality. Just a static board 1 / 5 Art Style Incredibly pixelated, boring artwork with nothing but a board and tiles. You can turn on a background picture of a river with a bridge over it but there's only the one backgro...

Review #4561 Super Battleship At least Classic is playable on this version Genesis 1993 Mindscape Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 17 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay Classic Battleship and Super Battleship. The prior is exactly what you'd expect, for better or worse. Incredibly simple with no frills whatsoever. Actually, the one good thing is that you get to fire three shots per turn instead of one which dramatically speeds up the game. Plays a bit faster than the SNES version. The latter is a very lite naval strategy game with horrible controls and no ability to try anything out or back out of a decision. You better not make a false step or you're dead. Not even obvious what each button does. 1 / 5 ...

Review #4506 Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye How to not win at a puzzle game Genesis 1994 Activision Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 32 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Move a cursor, pick matching tiles to remove them, but only if one of the sides of the tiles is free. Uggh, Mahjong is the dumbest game ever. Imagine playing a board game where 90+% of the time you cannot win. Thankfully you can select only winnable boards. There's something therapeutic about clearing a board. It's aggravating most of the time but there's satisfaction in finishing something. 2 / 5 Level Design Lots of tiles and layouts. None good but whatever 0 / 5 Theme Boring Chinese game. No person...

Review #4476 Risk I wish I was playing Lux Deluxe Genesis 1994 Parker Brothers Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 17 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay I mean, it's Risk. The inputs are super laggy. You have to wait a second or two longer than you think you should before being able to select a menu item or a country. It's annoying. The one gimmick is an "arcade" mode where instead of just rolling dice during battles you instead aim and fire cannons at the other army. It's...a thing, I suppose. Aiming is impreceise and dumb so you just need to time your shots as the enemy moves across the screen. Not only does this make battles significantly longer, it's also not fun in any way, so I turned it off after a couple of...

Review #4360 Monopoly Missing the best Monopoly feature - variant rules Genesis 1992 Parker Brothers Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 21 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay This is the dumbest, most RNG heavy board game of all time. Digitizing it has not added a shred of charm to it's boring nature. Press A to roll. Over. And over. And over. 1 / 5 Level Design What levels? 2 / 5 Theme The animations are ok but don't add much to the experience. 1 / 5 Art Style Very simple. NES+ graphics 1 / 5 Audio Simple, short sound files play after each turn. Quality is poor and they play in stereo sound, b...

Review #4112 Clue Or you could play the board game Genesis 1992 Parker Brothers Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 26 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay No explanation or help. You need prior knowledge of how to play the game. At least everything moved quickly. There's limited loading times. Plays faster than Mario Party. Not my favorite board game. Playing the computer is pretty pointless since it knows everything. And playing other players is equally pointless since everyone can see your cards. Why was this made into a video game? 1 / 5 Level Design It's randomly generated but the board never changes. 3 / 5 Theme The animations and music are fun to experience. Fun stuff ...

Review #552 Super Battleship Almost as good as that awful 2012 film SNES 1993 Mindscape Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 7 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 0 / 5 Gameplay Classic Battleship and Super Battleship. Classic is exactly what you'd expect, for better or worse. Incredibly simple with no frills whatsoever. You don't even get the various difficulty levels available in the Genesis version. And your smallest ship is a single tile so finding it is a complete crapshoot. Not cool The latter is a very lite naval strategy game with horrible controls and no ability to try anything out or back out of a decision. You better not make a false step or you're dead. Not even obvious what each button does. 1 / 5 Level ...

Review #487 Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye How to not win at a puzzle game SNES 1992 Activision Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 22 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay Move a cursor, pick matching tiles to remove them, but only if one of the sides of the tiles is free. Uggh, Mahjong is the dumbest game ever. Imagine playing a board game where 90+% of the time you cannot win. Unable to select only winnable boards, like in the Genesis version. This makes the game not worth playing imo. There's something therapeutic about clearing a board. It's aggravating most of the time but there's satisfaction in finishing something. 2 / 5 Level Design Lots of tiles and layouts. None good but whatever ...

Review #348 Monopoly Missing the best Monopoly feature - variant rules SNES 1992 Parker Brothers Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game X 21 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay This is the dumbest, most RNG heavy board game of all time. Digitizing it has not added a shred of charm to it's boring nature. Press A to roll. Over. And over. And over. 1 / 5 Level Design What levels? 2 / 5 Theme The animations are ok but don't add much to the experience. 1 / 5 Art Style Very simple. NES+ graphics 1 / 5 Audio Simple, short sound files play after each turn. More SNES reviews Browse all r...

Review #115 Clue Or you could play the board game SNES 1992 Parker Brothers Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game H 26 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay No explanation or help. You need prior knowledge of how to play the game. At least everything moved quickly. There's limited loading times. Plays faster than Mario Party. Not my favorite board game. Playing the computer is pretty pointless since it knows everything. And playing other players is equally pointless since everyone can see your cards. Why was this made into a video game? 1 / 5 Level Design It's randomly generated but the board never changes. 3 / 5 Theme The animations and music are fun to experience. Fun stuff ...

Review #105 Chessmaster, The The King's game SNES 1991 Mindscape Tabletop Tabletop › Board Game G 43 / 100 Bad Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay It's chess. While in 3D the view is so askew that it's hard to grab the piece ahead of another one. Would be more fun to play 2 player. 3 / 5 Level Design Quite a few settings to adjust on the pause menu. Difficult levels, change view to 2D or war room, and chess sets. There's only the one chess board tho. 2 / 5 Theme Not much ambiance. It's just a chess board 2 / 5 Art Style Very basic. 1 / 5 Audio Uggh. The music is horrible and the only sound is a fanfare th...