Asteroids (Atari 2600) - Review

 Welcome to the dawn of the video game, from the early days of the home video game market, when the Odyssey tried and failed to come up with it's screen covering technology and having just a paddle and a ball on the screen, to Pong consoles galore, which was just tennis and added and adapted to who knows what and where, and still goes on with it's adaptations to the modern day, until finally, we reach the pinnacle of the Pre-Burst Bubble Video Game monolith that was the Atari 2600, which both shot gaming into the stratosphere, and also sent the Video Game crash that nearly killed the entire industry were it not for Nintendo.

One of the best games, one that continues to be ported to every Atari flashback console and who knows what else, one that continues to stick out even amongst those favorites, is that of an Arcade Port, one that sticks out from how the colors flash against the black screen.

That of the simple Spaceship Blaster known only as Asteroids, and it's simply colored rocks, which controlled like you were in butter, rather than space.

Score - 2045

Block Block - Review

 I need to stop finding ways to play random games, especially given the fact I do have a big game I want to talk about for once, and yet, I find myself stumbling right back into the odd reworkings of the game of Breakout.

This time however, the levels are far more challenging than normal breakout, even compared to Alleyway. In fact, to explain Block Block, would be that someone took the ideas from Alleyway and turned them into their own version, expanding upon sort of puzzle-like elements to solve and break blocks in order to clear levels, and for a time waster, it is a fantastic way to do so.

If you are playing it on one of the Capcom collections, two rules however. Don't care about Score, and keep the rewind button at the ready, because the shrinking paddle mechanic is one of the most annoying bits of the game, the fact you need to collect fruit to keep your paddle grown to easily catch the ball.