Video Game Micro-Reviews: Viewer's Requests!

Not only was I too lazy to do a real review, I was too lazy to pick out what games to review myself.  So I asked both my private Facebook (friends only, unless you post that you're a fan) and my Twitter followers what five games they'd like to see Micro-Reviewed, i.e. a single sentence review for a title.  I'll probably do more of these in the future, because most of them have been reviewed so much, they're not worth multiple paragraphs.

"Raven" requested Super Pac-Man, which is available on a ton of compilations, but I felt the need to say something about it:


It's not very Super when you compare it to the superior Pac game of the golden era, Ms. Pac-Man.





Next, former GGP colleague Chris "@taitaisanchez" Deguzman requested the US-born stepchild of the Sega Genesis Sonic games, Sonic Spinball, available on the Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection for PS360.



If someone made a game out of Sonic 2's Casino Night Zone, added more bumpers, and threw in a bunch of the characters from the Sonic comic by Archie, you'd get a challenging but fair-quality pinball/action hybrid.






"Lance" was actually the first to respond to my request for requests, and gets two of his suggestions on the table.  The first is the Dreamcast's Bangai-O.


Insane fast-paced 2D shmup' that lives up to the hype of both players and critics, and Treasure's reputation.

He also requested Conquest Of The Crystal Palace for NES:




Action side-scroller developed by Quest and reminiscent of Alex Kidd, only with more substance and without fear of being "too Asian"!





Finally, Derek "Lucifer, The Black Angel Of Horseflies And Death" Cowan must have been looking through my darkest fears, because he wanted to see my one-sentence opinion on Wall Street Kid.  Derek, you've either unleashed Pandora's Box or did me a huge service:

I'm not exaggerating when I say that this poorly executed lesson in economics is the worst game I've ever played, and I've played E.T. on 2600 PLUS several 8-bit Taiwanese knockoffs of Street Fighter!

  

Well, cat's out of the bag as to my most hated game of all time... so I guess it's time to wrap this up.  If you want to see more micro-reviews, follow me on the Twitter, and submit your suggestions.