Poor, poor Tofu. We didn’t mean to make a slice of toast with legs. But you’re here now, and you’re our responsibility. Such is the life of the Wobbledogs.
Category: Gaming
Unlock with PatreonWobbledogs | Learning the basics and making Gex
Wobbledogs was our most anticipated game of 2021. We’ve been following Tom Astle’s dev logs for half a decade, and now it’s finally here! So let’s wibble and wobble some dogs!
102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue | Licensed Landfill
102 Dalmatians was an awful snoozer of a film, so how is the video game based on it so frickin’ fun? This might be one of the best Disney licensed games period. Maybe that’s just because it’s an obvious Spyro ripoff.
- Another great 101 Dalmatians game: 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor is too scary for puppies | Crunchmaster 98
- Will wrote a whole essay about that one, actually: 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor haunts me to this day
- More obscure Disney dogs: RETRO: Fluppy Dogs, or, “They Can’t All Be Winners”
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101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor is too scary for puppies | Crunchmaster 98
Lurking deep within the Disney Vault is one of their more bizarre decisions in the gaming industry. Why did they make a survival horror point-and-click game, and why for 101 Dalmatians of all things? Eh, who cares, it’s really fun.
- Wanna read a whole essay about this game? 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor haunts me to this day
- Another scary point-and-click: Forestia is a NIGHTMARE | Crunchmaster 98
- Why does Disney keep doing this stuff? Nightmare Ned was Disney’s doomed dream
Gex: Enter the Gecko is so FUNNY it’s SCARY
Gex 2 was the perfect nightmare-filled game for us to play during the Halloween season, but we didn’t expect just how emotionally testing it would be.
Crystal Dynamics still owes us a response to our email.
- Our review of the official Gex website on the Wayback Machine: Wayback: Crystal Dynamics – Gex
- We also played ALL of Gex’s boyfriend’s games: The Bubsathon
- Dang, this guy talks a lot: Top 8 games that needed a verbosity slider
Limited Run’s Chex Quest Chex Warrior Edition was worth the wait
We. Love. Chex Quest. It’s one of the best games of all time. It’s certainly the best Doom game of all time. AND it came with a free box of cereal – you can’t beat that for a bargain! In the classic shooter community, Chex Quest has always had a tiny but dedicated core of fans who have clamored for years for more cereal-based shooter content.
Limited Run is a company of game merchandise makers that, by no small coincidence, caters to small fandoms by making fun feely packs with trinkets and shirts and fun things like that. And wow, they made a CHEX QUEST BOX! Real Chex Quest merch for real Chex Quest fans! It was an instant buy, even if it cost 150 dollars. And so, in April of 2020, we placed our order the second we saw it. It was our little quarantine gift to ourselves. It would be worth it.
And so we waited. And waited. Just like how we were waiting for quarantine to end.
Our order did not arrive until January of 2021. Nine months later. We know it was a pre-order, we know there was a Dang Pandemic on, but oh man, that’s a long time to wait. We were almost at the point of giving up completely on this ever arriving when we finally got the notification it had shipped. Now it’s here, and has cemented us as Real Chex Quest fans. So why not go over it, and take a look at everything that came in it?
(more…)Forestia is a NIGHTMARE | Crunchmaster 98
Forestia is fun, educational, engaging for kids, and also has quite possibly one of the worst literal nightmare sequences ever committed to CD-ROM. So uh, thanks for that, I guess.
Half-Life Cringe Compilation – the full box set
All of our Half-Life videos are now available for public viewing! That’s like, over 3 hours of content, daamn! Now including our Half-Life: Alyx playthrough, a fantastic voyage into virtual reality and eating inanimate objects. Give it a try if you don’t have anything better to do tonight!
Nightmare Ned was Disney’s doomed dream
If you were a kid in the 90s playing CD-ROM games, you probably played at least one Disney Interactive game. For kids learning how to use the computer, Disney games were the best of the best, the cream of the crop. 101 Dalmatians: Escape from Devil Manor, Disney’s Animated Storybook: Mulan, Disney’s The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Undersea Adventure, you name it. All your favorite Disney franchises, right on your desktop!
Oh, and Nightmare Ned. You remember him, right? That great beloved Disney franchise? … No?
Nightmare Ned was a platformer game released sometime in late 1997 (it’s difficult to get an exact date, due to vague distribution of PC games at the time). It was, as far as I know, the only Disney Interactive game to not be based directly on an established IP – it only had a single season of a cartoon that was made after the game began development, and by the time the game released, the show was no longer airing even in reruns. It was Disney’s one voyage into making ‘original’ video games, and it disappeared as quickly as it came.
So what even was it?
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