Slackur's Obscure Gaming Theatre
Slackur's Obscure Gaming Theatre: More Recent Under-The-Radar Goodies
Posted on Feb 18th 2018 at 01:00:00 PM by (slackur)
Posted under Obscure Oddities, uncommon, PS4, XBox One, Switch

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Well, this Dragon 32/64 game is certainly off everyone's radar, but I don't have a Dragon 32.  Or the Cassette Drive.  Or British.

Being in video game retail for so many years now, I can easily say one of my favorite parts of the job is finding and recommending obscure titles to customers who had no idea such games existed.  I love digging up and collecting gaming oddities myself, and every time I find a list of such titles I bookmark them to compile and search for later.  When I thought I'd have the time to keep it up, I originally started a forum to track these, but it turns out I can't get to it nearly often enough to keep it relevant. (Sorry!)

Hopefully I'm not alone here on this, so in that spirit here's another list for those interested: 


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Thoughts on Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Posted on Sep 15th 2017 at 12:00:00 PM by (slackur)
Posted under Bwaaaah, Mario, Rabbids, Switch, XCOM, Strategy, turn based, bwa bwa bwaaaaaah

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Pic from Nintendo.com and my 9 Year-Old's-imagination


Some creative mash-ups end up working so well they seem obvious in hindsight.  And then there are those that still don't make sense afterward, even if the end result is far greater than the some of the respective parts.  I don't know what is the bigger surprise, that Mario Plus Rabbids: Kingdom Battle even exists, or that it is easily among my favorite games this year.


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