Game Sack - Games That Defy Genre

[Redifer]

This time we look at some hard to classify games (unless you want to be extremely vague and just call 'em an ACTION or PUZZLE or whatnot).

[o.pwuaioc]

Kirby's Dream Course and Balloon Fight are two of my favorites! Glad to see them get some air time: have you also checked out the Game Boy Balloon Kid?

[Redifer]

I haven't! I didn't know it existed until now.

[o.pwuaioc]

Too late for the show, but definitely worth looking into. It has always been one of my more favorite GB games.

[Hazerd]

Good show as usual guys, keep them coming!

[Metal Jesus]

Many times I have passed up a copy of Balloon Fight on NES thinking it looked lame or like shovelware... only to now kick myself. It looks fun as hell!

[ExedExes]

Nice games. I bought Kirby's Dream Course within months of its released after renting it.

Also, good job on the rendering - I recently got an LCD TV and my laptop has an HDMI out so I watch your episodes in 1080p on there and the footage from the newer consoles looks and sounds amazing.

[KDub]

Many times I have passed up a copy of Balloon Fight on NES thinking it looked lame or like shovelware... only to now kick myself. It looks fun as hell!

Balloon Fight is a must for the NES, a great launch title.

[SirPsycho]

Many times I have passed up a copy of Balloon Fight on NES thinking it looked lame or like shovelware... only to now kick myself. It looks fun as hell!

Man you've been missing out!

[Redifer]

Many times I have passed up a copy of Balloon Fight on NES thinking it looked lame or like shovelware... only to now kick myself. It looks fun as hell!

Interestingly I had similar thoughts. Dave picked Balloon Fight for this episode, wrote it up and recorded the footage. I hadn't read what he had to say about it nor looked at his footage before I played the Balloon Trip derivative on the Wii U. It was immensely fun. I wondered if it had anything to do with Balloon Fight and lo and behold it certainly did. So I wrote up a quick thing for the Wii U version to add to the show. Then Dave came down to make the episode and we recorded the two-player segments of Balloon Fight and it was awesomely fun. Gotta check out the GameBoy version, too as I've only been hearing good things.