PSP Emulations: Garou-Mark of The Wolves (Review)

Garou-Mark of The Wolves is another Neo Geo title, which I believe comes from the same family as Fatal Fury. Its falls on the 2d fighting genre and ranks high up there with the King Of Fighters series.

The characters animation and design are well done and the scenery on where the fights take place is not left behind. This is a one on one fight against your human opponent via ad hock, or just against the CPU.

Accumulate power and perform a 1 or 2 level devastating move on your opponent. Set you T.O.P. either at be beginning, middle or end of your health bar to do more damage when you are at that level of health power.

I really recommend playing this game to all players who enjoy fighting games and are also King Of Fighters fans.

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PSP: Gottlieb Pinball Classics (Review)

Gottlieb Pinball Classics is definitely entertaining, but really bad with the info. I am not interested on history of the pinball title and other specs. All I really want is kick ass and get a super high score and earn credits!

I was never a good pinball player at the arcade. In fact, I can remember playing them only a few times in my entire life. This game got my interest because I had lack the experience to play the real thing.

There are 11 tables here, and most very interesting except the ones that don’t seem like games. For example, Love Meter or Xolten, what a waste of time and credits!!. Some machines are super challenging and hard to earn credits on. I have always thought that pinball machines are games of little skill required and big in the luck factor department.

As you play the game and get high scores, you earn credits and free plays on other pinball machines. The main goal is to unlock all the pinball machines.

Ps. Little secret spoiler: I found out that the machine more rewarding and easy to earn credits on is Big Shot. Good luck!!

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PSP: Dinner Dash (Review)

This is another game that falls into the puzzle genre. Dinner Dash is really good and entertaining. Thou I must warn you! You have to be really fast with those fingers to keep up with the game.

I could understand that sometimes a small diner might just need 2 persons: the cook and the waitress, but with the clients building up, you will need more employees to help out with the costumers. Not in this game, it doesn’t work like that. Good luck trying to serve 50 + people in a work’s shift and you are the waitress Flo, who will take full responsibilities of all the costumers coming in and leaving the dinner.

The object of the game is to earn as much as possible in a day’s work. The happiest the costumer, the better they tip. With Flo running around getting the food, mopping the floor, serving drinks, giving the check, cleaning the tables, getting the baby’s chair, and other tasks, it could be quite overwhelming, but not impossible.

Overall this game ranks high, as opposed to other puzzle games I have seen for the PSP. I hope you enjoy it as much I have.

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PSP Emulations: King Of Fighters 2003 (Review)

KOF 2003 is an excellent game in the fighting genre. If you never heard of the King Of Fighters series before, this game might not be for you, but all of us that have been playing this series since it first came out in arcades back in 1994, it is still going strong, or at least for me it is.

Interesting to see this game is not out for sale for the PSP, instead it is an Emulation which the PSP can do wonderfully. Well, I mean a PSP with Homebrew enable.

The basics of this game is to win matches against your opponents, it is a 3 on 3 battle. Skill plays a big role in this game because you need to execute special moves and deadly special moves to have an advantage over your opponent. There is a big list of characters to choose from, each with their own signature special moves. Getting to the last boss of the game might be easy. But beating him might not be. Good luck trying hehe!!

I love King Of Fighters series. Used to be that the tournament would be held every year and so more characters would be added than omitted, and the list kept growing and growing.

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PSP: Ultimate Block Party (Review)

As the title suggest it’s a block party. Good enjoyable game in the puzzle genre. I am definitely please with its performance and great invention by the creators (Conspiracy Entertainment). I love the colorful atmosphere and the play basics of it. The characters are interesting and kinda goofy looking, but in a good way. Hehe.

The fun really starts when you play the arcade game and play against all the characters and the final boss. The concept of the game is to line up blocks of the same color(at least 4 of the same), as long as they are next to each other they will disappear and so as time passes new blocks will appear from the bottom of the screen. The game will be over if the blocks reach the top when new blocks would want to appear from the bottom again. The 2 by 2 cursor will let you shift blocks clock wise and counter clock wise.

There are other rules that apply to this game, like for example, the arrow blocks that are activated when again when you make 4 blocks touch including the arrow block and wherever the arrow is pointing the blocks that are being pointed will turn the same color, making a bigger chain and attacking your opponent.

Overall this is a great puzzle game that is sure to be entertaining for every PSP puzzle gamer out there. I certainly recommend it.

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PSP: Echochrome (Review)

Don’t know the meaning of the word Echochrome, but the PSP game Echochrome is really out of the ordinary when it comes to puzzles games.

If you love thinking games, this will definitely bring you happiness. As for me, it is a good game when I am on the back seat of the car driving away for a day of picnic. I can’t say I am a puzzle gamer, but this definitely was one of my likings. These are my reasons for saying so:

1. The graphics are not state of the art, and don’t need to be, because it focuses more on how your brain works.
2. The sound of the woman emits an echo, and makes you me think we are the watchers and above all characters.
3. Not many games have the concept of instead of controlling a character in an environment; you control the environment and not the character.

Game play goal is for you to control the environment; connect the character with the right path, and follow the rule of “what you see becomes truth”.

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PSP Game Developer Dark Alex

Need to modified your PSP? Install custom firmware? Homebrew enabler?

You can find that and more at the below website.



Find out the true gaming potential of the PSP. Run emulators and more...Thank you Dark Alex!!!

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