EfreetEater

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on December 29th, 2018. It has been edited slightly for formatting. Greetings readers. This is the last PlayStation Basement for 2018. Since September and continuing for the foreseeable future I will continue reviewing an overlooked or odd game for the original PlayStation every Saturday. As always, I’ll be using a nine-point scale where 9-7 is Good, 6-4 is Neutral, and 3-1 is Bad. Today’s game is Incredible Crisis  by Polygon Magic, a developer that was mostly focused in the Japanese market but did create some games for North America including Vs.  and Galerians . The game was published by Takuma Shoten in Japan on June 24 th , 1999 and in North America by Titus Software in November of 2000. Incredible Crisis  is about members of a family going home from each of their days out to celebrate the children’s grandmother’s birthday. Wacky hijinks commence for each of these people, ...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on December 22nd, 2018. It has been edited slightly for formatting. Brrr, it sure is chilly these days for the most of North America. I went out a bit, but there’s always some time for the PlayStation Basement. Every Saturday, I’ll be reviewing an overlooked or odd game for the original PlayStation. As always, I’ll be using a nine-point scale where 9-7 is Good, 6-4 is Neutral, and 3-1 is Bad. Have you finished your holiday shopping? I just did some last minute shopping today after rethinking some things. It sure was busy at the stores I went to, even though two of those were small businesses in my city. While I did not go to a mall, today’s game is about one. This is Board Game: Top Shop , another A1 Games budget game like the previously reviewed Crossroad Crisis . Like many games in A1 Games’s short series, this game includes the genre in the name and was, in its second release on PlayStatio...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on December 15th, 2018. It has been edited slightly for formatting. It’s raining today in Pittsburgh, as it usually does. Thankfully we can be inside for the PlayStation Basement. Every Saturday, I’ll be reviewing an overlooked or odd game for the original PlayStation. As always, I’ll be using a nine-point scale where 9-7 is Good, 6-4 is Neutral, and 3-1 is Bad. Today, December 15th, is the first day for the NLL, the National Lacrosse League. NLL is the men’s professional box lacrosse (indoor lacrosse) league. I’d guess most of you don’t know much about lacrosse (I didn’t either before I did some research), but once upon a time, that time being May 23rd, 2001, the NLL had a video game – Blast Lacrosse . It was developed by Sandbox Interactive and published by Acclaim. Sandbox only seems to have developed licensed titles for children’s properties, and, well, we all know Acclaim for better or wo...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on December 8th, 2018. It has been edited slightly for formatting. Welcome back to PlayStation Basement, a weekly series happening every Saturday and dedicated to reviewing odd or obscure games for the original Sony PlayStation. As always, I’ll be using a nine-point scale where 7-9 is Good, 6-4 is Neutral, and 3-1 is Bad. Since we are nearing the holidays, a time when people often visit their families, let’s talk about a game about a chicken following a road to get home –  Crossroad Crisis . Originally titled Chiki Chiki Chicken , the game was developed and published by Success in the year 2000 in Japan as part of the SuperLite 1500 Series (so named for their low price point in yen); the title was brought to North America the following year by A1 Games, who published many other SuperLite 1500 and Simple 1500 games in a similar budget style with often generic names. The cover ar...