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This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on August 17th, 2019. Hello, and welcome to PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is a weekly review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! Continuing with another cute puzzle game after last week’s No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! , today I’m reviewing Tsumu . Tsumu was developed and produced by Hect in 1998. It was only released in Japan. Hect also worked on games such as Riot Stars , Square Deal , Formation Z , and Moon Crystal along with some shogi, pachinko, and baseball games. I don’t know much Japanese, so all I know is that Tsumu is a game about a hamster with forklift parts pushing televisions around to form pictures. It’s basically a 3D version of Boxxle . The word “tsumu” is the verb for stacking in Japanese, so that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise if you know the language. Those weird Tsum Tsum toys ar...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on August 10th, 2019. Hello, and welcome to PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is a weekly review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! This week I have a game I’ve been meaning to play and review for around a month now. Our long moving process really pushed this back, though. This week, it’s another Artdink game, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! This game was released in 1998 in Japan (January), Europe (September), and North America (October) published by Artdink, JVC Digital Studios, and Acclaim respectively. It’s an action-puzzler runner, a genre that was a thing in Japan around this time with other games like Pepsiman and Oh No! How will this domino fall? Each region has its own unique cover art for No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! Japan had Mr. Domino running with a motion blur on a deep blue backgro...