By the Last Token Gaming Staff Last Token Gaming has been on fire starting the new year, with bigger goals, challenges and ideas. One of these is to bring back our “What We’re Playing This Week” article series, which lets you know what games we’re currently playing and what we might be working on next. […]
Tag Archives: Neo Geo
Top 6 Craziest Baseball Video Games
By Sean Willis and Marshall Garvey Ah, baseball. It’s a game that’s anachronistic in so many ways, with roots that can be traced to the years preceding the Civil War. Yet it’s also incredibly modern, with many teams utilizing mind-numbingly detailed mathematics and analysis (better known as sabermetrics) to figure out the science of winning […]
Foreign Favorites: Volume 3 – Japan Pickups Edition
By Michael Mygind This time around, I’ll be focusing on four games that I picked up while on vacation in Japan. Pop ‘n TwinBee (1993, Konami, Super Famicom) This shoot ‘em up (or shmup) is the sixth game in the TwinBee series, which are often referred to as “cute ‘em ups” for their cartoony style […]
Gaming in Translation (Part 3/3) – A Suitcase Full of Games
By Michael Mygind This past March, my wife and I were able to make a trip that I’ve wanted to make since I was little: Japan, the land of the rising sun, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and a ton of retro video games for the picking. This final installment of my little Japan recap will be […]
What We’re Playing This Week – February Farewell Edition
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Well, it’s been a bit since we’ve done one of these! February has been a busy month for Last Token Gaming, as we’ve been cooking up tons of ideas for the site’s future, as well as forthcoming reorganizations for the website’s layout. But we always make sure to have […]
Retro Review: “Windjammers” (1994, Data East, Neo Geo MVS)
By Michael Mygind Windjammers (or Flying Power Disk in Japan), published by Data East in 1994 for the NEO GEO MVS arcade, is basically air hockey with a Frisbee. The game has six selectable characters, each with their own strengths and skill levels. Each character represents a certain country, with most characters looking like hulking […]
Hall of Fame Review – Metal Slug (1996)
By Michael Mygind Publisher: SNK Platforms: Neo Geo Multi Video System (MVS Arcade), Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (AES Home Console), Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo X, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation (Japan only), Sony PlayStation 2/PSP/Nintendo Wii (Included in the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 and Metal Slug Anthology compilations on all three consoles), Nintendo […]