There’s some pretty damn tenuous connections between the different Rainbow Road themes there. If you want a proper reference from a Mario Kart game harking back to the past, check out the frankly obscene bass playing on this ‘Music of Mario Kart 8’ video:

Done! 

In ‘games I have uninstalled due to them being too addictive’ news, I’m done with Into The Breah- it’s too good. I’ve had a selection of four-island wins with a variety of squads, so I can let it lie now.

I think I completely missed that in planecape: Torment, and I’ve played it three times. Perhaps a reason to revisit! If only they’d included The Nameless One or Dakkon in Soul Calibur VI as well as Geralt. Or indeed Morte.

I really wasn’t that impressed by Inside- like Limbo its just a series of unpleasant vignettes. Walk into a room, watch nasty thing happen to child. Try again until nasty thing doesn’t happen. Repeat in the next scene. Something even more horrible happens. Game ends.

ZSNES, anyone? Fixes everyone’s problems here.

Harsh. I don’t want to see Gameological go, and I think Matt’s been doing great, but it does seem to be a bit underfunded at the minute.

I played the original Secret of Mana on an emulator when I was a teenager, and liked it well enough, but I can’t see how adding cutscenes, voice acting, and 3D models that make it really explicit that you’re playing a 12-year-old boy with a sword are going to help it in any way.

Interesting one this- a project akin to re-engineering a classic car so it handles the same and looks the same, but also features a working heater, something to charge your phone with and decent fuel economy. You want to hear the roar of the engine, but also want to be able to listen to Radio 3 on the motorway. Sounds…

That’s the charming thing about the gifs- build one of these machines and you can see what it’s doing, but just look at the result and it resembles a mechanical beehive.

That TUI advert is horrible, not least because it’s part of the huge set of adverts with twee / overly emotive cover versions of songs overlaid. I assume everyone in marketing realised at nearly the same time that they could save on music royalties by paying someone to bastardise a song rather than paying for the…

You totally should! And I’m tempted to pick up SpaceChem now, this is the first Zachtronics game I’ve played.

I finished the main story of Opus Magnum, which I absolutely loved. I’ve not played an open-ended puzzle game like it before- whereas something like Portal has one or maybe two solutions that you have to work out, this gives you a set of inputs, a set of outputs, and the tools to string together any solution you…

It’s worth pointing out that “Big Daddy” was also the name of one of the few English professional wrestlers from a long-dead scene that people can name  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Crabtree .

Breitbart cons: lots of comments you won’t want to read

A hater of players; someone whose car is small, has insufficient money to spend on cognac, sells low quality drugs, and so on.

I have quit buying AAA Japanese RPGs, I just didn’t realise that Nier was one.

Congratulations, these are incredible.

Nier: Automata is also in my pile of shame, although if you’ve genuinely given a game a good try and not taken to it I think ‘shame’ is a bit strong. I played a fair bit, but it just didn’t click. When I got to the bit with the robots living in the forest and found there was a womanising (robotising?) robot called ‘Mr…

I mean… there’s a lot of button mashing. Quite a lot. In fact it’s basically all button mashing with the occasional dodge thrown in. It’s no Ninja Gaiden or God Hand, that’s for sure.