Gamertell

On November 1, 2009, Hello Kitty celebrates her 35th birthday. Funny, she doesn’t look that old. It’s also her twin sister Mimmy’s birthday too, but she’s not the famous one so nobody really cares about her. She’s just part of the entourage. Anyways, in honor of Hello Kitty’s 35th, Important… Continue Reading »

Namco Bandai’s Tales of series hasn’t been developed in North America, Europe and other regions the way it has in Japan. We’ve never seen any of the DS entries (Tales of Tempest/Tales of Innocence/Tales of Hearts), didn’t catch the Game Boy Advance Narikiri Dungeon or Summoner’s Lineage spin-offs and weren’t… Continue Reading »

Today is one of those special days. It’s September 9, 2009. Seems ordinary enough, unless you look at it like this: 9/9/09. People are throwing special parties, the movie 9 opens in theaters today, Apple’s releasing the Beatles’ music catalog digitally today, Beatles Rock Band debuts and a select number… Continue Reading »

The Harvest Moon games are something special. They’ve developed a devoted cult following, which people who have never experienced the games may not understand. Especially since, on the surface, each game seems to be pretty much the same. Natsume obviously gets it, as the series is probably it’s best known… Continue Reading »

When manga or anime series become popular, they’re almost guaranteed a video game release. When a series is incredibly popular, they’ll spawn multiple games. Since many of these series don’t achieve the same level of recognition outside of Japan, this means that people in other regions of the world will… Continue Reading »

When you look back on a one of your favorite games from the past, fondness and memories are bound to make it seem better than it really was. Thankfully, that’s only partially true for Angel Collection a Japanese Game Boy Advance game for girls that was one of the first… Continue Reading »

Many people get caught up with the region-free DS and PSP games, but often forget that Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games are region-free as well. Since the DS is backwards compatible with GBA games, that means a whole extra library of import games is available.… Continue Reading »

Even if you think you know nothing about bit Generations, those who have played the recent Art Style games through WiiWare have already been introduced to the series. Nintendo has taken inspiration from those earlier games and retooled/recycled them as Art Style WiiWare and DSiWare games. The original bit Generations… Continue Reading »

Those of us with an original DS or DS lite have probably been focusing solely on DS games lately. It’s understandable. It seems like there’s are at least five new, great games released for the DS each month. But the GBA slot deserves some appreciation as well. After all, the… Continue Reading »

If you didn’t play the original Lunar any of the three times it was already released in North America, you’re in luck. There’s a very good chance that it could be coming to your PSP very soon. A Japanese enhanced port of Lunar: The Silver Star, being called Lunar: Harmony… Continue Reading »