What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Halloween Racer (Miyoo Mini+)

August 3rd, 2025

I finished Halloween Racer yesterday! It had a charming theme and some nice fake-3D hills and valleys around the tracks, and I kind of liked the focus on checkpoints rather than flat out competition, too. It was more dull than challenging, though, and it must have been a chore for kids back in the day to run 18 races in one sitting on real hardware. Still, after clearing Expert cup, I was rewarded with one of the finest game completion screens I have ever seen. "Great. You have won all races," is such a wonderful message for players! I can almost hear the dev team going, "Wow, good for you, you want a medal or something?" It was delightful.

I don't have racing games out of my system yet, so I went from this to Gensou Skydrift, a Touhou kart racer where the girls ride each other like skateboards. It's the kind of game I'd be excited to explain to my co-workers. It was a little buggy, and had some loops so incomprehensible my brain struggled with how they related to the concept of 3D space. As a Sonic fan, I felt right at home and played until my system's battery died, then came back for more later. I'll probably finish the campaign here in the next few days.

I also played a round of Vampire Survivors, but didn't accomplish anything.

August 2nd, 2025

I had an unpleasant "the work week has ended and I am tired" Friday night collapse last night, so I ended up going back to Halloween Racer. I didn't feel like it got all that much harder in Advanced mode than Rookie, but it's not unpleasant. It's just not very exciting. I wasn't going to play the highest difficulty, but the next character I unlocked was cute, so now I'm playing Expert mode. This is just how life goes sometimes.

July 31st, 2025

I'm thinking of doing kart racer August here on this blog, but I mostly play kart racers that are mediocre and worse. It seems like a bad idea and it amuses me.

Last night, I was extremely tired, so I turned on Halloween Racer, a Europe only Game Boy Color racer, because I thought it would probably let me race as a witch. It did, in fact, allow me to race as a witch. It was kind of boring, too, but I still want to go in and finish the Advanced Circuit. Past that, I don't know, but I do want to see all of the tracks.