What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Pokemon Pinball (Miyoo Mini+)

April 8th, 2025

My brain is melted tonight, but I played quite a lot of stuff yesterday. I will do my best for a decent post! I played a short adventure game on my Switch yesterday afternoon, called A Cat and His Boy. It was a very small, focused, and sweet game about a cat's ability to share good vibes, and I'm glad I finally sat down and played it. The controls in the platforming section were slippery, and some of the game story sequence bits were somewhat funky, with characters being in two rooms at once. I like having the chance to play smaller, more personal games like this on a console, though. A bigger variety of games on hand makes this hobby more fun!

I also tried Lawn Mower on my Tetris mini arcade machine yesterday. I've actually played some of Lawn Mower before, on more traditional Famicom-on-a-chip systems, and it's ok for an unlicensed game. The timing is tight on grabbing fuel cans, but since that's basically the whole game, I don't have a problem with it. What I can say about this play session, though, is that the joystick on the mini-arcade cabinet is excellent! I could move my little lawn mower with so much precision, and though I still suck at this, it was a much better play experience than I've ever had with this game before.

The rest of my gaming for the night was all before bed business. I did a couple rounds of Pokemon Pinball because it's very fun, but played them badly. It would be kind of fun to fill the whole Pokedex in this, but I don't know how possible a goal this is.

Finally, I played Kemono Friends Picross until I forgot what the concept of numbers represented, and passed out for the night directly afterwards.