What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Space Armada (Intellivision Flashback)

August 24th, 2024

I'm feeling very accomplished as I post today, having gotten my Intellivision Flashback page customization done a small bit ago and having cleared Sudocats last night! Overall, Sudocats was maybe a bit easy, which is fine for a game I mostly played while dozing off. It was very short, too, especially compared to the massive Sudoku collections that were around in the DS era. That's basically fine, though. This was a 2 dollar game that I picked up because cats are good, and I definitely got two dollars worth of puzzle solving out of it. This was fine.

While thinking about the Intellivision for today's design work, I plugged in my little Flashback console and played some of Space Armada which, legally, is 100% not techically Space Invaders. The first round of this I played felt really terrible, making me wonder why Matell would even bother releasing such a bad knockoff cart, but as I kept restarting, over and over, it kind of grew on me. The sprites feel way too big to me, but the controls got more tolerable as I went. It still felt "off," but it wasn't as bad as I first thought.

I did quite a lot of level grinding in King of Prism Sparkling, too, mostly letting it run and clicking every few minutes so I could gather EXP and level up my skaters. I'll likely do this some more today.