My curiosity was satisfied this evening when I booted back into Windows and found the mechanism by which Snow Day: The GapKids Quest alerts you that it’s about that time to pay another visit to your local GapKids clothing outlet:
I was presented with the preceding dialog on startup. I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me to search in Windows’ Startup folder where there is presently a program called GapSDR.exe invoked every time Windows starts.
MobyGames has approved a number of my new Sega Saturn entries:
MobyGames has approved the entry for Tek-Kids Flash-Ops: Mission: Polar Challenge. I look forward to one day playing the remaining 3 games in the series.
Gaming Pathology is closed today on account of illness. On the plus side, MobyGames approved a new entry for Snow Day: The GapKids Quest.
I was replaying Criticom this evening in order to gather a diverse selection of screenshots for the MobyGames database. I just wanted to give special notice to the game’s AI which — at least in the first few levels — can be pushed off the edge of the arena by rapid, repeated jabs or kicks.
Still, they worked hard to flesh out a superfluous sci-fi storyline.
3 more games profiled on this blog have just been approved for eternal preservation in the MobyGames database: