Pixel Towers

From the famous tower-stacking game during the time of symbian OS, a rendition of the Tower Blocks game came to android but in a grand pixelized version.

As the same from the original, the goal is to stack as much layers to make an endless tower. Each layer count as 15 points or what they call here as height. But be warned, every wrong drop will result to a decrease in layer segments. The decrease will be greater if you stray away from dropping the previous layer. There will be no point deducted but your accuracy on dropping with minimal segments will affect your performance for better or for worse. The game ends when you lose all segments from mis-dropping.

Aside from the original, this remake has power-ups. For these to take effect, players must first put down the bonus layer without losing the game — yes,most especially if you only have a single segment left.

The first one is the Slow Down buff, where it... Slows down(of course) the horizontal speed of the next layer to be dropped so that you can concentrate on the precision of your dropping. As experienced, the higher you stack, the horizontal speed increases a bit so this is useful for resetting it to a lower speed.

The next one is the Extra Stack buff,  where successfully putting down this bonus layer grants your next drop with either 1, 2 or 3 bonus layers on top of your single layer. In short, this bonus increases your score. Randomly, you can get 1-3 bonus layers so you can probably score a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 60 points with this buff activated in a single dropping.

Lastly, the Bonus Block buff is your 'health potion' in this game. What it does is recover a lost segment (if you lost any) or adding an additional segment if you still have the 4 segments intact, so you can have a maximum of 5 segments at a time so you can keep stacking and scoring.

For a newbie, I got this high. How about you?

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Free to Play
Offline and/or Online

GP (Google Play) Rating: 4/5

AoL Rating: 4.5/5
— I have played Tower Blocks when I first had my Nokia 5320 Express Music and I was hooked on it. Then came out the 3D version of Tower Blocks which made me waste my time a lot more–productively. Never would have imagined I can play it again in like 4 years or so. Now with power-ups, I can say that this is addicting all over again.

Here's a quick game on the house.

Pixel Towers (Playthrough) 

Pixel Hospital

By just guessing it, I had a hunch that this game would be kind of like the famous Diner Dash — and I pat myself on the shoulder knowing that throughout my gaming experiences, I did quite well on guessing what games like these would be like.










By standards, it is like Diner Dash but with a little bit more of upgrades and a room cluttered with medical apparatuses instead of food tables.

Moreover, if you need assistants(extra workers), there's only a single assistant that cost in-game currency while others on the upgrade screen costs real money but thanks to the game having already given you a fair share amount of virtual currency (in-game currency bought with real money) at your disposal, you could buy some helpers to make the game a lot more easier/challenging.

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Free to Play
Offline and/or Online

GP (Google Play) Rating: 3.8/5

AoL Rating: 4/5
— I loved Diner Dash when I was a kid (like barely 6-10 years ago) and this rendition, coupled with a pixelated graphic system just makes me tingly. You know, that sensation when you are a fan of pixelated games like Battle City and other 90's games. You can't and shouldn't ignore this game, simple yet gradually challenging.

Here's a link to a game skirmish and how it actually looks and feels like playing.

 Pixel Hospital Playthrough 

Strikers 1945 — 3rd Rendition

Recently thought about playing a retro-shooter game. What came to mind was the famous 90s arcade game called Strikers 1945. Here I am playing a round of it's descendant, Strikers 1999 on the android rendition.
I've had a quick playthrough of all the stages and I die (like a pro) everytime. Forgive me, I'm just too conscious on my first review material for my youtube channel (so watch me play and die miserably on the video).

Notice that there are many different planes that you could unlock by either gems(may be accumulated by playing tons of rounds or by buying gems to support the developer) or you could complete the quests as opposed to using gems. Upgrades are also available with the use of gems, so better stock up those gems and save it for upgrades.

Will be updating this post for further analysis(and of course, Theory crafting) when I have my hands free(or after my hiatus).

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Free to Play
Multiplayer Mode (Real-time competition for ladder rank)
Offline and/or Online

GP (Google Play) Rating: 4.4/5

AoL Rating: 4.8/5
— for a retro-based game, I'd share this to anyone who haven't had any experience playing arcade shooter games way back 90s. This kind of game was the rage way back then along with Samurai Showdown and King of Fighters.

 Strikers 1945 (3rd Rendition) Playthrough

This version has the in-game sounds.

 Strikers 1999 (Playthrough) [2nd Playthrough]