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Super Play Top 100: #91 - Kikikaikai (AKA Pocky & Rocky), (88%, Issue 5)

May 11, 2026

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4 min read

Super Play Top 100: #91 - Kikikaikai (AKA Pocky & Rocky), (88%, Issue 5)

Spooky Tanuki shooting shenanigans

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #11 – “The Ghost Warrior” (IMDB: 7.9)

Apr 13, 2026

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #11 – “The Ghost Warrior” (IMDB: 7.9)

Who ya gonna call? Ghost traitors

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

"Doesn't do anything (obviously) that a weedy Mega Drive couldn't do"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #10 – “Mandora - The Evil Chaser” (IMDB: 7.4)

Mar 14, 2026

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #10 – “Mandora - The Evil Chaser” (IMDB: 7.4)

Escape pods, space cops and living ooze: William Overgard lets ThunderCats off the leash

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #92 - Desert Strike (90%, Issue 4)

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Super Play Top 100: #92 - Desert Strike (90%, Issue 4)

A helicopter, a desert, and the tyranny of good intentions

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

cinema

+2

Movie Review - The Shadow’s Edge

Feb 20, 2026

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4 min read

Movie Review - The Shadow’s Edge

Jackie Chan: still the hardest-working pensioner in cinema

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #9 – “The Garden of Delights” (IMDB: 7.5)

Feb 9, 2026

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #9 – “The Garden of Delights” (IMDB: 7.5)

Where a children’s cartoon discovers hallucinogens and tries not to make a fuss about it

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

television

+2

Hap & Leonard: A Swamp Noir with a Moral Compass

Jan 30, 2026

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3 min read

Hap & Leonard: A Swamp Noir with a Moral Compass

A hidden gem amongst the deluge of mid to late 2010's streaming captures Joe R. Lansdale's characters on screen like none ever could again

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

ps5

+5

Vanquish, or How to Make a Shooter Dance

Jan 22, 2026

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5 min read

Vanquish, or How to Make a Shooter Dance

When the Resident Evil creator went full sci-fi

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

Jan 15, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

"I did find the game ever so slightly boring and predictable"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #8 – “Tower of Traps” (IMDB: 7.5)

Jan 12, 2026

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #8 – “Tower of Traps” (IMDB: 7.5)

John Kramer would be proud

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

video games

+3

Insert Coin, Exit Cinema: A Post-Mortem of Video Game Movies #1 - Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (1994)

Jan 9, 2026

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4 min read

Insert Coin, Exit Cinema: A Post-Mortem of Video Game Movies #1 - Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (1994)

The Hadouken of the pack

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #93 - Parodius (86%, Issue 5)

Dec 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #93 - Parodius (86%, Issue 5)

When the joke is better than the genre

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #7 – “Trouble With Time” (IMDB: 7.6)

Dec 3, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #7 – “Trouble With Time” (IMDB: 7.6)

From joyriding, to the frailty of age

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

videogames

+1

Life in the Vault: A Long Look Back at Fallout Shelter

Nov 25, 2025

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4 min read

Life in the Vault: A Long Look Back at Fallout Shelter

Ten years of apocalyptic absurdities

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

japan

+3

TV Review: Tokyo Vice Season 2

Nov 18, 2025

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3 min read

TV Review: Tokyo Vice Season 2

Still in the city of no murders

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

capcom

+2

DmC: Devil May Cry: How It Became A Martyr to Its Own Fandom

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

DmC: Devil May Cry: How It Became A Martyr to Its Own Fandom

12 years on and hell has still never been this stylish

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

Nov 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

“The main problem is frustration”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #6 – “The Terror of Hammerhand” (IMDB: 7.0)

Nov 4, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #6 – “The Terror of Hammerhand” (IMDB: 7.0)

A small slip in a mighty cat’s leap

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #94 - The Lost Vikings (84%, Issue 8)

Oct 23, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #94 - The Lost Vikings (84%, Issue 8)

“There’s nothing here that couldn’t be done on a lesser machine like the Mega Drive or Amiga”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

“Above anything else it is necessary to point out that you must own Donkey Kong Country”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #5 – “Pumm-Ra” (IMDB: 7.6)

Oct 2, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #5 – “Pumm-Ra” (IMDB: 7.6)

Mummy in disguise is more than meets the eye

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Animation

+2

ThunderCats Episode #4 – “The Slaves of Castle Plun-Darr” (IMDB: 7.1)

Sep 22, 2025

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #4 – “The Slaves of Castle Plun-Darr” (IMDB: 7.1)

First the world building, now its castle building. With lessons on slavery and gratitude

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #95 - Donkey Kong Country (90%, Issue 27)

Sep 17, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #95 - Donkey Kong Country (90%, Issue 27)

"It can't be the greatest platform game ever partly because of those Silicon Graphics-rendered visuals"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Manga

+2

Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire - Pride and Pestilence

Sep 10, 2025

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3 min read

Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire - Pride and Pestilence

A Resident Evil manga where the real infection is reputation management

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane
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