I cleared Contra, a 1987 run 'n gun game from Konami.

I just updated my website for the first time since February 2025 and it feels great to be back! What took me so long?

I cleared Pac-Man Arrangement, a 1996 maze game from Namco that was released as part of the Namco Classic Collection vol. 2 arcade cabinet.

I cleared the first loop Elevator Action, a 1993 run 'n gun' maze game from Taito, on the hardest difficulty.

I got a 1 credit clear of Hop Top, a 2024 shoot em up platformer by Miracle for the PC.

I cleared Funky Jet, a 1992 single-screen beat 'em up platformer by Mitchell / Data East.

I cleared Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, a 1993 beat 'em up by Capcom, on the hardest difficulty.

I cleared The King of Dragons, a 2019 beat 'em up game from Capcom, on the hardest difficulty!

I got a 1 loop of Caramel Action Micro, a 2026 top-down run 'n gun maze game by Boghog that reminds me of games like Tank Force/Battle City, Pac-Man and Rolling Bird.

I made the cat from my upcoming game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action into a mouse cursor! I've grown far too attached to this cat after using it as an emote on my CassMakesGames Twitch channel, so when I saw that my friend NomnomNami had made cursors of characters from her games I had to give it a try myself.

Out of all the games I played for the first time this year, there were 17 that I really liked. Instead of bringing the list up to 20 by adding a few games I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about, or cutting off a few of the games I liked to bring the list down to 15 or 10, let's go through all of them. This list is ordered but I really do like all 17 of them, so feel free to take all of these as recommendations from me.

Now that I've pretty much recovered from the flu I'm feeling well enough to review the year, as is tradition. Let's take a look back at what I've done this year, compare it to the goals I set myself at the start of 2025 and think about what I want to do in the future.

I got a 1 credit clear of Bomber Man and Bomber Man World, two arcade Bomberman games by Irem from 1991 and 1992 respectively.

I got a 1 credit clear of Midnight Wanderers (a.k.a. Roosters), one of the three games that makes up Capcom's 1991 arcade game Three Wonders.

I got a 2 loop clear of Rolling Bird, a 2018 tactical run 'n gun game by Hijong Park for the PC.

I cleared The Ninja Warriors Once Again (a.k.a. The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors), a 2019 PC/console beat 'em up game from NatsumeAtari, on the hardest difficulty.

I just announced my next game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action!

I open sourced the code my game engine uses for random number generation, including helper functions for when you want to do things like forbidding rolling the same number two or three times in a row.

I got a 1 credit clear of the 2000m mode (i.e. hard mode) of Mr. Driller 2 and Mr. Driller G, two arcade sequels to Namco's Mr. Driller!

I cleared both loops of Violent Storm (a 1993 beat em up by Konami) on the hardest difficulty, including the Violent Round!