Art by Rory Frances/@puppytube

Colin Spacetwinks works for nobody, but posts a lot online, which has inevitably lead to knowing and talking to a lot of other people who post online, some of whom work at respectable outlets or in the games industry itself. Occasionally, when not bogged down too much with depression and ADHD, they make things in the twine engine, ranging from analytical essays about the comics industry, to interactive fiction about a horse robbing a bank, mildly interactive fiction about depression and anime, and not at all interactive fiction about using comedy to hide from the world.

Okay, few things. First off, being honest, most of these games aren’t from 2017. In fact, off the top of my head, I think only one of them is. Limitationsa lot of the usual games I grow fond of, but fuck it, Ganbare Dunk Heroes remains an all time classic and a pinnacle of arcade style sports games 24 years after its release.

Ganbare Dunk Heroes is part of the Kunio-Kun/River City Ransom franchise--over in the USA, we'd likely remember Super Dodgeball and Nintendo World Cup for the NES, or hell, even Crash 'N The Boys: Street Challenge, all of which recycled graphics and templates from River City Ransom/Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari for the purpose of sports games. And they're still deeply loved for the most part. I still love the original Super Dodgeball and Nintendo World Cup to this day; they're incredibly fun games.

But Ganbare Dunk Heroes, which never got released stateside, just dunks all over them, creating