Shock the Monkey – Jeff Brown "A monkey fighting food with balls is exactly why I love video games and a perfect example of the creativity that can be found in these little cartridges." @jeffbrown82.bsky.social @nolentabner.bsky.social yokoikids.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/s...
Shock the Monkey – Jeff Brown
Illustration by Nolen Tabner Spanky’s Quest is a puzzler/platformer from Natsume that was released in 1992. It’s a unique game with an equally unique title that was the source of many jokes from me…
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New month! hundredth game! Let ol' Ricky, Iany, and Noley tell you about it. yokoikids.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/f...
February 2026: Spanky’s Quest (1992)
IT’S GAME 100! That’s… ::calculator:: 8.33333 repeating years’ worth of slacker coverage! We aren’t slackers, though. Truly! We’re just three dads (one canonical…
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New little Wario Land piece by Rick V. up on the website. “Parsley woods is not filled with ghosts, goblins, zombies, and cries of lost souls. It just has the same enemies on every other map and some trains.” @itsmerickv.com yokoikids.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/i...
Into the Parsley Woods by Rick V.
The themed-level is a trope in old platformer games that are almost expected. The snow level, the water level, the space level, and so on. We always see them coming but aren’t ever that delighted t…
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Also, this exists. Rick, Jane and Scott will be packing up your orders tomorrow! We have over a hundred orders so thank you so much!
We are in the final stretches of putting the 2nd Yokoi Kids zine together. It has been a long and dumb road for a book that's only 110 pages. To get ourselves and you more hyped, here's the cover drawn by @michaelsweater.bsky.social and colored by @stevethueson.bsky.social
We are stoked to say that all profit from Yokoi Kids Volume 2 will go to Out Youth, a safe place in Austin, TX for youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities to be themselves. outyouth.org
New month! New game! And here's all the Yokoi Dads telling you about it. @nolentabner.bsky.social @ianferguson.bsky.social @itsmerickv.com yokoikids.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/n...
November 2024 – Battletoads (1991)
It’s November. Thanksgiving time. The Super Bowl of food. I’m thankful for my friends, family, lemonade, cats, and Nerds Gummy Clusters. I’m not sponsored, just addicted. One thin…
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It's October and we are finally playing a game we get requests for A LOT.
October 2024 – Kid Dracula (1993)
Howdee friends! It’s October and I’m less than 24 hours from a much needed vacation in Japan, but first: A new game! Kid Dracula! We here in the backroom have considered this one every …
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Jam Pak is slowly creepin on all the platforms. It's now on Apple podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Jam Pak on Apple Podcasts
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New month! New game! Here's Ian, Nolen and Rick to tell you mostly about it! @ianferguson.bsky.social @nolentabner.bsky.social @itsmerickv.com yokoikids.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/f...
February 2024 – Castlevania Legends (1998)
It's February and there are new GB games on the Switch! One of them is well known for being pricey, Castlevania: Legends. It has a bit of reputation attached to it and I'm not sure if it's because of ...
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Doodled up this flier real quick like. My goal was to make it look like one of them old Spook Show posters. Video Store Day is a real thing! www.videostoreday.com Trying to hype it up for our beloved Vulture Video
Bubble Ghost x Milon, the bubble bros. Combining two @yokoikids.bsky.social games. Check their discord for a video turnaround.
We are playing Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company for October! Our first import. It's a perfect Halloweeny game and it can get pricey. Emulate the heck outta it.
