Very happy that Air Riders let's me share this love for both at once!

There was a physical PC release indeed! Courtesy of IndieBox, it was the game on a USB stick and came with a ton of goodies (manual, OST on 3 discs, a coin based on Mayor Zao, a wallet and a pouch with a Kingdom Stone replica)
I snagged it second hand as I'm a very recent fan, it was a steal lol

Dreamcast disc art is relatively simple but they are still great to look at with their bold colors, and I happen to own 4 games that look great next to each other lol

Current hyperfixation is on Freedom Planet, bought the decade old IndieBox release and I adore the art for disc 1 of the soundtrack.

Games that get better on the second playthrough are the best
Gimmick is so good holy crap

Tom is forever immortalized in our hearts <3

Happy birthday!

I'm pretty sure Stone and Burning also work for those blocks as they make the screen shake but it is still very dumb
That one block in Mustard Mountain behind that lava geyser in particular is so silly

For my money there's only one indie girl with long purple hair that matters

I guess games starring girls with sticks don't get finished huh

I feel a lot of people are getting the wrong idea on what made Air Ride special.
Its roster of 3 characters was panned at the time because people tend to think "more characters = better", but the real stars (heh) of Air Ride weren't the character roster:
it was the machines and their handling.

Man I remember when the Smash 4 Rosalina trailer baited me into thinking we'd get a new Air Ride (it even had the main theme in the beginning)
And then I got baited from thinking we'd get an new Smash, but instead the dream was real this time

Literally me at the start of 2025

And then here comes 2007's Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction with its edited Mega Man 7 sprite

I know he likes to hang out with the only Whippy from Planet Robobot

Just beat Costume Quest today, have another one of those!