A good book

Man, I played the HELL out of this game! Looked SO AMAZING on a GBA Micro!

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Orbital
(skip Ltd., 2006)

Published as a Japan-only bit Generations title, Orbital is my number-two pick for “Game of Embiggening… of the DECADE,” just after Katamari Damacy—I guess that doesn’t mean much, as I still haven’t published Kevin’s and my Best Games… of the DECADE feature. But we finished writing it in December, just so you know. Maybe we should publish that feature as a Tumblog instead, and we could call it “Fuck Yeah Decade” or something. 

In 2008, I wrote:

Here is the goal of Orbital: you are a particle of space dust, just a little grey speck, and you want to grow. So you collide into smaller planetary bodies and consume them, adding them to your sum total. You become larger and more meaningful, until you are finally large enough to draw the sun into your orbit. That victory marks the end of a stage. So I guess it’s like Katamari Damacy, but with fewer cats and candies.

I have gone on record to say, also, that between Orbital and Orbient for WiiWare, Orbital is inexplicably the better game.