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Virtua Musings

  • Beach Days and Run-Down Seaside Arcades July 11, 2025
  • Pikmin Bloom: Relics from the Real World July 3, 2025
  • Ridge Racer: A Tale of Two Ridge Cities June 18, 2025
  • Disaster Report 4: Summer Empathy July 19, 2023
  • The Bouncer: Square’s Cutscene ‘Em Up October 4, 2022
  • Dare to Be SquareSoft: Getting a Grip on Driving Emotion Type-S September 16, 2022
  • GameWorks Redux: Vibing in Sega’s Lost Hub World August 20, 2022
  • Ranking Every Beach in Wave Race by How Much I’d Rather Be There Right Now July 31, 2022
  • The Joys of Pokénomics and Quandaries of the Pokécare Industrial Complex July 27, 2022
  • A Virtua Vacation: My Top Summer Gaming Destinations July 20, 2022
  • Quest 64 and the Simple Life (of Brian) August 4, 2021
  • Beach Spikers: Soaking Up the Sega Summer Vibes July 22, 2021
  • Breaking of the Wild, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Runes June 22, 2021
  • Reliving the Grand Pastime of Futuristic Racing Games May 31, 2021
  • The Duke Abides: Revisiting Tony Hawk’s Xbox Debut April 22, 2021
  • Emotional Engine: The Pod Race Odyssey of Gran Turismo Concept April 8, 2021
  • Football Fever: A Defense of the Mediocre NFL Video Game April 2, 2021
  • An Xbox Launch 20th B’day Bash March 31, 2021
  • A Junkyard Musings Collection March 11, 2021
  • Deus Ex: Taking Liberties in a Timeless Tutorial Level March 11, 2021

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Beach Spikers: Soaking Up the Sega Summer Vibes

Beach Spikers is one of the most overtly summery games in Sega’s catalogue, which says a lot given the blue skies and seasides imbuing much of its work. Aesthetically, this game drips with sunny, summer vibes, with all the sandy beaches, palm trees, and rampant outdoor advertising that entails.

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