Q-Games is primarily known for two things: their Pixeljunk series of games on Sony consoles, and their work on Star Fox for Nintendo. Maybe The Tomorrow Children too. Anyway, point is they also revived the difficult-to-search-for “X” IP, an ambitious 3D shooter on Game Boy that I reviewed here. Dylan Cuthbert of course created the original game, so it’s fitting that his company followed it up years later. Anyway anyway, I played Starship Patrol (aka Starship Defense/Starship Defender, thanks to Nintendo’s utter inability to establish consistent names between regions) because there’s a somewhat tenuous connection to the established X universe which in turn has links to Metroid and Star Fox. I never said I wasn’t a nerdy bundle of neuroses.
