gear one: drill dozer is one of many games that have charm and execution and cool mechanics but in the end was largely neglected and forgotten because it released after its console's successor was released. like second-greatest nes platformer ever kirby's adventure, this used the console's capabilities to the absolute max - and then some, bolting on a rumble pack to push the tiny little handheld even further.

HIYA! Second Gear! Drill Dozer is an extinct kind of game, the perfect Jank-Ass Platformer that would live in the back of your game case and you'd return to over and over for years, full of secrets and cool mechanics and some genuinely bad parts that don't matter so much when you can skip around the level select looking for that last unexplored area.

HIYA! THIRD GEAR: DRILL DOZER IS A GAME THAT GOES BRRRRRRRRR WHEN YOU SHIFT INTO THIRD GEAR IT IS LARGER THAN ITS TINY HANDHELD HOST AND ALL IS FORGIVEN ONCE YOU START CRUSHING ENEMIES AND PRICELESS ANCIENT ARTIFACTS UNDERNEATH YOUR MIGHTY DRILL

In this episode: The trouble with shoulder buttons, puzzle platformers, golf platforming, the absolute pure power and bliss of shifting up to third gear, big dick truckin,  will time travels, stories from the final boss, putting the game in context (next to shitass movie tie in cashgrabs)

~shoutouts zone~

Words really don't describe how big the UI indicator is

big dick truckn

Motherload

fuck you i'm going underground by Grand Commander

Tail 'Gator

Ice Age (2002 for the GBA) and the REAL Ice Age (2002 for the GBC)

Disco Elysium Demake for the GBC

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