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Recent spoils and acquisitions


Posted on 09/04/2022 at 05:39 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I get that. But that said, 40 dollars gets you a lot with this package. They did a great job. The only quibble I have is that the SNES version of Turtles in Time doesn't support online multiplayer. The two arcade games, SNES Tournament Fighters, and Genesis Hyperstone Heist do, which makes TMNT 4's lack of it a bit baffling. The SNES version is otherwise better than the arcade version. Other than that minor gripe, this is an incredible value.

Let's Have a Play Date With the PlayDate!


Posted on 09/04/2022 at 05:37 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I always thought the Game Boy was great and a huge step up from Tiger handhelds. Square did support it early on, and FF Adventure is a pretty stout game that predates Link's Awakening. Loved Kid Icarus as well.  Being able to play Super Mario in the car was the equivalent of the moon landing, LOL.

It also seemed to me that developers kind of stepped up their sprite and detail games on the Game Boy to make up for the lack of color. A lot of Samus's appearance and abilities were codified in Metroid II rather than the original. 

Let's Have a Play Date With the PlayDate!


Posted on 09/02/2022 at 02:42 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Its screen is also apparently.a similar display to the e-paper readers like the old Kindles were made of. A lot different than the four-tone green dot matrix display of the old Game Boy.

Let's Have a Play Date With the PlayDate!


Posted on 09/01/2022 at 05:46 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I've heard of this. I thought at first that it was crank-powered, like an old car or like some of these flashlights I've seen. You probably couldn't build up enough charge to run a game system that way. It's a cute little machine.

Two in One


Posted on 09/01/2022 at 05:20 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Good to see another person playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The Switch is a SRPG powerhouse.

Mega Man 3 Review


Posted on 08/30/2022 at 09:45 PM | Filed Under Review

Mega Man was one of the few big NES franchises I couldn't get into. I think it was because I wanted to play it like Metroid, and it doesn't play like Metroid nor is it intended to.

I loved Mega Man Legends, though. I was disappointed that the third game got cancelked. I hope Capcom will consider making it for the Switch.

Final Fantasy VI Review


Posted on 08/26/2022 at 06:20 AM | Filed Under Review

Played this as a loan from my dad's physical therapist when I was a teenager, ended up buying it myself. I didn't get my SNES until 1994 and only had an increasingly out-of-date PC, so this game was a pleasant surprise from the RPGs I'd had to content myself with for the previous few years. Really wish they would release the Nintendo-era Final Fantasy games on Switch.

In 2013, I had the pleasure of hearing the opera performed by Susan Calloway at Distant Worlds in Omaha. The evening topped off with an audience sing-along of One-Winged Angel. Afterwards was a meet-and-greet with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth - it happened to be March 21, which is Mr. Uematsu's birthday, so it was extra special. He signed the cover art for FFIX, which I still have.

My Hero Review


Posted on 08/26/2022 at 12:25 AM | Filed Under Review

The box art is a picture of the card. 

Wondet why the Master System went so cheap on box art?

Gaming. Dessert o' the Week


Posted on 08/25/2022 at 04:12 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Valkyria Chronicles and Three Houses are two of the most awesome games I've ever played. Three Houses, however, pushes the Japanese SRPG a step beyond what Valkyria Chronicles provides.

End of Summer Reviews!


Posted on 08/20/2022 at 06:47 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I had an Atari 130XE as a kid, and it was honestly second only to the NES as a 1980s gaming machine. It could handle games much, much better than the Apple II, C64, or the IBM PCs at the time, and had a lot of arcade ports because Atari bought up the rights to so many of them. A few of them sucked (Dig-Dug was atrocious), but Atari 8-bit Donkey Kong was better than the NES version. I had Zaxxon on it as well. 

I think Jaleco's best-known game was City Connection. The company that owns their IPs is actually called that and I think it was founded by the original founder.

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