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Huh ... It's like I should remember it given the time frame and it is evoking a very vague sense of deja vu, but ... nah, I don't really remember this show or game.

Ah. 

I looked up YouTube videos of all of these and the ones on PC Engine have some great OSTs.

This is yet another game that looks so cool to me but I just can't get into turn based combat unless Yakuza forces me to. 

 I really need to remember my friend's Disney+ login so I can watch WandaVision and I really want to finish the book I'm reading (Axiom's End) so I can say I read one fiction and one nonfiction book this month. 

Where do you buy your eBooks? You must have a ton to need a 1 TB hard drive for them. Or are the file sizes bigger than I'm thinking? Or maybe I'm so used to still losing space on my PS4 2 TB external HD that I'm not sure what's going on here. 

Koi Koi is fun. I think that's the one where you just guess whether the number the woman juggling the dice spits out will be odd or even. For whatever reason, I have a real knack for that one. 

I actually learned how to play Texas Hold 'Em from Yakuza, after years of people trying to teach me poker. 

Hanafuda confuses the shit out of me though. I'd really love for Nintendo to make a version that dumbs it down for people like me. Or maybe Nintendo can collaborate with SEGA and put their own Hanafuda deck into Yakuza ... except I think Nintendo already has a minigame bundle of their own involving Hanafuda. 

I think you nailed the appeal of Yakuza in your writing, and for that I applaud you, sir. You've done justice to my favorite video game series and I'm so glad you are enjoying what I consider its weakest entry gameplay and mechanics wise so much. 

You're gonna want a strat guide for that hostess minigame or to just not bother with it. Some of those outfit combos make no sense and it'll get frustrating without a guide after a while.

Have you found the Mahjong parlor yet?

She's actually a huge part of 2 and it's a bummer how they wrote her off. 

That was Yakuza 0, which is set in the 80s, though a lot of those arcades return in later entries. 

If you ever get into emulating again, I don't think it'll knock your socks off, but you might understand why some mid 90s kids like myself and (at that time maybe pre-teen or teen) older brother could play it for a while. 

It really was cool to be able to do "stunts" while you raced.