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Episode 157: Tech Jacket


Posted on 08/05/2019 at 02:13 AM | Filed Under Feature

In that case:

1. The Atari landfill in New Mexico, which in fact turned out to be true after years of speculation. 

2. All the various Mortal Kombst conspiracies that floated around primitive online message boards and game magazine letter sections in the series' early years, such as Noob Saibot and Ermac, as well as theories on how to play as Sonya and Kano in MKII. Ed Boon and John Tobias ended up bringing most of these to life, since Mortal Kombat is one of the most fan feedback-driven game series out there.

3. Product shortages of Nintendo products such as the Wii, Switch, or the NES and SNES Classics, and early on, the DRAM shortage of 1988 which a lot of people later speculated was Nintendo's way of drumming up extra demand for Zelda II. Made-up shortages are a running theme with regards to Nintendo, as a way to inflate demand through perceived scarcity. Honestly, I'm not sure that they're all that off-base sometimes, because Nintendo is proud of the fact that its products hold their value for years instead of ending up in the bargain bin for 20 dollars within 6 months. 

Intergalactic - Space Quest


Posted on 08/05/2019 at 01:52 AM | Filed Under Blogs

The only Sierra adventure game I ever played was, oddly, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. I played it in secret, LOL, since I was 16 years old and my mom wouldn't have approved of it. My dad probably would have approved of it as long as I didn't tell my mom.

As far as adventure games in general go, the games I got into were the Tex Murphy series, which was kind of a mashup of pulp noir detective novels by Dashiel Hammett (Sam Spade) or Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe) with the works of Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Total Recall), being set in a post-nuclear 2040s San Francisco. I also played a rather messed up British point-and-click called Dreamweb where your character was ostensibly out to save the world by assassinating seven figures trying to destroy human dreams and bring about nuclear war. The included documentation, however, made it look like your character had descended into madness and was in fact a serial killer. I also dabbled a bit in The 7th Guest and Myst, but around that time, Final Fantasy VI got me back into RPGs, so console RPGs ended up being my preferred adventuring fix.

My dad, up until the 1990s, considered video games to be a complete waste of time and money and grudgingly tolerated me playing them. My mom liked some of the old-school games and still likes match-three style games. But when my dad retired, he and my mom got into The 7th Guest and Myst, and then my dad and I played both played Doom.

Stranger Things 3: The Game Review


Posted on 08/02/2019 at 02:03 PM | Filed Under Review

I see it's got the Scoops Ahoy kids, Robin and Steve, in it. 

Episode 157: Tech Jacket


Posted on 08/02/2019 at 02:01 PM | Filed Under Feature

I'm not really aware of a lot of video game conspiracy theories, honestly. What's an example?

Cage match: Gonna go with Halo 2,  I guess, only because I played Halo 3 on 360 and it was okay. I never actually played Halo 2 and in fact never had an Xbox. Sorry.

Retro Review: Banjo-Kazooie


Posted on 08/02/2019 at 01:57 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I know that PD did require the N64 expansion pack to play the campaign. 

Buff Penguin Reviews


Posted on 08/02/2019 at 01:54 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I'm not into mobile games. I tried Super Mario Run and ended up going back to Mario on consoles pretty quickly. But if it makes Nintendo money that can be used to make Switch games, I guess it's okay.

I played Tetris 99 a few times. I did pretty good but didn't get the hang of some of the mechanics of it. I still play it now and then. 11th place out of 99 is excellent.

Speaking of penguins, I guess a Switch version of Ge-Sen Love: Plus Pengo is being released this month in Japan. That's that Pengo game made in 2010 that supports 8 players. Sadly it's Japan-exclusive, but given that Switch is region-free I'm thinking of buying an import copy so I can have it with all the other classic arcade games I have on Switch. Too bad Sega doesn't release the original game a lot more as an Arcade Archives or Sega Ages game.

Um...What? - Final Fantasy VIII


Posted on 07/31/2019 at 10:57 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Square Enix usually does good with the loading times on its remasters. Come to think of it, they were usually able to manage load times better than most other people on the PS1's double-speed CD-ROM drive.

Retro Review: Banjo-Kazooie


Posted on 07/31/2019 at 10:55 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I liked Mario 64 better, but this game was pretty for its time. It was like most Rare games save for Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, or Blast Corps - a graphically prettied up version of something Nintendo (or in the case of KI, Midway) had already done, without all the bloat and padding that Rare used to put in their games. 

Oh Hell No - Golgo 13


Posted on 07/31/2019 at 10:51 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Looks sort of ambitious for the NES. Not saying it isn't a mess, but it is. I think it had a sex scene in it somewhere. Kind of reminds me of how the GB re-release of Dragon Warrior allowed you to take the Princess (or a random horny girl on the streets) to the Inn and apparently have a night of wild sex with her before you returned her to the king. 

Apparently Nintendo of America's staff in charge of censor- err, making sure games were family-friendly didn't make it far enough through Bionic Commando to see that the ultimate bad guy was Hitler - the actual Hitler, or to see his monologue contain a four-letter word, or to see the picture of his head exploding. I'd love to have been the guys at Capcom who got that past the radar.

Um...What? - Final Fantasy VIII


Posted on 07/23/2019 at 04:03 AM | Filed Under Blogs

FF8 is a flawed game. That said, it occupies a special place in my heart among FF games in part because of the circumstances in my life when I got it - I was in the FF8 line on launch day; almost all of the customers at Electronics Boutique that day there were there for either FF8 or a Dreamcast - and for other reasons. Perhaps within the remastered version's launch window, which a few sources seem to suggest might be sooner rather than later, I will put out a blog detailing my experience with FF8.

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