Famicase 2014: Busy Planet
The neighborhood is getting so crowded these days! As the only human on a planet full of new creatures, you have to try hard to fit in. Everyone may have their differences, but we can make friends if...
View ArticleFamicase 2014: 4 Favorite Entries
The Famicase Exhibition online gallery is finally live! Here are some of my favorite labels and most interesting game ideas.I could have easily posted and written about 15 of my favorites, but I...
View ArticleStraightening out your old instruction manuals!
DISCLAIMER: I haven't had any problems with this method, but you're doing it at your own risk! I hereby absolve myself of any liability if you melt your instruction manual.DISCLAIMER #2: After letting...
View ArticleSega Saturn S-Video mod tutorial
Why S-Video? If you don't have a setup for SCART or RGB then this is the best video quality you can get for your retro systems...and it is DAMN good looking. The jump in quality from composite to...
View ArticleOctober Horror Games! (Nishimori no Meiro - The Labyrinth at Nishimori)
The Labyrinth at Nishimori (西森の迷路)1990, Nintendo FamicomA graphic adventure horror game for Famicom. A group of friends become separated during a week-long hiking trip through a great forest called...
View ArticleLabyrinth at Nishimori - extra screenshot
Just for fun, here's the screenshot you didn't get a good look at in my last post--this one was viewable on the TV but here's a clearer version.More Halloween stuff to come!
View ArticleHalloween Games - Gargoyle's Quest 2
That's right, there is a franchise of horror themed action RPGs featuring THIS asshole:Left: Gargoyle's Quest 2 (NES). Center: Ghosts n Goblins (arcade). Right: Demon's Crest (SNES). Red Arremer, the...
View ArticleThe Duck Hunt Dog’s OTHER Game
...and the Most Unlikely Licensed Game Nintendo Ever Made.Lately, the internet has been abuzz over the new Smash Bros. For 3DS (a title I can only imagine was chosen to keep parents from getting...
View ArticleHalloween Games - Rule of Rose
2006's Rule of Rose is a difficult one to write about for a few reasons. The primary reason for me at least is that I haven’t played it in years, and when I did play it I didn’t make it very far into...
View ArticleConstellation, page 8
At least Exie is out of the damn poison cave. Just one more circle of hell to go before the end of the story. I haven't done a page for Constellation since March! It was my Halloween Resolution to get...
View ArticleHalloween Games - Makaimura / Ghosts 'n Goblins
We join our hero as he finds himself surrounded on all sides by the horrors of hell!With the possible exception of Splatterhouse, you can't get any more Halloween than Capcom's Makaimura/Ghosts 'n...
View ArticleHalloween Games - Daimakaimura / Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Halloween is fast approaching! I'm depressed about it actually...the best part of Halloween is October 1st through the 25th. After that all I can think about is that soon it will have come and gone and...
View ArticleSome dignified macro shots of my Amiibo figures
I got a handful of Amiibo today! And I took some photos. I was unpleasantly surprised when I saw the Amiibo display in the store, to be honest--the quality of the figures can vary quite a bit so people...
View ArticleSplatoon Dump
Oh, hello! Been a while. I'm still doing things, mostly on Tumblr. After a year though I thought I should post a few things I've been up to lately.Just as a way to ease myself back into blogging again...
View ArticleOctober Horror Games: Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha
Thanks to the long shadow Dark Souls has cast on the video gaming landscape, From Software needs no introduction. Other than the hardcore action RPGs they're currently famous for, you may also know...
View ArticleOctober Horror Games: Splatterhouse (PC Engine/Turbografx 16)
Good luck finding a game that screams HALLOWEEN more than the legendary Splatterhouse. First released in 1988 in arcades, the original horror platformer saw two sequels on the Sega Genesis and then lay...
View ArticleOctober Horror Games: Gregory Horror Show (Playstation 2)
Oh man, where to begin with this thing? Gregory Horror Show was originally a collection of CGI shorts (very short--each episode is only two and a half minutes long) that aired for 88 episodes on...
View ArticleHorror Games For October - Mr. Bones (Sega Saturn)
This game is WEIRD AS SHITAnd why does the game have an advertisement for itself, on its own package?If you haven't seen Zono Interactive's Mr. Bones you haven't seen one of the most fascinating,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Dreamcast! I painted you pink
About ten years ago I had the idea to do a siiiiick black and red paint job on my Dreamcast and it looked like complete dog shit--mostly because I had no patience, knew nothing about spraypainting and...
View ArticleVib Ribbon Press Kit Images--posters and more!
NanaOn-Sha is best known for pioneering the rhythm game genre as we know it with 1996's Parappa the Rapper (beating even Konami's Beatmania by about a year). Three years later they broke ground again...
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