Monthly Archives: March 2017

Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai II

Another day, another decades-old strip mahjong game off the backlog. So a bit of a historical note here – there was not a lot of software available when the Saturn launched in North America.  It never did terribly well, but … Continue reading

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Dunhuntin’

It turned out that, when I stopped playing Bloodborne last night, I was literally at the last lamp before Orphan of Kos and had unlocked the elevator shortcut to get to him.  He was also one of the two bosses … Continue reading

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Finally Starting “The Old Hunters”

As I may have mentioned from time to time, I am terrible at playing things in a timely fashion – I’m generally waiting for sales, I get distracted easily by shiny objects, sometimes the brain squirrels just tell me to … Continue reading

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Idol Mahjong Final Romance 4 : Romancing the Pai

So, this is a weird but ultimately very fun bit of Saturn history. Most console mahjong games – and, by the way, I learned today that Wikipedia has an entire category page for “dasui mahjong”, or “strip mahjong” games – … Continue reading

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Nerdvana

I’m feeling particularly slack today and my desk is almost clean. Time for an easy post. Mind you, it’s clean because I decided to finally get down to business and wrangle the nests of cables underneath into submission, a process … Continue reading

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I got gud

(Well, for certain values of “gud”, anyway.) A few months back, the Bloodborne “Old Hunters” DLC went on sale on PSN, so I finally bought it.  Naturally, this meant that I had to go back to the original game and … Continue reading

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On Marketing Freebies

Checked my email this morning and got a pleasant surprise from the Fine People in Sony’s marketing branch: I’d heard they sent these out for getting platinum trophies in some games, but this is the first time I’ve received one.  … Continue reading

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I Just Played 52 Hours of Horizon: Zero Dawn

It was OK.     OK, let’s not beat around the bush.  It was pretty stunning, especially because I’m looking at what Guerrilla Games has done in the past and it’s not much more than a bunch of 7-to-10-hour-long linear … Continue reading

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On Backwards Compatibility 

As a person with poor impulse control and a love of shiny things, I usually wind up owning every games console from a given time span, often a couple of them because of hardware revisions or the like. It’s expensive … Continue reading

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Ten Years Blog

10 YEARS AFTER 10年後の あなたを みつめていたい STAY TOGETHER その時 きっとそばで 微笑んでいたい I’m not great at remembering to put up anniversary posts.  It seemed like I should probably remember this anniversary, though, since it’s been a decade of talking about random video games, weird food, … Continue reading

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