Category Archives: videogames

Requiem for a Dreamcast

Posted on February 13, 2017 by baudattitude

Although I was silly enough to buy an imported Dreamcast five months before the system came out in the US, it was just a few months later that a friend introduced me to Everquest, which rapidly consumed all of my … Continue reading →

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How to skip cutscenes in Shenmue II:

Posted on February 12, 2017 by baudattitude

No clever title today, rather one deliberately chosen to make this page easier to find on search engines. Shenmue 2 nearly broke me tonight.  I’m closing in on the end of the game, I’m pretty sure, but  getting this far … Continue reading →

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A Sequel Post On The Youthful Rejection Of Gender Stereotypes

Posted on February 9, 2017 by baudattitude

So, last April I posted this thing in which I posited that playing Ms. Pac-Man as a very small boy had gotten me used to playing as female characters in video games and hah wasn’t that enlightened for a young … Continue reading →

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How About A Game Of Lucky Hit?

Posted on February 9, 2017 by baudattitude

So, it’s been roughly ten years since I played the first Shenmue, and I understand they’re actually planning to make a third one.  In addition, Shenmue II is the last Dreamcast game sitting in my backlog after I came to … Continue reading →

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I Read The News Today, Oh Boy

Posted on February 6, 2017 by baudattitude

Couple of articles on the Don’t Call It Gawker network that I felt the need to mention. First, this bit talking about the end of support for 32-bit iOS apps as of iOS 11, whenever that comes out.  This is … Continue reading →

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Now I’m REALLY Fishing For Page Views

Posted on February 6, 2017 by baudattitude

One of the things that most annoys me about my blogging is that I’m never quite sure how to capitalize post titles – should they just have initial cap, or should they follow normal title capitalization rules, where significant words … Continue reading →

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Raiding the Lost Arc(hives)

Posted on February 4, 2017 by baudattitude

Backlog reduction project continues. With most everything I play on PC coming from Steam this days, it’s easy to forget that I picked up quite a few indie games on various trips to Japan, which have wound in a box … Continue reading →

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Thank Heaven for Save States

Posted on February 3, 2017 by baudattitude

Getting around to Klonoa: Empire of Dreams the other day was a pretty deep dive into the backlog.  I’d had the cartridge for probably 15 years and it needed to be played. It was not the oldest thing in the … Continue reading →

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I Am Bad At Playing Games

Posted on February 2, 2017 by baudattitude

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams has possibly the worst North American release date of any game ever. It came out on 9/11/2001, and I’m pretty sure that the last thing on anyone’s mind that day was checking the new release racks. … Continue reading →

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Surface Gaming Round 2: Emulation

Posted on January 31, 2017 by baudattitude

At some point in the last few years, I decided that I was going to set up a box full of emulators and older games and put it under the living room TV and have access to decades worth of … Continue reading →

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