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Pokémon Was/Is Kind Of A Big Deal To Me I swear, this felt like it happened yesterday. I'm not exactly prompt with this blog, but after getting past a bunch of work-related stress and Giant Bomb-related obligations, I was able to do something I have been meaning to do for about a month: sit down and watch the Pokémon anime. It might not seem like something an average thirty-something should hav...
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An explanation of what I'm doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last time we covered the April '96 releases of Bottom of the 9th, PO'ed, Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits, and Return Fire . Today, we're closing out April and getting into May with Hardball 5 , Starblade Alpha , Slam 'n' Jam 96 featuring Magic and Kareem , and Skeleton Warriors . **This post is also featured on my site...
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“Reviewing” Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny The cover of Lord of Light, published under the SF Masterworks umbrella in UK with afterword by George R R Martin. Too bad Mr. Martin did not list the other four of “the five best SF novels ever written”, since yours truly would really love to read them all. Sometimes I wonder if Hideo Kojima even likes video game. Throughout the pieces collected in Cr...
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Sephiroth is the third Final Fantasy character to join my Video Game Hall of Fame, joining Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart. Next week's character will be from BioShock.
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Thoughts on a double bill: the Way of the Dragon (1972) and Gamera Guardian of the Universe (1995) This is a double feature I intended to view after watching YakitateJapan due to Tamoor Hassin’s recommendation on Jeff Jeff Bizarre Adventure. YakitateJapan is a manga-turned-anime about bake-off and much like its younger and sexier cousin about cook-off Food War! Shokugeki no Soma, sometimes it j...
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Last month I embarked on what might prove to be my final, merciful undoing: acquiring a full slate of Retro Achievements for Super Mario 64 , evidently designed by a team of contributors who know the game far better than I did or ever will. I've always held the N64 launch game in very high regard, of course, but it wasn't until I revisited it for the equally foolish undertaking that is 64 in 64...
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¡Bienvenidos al mundo de Pet Simulator X! Si estás aquí, es porque te encanta jugar con animales virtuales, ¿verdad? Pues estás en el lugar correcto. En este artículo, te enseñaremos todo lo que necesitas saber sobre Pet Simulator X. ¿Qué es Pet Simulator X? Pet Simulator X es un juego de simulación de mascotas en el que puedes adoptar, criar y cuidar a tus mascotas virtuales favoritas. Con una...
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When Link woke in the Shrine of Resurrection, he emerged into a world where 100 years had passed without him, in the aftermath of a stalled calamity he and Princess Zelda failed to prevent. This world was faintly familiar to him - a fuzzy mirage of a place called Hyrule that he knew the idea of, but not the specific shape. Like the fallen Champion himself, we as players knew what Hyrule was in...
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" My yearly ( and timely ) diary of art entertainment" Thanks for dropping by! Below you will find links to my thoughts on every game, show, and movie I engaged with last year. Games played in 2022 TV Series seen in 2022 Movies watched in 2022 Feel Free to peruse to your heart's delight. Let me know if there is anything I missed out on this year that you think I should check out. Also, I would...
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Myst was an early PC gaming phenomenon I'll admit I completely missed out on; my priorities lied elsewhere in the mid-90s, being only yay high to a desktop tower back then. That first-person, mostly directionless format has certainly stood the test of time, seeing multiple remasters and imitations in the decades that followed, yet something about the leisurely pace, the hands-off approach to th...
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It's Time To Raise Money For Educational Charities! It's try to inject some much needed positivity into the world! Hey everyone, as I hinted at during the first part of my Club Dead retrospective , this weekend will mark the start of the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run. I will join those participating by streaming video game goodness this year as in previous years. My typical structure durin...
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Little Mac, of Punch-Out! fame, joins numerous Nintendo characters in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a Final Fight villain.
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The Intellivision Amico lives on as a project in a zombie state but it is, for all real intents and purposes, a dead idea. Many will argue that it was dead upon announcement; the idea of a follow up to a long moribund brand that sought to compete in the console space by positioning itself as a more expensive Ouya with a weird controller and a lot of hoops to go through to get games onto the pla...
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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for The Outer Worlds and moderate spoilers for Fallout: New Vegas. Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas is one of the greatest RPGs of all time. It doesn't just challenge you with defeating enemies but also working out who your enemies are. Its faction system is not just a set of spectrums along which to gain and lose points but is syst...
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This week I dug real deep and managed to find the one game from 2017 I haven't played yet . Mages of Mystralia starts as a by-the-books Zeldersatz but starts to emerge into something a little more interesting as it progresses. Created by Canadian studio Borealys Games , with financial assistance from a successful Kickstarter, Mages of Mystralia sees the young woman Zia suddenly burn down her co...
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Hi Everyone, PersonZ here again (AKA Jatzu on the discord) providing some info on what I will be doing for the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run this year. Last year with support from people like you I was able to raise $ 1,779.00 for Pencils of Promise, additionally because of that I also donated $ 1,500.00 of my own money to the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. This year I...
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Thoughts on Muv-luv Extra and its Meiya route Em Marko of Abnormal Mapping fame is someone yours truly trust when it comes to weeb stuff. So, when they said how much they enjoyed the visual novel Muv-luv , I knew I was doomed to make an impulse purchase on Steam. Well, the Steam product known as “Muv-luv” is actually the combination of 2 originally separate visual novels: a rom-com titled Muv-l...
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An explanation of what I'm doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last time we looked at the Saturn in March '96 with Winning Post , Revolution X , D , Criticom , Battle Arena Toshinden Remix , Magic Carpet , Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge , and Congo: The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj . Last week we looked at the unmitigated horror that is the 3DO catalog in 1994 with Total Ec...
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The GOAT(se) Hola muchachos and/or konnichiwa tomodachi to yet another blogging instance of me getting too deeply obsessed with a game's particulars and purging my own brain of the fine details so I can get some darn rest. This time our subject is the Ryu ga Gotoku Studio brawler-RPG Lost Judgment , the second of the spin-offs to retain the original Like a Dragon real-time combat system framed...
