8-bit nintendo worship ... and more?!

i just realized that my post from two weeks ago was my 100th post for this blog. w00t. thanks to everyone who has ever stumbled across this blog in the two years and four months it’s been up. by far the most popular post has long been the one with the scan of a super [...]

fiiiiinally finished the endless game i’ve been plodding my way through, final fantasy tactics for the original playstation. i’d been aware of the game ever since i began my obsession with the fire emblem series, and also b/c the follow-up on the GBA seems to regularly get mentioned in “top GBA games of all time” [...]

still slogging my way through this endless game (which i hope to be done with in at least two weeks). so i just thought i’d post about a site i find useful and end up wasting time on, videogamepricecharts.com. if there’s one thing i love almost as much as lists, it’s charts. haha. the numbers [...]

i’ve played playstation games off and on since college, but in general i’m fairly bored by them. i really don’t remember how i first heard about parappa the rapper for the PS1, but it’s no wonder it caught my eye, with its bright, offbeat, very nintendo-like quirkiness. if you haven’t heard of it, it’s a [...]

what is there to say about tetris that hasn’t already been said? even though i’ve become a big fan of such successors as puyo puyo and panel de pon in more recent years, the original tetris is every bit as great almost 20 years since it appeared on the original game boy. although its descendants [...]

i took a break from a long game to play one of the few mario games i’ve never really touched, namely that game boy classic super mario land. the game is pretty noteworthy for being one of the first game boy titles, and in that light it’s def. worthy of respect. but from a modern-day [...]

i started a loooooong game, so i may not have a review for a couple more weeks, but i’ve been meaning to post about this quick fix if you’re having problems connecting your wii with your wireless network that i didn’t find until several months after i got my wii. basically the problem was i [...]

it feels like a while since i’ve finished a gamecube game. i think i first became interested in custom robo (a.k.a. custom robo battle revolution) when i saw the custom robo trophies included in melee. my interest was further piqued by the inclusion of a custom robo as an assist trophy in smash bros. brawl, [...]

another NES classic bites the dust. i’d played and beaten mega man 2 back when i was a tyke, and i think it was one of the few times my mom let me rent a video game. i really didn’t remember anything about it, but after the announcement of the completely retro, completely 8-bit-styled upcoming [...]

i’ve been playing the original NES version of the 80’s arcade classic galaga for a while now. there doesn’t seem to be much info specifically on the NES port, but there are some interesting differences. one trivial difference is that the game was subtitled “demons of death” on the cartridge for no apparent reason other [...]