El Viento Returns, Sorta
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El Viento remains a fascinating artifact from a facinating era. Like many early 1990s games heavy on anime style and resolute heroines, El ...
Bounty Arms: Going Data West
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Uh-oh. I haven’t written about Bounty Arm s in over a year! That’s perhaps understandable, since an unreleased PlayStation action game from ...
Mechanized Attack: The Mystery of Maiko
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Anyone who praises the innocence and honesty of children has never heard them discuss video games and invariably lie. This was especially co...
News: Full-Motion-Video Classics Become the Next Great Game Adaptations
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(Hollywood, California) No longer the beeps and bloops of Pac-Man, video games are growing up. Cable and streaming services, emboldened by H...
Journey to the Center of Wurm
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Those of cynical mindset could deem Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth a messy game, but they’d be wrong. At the very least it’s seve...
Bunny Girls Interrupted
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The Playboy bunny girl costume is an unavoidable fixture of sexist pop culture—and a persistent one in video games. Showing women in rabbit ...
Notes for the Gravity Rush Movie
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Gravity Rush is getting a movie, if you remember. It was announced four months ago, so that’s plenty of time for us to forget all about i...
Super Mario Bros. 2: Pity Poor Pidgit
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There’s a lot to enjoy in Super Mario Bros. 2. It took all things Mario from a revolutionary but straightforward action game to an endearing...
Phantasy Star IV Disarmed
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It recently came to light that Rieko “Phoenix Rie” Kodama passed away in May of this year. Kodama was a pioneer among women in the game indu...
The Mystery of The Missing My Little Pony Music
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I am always intrigued by deleted scenes, especially when they’re presumed lost to time. It ties into my fascination with unreleased media in...
Old Games and New Questions
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There I was the other night, playing Eco Fighters on the new Capcom Arcade 2 nd Stadium collection. Eco Fighters is a creative and unfair...
Voyage Into Darkstalkers
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I usually can tell right away when I’ll like a game. It may take a little while to fully seep into place, but even then there's somethin...
Video Game Rental Stickers Tour: Part 2
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I discussed my fascination with rental stickers a while ago, and I haven’t let go of it. As physical media grows scarcer and the last remain...
Unlimited Continues and Limited Enjoyment
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Cotton Fantasy arrived this month. It’s a cute, colorful, charming little shooter in all respects, and I said as much in my full review . I...
Arcade of My Youth: Cap'n Bogey's Golf & Games
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A woman knocked on our door one summer evening in 1992. She was circulating a petition against the planned construction of a huge arcade and...
Valkyrie Elysium: The First Profile
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Gosh, I really wish someone would make another Valkyrie Profile game. It's been over a year since Valkyrie Anatomia shut down, and tha...
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