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Hello, new followers! My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sure, you can do smoke rings, but how about smoke skulls?

What's better than a woman with giant pauldrons? A woman with giant translucent pauldrons!

Alison was robbed. Robbed robbed robbed robbed.

There will probably be a short bonus video this week. Maybe half an hour when all is done, but likely shorter than that.

If I've learned anything from my horror movie viewing this October, it's don't go to remote manor houses. Nothing good ever happens there.

For Random Game Saturday, I have Seta's Nosferatu for the Super Famicom. What if Prince or Persia, but vampires and meaner? Kind of a hard to get game, too...

LSD: Revamped version 1.0 is now available on itch - the game is done! There is also an important announcement about the future of the project. Link below ⬇️

That is an interesting pairing of search results.

Most of my viewers say that they're an Efera rather than a Jiliora, which is kind of what I'd expect for people watching videos about PC Engine games.

Efera & Jiliora: The Emblem from Darkness is all about two women, traveling together, having fantasy adventures and being just very good friends. Nothing else. It's also a real disasterpiece of a game.... youtu.be/0jEL98c0n5s

I was going to do a weirdly fast turnout on a bonus video, but I realized I have a lot to say on the topic.

Gambler Jiko Chuushinha got its first new game in almost thirty years this year. In it he fights mahjong battles against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Weirdly, not even remotely the first mahjong game where you play against political figures.

The PC Engine Power compilations are moving up through 1989 which was the hey day of the system. youtu.be/G3tEElwiU2I

Looks like I get to be the most popular video online about this PC Engine game! Truly a spectacular feat!

Ah, nothing like a game where it will take me more time to explain the license than to explain the game itself.

Maybe my favorite photo from this collection is the booth for Shenmue at Tokyo Game Show Autumn 1999 It's a forklift. It's just a forklift.

The achievements for the Bubsy Purrfect Collection are a cry for help.

I am never happy when my predictions about the game industry turn out to be completely accurate.

Ballistix on the PC Engine was a port of a pretty well liked Amiga game all about slamming balls together. The results are a bit mixed... youtu.be/AEsN3qtc7To

So many people wanting to talk about Roger Dean's work on the Ballistix cover when that was one of the Psygnosis games that he didn't do the cover for.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the stories about how expensive the next console revisions will be were leaked as trial balloons to see how hostile consumers were to the pricing. I also suspect that there's people at Sony and Microsoft who were nervous before who are now in full freak out mode.

It appears tha Regis Galland is preparing to sell his SuperGrafx motherboard (replacement for use in with PC Engine). He;s ordering the parts, followed by the boards, and the product page is already prepared. www.polykubos.fr/en/video-gam...

Jaguar Math returns with a game that everyone had been waiting for: Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales. Besides missing the opportunity to spell it "Tails", this game's first four levels all look identical... youtu.be/NktwCRpSFMo

And it's not like the GameBoy homebrew scene is two guys keeping the flame alive. It's incredibly active. McDonald's released a homebrew GameBoy game a few years ago...

As I'm wrapping up my script for the next video, a horrible, horrible thought struck me. One of those intrusive thoughts. I am going to do something weird and stupid.

Niko Niko Pun for the PC Engine is a game based a show for preschoolers and the game is designed for that audience. Which raises the question: is it a good game for three-year-olds? youtu.be/j7tZesY6MPA

Considering dishing out the worst insult possible for a game: "The level design is like an Amiga platformer."

Remember girls... Show the world... Let them know... It's... HALLOWEEN.

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Genji Tsuushin Agedama is based on a TV show all about how great NEC products are and how you should buy them. The game, on the other hand, is surprisingly good with a complicated attack system. youtu.be/fo99MZnUAPU

My Steam wishlist is all weird mid-10s revivals of old games that were kind of bad, sold poorly, and were abandoned. This way if someone ever remembers to discount those games again in the future, I can pick them up.

For Random Gane Saturday, I have a sealed copy of Alexey's Dwice that I just paid a whole $5 for (plus shipping). It is very likely to be the final Alexey Pajitnov game that you can buy a physical copy of.

Sometimes I intentionally say something funky in a video just to get people to post comments. It's worked great this time.

Currently been in line for a donut for fifteen minutes. It's not even the good donut shop in town, just the one close to the grocery store so I could stop after shopping. I'd leave but it's impossible to get out of their lot without going through.

My mother: "You used to like to write. You should write another book." Me: "I've got more than enough on my plate at the moment..." My mother: "Oh, it could be about a person who gets sucked into a video game world!" Me: [Transmits an angry glare through the phone so hard it burns a hole.]

They just put that on everything.

In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris. Then he spent the next forty years making other things and none of them found the same success. They're overlooked, forgotten, and ignored, which is why I wanted to explore what Pajitnov did beyond Tetris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_L...

I think that Jantei Monogatari 2 might be the first game released on multiple CDs; disk one was released in February 1992 and disk two was April. I'm not aware of anyone else doing this until the FMV era really kicked in a year or two later. Of course it's a mahjong game.