Far too often a game simply won’t be released in America because…well, it’s predecessor failed. Now for me, this is never acceptable, but I do understand. If a game has a huge following in Japan AND it’s an RPG, but it doesn’t really take off in America, they’re more likely to continue the series in […]
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The Fantastic World of Japanese Games – Episode 2
January 24th, 2012 
gunsage When playing Japanese SNES games on an emulator, often there are obvious and not so obvious reasons why a game may not have come out to America. The best way to think about it is was it an RPG, did it have suggestive themes, and did it have any sort of following here in America? […]
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January 23rd, 2012 gunsage People who understand emulation, even to a small degree, know all about the fantastic world of translated games that never left Japan. Most of the time it was for reasons like RPGs not selling well in America at the time, more mature content than they felt an American audience was ready for, or simply having […]
Wonderpod Episode 94
January 20th, 2012 Bruce McGee Here I come to fall off a cliff. Oh and I got a new episode of Wonderpod here somewhere. That is what recording the show felt like last night. Like we were running along in a field full of flowers. Then boom straight off a cliff into poo. Best part, the show still turned out […]
Xbox Live Price Increase (a year or so later)
January 19th, 2012 Bruce McGee I wonder if anyone even remembers that the price of Xbox live went up in late 2010. In this instant Internet age it’s easy to forget. I am sure the critics and people looking to fling poo haven’t forgotten. Zeus help Microsoft for doing anything to interrupt the status quo. Granted a lot of the […]
Wonderpod Episode 93
January 13th, 2012 Bruce McGee Friday has wandered in and with it another Wonderpod. Consider this the first regular show of the new year. Mind you there is nothing regular about the festival of merriment we are bringing. Any show you talk about food and old people has to be good. Eventually we get down to the business of video […]
Wonderpod Episode 92
January 6th, 2012 Bruce McGee Wonderpod is alive and well. We all enjoyed our brief hiatus and it shows. The main point of this episode was to make predictions for the coming year. While we accomplished the goal you will notice a theme through out the show. Feel free to look at the hilarious results of said theme at the […]
Stupid Shit Non-Gamers Say About Videogames
January 5th, 2012 gunsage Above: not really a gamer. Playing videogames isn’t quite the same as it used to be, but maybe that’s a good thing. People that don’t game at all that happen to stumble across our hobby seem to mistake videogames for an actual sport, kiddie toy, the devil, or many, many other things. These are things […]
FPS of the Year – 2002
January 4th, 2012 gunsage This was a great year, but it was hard to select a #1. There are 32 games this year and many of them I would highly recommend…with one I’d say just avoid altogether and try to forget it even exists. Let’s hop right in!
PatMan Picks TI99/4a Favorites. Munch Man.
December 31st, 2011 PatMan One of my all time favorite video games and characters for that matter is the legendary Pac-Man. To this day this action/puzzle game is still simple, addictive fun. However, back in the early days of home video games and early PC gaming, developers just could not make a great port for this arcade classic. As a matter of fact, most of the early […]
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