fighting games
"...what I truly love about Sega’s arcade games is that they have always pursued a kind of magical realism. They’re obsessively detailed... but they aren’t actual simulations of real life. They’re exaggerations of it. That’s where you find the magic."
After Thanksgiving this year I got pretty sick. On the one hand it was a pretty nasty cold, and the cough didn’t completely leave after two weeks. (After that, family emergency followed, wiping my December clean.) On the other, I had just purchased a brand new gaming PC, and
I’m seeing a lot of people in the fighting game community get curious about Virtua Fighter 5 now that it finally has decent netplay coming via the re-release VF5: R.E.V.O., and I’m really happy to see it! Virtua Fighter 4 and 5 were games ahead
games
We can say that an anime is officially “for old people”– or, charitably, "a nostalgia title"– when it gets the pachinko/slot treatment. Incidentally, there are two different Code Geass slots on Gapoli.
arcade games
Before I go any further I need to explain the weird, fascinating legalized prize-room gambling going on in this app.
(This will contain spoilers for the now over 40-year-old original Gundam films. These plot points are so old and so well-known that even if you haven’t seen Mobile Suit Gundam, you’ve probably seen an anime that’s made a joke about them. Giving you a spoiler warning for
I saw a major Japanese idol group a few years ago. I won’t say who because I don’t want their fans to read this and take it the wrong way. That’s how idol stuff is, I’ve learned. There’s a reason for that word, “idol”, and
arcade games
"For example, the game gates progress with gear that only stays equipped for one dungeon and which costs medals to use: how interesting, you know what we call that? An ante!"
games
(This ran quite long so I decided to split it into two pieces: one is a general introduction to the concept, and the other is about the various bingo games I played.) Recently I got hooked on watching a Youtuber play various Japanese medal games— fake money gambling games with
If you want to get better at riichi mahjong, studying and evaluating one’s own games is a must. A major part of sharpening your technique is looking at your own decisions honestly, asking yourself “why did I do that?”, and using that information to correct bad habits. Lately, a
I came to the Kimagure Orange Road movie as part of an ongoing discussion between myself and other otaku friends who are likely reading this. Drawn in by the virtuosic opening sequences and Akemi Takada’s drawings of the heroine, I watched about 13 episodes of the TV series before
(I've got hardly any photos of interest from Sunday, so I'm going to continue to use Saturday shots, and use this space to show the cool cosplays that I didn't have room to put into prior reports.) You partied hard on Saturday and you