mahjong
An even and unbiased review of various online mahjong clients by the second-place winner of the 2025 Riichi City Tenkaichi tournament (2/2)
Niche mahjong choices, and therefore, Sega.
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I’d tell you more about the Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves beta if I hadn’t spent half my time waiting for a match
I had a great time playing City of the Wolves over the weekend and I’m looking forward to the completed game, but whether I buy it on launch or wait until it’s on sale depends entirely upon whether or not this online matchmaking experience improves.
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Bonus: Some of my favorite characters in Virtua Fighter 5 REVO
Now that the review-vital stuff is out of the way, I want to talk about the point that actually makes VF so fun and so rewarding to return to. That’s the characters, and how well-defined they are. I get that they don’t have the lore and story modes
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Virtua Fighter 5 REVO with rollback netcode is my Forever Video Game
Listen, I reviewed this game the last time it came out. On the Xbox 360. For Joystiq. Nine years ago. So I’m not going to write the same review again, say everything I’ve been yelling on street corners about Virtua Fighter for twenty years. I’ll try and
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Gapoli Pt. 2: I am going to review a bunch of medal games, and you're gonna either like that or you won't
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.
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Gapoli is not the Sega/Sammy Super Game, but you can trade your points for a TV, so maybe it actually is
Before I go any further I need to explain the weird, fascinating legalized prize-room gambling going on in this app.
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I inevitably got hooked on Konami medal games for a week - 2 - Coin pushers, horses, and everything else
"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!"
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I inevitably got hooked on Konami medal games for a week - 1 - Intro and Bingo
(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