arcade games
Retro game review: Dynamite Cop is a friendly beat-em-up that definitely isn’t Die Hard Arcade 2: for one thing, it’s on a boat
You will fight a kraken bare-handed in the depths of a cruise ship.
games
manga
I read manga biographies of pro mahjong players, so basically Idol Manga
If your otaku culture feels like idol stuff, but you’re not sure it’s idol stuff, look again, because it’s probably idol stuff.
video games
AYN Thor impressions - you can play everything, but you've gotta do it yourself
An emulator setup is kind of a project— a project of finding files, dragging and dropping them at great volume, and fiddling with settings— so I want to make an early impressions post on my new AYN Thor handheld before I make a final review. Why did I need a
video games
The Weekly, Sep. 10, 2025
I’m going to try something new today. I find I don’t always get around to talking about the stuff that I enjoy— which would be fine, except at this newsletter it is kind of my job— without writing a very long piece that usually spends a lot of
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.
games
An even and unbiased review of various online mahjong clients by the second-place winner of the 2025 Riichi City Tenkaichi tournament (1/2)
Not to brag or nothin’, I just want to get that out of the way so we’re all clear.
arcade games
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.
arcade games
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
arcade games
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
games
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.
arcade games
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.
games
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