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.
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anime
Super Real Mahjong: Venus Returns delivers the quaint nudity of another age
So throughout, Venus Returns is kind of shocking. Not at all in terms of its sexual content— which is again quite tame— but in terms of the level of detail, the pains taken, the way you can actually hear buttons unfastening. Turns out video games are art, after all.
anime
Otakon 2026 report: fake food, dolls, an orchestra, ramen, and The Most Impregnatable Man In Fiction
Otakon’s my home convention; I rarely miss a year. Despite its very large size, a raw spirit of grassroots fan enthusiasm seems to fuel the event, even after its decades of operation. Today anime/manga has completely settled into the culture, and we get events here in New York
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Bonus: Retro Game Review - Battle Mania Daiginjo (Trouble Shooter 2)
There’s a lot of talk about the rising cost of mainstream video games right now, led of course by Grand Theft Auto 6 being priced at, effectively, $100. But taking inflation into account, video games used to be a lot more expensive than they are now: going by some
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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
arcade games
The Weekly April 23,2026 - Yoko Kanno, Guilty Gear reboots, CASTLE OF DRAGON
I saw Yoko Kanno in Brooklyn One thing about getting into middle age is that the culture starts targeting you. The pop music of your childhood starts playing at the pharmacy and in car commercials. The old-guy references on TV shows start to be about stuff your old ass
video games
Road to Empress deftly uses the movie-game format to place you in Tang China and kill you, over and over again
If you’re of a certain age, games using live-action movie footage snap your brain to the “full motion video” fad of the 90s and the middling games that resulted from it. (Or Dragon's Lair, if you're a Gen-Xer.) I had a Sega CD
arcade games
The Weekly: 10/27/25
It is good of the developer to let us imagine what “catlike reflexes” would really be like.
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The Weekly 10/13/25: Virtua Fighter at TGS, Ridge Racer On Switch 2 - Friends, it's 1994 again
This has actually been nearly in the can from a while ago, but I took an actual nice long break– the real kind, where you don't look at anything, even if you finally got a good idea for a Kawaiikochans comic– last week. Also, the thing I came
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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
video games
Bonus : You do not need the Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Education is walking far in front of entertainment here, advertisement's hanging out in the background, and grinding boredom is the main attraction.
arcade games
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 offers a pack of cult fighting classics... and also Ingrid
Part of me wants to say Capcom Vs. SNK 2 isn't that old. But I know. Haruhi Suzumiya is old too.