So after FF1, I was still kinda feelin’ the NES RPG bug, and I mean hey… its sequel is right there, right? I had played FF1 before, a few times (though I had never beaten it). I had never played FF2, nor had I ever even seen anyone play it. I knew the main character cause of Dissidia, and I knew some horror stories about its mechanics… and als... Read More

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This is one of the first “Subsets” I’ve done in ages, or at least mastered. A subset is a bonus challenge set for a game, usually. So in this instance, I did not do the set for Pokemon Blue. Instead, I did a Professor Oak’s challenge. What’s Prof Oak’s Challenge? It’s simple. You need to get a maxed out Pokedex at every single instance you can... Read More

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I had recently played UFO 50, and that game has a game inside it called Grimstone, which is basically an attempt to make a FF1 clone. After playing it and loving it, I decided I wanted to play FF1 again. So I did. I’d never actually beaten it before, though I do own a copy on my NES. I got to the Volcano and then it got too hard. Well, no bett... Read More

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Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Alter Ego - VOY 2/10 This... Read More

Early on in this year, I played Pokemon TCG, and Pokemon TCG 2. These are both RPGs on the Gameboy where the battle gameplay is the Pokemon TCG, using cards from the early sets. I had the first as a kid, and the second never came out here, but I played it and loved it, it might be even better than the first. And then… that was it. Nintendo nev... Read More

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I didn’t own a SNES when I was a kid, but when I was like, 13-ish in the mid 2000s, my brother’s girlfriend gave us her childhood SNES. It had three games: Inspector Gadget, Super Mario World, and Mario Paint. Out of those three, Mario Paint was prolly my most played, even as a cynical and grumpy 13 year old. And as a cynical and grumpy woman ... Read More

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It took me about a month before I picked up Earthbound and played through it, after Mother 1. After Earthbound, I picked up Mother 3 the following day. And after starting it, I did almost nothing else but play it, for a full on week. Mother 3 is one of those… very special games, and I had never actually beaten it before. I HAD played it, and g... Read More

(By the way this is one of the best yuri manga ever and is highly recommended if you’ve never seen it before) source: Yuki and the Authoress Read More

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While you were dating girls in highschool, I was studying the kiss- wait. source: Seven Days in Silverglen Read More

While you were dating girls in highschool, I was studying the kiss- wait. source: After Kissing Many Girls, I Became A Yuri Kisser… Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Waltz - DS9 10/10 We st... Read More

If you come to my webbed site hoping for more than yuri, sorry, I haven’t really wanted to write lately lol source: After Kissing Many Girls, I Became A Yuri Kisser… Read More

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It’s no big deal for two girls to kiss! It’s no big deal for two girls to kiss deeply, their tongues intertwining as they wrap their arms around each other, hearts beating hard and fast as one wraps a leg around- source: Childhood Sweetheart Liaoliao Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Sacrifice of Angels - DS9 ... Read More

Shit, now that people aren’t immediately being thrown in jail for being gay, you see gay people all the time. I wonder why that is. source: Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! Read More

By the way I uploaded yuri yesterday too but I forgot to hit go live until like midnight lol oops, so go back and look at that yuri too source: Questionable Content Read More

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A month ago, September 20th in fact, I mastered Mother 1, and made a post about it. I should go back and change that post. I feel like I was focusing a bit too hard on Mother 1 and comparing it to Mother 2, and didn’t talk enough about what I liked about it. I’ll try to do a little less of that this time, though some of that will probably come... Read More

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Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Future’s End II - VOY 4/10 ... Read More

Had a dream last night that Games Done Quick was taking place in my Elementary School’s cafeteria this year They had a giant pool installed in the ground, and one of the most anticipated runs of the year was a real life run where my friend Dowolf was going to swim, with no gear, in the pool, and the walls and floors would rise up and move out a... Read More

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I know jack shit about Ultraman. But I do know kusoge fighting games, and this is one of em! Based on several years of Ultraman, Ultraman: Legendary Giant of Light, how it’s translated here, is a fighting game on the Saturn by SIMS. If you don’t know them, they’re VERY prolific. SIMS, or “Soft development Innovation Multi Success”, though no ... Read More

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Tits so good they give you PTSD Also yesterday was the first day since I started my blog that I didn’t post yuri. I went out to the park early to hang with friends then I felt like shit for the rest of the day so I didn’t post yuri lol please forgive me. source: Hana Ni Arashi Read More

UFO50 was a collection of 50 games made over the course of seven years by LX Systems, later UFOSoft. It was made in celebration of their 50th game, and while it seems like it might never have been released, it was found 30 years later by some nerds in an old warehouse, as seen in the cracktro intro for the game. So, what’s the purpose of al... Read More

UFO50 has a built in terminal. It’s not a secret thing, it’s right there, in the menu. This is implied to be the terminal of the computer itself, which you can use to access files and execute commands directly, rather than use the GUI of the game itself. There are a lot of more obvious uses for this terminal. Several games will tell you codes ... Read More

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And now we finally reach the end. The final game, Cyber Owls, released July of 1989. The 50th game that UFOSoft released, and as far as we’re aware, the final one. Cyber Owls is the biggest and most ambitious game to date. The brainchild of Tao Nemuru’s son, Winston Nemuru, who had a GREAT idea. It’s the late 80s, and you know what’s popular? ... Read More

Way back in the Campanella 2 review, I brought up the “NES 2nd game black sheep” syndrome. I think in this universe, it’s actually the third game that fits that, because I can totally see alternate universe nerds playing this game and going “yes it’s good, but it’s such a departure from the rest of the series that it’s a bit of a black sheep”.... Read More

Seaside Drive is the brainchild of long-time artist Shayn North, and his only time in the director’s chair. Thanks to his influence, Seaside Drive is a breath of fresh air, with unique art and style that makes it once of the best games in the collection. Seaside drive is my personal favorite shmup in the collection, and it’s not even really... Read More

I got a surprising amount to say about this game, which is funny, cause it’s not what I’d expect. To start, this is a remake of an ancient game from 2004 that is still up on Newgrounds, and you can play it now. It hasn’t changed very much in the past 20 years. Quibble Race is a horse racing simulator, with some REALLY dark twists. You bet ... Read More

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Ahhh, this is one of the big ones, and a perfect game to usher us into the End Times. Often times when people play this game on a stream or something, conversations happen about the quality. What’s your favorite game? Your least favorite? There’s a lot of answers for favorite, but for least favorite, there’s usually only three. This one is the... Read More

Here it is. One of the big ones. When people talk about this game, it’s usually listed as their favorite. It WAS my favorite, but it’s fallen a bit. Still top 10 for sure. I’ll talk about my reasons why later. But yeah, this is a very VERY beloved game. Let’s find out why. Taking place in the Partyverse, Amy the Party Girl is throwing yet a... Read More

AGES ago when I was talking about Party House, I mentioned that it was one of two games that feels less of its time and more like a modern game backdated, cause it’s a genre that didn’t exist until the 2000s. That is, deck builders. This is the other one of those, and this genre is even newer. Y’all like clicker games? Because wowee zowee, thi... Read More

My fifth favorite game, Elfazar’s Hat fills a niche that is sadly ignored. Y’all know Pocky and Rocky? It’s a REALLY cool game pretty beloved. It’s also really, REALLY fucked up. That game is bonkers hard. It is for sickos, and it is mean as a mother fucker. But it’s so cool and charming! What if we took that game and made it… playable? Inser... Read More

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Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! A Time to Stand - DS9 8/10... Read More

While UFO Soft has toyed with scary, isolating, spooky, and macabre conecpts before, with games like in Divers, or Fist Hell, or hell even Waldorf’s Journey, this game goes far, far beyond that. The only game with a WARNING, this is a straight up horror game. And it makes sense. It’s the first, and only game (unless you count UFO 50 itself) th... Read More

Inspired by the Indian game of Carrom, Diskonia is a board-game esque strategy game. Pretty unique and cool, I liked it at first glance, but I hear a lot of people don’t like it very much and find it tedious. We’ll see what you think as I explain it, though! In Lords of Diskonia, you have a campaign of ten levels. Each level has a map, whic... Read More

Oh man, we’re finally here. This is my #3 favorite game in the pack. We’ve got #1, Magic Garden, and #2, Divers, and now finally it’s #3. This is Grimstone, which takes place in the same universe as early 1987’s Rail Heist, but it actually started development before Rail Heist did. I mean, it makes sense. Grimstone is, by far, the biggest game... Read More

Another Shmup, it’s been a little bit! And this one is a VERY classic top down shmup. Humans have been living immortal thanks to the Blue Flower, a magic flower they found on a planet that is inspired by a painting they have hanging in the UFOSoft Offices. Things were good, until a horde of bugs came out of nowhere and started destroying every... Read More

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We are now entering into what I call UFOSoft’s “India Period”. This game takes place in India. The following game has a character who I’m PRETTY sure is supposed to be Indian. Game #41 is directly inspired by an Indian board game. I imagine someone on staff went to India and came back EXTREMELY inspired, which is such a fucking game dev thing,... Read More

One of the more immediately interesting games at first glance, Valbrace draws players in as soon as they see it exists. How could it not? Valbrace is a hardcore dungeon crawler, a classic 80s design that some people are really REALLY into. I’m pretty into them, myself. Grimrock is wicked, and I love a good blobby. As I played more of this thou... Read More

Every company needs their fighting game, right? Taking place in the same universe as their other hits, Hyper Contender brings back the Pits of Phogon from Overbold, prolly worked on around the same time tbh. It’s a platformer fighter, less a “traditional” 2D fighter and more something a little unique. And thus better. I’m sorry, I hate the ... Read More

I have a theory I call “8-Bit 2nd Game Syndrome”. It’s that games from the 8-bit era that evolved into series would try something completely different and weird in the 2nd game, which would be completely ignored in future installations. Mario 2 USA. Zelda 2. Metroid 2. All the black sheep of the franchise. Does Campanella 2, UFO Soft’s flagshi... Read More

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Three years and 27 games after her introduction, the Space Pirate Alpha returns! Remember, she’s the Samus-esque character from Velgress. After her struggles in Velgress, she’s broke with no ship. Her only hope of getting the money for a new ship is to fight in the Red Arena, a blood sport arena where the more you fight, the more you win. O... Read More

It’s been a little bit, we’ve got another game in the Partyverse! You can tell, because Amy is here. She’s the protagonist of Party House, and is in Hot Foot. You can also see the gym from Hot Foot, along with “GO GATORS!” signs. It’s cute. Anyways, on to the game. Fist Hell is a belt scrolling beat em up, most clearly influenced by Double ... Read More

The long awaited sequel to Mortol 2 is here! And while Chun came up with the original idea, it was kind of changed to make the game more fun and pleasant. But now HE’S in control, that ol fuddy duddy Smolski is gone, so now Chun can do whatever he wants. And he wants to go back to his original idea, with MORTOL II! The government is bringing ... Read More

It is mid 1987, and UFO Soft has moved fully into its new offices! These new offices have a LOT of nice ammenities, including an indoor minigolf course, and a bunch of pinball machines. The new boss, Mr. Nemura, is really into collecting games it seems, so he has a bunch of old ones for the in-office arcade. Cool! Inspired by these, the team m... Read More

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Another game that feels less retro and more modern based on its genre and concept, Rock On! Island is a tower defense game from 1987. This genre basically wasn’t a thing until the early 2000s with flash games. But hey, whatever works, I’m here to review the games, not anochronistic issues. Rock On! Island follows you as Ug, the young chief of... Read More

Vainger is one of those games that, when you see it, and you see the scope and what it is they’re actually trying here, you go “ohhh shit”. Cause this is a metroidvania, and yes, we’ve had those already, sure. But it’s REALLY a metroidvania. It’s UFO Soft’s Metroid. In Vainger you play as a doctor who is tied to a robot combat suit, the Vaing... Read More

Lots to talk about with the backstory for this one. Rail Heist is the first game with credits since Tao Nemuru bought the company and became CEO and producer, and since Gerry Smolski left the company in the power struggle. In the credits of this game we see Tao Nemuru as producer, and the manager he brought into the company, Ian Spinzer. We no... Read More

I FUCKING love this game. All that stuff about Nemuru and Smolski and the politics of the office, throw that out the window for this one. We have no idea who made this game. There are no credits. I can guess, though. You can find mooncat and Barbuta in here, and the game’s energy and vibe are…. deafening. And it’s one of the weirdest most cre... Read More

I felt like absolute garbage today, massive migraine day, so I decided to take the day off from doing anything actually important and I kinda just played games while watching Todd in the Shadows and videos about Archie Sonic. I decided to pick up and play this game, which I had played earlier this week on stream and decided after an hour that ... Read More

Y’all want the D? Thank you, thank you, that’s the kind of comedy you can expect here at my blog. D is a 1995 first person point and clicky type horror game originally made for the 3DO and later ported to other consoles like the PS1 and the Saturn. I played the Saturn version, because of course I did. It was made by Warp and Kenji Eno, who w... Read More

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Hot Foot is one of the most important games in the entire UFO Soft canon, which is very funny, cause when I first played it, I got none of that, and it felt like the most nothing game I’d ever played. Let’s start with what the game is, then I’ll go into the very deep lore around its creation, its existence, and Gerry Smolski. Hot Foot is an... Read More

One of the best, and most popular games, in the entire collection, Party House is one of two games that in my opinion kind of breaks that retro vibe. Because this is NOT a retro game. It is a modern game with modern sensibilities in a modern genre, with a slap of retro paint on it. This game is a deck builder, something that maybe existed at t... Read More

Another Chun concept, even though Petters directs and programs it, Caramel Caramel is an early shmup, very akin to something like Gradius, but with a twist, as a lot of UFO Soft games are like. It’s a side scrolling shmup where you control a cute little spaceship and her friend as they explore the galaxy, checking out all the different tourist... Read More

Ahhh, Onion Delivery. This is one of the big ones in the collection. And by that I mean, usually considered one of the worst. People do not like this game. I’m people, in this instance. It WAS my absolute bottom of the barrel least favorite when I did my first two tier lists, but after cherrying everything, it’s now like… bottom 5. But why is ... Read More

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This is another big grower. In my mind, I compare this extremely heavily to Golfaria, as they’re both very similar. Both are metroidvania-esque games. Both involve exploring out, but with a limited resource for exploration so you have to go back to base a lot. And exploration is EXTREMELY unpelasant, until get a few powerups and have some leew... Read More

This is maybe the weirdest game in the entire pack, which is saying something considering the pack has Barbuta, Mooncat, and Divers. I want you to imagine something, for a minute. Imagine it is alternate universe 1986. You go to Blockbuster and see a game on the shelf called “Waldorf’s Journey”, which has a cute walrus on the front. Oh boy! Y... Read More

Warptank is mayb ethe MOST like an NES game to me. It feels EXTREMELY like an NES game you’d play from like 1987. For 1985 it feels really ahead of its time, but it’s a damn good game. In Warptank, you must save the world from the evils of Big Tank. You do this by going into the different parts of a space station, and sever its ties to “Capsu... Read More

Every game company needs a Mario Kart, right? Well it’s not really Mario Kart-ish. It’s a very 80s feeling racing game, to me. Made in literally two weeks, using the same system from Campanella to try and cash in on the success, this game expands the Campanella universe by introducing some new characters! Most aren’t important, except for P... Read More

I finally got around to playing Lunacy/Torico, the final game in the Mansion series. Kinda. So, there was a game called Mansion of Hidden Souls, and then it got a sequel, called The Mansion of Hidden Souls, which was… worse, and much more poorly named. And then only a year or so later we get this, Lunacy/Torico, the final game, not technically... Read More

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I think no game grew on me more over the course of my playing it than Golfaria. When I first played Golfaria, I really didn’t like it. I played it more, and realized I kiiind of hated it? It was in D tier in my first tier list. But the entire time I was playing it, I was like “there’s something I’d love in here, something extremely fun and cre... Read More

Here it is. The big one. This is the most influential game in the entire catalogue. Campanella would be their big breakthrough hit, possibly saving the company from bankruptcy, and influencing a complete brand change, as by the following year, they’d have changed their name from LX Systems to “UFO Soft”. But for now, this is still an LX System... Read More

This was the second game I finished, which look longer and more brain power than Magic Garden. I 100%’d it in a single sitting, which is a good sign. Camouflage is a unique puzzle game, where you play as a lizard. The gods of this world, the sun and the raincloud, believe you have it too easy, and cannot evolve this way, and so they introdu... Read More

My first mastery since Cohost closed, and also my first mastery in two weeks, since I went so extremely hard on UFO 50. But I’m back. It’s the spoop month, so what better month to work on some spoopy games? Soul Void Redux is a remaster of a sort of the game Soul Void, a free homebrew horror Gameboy game by artist Kadabura. It’s a bit of a ... Read More

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I don’t think any game fell for me harder than Block Koala. When I first opened Block Koala, I was ecstatic! It’s a sokoban game! I love sokoban! Unfortunately, it seems I forgot the unfortunate truth. Not every sokoban game is Void Stranger. Most are not. This is a pretty standard sokoban title, with the twist of a few unique mechanics. B... Read More

One new staff member for this one, Lanila Baler, who’s brought on for additional graphics staff. The office is quite packed. Also, I forgot to mention Joy Akebi joined for Avianos, which is wild cause she’s one of my favorite members of staff, so I went back and fixed that. So, LX Systems has made 13 games now, and uh, it’s not going amazingl... Read More

It is 1985, and while it’s important to note that Thorson Petters has worked at the company the entire time since he originally made Barbuta in 1982, he has not really headed a project SINCE then. He’s made all of the music and sounds for the past 11 games, but never has he directed his own specific game, since Barbuta. Why is that? Well, this... Read More

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This is one of the most out there games of the entire collection, just showing that despite LX Systems not really having much commercial success in this period, they were making some REALLY out there and fascinating games. And, frankly, EXTREMELY uncommercial. Fuckin’ look at this thing. This is also the first game in a bit with some new memb... Read More

This one is one of my favorites of the collection. Kick Club is a single screen action arcade game, in the same vein as Bubble Bobble. Games like this, inspired usually by Bubble Bobble, were quite commonplace back in the day, especially in arcades. They were tough as nails, and fun as hell with friends. In Kick Club you play as either a g... Read More

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We’ve got the core team for LX Systems, there won’t be too many changes for at least a little while, so there’s not much to say about this game other than to talk about the game itself. Attactics is a strategy action game that’s pretty different from anything I’ve played. It’s a realtime turnbased game. You’ve got a 5x8 grid, and units will s... Read More

Devilition has an interesting IRL story behind it. So I’ve been talking about the in-universe characters who supposedly made these games, and are credited as such, but there’s a REAL actual team of actual people who made them, and they kinda split up the work, each person creating a few different games. I’m not sure who created what, exactly, ... Read More

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I’m gonna make more of these a day so this doesn’t take me literally 50 days. This is one of the more important games in the canon of LX Systems, because it is the first appearance of Zoldath, a major setting for their games, the little red UFO that will become their trademark symbol down the way, and its pilot, named… Pilot. Neither the UFO ... Read More

I’m gonna make more of these a day so this doesn’t take me literally 50 days. Still in early 1984, we’ve got a game that’s pretty important for two reasons. One is that it introduces yet another staff member to LX Systems! Her name is Chiffon Bola, and while I don’t hear much talk about her from fans who discuss the meta narrative of UFO 50, ... Read More

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Mortol has a lot of interesting things about it’s backstory, so bear with me. We’ll start with the concept. Benedikt Chun came up with the original concept of this game, but is notably absent in its credits, except for graphics. There are few hints as to why. Mortol 2’s description, and a hidden code that changes the way the game plays, expla... Read More

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It is the turn of 1984, the LX is already a little long in the tooth. Technology was evolving considerably in the 80s, and yesterday’s top machine is today’s trash. Shit, not much has changed, but it was almost more pronounced back then. So in 1984, LX Systems released not only their next game, but an entirely new computer to go along with it,... Read More

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It’s nearing the end of 1983, and we’ve got a new game by LX Systems! This one is called Paint Chase, and it’s designed by Gerry Smolski. Up until this point it hasn’t been exactly apparent what Smolski or Chun brought to the table, but it’s made clear here. While Smolski had made a board game in the past, at LX Systems, he was the hardware sp... Read More

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Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Basics, Part 2 - VOY 7.5/10 ... Read More

Following Bug Hunter, the trio of Petters, Chun, and Smolski needed to make a new game. Their previous two games were a little… uncommercial, maybe? Bug Hunters was an interesting but kind of difficult to grok puzzle strategy game about mutant bugs, and Barbuta is… challenging. But there’s something big sweeping the nation in 1983… that’s righ... Read More

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The year is 1983, only a few months after Barbuta was unleashed onto the world. Thorson Petters, the artist, was nearly fired for making the game on company time, but after his bosses played it, they actually ended up enjoying it. What if, instead of focusing on business applications, this little computer could be used for entertainment? So the ... Read More

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Had a dream last night that I had to fake my own death in order to get the One True President elected. It was basically a One True King plot, but with a president of the United States. So in my dream, my brother was a member of some ancient order trying to bring balance and progression to the United States, and there’s a presidential candidate ... Read More

Over the past two years I’ve been on Cohost, I’ve posted a lot of my weirder more interesting dreams over on the site. As a push to move my stuff onto my new website, this is a GIANT post, showing all of those dreams. There’s some darker and weirder stuff in here, so uh, you’ve been warned I guess. My subconscious is weird. One time I had a d... Read More

I’ll begin my review of Barbuta by telling a story. I was showing UFO 50 to my girlfriend Amethyst, and showing her some games. “Oh this is a platformer” “It’s a cute arcadey game I like”. Then I got to this game, and said “Please tell me what you think this game is, in the next 5 seconds”. I then walked to the right, stepped on a nearly invis... Read More

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Yesterday Cohost closed its doors. Since then I keep instinctively opening tabs to check what people have been saying. So, this is it. This is my home now. It feels…. quiet. Kind of isolating. I do like this blog conceptually, for being able to post all my longform content and thoughts, but it feels a lot more clunky for shortform content. If I... Read More

UFO 50 is a game that came out September 18th, made by Mossmouth. I’d not heard of it until about two months ago, when I was playing Monkey Ball on stream and someone went “HOLY SHIT UFO50 GOT A RELEASE DATE” and I was like “what”. When they explained the game and its history to me, I went “huh, okay”, with a bit of a shrug. Sounded kinda neat... Read More

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Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Apocalypse Rising - DS9 8.... Read More

She hurried down the sidewalk, trying to pick up her pace, without ruining all the effort she had just put in. Breathing a little heavily, she finally reached her destination, kneeling over slightly. “S-sorry to keep you waiting!” The woman she was meeting, Cassidy Hairmonster, glanced at her from the corner of her eye. She was leaning against ... Read More

A girl for a boyfriend?! What will they think of next? Maybe we should name this concept! Maybe something like a girlboyfriend. Source: Bedroom Telepathy Read More

Continuing my PC88 kick, it’s about time I got to some porn. There is a LOT of porn on this computer. Technically two of my PC88 games I’ve done so far have already been porn, but they’re also like, games. One was a QIX clone with porn, and the other was a sliding tile puzzle. This game has literally no purpose other than to get a girl t... Read More

Oh boy. Hydlide is a game series that’s pretty… easily mocked. And commonly! Ever since I heard about it from AVGN back in the late 2000s, I often hear it ridiculed as a terrible game. But at the same time, there’s a lot of Hydlide defenders out there. Self proclaimed Hydlide Sickos. And when people talk about Hydlide 1, the original Hydl... Read More

This is legit my reaction when people tell me the reasons they’re into me Source: The Marriage Partner of My Dreams Turned Out To Be… My Female Junior at Work?! Read More

This is one of the weirder ones. Okay, so Telenet Japan was a game company in the 80s, very influential at the time. They made a bunch of games that, at the time, were big deals. Nowadays, not so much. You’ve got stuff like Valis, XZR, a bunch of great shmups, they were a big publisher too, publishing Wolf Team’s magnum opus, Earnest Evans.... Read More

And when she said “I want to have wild lesbian sex with you” I bet she just meant she wanted to hang out, gosh, how embarrassing that I misunderstood her! Source: The Marriage Partner of My Dreams Turned Out To Be… My Female Junior at Work?! Read More

When I first started Retro Achievements, I went around the site hunting for games that were very important and special to me. And that usually means that I knew it extremely well, and I speedran it. That works for this game too. It’s another one I owned as a kid, and my… second speedgame? It’s up there, it was a really early one for me. ... Read More

So I kinda like the idea of just, focusing on a console and playing a bunch of random games from that console. It’s a fun thing, gives you a snapshot into it. Plus, playing all the obscure random shit you can find in a console helps you find some real gems! The PC88 is different. I was looking through the library on RA, trying to find t... Read More

Me anytime I see two women so much as look each other in the eyes for any length of time Source: A Cute Guy Read More

So I kinda like the idea of just, focusing on a console and playing a bunch of random games from that console. It’s a fun thing, gives you a snapshot into it. Plus, playing all the obscure random shit you can find in a console helps you find some real gems! The PC88 is different. I was looking through the library on RA, trying to find thing... Read More

Source: Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki! Read More

Look not every game I do has to be some big event. I dunno why I discovered this game. Or why I fell in love with it. But I did. I speedran it way back in the day. It’s not a good speedrun. It’s barely a good game. It’s a 1990 puzzle game by Vik Tokai, and is very simple. You have some blocks, and you have a boaord. You can flip and rotate ... Read More

The scheme is a game that kind of wears its influences on its sleeve. Made by Onionsoft, a one man team, and Bothtec, who’d later become Quest, the Ogre Battle people, it’s a 1988 metroidvania for the PC88, and I can only assume the devs played a lot of Metroid and went “Hey, this is fun, let’s do something like this”. That’s not to say ... Read More

So a year ago, I started my journey on Retro Achievements. I’ve been posting about it a lot of Cohost, where every mastery, I talk about the game. But I started at like, game #40. So I have a lot of posts I just never made. Gonna fix that here. We’re starting from the start. If you’re wondering what this series is, I basically play a game, an... Read More

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This is one of my favorite games of all time, and I’ll start this review off by telling a story. I got into emulation in like, 2000. My brother showed me Nesticle when I was around 8 or 9, and introduced me to the reason HE got into emulation, which was to play Dragon Warrior, a game he played once at a friend’s house in the early 90s an... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! …We are not optimistic about V... Read More

Are video games art? Well yes, obviously. But they are usually entertainment and money-makers first and foremost. That’s almost exclusively their purpose. But what if it wasn’t? What if ART was important? Yes, this isn’t anything new. Also, “Are Video Games Art” conversations make me want to die. But even though there are a LOT of artsy games o... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Note: This isn’t complete yet!... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! This is supposedly when DS9 ... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! TIME TO START VOYAGER. We were... Read More

I want to preface this post with stating, I am not a pervert, but I am a big fan of Qix. Gals Panic is a venerable series of games by Kaneko that’s just a straight up rip off of ACTUAL venerable arcade game, Qix. The series is almost 100% porn, but there ARE a couple Gals Panic games that are NOT porn. This is one of them! I’ve been foc... Read More

More Saturn masteries, this one is “The Mansion of Hidden Souls”, or as I called it cause of that terrible title screen font, “the mansion of kitten souls”. It’s a sequel to the Sega CD game “Mansion of Hidden Souls”. Uh, yeah. Can you see the problem? This is a DIRECT sequel, it is NOT the same game. Why is the name exactly the same but... Read More

Making a homebrew on the Sega Saturn is MASSIVELY impressive to me, no matter what it is. This is Cubecat, specifically a version of it from like 2021 or 2022. This game is still being worked on and improved, but this version is more of a tech demo to show off the engine and whatnot. There are three levels of simple 3D platforming, and that... Read More

Yo, Yesterday I finished up a massive 20 hour playthrough of Cave Noire, a really great game. I also played DeJig: Lassen. Or Lassen Dejig, as I kept calling it, cause it’s right there at the top. It’s uh, a jigsaw puzzle game for the Sega Saturn. It took me 8 hours. 8 hours yesterday of Jigsaw puzzles. My brain is a mush. I spent most of... Read More

After like 18 hours, I’ve FINALLY mastered Cave Noire for the Gameboy. This is a 1991 Konami roguelike for the gameboy that is STUNNINGLY ahead of its time. Like, holy shit. This should have blown minds in 1991. If this was released today, EXACTLY the same, with no changes, on itch.io, people’d be pretty into it I think. The premise is ... Read More

Gamtec were a very special company who’s whole deal was making bootlegs on the Sega Genesis. Yep! It’s ROCKMAN X3 ON THE SEGA GENESIS. THAT’S NOT WHERE THAT BELONGS! This is an extremely jank port of Mega Man X3 to the Genesis. It uh… it looks good? If you look at these pics, you’ll never know how uh, weird the music sounds, or how poorl... Read More

This game is a very special one. Bongo is a 1983 arcade game, a conversion kit of Galaxian. What is a conversion kit? Well, back in the day, you’d by an arcade game, like Galaxian, which is cheaper and accessible (there were SO MANY copies of Galaxian made that even now they’re like less than a hundred bucks for a PCB), and once it become... Read More

I am a huge fan of block stackers and the like, and this is a real classic. Well not THIS one, but this one. Magical Drop is a venerable series, and there were a lot of games in the series. But the big one that everyone agrees is the best, Magical Drop 3, does not have a set for some reason. So I did Magical Drop Pocket instead, for the Ne... Read More

I kinda wasted my big #50 on something small but eh, I wanted to play Pepper II. Pepper II is one of my favorite arcade games, a simple but fast paced, frantic, and addicting maze game. The concept is that you are zipping up these pathways, and once you fully zip up a square, it’s filled in. Fill in all the squares to win, and go into the... Read More

More masteries! Been powering through the PCE this week, and this game is one that REALLY caught my eye. I’ve been wanting to look at this game for years. This is The Manhole, an early game made by Cyan, the Myst devs. And I am a HUGE Myst fan. We have this game to thank for Myst, essentially, and practically the whole first person point... Read More

Command? Mastered Dragon Warrior today! Or Dragon Quest I. This game and I have a LOT of history, and it’s a very special game for me. Possibly the first RPG I ever played. I needed something to play that I could play while focusing on other things, something low effort and chill that I knew front to back, and Dragon Warrior is that game ... Read More

I mastered two games today! This one is a TG16 homebrew title by Aetherbyte. The game is free on their itch, and is essentially a free homebrew tech demo. It was a very simple set that literally took me 6 minutes and 5 seconds to master. It starts with a “Winners Don’t Do Drugs” 90s Arcade screen, but a parody making fun of some TG16 repro... Read More

More TG-16 games! This one is Tricky Kick, took me about 6 or so hours to fully master. I actually own this game! Or well, my boyfriend does, but his collection is mine~ muahaha. What a weird cover art lmao The game is a very simple puzzle game, and I know I’ve played other games like it, but I can’t remember what they’re called. You walk... Read More

Game #45 is done, Fausette Amour for the PC-Engine CD! I’m doing lots of PC-Engine stuff this month, because of a website-wide event. So expect some PCE masteries comin’ your way =w= This one took me about 4 and a half hours, and was mostly level-completion achievements, no-hit bosses, and a no-continues playthrough. First is THIS… exci... Read More

Took about 30 hours of gameplay, apparently. The 44th game I’ve 100%’d on Retro Achievements, this is one of my favorite games of all time, one I’m SUPER into, and have wanted to do since starting RA. But it’s very intimidating. I’d never 100%’d PDS before, and uh, after doing it… I’m glad I did! But I’m probably not doing this again. ... Read More

NOTE: These are posts I made on Cohost, and where I started talking about the games I mastered, as I mastered them. They are out of order for this reason. I’m going through and posting all my old content, so this is the oldest one even though it’s #43. Okay back to the review. I said the other day I might start doing this. Well, I’m doing thi... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Descent Part 2 - TNG 7/10 ... Read More

Anime tie-in video games are almost always bad. There are good ones, of course, but like, they’re a cash grab, right? They’re there to cater to otaku who really love the anime and would buy any merch, and thus like anything, they’re not there to like, make a statement, or even sometimes be ACCURATE to the source material. They’re there to make a... Read More

I wanna do these again. Let’s go. The Saturn is a TREASURE TROVE of obscure goodness. Most people have not played a bunch of Saturn Games. But everyone does have the littlest bit of information about a few of the more special Saturn games. This one is one you MIGHT have heard of, if you are a fan of another very popular 90s series. But probably... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! The Search, Part 1 - DS9 9/... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of these episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! ….Unfortunately, my Firefox cr... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! We’re watching Star Trek Deep S... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in d mopepth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Starting season 5! Gettin... Read More

Ah, the puzzle genre. And when I say puzzle, I mean very specifically what I call “Action Puzzle” games. Games like your Tetris or your Puyo, where you have kinda arcadey action and must react to patterns and hazards in order to keep playing. It’s a genre that has faded with time, though everyone still does love and play at LEAST one. I don’t ... Read More

It has been ten thousand years. I used to do this series of posts on here where I talked about all my favorite obscure games I had discovered exploring the various retro libraries out there. I didn’t run out of games, obviously, but my focus has been elsewhere recently. But one of the first posts on this I did was Ogre Battle 64, and I finally ... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Future Imperfect - TNG 8/10... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! We’re watching Star Trek Deep S... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Season 2 is literally coming ou... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Neli, my friend I’m watchin’ th... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! Time to start… SEASON 3!! ... Read More

Every Sunday my Twitch subs and I watch Star Trek in my Discord. Here are my reviews and thoughts on each of the episodes as I see it. If you’re curious about a nerd’s views on Star Trek episodes, please read on, I go quite in depth with some of this episodes! I’ve watched some Star Trek before but not all of it! We’re out of Season 1. And we... Read More

It is the early 90s. Adventure games are at a feverish pitch (…or at least it seems it), thanks to the massive success of games like Myst and 7th Guest. It would appear that the future, or as it is, the NOW is 3D rendered point and click adventure games with breathtaking visuals! Games that attempted to follow this trend almost always failed. A... Read More

No more Kirk! No more Spock! A little more Bones. It is finally time Continuing on my quest to watch and talk about EVERY Episode of Trek ever made, we’re on to THE NEXT GENERATION It’s been a long time. And season 1 has… growing pains. But I’m excited Energize Encounter at Far Point Part 1 - TNG 7/10 A tentative seven. All the stuff wi... Read More

Hey! Are you a nerd who likes retro games? You follow me, so the chances are likely. Are you a nerd who likes retro games but hasn’t explored the Saturn library? Well, looking at the sales of the Saturn, the chances are also highly likely. Well, why don’t you Try(rush) Tryrush Deppy? :D whispers whispers glances at Ebay listing Why don’t you ... Read More

So I was talking about the Original Xbox, and how it’s possibly the most underrated console. It’s really only viewed as The Halo Machine, which is SO unfair to it. Halo is good, yes, we all know that. But there’s so much more. What people DON’T know is that there were a lot of JP exclusive games on the console That’s a really weird thing to thi... Read More

So, over the past year, I have been watching the entirety of Star Trek, and been posting my thoughts on all the episodes and movies as I watch them. Now, I’ve been posting them on Twitter, and I’ll probably continue to do so until that website explodes. But I’ve been putting off putting all my thoughts on this site…. but I’ll go ahead and do tha... Read More

There are so many games I want to play. As in, all of them. But so many are hidden behind language barriers, and it makes me really sad. I was thinking about a game today that will NEVER be translated into English that fascinates me greatly. I dunno if it’s even particularly… good? But it’s really fascinating and that alone makes me want to give... Read More

THE DREAMCAST WILL NEVER DIE! Sega’s last gasping breath at staying in the hardware market, The Sega Dreamcast is sadly left behind by today’s common populace, but with a rabid fanbase that will sing its praises all day any day, and that included the praises of its games. But for all the Power Stones and the Sonic Adventures, there were of cour... Read More

We’re not out of the Saturn Mines yet, folks. I have a LOT of Saturn games I could talk about in this series. And I’d love to. Speaking of which, STEAMGEAR MASH! I first discovered this game while on a deepdive for obscure Saturn gold. I found this and Tryrush Deppy, which I’ll get to later. This one stood out to me because of it’s aesthetics. ... Read More

I posted a thread about this on Twitter and it’s getting kinda big by my standards, so I kinda wanted to talk about it here too, cause this is a fun topic. I’m not really a car girl, that’s never been my thing. And I like electric cars, if I get another car I’m thinking of getting a hybrid (not that I’ll ever be able to afford one). But Teslas…... Read More

Continuing my Saturn Kick, let’s talk Sega Saturn. And what better game to talk about than the three dirtiest, filthiest, nastiest dwarves you EVER did see? Now, I’m not usually one for Beat Em Ups. I find them kinda dull. But this is, without a doubt, my favorite Beat Em Up ever made. And that’s because it’s fucking batshit crazy. Made by ... Read More

The Sega Saturn is a graveyard for so many great games, and so many good RPGs. This will probably not be the last one I mention. But continuing on my quest to tell people about games more people should play because THEY’RE GOOD PLEASE PLAY THEM, we got Dragon Force for the Sega Saturn! Full disclosure, this game is MASSIVE. I can not cover ever... Read More

The “Maze Game” is a genre that RULED the early 80s in arcades, but sadly we don’t see much anymore, and for a genre with so many amazing games, we really only ever think about… y’know, Pacman. And not much else. But I’ve always thought Pacman is just pretty okay. You know what game is GREAT though? Anteater. Anteater is a 1982 arcade title,... Read More

I’ve finished watching the Original Series, so now it’s time for the MOVIES! I’ve decided to make a new thread for all of the Original Series movies, so if you’re interested in my thoughts, follow through! Engage! Star Trek the Motion Picture 5/10 It’s not… bad. It’s just kinda boring. It has some cool ideas, neat effects and setpieces, ... Read More

So, over the past year, I have been watching the entirety of Star Trek, and been posting my thoughts on all the episodes and movies as I watch them. Now, I’ve been posting them on Twitter, and I’ll probably continue to do so until that website explodes. But I’ve been putting off putting all my thoughts on this site…. but I’ll go ahead and do tha... Read More

So, over the past year, I have been watching the entirety of Star Trek, and been posting my thoughts on all the episodes and movies as I watch them. Now, I’ve been posting them on Twitter, and I’ll probably continue to do so until that website explodes. But I’ve been putting off putting all my thoughts on this site…. but I’ll go ahead and do tha... Read More

So, over the past year, I have been watching the entirety of Star Trek, and been posting my thoughts on all the episodes and movies as I watch them. Now, I’ve been posting them on Twitter, and I’ll probably continue to do so until that website explodes. But I’ve been putting off putting all my thoughts on this site…. but I’ll go ahead and do tha... Read More

1982 was a magical time for games, what I call the Golden Era of Arcades. Things were BOOMING, and new fantastic games were coming out every day. You had technical marvels that blew people away. Just off the top of my head, 1982 brought us Dig Dug, Donkley Kong Junior, Q*Bert, and Pitfall! And older games like Pac-man and Donkey Kong were of cou... Read More

Back to the ol’ Puzzle Game Mines, this time with the last of my personal favorites, and yet another weird arcade game. Though the developer is someone you MAY have heard of before! Atlus is known for a lot of things, but their puzzle games are… not one of them. But for some reason, with no real fanfare, Atlus dropped Oh My God for JAMMA arca... Read More

I’m really stretching the title of this series today. You probably HAVE heard of Ogre Battle. It’s not really that obscure. Though depending on who you are you’re not likely to have played it, and if you have, you’d played Tactics Ogre or MAYBE March of the Black Queen. Tactics Ogre is a spinoff that’s loved WAY more because it’s Final Fantasy T... Read More

So in 2018 I went about the task of trying to play Every Single Game Ever Made for the Sega Genesis. It took me a long time, but I finally finished last year. And while I already knew a lot of games, it was a good way to find out some games that just… blindsided me. This is one of those games. Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer, or just Gleylance... Read More

Goin’ back to the Puzzle Mines again, one of my favorite genres, with possibly my favorite game in that genre. I think Dharma Doujo is #1, but this is a VERY solid #2 (EDIT: This is now prolly my fave), and it’s a game very special to me. And it’s also probably the most obscure game I will EVER talk about on here. It’s so obscure I had to rip th... Read More

“But Liz,” you may say, reading my title, “Panzer Dragoon Saga is one of the most acclaimed and loved games on the Sega Saturn!” To which I will reply… how many people do you know who owned a Sega Saturn Proud of you for knowin’ this game though, it’s very very good. So in January of 1997, a company called Square released a little game call... Read More

So people seemed very down for me just rambling about games I love that they probably have not heard of… Let’s make this a semi-regular thing! So for Episode One of Obscure Games You May Not Have Heard Of, let’s start with one that I’m kinda known for in some circles, Dharma Doujo! Dharma Doujo is a puzzle game for arcades, and as we’ll see l... Read More