The long-awaited Steam Deck review on this retro-centric site has finally arrived! Unfortunately, due to the nature of this behemoth of a device, we cannot make any promises for this review to be an all-encompassing one. Rather, this will make a valuable attempt to answer all your essential and basic concerns in regards to the machine itself, acting as a sort-of middle ground between an introductory piece and a deep-dive. While I would absolutely love for this to get into every possible...
Part V: Mystic Quest: Squaresoft does North America (and Europe)
In the previous chapter, we discussed Final Fantasy IV. If interested, read it here.
Squaresoft of America's early era marketing never ceases to be weird. The messaging was all over the place. No wonder the games flopped all the time.
Mystic Quest was a formative game in my development as a Squaresoft fanboy. When Mystic Quest appeared at my local Blockbuster, it finally gave me another JRPG option to rent whenever Final...
After learning english I was surpised to see the majority of the anglos see clicking on roms as something only ivory dealers sea clubbers and social media managers do, so here's a little window into growing up in southern italy in the 2000s!
Shoutout to Yousef's article for making me think of how international this nerd site is
https://retrogametalk.com/threads/learning-english-through-video-games.2595/
In case the guardia di finanza is reading: this is satire and if you wanna play Asterix...
IT’S TIME TO DU-DU-DU-DUEL!
Almost everyone who grew up with the internet or anime in the 2000s knows something about Yu-Gi-Oh, Exodia and that meme phrase above were the ones for me. It wasn’t until now that I wanted to start watching and playing this series for the first time, there’s one problem… The TCG (Trading Card Game) is already 22 years old and next month will be the 26th anniversary of the Japanese version, OCG (Official Card Game), this means that there is a lot of power creep...
You’ve heard the rumour about that house in the forest, haven’t you?
On dark, frigid nights, when the wind cuts through your skin, and the white eye of the moon looks down on you, you must never tread into that forest. The stars may beckon you – may draw you in, between the tall, sturdy trees – deep into that lonely blackness. A flicker of light may dance before you for a scant moment, and stoke your curiosity. You may be deceived.
But you must never go to that house.
When you approach...
At first glance, International Super Star Soccer Deluxe feels like a game that the majority of people wouldn't like.
Let's face it... it has pretty uninspired box art, and a mouthful of a name that even includes the cardinal sin of saying "soccer" to refer to football, something that a lot of people don't look kindly on (in fact, my friends and I disliked that so much that we avoided saying the title entirely, often referring to the game as "ISSD", "HECHU!" --a play on the...
In a fascinating recent development, Sony and Microsoft approved the creation of a third-party peripheral known as “Backbone”, likely as means to have some foothold in the mobile gaming sphere without putting any of the actual legwork.
Now the market for mobile gaming accessories is a largely oversaturated one the more you look into it, the devs here went into it already expecting some heated competition. Thankfully, they had little to worry about, as each mobile peripheral is more cheaply...
I have always been drawn to technology.
In fact, one of my earliest-known pictures features a two-year-old Waffles smiling widely at the camera as his hands are awkwardly wrapped around a Walkman and the headphones are barely hanging on to his tiny skull. At such a tender age, I had already become fascinated by the world of electronics, getting my hands on anything that could be powered on and brought to life by flipping a switch, pressing a button or swinging a dial. The more I could see...
What are people, really? A collection of passions and pursuits, wrapped in so much earthen clay. Will a dream persist without this guise, our bloody vessel? We bend our flesh to the will of the explorer, the artisan, the inventor, or merchant; not ours alone, even the bondage of others, as we race to elevate ourselves...what higher power would look down and smile? If said god forced us to change, could we hope to understand their motivations? Surely we won't endure, only Love will last.
To...