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Before we begin!: What you are about to read is my take on the crazy and active Pokemon Trading Card "fad" of 1998-99, precisely its dying days as printing of the Panini figuritas and accompanying album ceased entirely. This is NOT the official TCG, but an officially-licensed take on it based on collecting rather than playing (although we still found ways to make a lot of games out of it, particularly throwing them against the wall for keeps, seeing who could toss them further). I decided...

“To be this good takes AGES.” Quick ports are a classic tactic by publishers to make some extra dough from their properties. Sometimes, they call them remasters; sometimes, they are republished on the next console generation; and sometimes, they are just emulated copies of nostalgic titles. SEGA isn’t above this. They’ve been rereleasing old titles as far back as the nineties on the SEGA Saturn with the start of the SEGA AGES series. Even to this day, they use this moniker for rereleases of...

The "Waffleverse" is a complicated entity made out of both forgotten and forbidden lore. There are some things in there that I simply don't dare revisiting (lest would I want to face some extremely unpleasant memories whose vague "outlines" are enough to put me on edge), whilst others were simply not recorded. It's as if the eternal hand that weaved the tapestry of the mind had simply moved away as they happened, leaving only loosely-connected threads that failed to form into something more...

Here I am, back on my bullshit again. This is a continuation of a previous article, if you want you can read that one as well. There's no intro this time, so let's get roight into the news. THE OUTLIERS Unrelated but this is me if I were a theropod. The following games have not been played yet because I've acquired them fairly recently and I don't have many chances to use my PS3 right now: Midnight Club: Los Angeles: I expect to like this one because, man, I love arcade racing. Also...

We’re back, with another batch of beat ‘em ups. As foretold in the last few sentences of the last article (linked for future posterity, even if it is the upload just before this one), these are games that I want to talk about, but aren’t in the running of my top 5, or even top 10 if I ever extend it. They’re just ones that I feel like talking about, even if they didn't make the playoff bench. What is it about these games that’s so satisfying? The simple nature of them, which enables almost...