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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...

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...

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...

In a recent survey we’ve conducted, we’ve verified that the overwhelming majority of users on these forums do not speak English as their mother tongue, only speaking it as a secondary language, thus unifying at least a semblance of a language barrier we all share. So a lot of us will be on the same page here. The data is quite interesting, as the number of native English users hardly scratches the two digits, however don’t misunderstand this being evidence that you won’t find people who...