This month's book development is probably not very interesting to look at—the only new photos are of Pachinko and Space Slalom. But, just as those two games represent a signific...
2021-11-12 13:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
A pair of games this week that I was really looking forward to, and they didn't disappoint! Well, they didn't disappoint once I switched from using a defective Chack'N Pop card to a pirate...
2021-11-10 13:59:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, it's ANOTHER Brøderbund PC-to-console conversion this week. That band of brothers... so shameless when it came to pimpin' out games. However, it's not Drol that deserves special atte...
2021-11-03 12:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The end-of-year countdown begins here. My goal for the remainder of 2021 is to wrap up the SG-1000 series before shifting my focus back to NES Works 1988 and the Master System for the new year (alo...
2021-10-27 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, the first of this month's patron bonuses is live—the latest revision of the game box art photo book. If you compare this to the past few updates, I think you'll get a sense of my extravag...
2021-10-22 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Things have been so hectic lately I honestly was unsure whether or not I'd be able to publish this year's annual Halloween Castlevania episode in time. But here were are! Just under the wi...
2021-10-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I bumped this week's topic ahead one episode from its proper spot in the chronology as a small tribute to the creator of Golgo 13, Takao Saito, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. Fitti...
2021-10-13 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A personal favorite this week—in case you couldn't tell from the time and enthusiasm I lavished on this episode. Life Force is one of those games I used to play so much I could beat it i...
2021-10-06 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Two sports games this week, which I suppose should be anathema for me, a person who does not like sports games. But I had a thoroughly good time putting together this episode (aside from actually c...
2021-09-29 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
This month's patron bonus material is here. I'm afraid I won't have a Famiconversations episode for you this time around, because things have been intensely chaotic on the "r...
2021-09-26 13:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode is, in a sense, the epitome of what I've been hoping to accomplish by putting together Segaiden and NES Works Gaiden videos in parallel: A chance to compare and contrast the SG-1000 an...
2021-09-22 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, let's check in with the Nintendo side of things before moseying along to the MyCard era on Sega. Can you believe we're only now seeing the first Nintendo console release developed by TOSE? Oh...
2021-09-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Moving into 1985, I'll be making fewer apologies for the unimpressive nature of the games tracked in Segaiden. This episode amounts to getting the last bits of mundanity out of the system before sh...
2021-09-08 12:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! It's another episode of the Famiconversations monthly-ish podcast. I didn't quite hit my end-of-August target as planned due some audio issues that made editing this episode a little more ch...
2021-09-04 16:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Another episode of Segaiden this week, bringing us within striking distance of the big changeover from cartridges to card media. Well, I don't know that it's really that big a deal. But it will bri...
2021-09-01 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, patrons! I have the first of this month's bonus items ready for download: The latest revisions of the Instagram box art photo book. You will notice this latest upload is quite a bit diff...
2021-08-28 13:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, hopefully the past three episodes have been enough to sate the demands of those who insist I stop exploring the history of things they don't care about (everything that's not NES Works...
2021-08-25 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
HAL makes its publishing debut here, and SNK makes its developing debut, and the results are... pretty good. I don't think many people would mistake either of these releases for top-tier classics f...
2021-08-18 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Another big one this week—one of the biggest ones so far. Double Dragon was a big deal on NES, even if it left a bad taste in the mouth of anyone hoping to enjoy a direct arcade-to-conso...
2021-08-11 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, just wanted to give you a heads-up (in case you somehow missed it) that my two latest books are now available for purchase at Limited Run Games. I've put together a small promo video here t...
2021-08-10 18:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, the latest episode of Famiconversations is here, about a week later than intended. Things got a little out of hand last month! This coming month doesn't look to be any less hectic, but I'll...
2021-08-08 17:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post
There's the long con, and then there's waiting half a year between NES Works episode just so I could make that joke at the beginning.
Anyway, I've covered the original MSX version of Meta...
2021-08-04 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
But soft! What light in yonder window shines? Oh, it's a brief one-off episode of Super NES Works timed to (1) the 30th anniversary of the Super NES and (2) the launch of the Super NES Works 19...
2021-07-28 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One last Game Boy video before I hop over to a trio of NES Works episodes. This week, it's—wait for it—more puzzle-type games. Unlike last episode, these are traditional matching puzzle and sol...
2021-07-21 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, some puzzle games on Game Boy! I can't believe no one ever thought of doing something like this before.
Sarcasm aside, there is something comforting about returning to Game Boy after...
2021-07-14 11:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Game Boy Works is back! At least for a little while. I've put together a few episodes of Game Boy Works recently, and there's something deeply comforting about wrapping myself in a warm blanket of ...
2021-07-07 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
And our final entry for the current slate of patron requests: From Peter LaPrade, here's a piece on an interesting, early, first-party Famicom Disk System release that was very nearly lost to time:...
2021-06-30 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A little something different this month for the Famiconversations podcast. I've covered a bunch of mahjong titles in my videos over the years, and there a ton clustered at the beginning of the Japa...
2021-06-26 19:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Another patron request this week, this one from Joseph Adams, dives into an awfully esoteric corner of NES history: The story of NES-on-a-chip (NOAC) devices. This involved a lot of reading, resear...
2021-06-23 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As a patron request, here's a companion episode to last year's Aladdin Deck Enhancer retrospective. This one was trickier to put together, because (1) the games are unbelievably expensive ...
2021-06-16 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post