Although this little Patreon endeavor primarily concerns itself with video games, I do occasionally stumble across little bits and pieces of lost media worth sharing. Here's one of them: a record t...
2025-03-14 20:30:49 +0000 UTC
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We have reached 1989, friends. The gap between Master System coverage and NES Works grows ever slimmer. I'm still torn between whether I should just plow straight ahead and get Master System up to ...
2025-03-12 14:02:22 +0000 UTC
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This episode seemed as good a time as any to mark Japan's transition from the Showa era to the Heisei, a significant cultural shift that happened during the period of time that I've been exploring ...
2025-03-05 12:27:12 +0000 UTC
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Whoa, gosh. I almost let February slip past without sharing a fourth bonus item. Well, here it is: a promo tape for the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Virtua Racing. It's short and a little disappoi...
2025-02-28 22:47:16 +0000 UTC
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"Another Japan-exclusive Mark III game?" you muse to yourself. "Boring. No thanks!" Ah, but what if I told you that this was a Phantasy Star spinoff? What then, wiseguy?
I mean,...
2025-02-26 12:29:37 +0000 UTC
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Friends, my survey of Japan-exclusive Sega Mark III games continues apace this week with a couple of games that surprised me with their sheer goodness. Megumi Rescue in particular is ...
2025-02-19 12:00:15 +0000 UTC
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This has been one of the most taxing and time-intensive "side" videos I've put together to date. But, you know, it had to be. Not only did I need to do justice to The King of Fighters R-1&...
2025-02-16 18:21:39 +0000 UTC
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Wow, up to episode 73 of Segaiden already. I would never have believed it five years ago. Life is a miracle sometimes. This episode concerns two more Japan-exclusive Mark III releases, although
2025-02-12 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I had hoped to have the latest monthly bonus original up this past weekend, but the next Neo Geo Pocket piece is a bit of a doozy and is taking longer than anticipated. So please look forward to th...
2025-02-10 12:42:56 +0000 UTC
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Wow, gosh. This episode brings 1988 to an end for Master System. Well... mostly. I do want to cover the handful of Japan-exclusive titles that showed up between March and September 1988. Hardly any...
2025-02-05 14:05:50 +0000 UTC
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So. How's it going today? (Feel free not to answer that.)
For this weekend's bonus video, I just remembered that I had never posted the last two VHS rips of Game Tech Video. This one lacks th...
2025-02-02 19:49:05 +0000 UTC
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I dunno, maybe I should have branded this NGP Works or something. Oh well!
ANYWAY. Here is the first proper episode of my Neo Geo Pocket/Color series—that is, the first episode about a gam...
2025-01-30 14:42:17 +0000 UTC
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I always thought San Diego was in SoCal, just an hour or two north of Mexico. But here's Sega trying to gaslight (or maybe Gaslamp?) me into second-guessing myself. Rude.
Oh, wait, that's not...
2025-01-29 12:59:51 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, it's a spicy one this time. Atypically so. Hence the age-gating—you'll have to click through to YouTube if you want to see this tremendously naughty video.
The thing is, though, I di...
2025-01-28 13:20:36 +0000 UTC
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"R" you ready for this episode? Looking back at this one, I think I was feeling a little punchy when I scripted it. But, really, there's only so much you can say about a mediocre light gun game bas...
2025-01-22 12:37:47 +0000 UTC
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Here's a fun one—an official Konami-published video tape of the Contra arcade game. If you couldn't afford to own an arcade cabinet back in the day (and whomst amongst us could, really?), you cou...
2025-01-18 23:42:13 +0000 UTC
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Segaiden is back! Provided you subscribe to the Sega Challenge newsletter, that is. The rest of you are out of luck, because this episode is not available at retail in the U.S. That's...
2025-01-15 13:23:45 +0000 UTC
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Good evening (somewhere in the world). Here is the second and to my knowledge final volume of the Taito history VHS series from 1990. As with so many of these tapes, I sure wish I had known about t...
2025-01-12 15:21:19 +0000 UTC
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I should have posted this weeks ago, I know. But I didn't! And now here it is. What a world, what a world.
This is the final volume of the NES Era trilogy of photo/text coffee b...
2025-01-10 22:15:25 +0000 UTC
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First: avoid this episode if you have a sensitivity to strobing effects. Solaris goes way overboard with them.
Second: you're watching the forbidden version of this video. The f...
2025-01-08 13:16:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello to you, now that you've slept off your New Year's Eve hangover and groggily logged on for the year 2025. We're entering January 2025 by looking back to... 1986? Games for a console that debut...
2025-01-01 19:28:39 +0000 UTC
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One last video to close out the old year—one I've been wanting to create for a decade now and finally decided to pull the trigger on. I was hoping to be able to record this as an analog RGB signa...
2025-01-01 00:30:01 +0000 UTC
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I've been mulling the prospect of tackling the latter-day Atari 2600 library for years now. Given all the other material I've set up recently as a supplement to NES Works, I realized I'd be abrogat...
2024-12-27 21:44:06 +0000 UTC
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I figured if I started this post with a lot of positive vibes, the fact that this week's episode is running behind wouldn't feel like such a bummer. It's not the season for bummering!
Anyway...
2024-12-25 12:31:48 +0000 UTC
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Whew. It's here.
My one regret with this Phantasy Star episode is that I didn't have more time to play for my recording sessions. Not just because I would have liked to have rec...
2024-12-18 12:31:01 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, folk, it's been A Week. And the progressive enshittification of the Patreon interface doesn't help! Here's Golvellius.
2024-12-11 14:27:02 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, I skipped over Segaiden 67. You want to fight about it?
Nah, I'm just running these out of sequence here on Patreon because I had to completely rearrange my office over the past week an...
2024-12-11 13:45:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey kids, you like the video game history, huh? Well, here's a look at video game history that is, in itself, historic. This VHS tape from 1990 helped pioneer the art of talking about how old video...
2024-12-09 21:43:05 +0000 UTC
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I won't be spending a HUGE amount of time at once on any of the sidebar also-rans of the late ’80s, so even if you have no interest in latter-day Intellivision, you need only wait until next week...
2024-12-04 13:28:31 +0000 UTC
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A new month, a new count on the bonus material. Numbers, am I right?
This one is a lot less obscure than the other videos I've posted this weekend, but I figure it never hurts to go with a cr...
2024-12-01 14:49:11 +0000 UTC
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