Here's one last extra video to send you into the final month of the year: A VHS rip of a promotional video tape that Namco distributed for Klonoa: Empire of Dreams—their first GBA releas...
2024-11-30 19:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I have gone and posted a new bonus video for you. Yes, it's a little thing I like to call a VHS rip of Vic Tokai's marketing video for The Krion Conquest. It's a Japanese-language i...
2024-11-29 23:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy day of giving thanks, if you choose to celebrate/be thankful/live in a place that observes that event today. Here is this week's belated video. But no less sincere for its tardiness. It's the...
2024-11-28 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The episode post for this week is running a couple of days behind... like I said, life has been kicking my butt lately. Today's a work day, and tomorrow is a family day, so expect to see it Fridayâ...
2024-11-27 13:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew, this was supposed to have been up over the weekend, but life just will not give me a break. Sorry about that! Here is the final episode of the Microvision retrospective series that probably n...
2024-11-26 03:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The XEGS saga continues! Slowly! I won't be dwelling on this system for too many consecutive episodes in a row... I'm really trying to avoid unnecessary psychic damage these days. But here's a li'l...
2024-11-20 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been sitting on this one for a few years, and working on the NES Era ...
2024-11-13 12:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends. It's another VHS tape rip. God, we're so close to the end of Game Tech Video I can almost taste it. This series has gotten pretty long in the tooth, which is an absolutely astounding ...
2024-11-11 00:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd say "good morning," but, well.
Nevertheless, I do have a new video for you this morning. I hope it will bring some small glimmer of light into an otherwise bleak day. Onward the Atari 780...
2024-11-06 12:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I guess it's about time that I get back to covering the Atari 7800, now that I have the means to properly capture footage for it. We gotta wrap up 1988's releases, and that means stepping int...
2024-10-30 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Here's another Game Tech Video! This series is getting kinda long in the tooth and keeps hammering the same bad jokes! But... this episode is worth keeping. Skip to the end! There's an interes...
2024-10-30 01:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, that's a lot of serial numbers in the title of this episode, huh. I should probably find a more elegant approach to naming these.
So here we have the next-to-last Microvision retrospecti...
2024-10-27 12:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
After about 15 months of living in a stage of stressful chaos, I think my life is finally settling down a little... at the very least, my most important recording equipment has a perm...
2024-10-25 21:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the pumpkin spice latte of the YouTube world: Horror-themed commentary about old video games. In this case, the horror comes from the preposterous difficulty level of Fester's Quest. ...
2024-10-23 11:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It just wouldn't be October without a Castlevania video around here. Fortunately, I had one coming up in the queue for evaluation... or rather, reevaluation. Yes, it's Castlevania...
2024-10-16 11:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This week brings us one of those episodes that filled me with dread when I saw it looming on the production schedule. How on earth am I supposed to find 10 minutes of discussion about these for...
2024-10-09 11:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming in a little hot this week—I'm not sure the 4K version of this episode has fully processed yet. That's because my copy of Air Fortress has mysteriously gone missing, and I spe...
2024-10-02 13:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! Gosh! Squeaking in under the wire again! The audio on this one is a little patchy because I recorded it on-site at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. It's really weird how my portable mic sounds gre...
2024-10-01 00:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Another l'il treat for you, and this one is pretty awesome. Or at least I think so. I recently came across this LaserDisc on a Japanese auction site that caught my attention; it appeared to be a ma...
2024-09-29 14:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, it really bugs me when people call PRGE "Purge." We are not in the business of culling nerds! But I am in the business of talking to my fellow nerds, and I'll be doing that this weekend.....
2024-09-27 13:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow! Gosh! Sorry this upload is half a day late. I spent the morning playing medical chauffeur for my significant other, and then I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up with work.
An...
2024-09-26 01:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, the Game Tech Video series really just screams "It was a different era!", huh? I mean, aside from the fact that these are video cassette tapes sold at retail to tell you about up...
2024-09-24 17:47:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one of those episodes where I fell into an interesting connection through sheer coincidence, and people will mistakenly think I'm much better at planning these things out than I actually am...
2024-09-18 12:04:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I've put together a little promo video for The NES Era Vol. I. Don't worry, I won't be pushing this thing forever... eventually, the presale period will end, and I'll be done.
In the meantim...
2024-09-13 01:53:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I may have fudged some release timing for this episode. It's possible that one of these games is actually a September 1989 release even though the chronology is still in August (I've seen different...
2024-09-11 12:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post
My latest book, which offers a holistic photographic overview of Japanese console games from 1979 through October 1985 (you know, when Japanese consoles first reached the U.S. via the NES) is now a...
2024-09-06 13:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week we had Defender of the Crown, where you invaded and defended castles; now here are two more games where you invade castles. Well, you definitely do in the case of Castlequest. Th...
2024-09-04 12:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There are still a few minutes left in August where I am, so I'm declaring this one a victory. Maybe next time I'll actually have time to write something interesting here!
2024-09-01 03:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Game Tech Video VHS rip for you today. But mostly for me. I'm trying to get these things indexed to the best of my ability so that I'll have access to these rich resources whe...
2024-08-29 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post