If you've been subscribed to this patreon for a while, you may recall that I kicked around some layouts and ideas for a book of photography focusing on pre-NES Japanese console games quite a while ...
2024-08-28 22:47:30 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, I had originally planned to relegate Tengen's unlicensed releases to the realm of NES Works Gaiden. But as of this episode, I've decided against that approach. (Sorry, Tetris.) Not just b...
2024-08-28 12:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Game Tech Video VHS rip full of game coverage from 1988, including popular mainstream stuff and offbeat weirdness alike. This episode's lead feature is a Konami retrospective inspired by Sn...
2024-08-23 20:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, look, I finally shelled out for an expensive SD card capable of capturing UHD video at 60fps, so everyone can stop complaining about the frame rate on the hosting segments.
You can still...
2024-08-21 11:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been struggling to dig myself out of the hole of my life lately, which has caused me to fall way behind on bonus video uploads. But I'm getting back on track! I'll try to make up for it by t...
2024-08-21 00:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, it's me, your favorite old man, here to talk about video games. This is the second episode in a row that I had to record on the road, so the audio might sound a little muffled since I used m...
2024-08-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
First, let me offer an apology to everyone who is here for exclusive bonus content—I've been remiss on those uploads the past few weeks. Life has been hectic to say the least, and I've been strug...
2024-08-07 12:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We say farewell this episode to the Sega Card format. Farewell, Sega Card format. You were tiny and didn't usually offer the most interesting games, but you were a neat concept, and everyone loved ...
2024-07-31 12:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
My Segaiden production schedule is running slower than I had planned. I keep ending up with lots of single-game episodes that I had originally specced out as covering several titles at once. Stupid...
2024-07-24 12:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Believe it or not, we are right around the halfway mark of our journey through the American Master System library. Sad news for Sega fans, no doubt a relief for the haters. Anyway, it seemed only a...
2024-07-17 15:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I say good day to you, sir! Or madam! Or whatever your preference of salutation! I have for you another episode/volume/issue of GTV. This one explores the narrative lore of hostess Sophie in perhap...
2024-07-14 14:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember how I've been lamenting all the bad (or at least underwhelming) sequels on Master System? Well, here's one that breaks the trend. Wonder Boy in Monster Land goes all reverse ...
2024-07-10 12:11:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Another GTV release. As always, I highly recommend activating auto-translated subtitles for this one.
GTV continues to be weird, although we do see less and less of Sophie and those strange c...
2024-07-07 22:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the episode that you were supposed to be enjoying yesterday. A day late! (No word on the dollar balance, however.) Please enjoy.
2024-07-04 19:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis almost never happens, but Segaiden episode 60 will be a few days late. I got in way over my head last week on my freelance projects, between putting together the final Epoch video and editing ...
2024-07-03 11:48:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Barely made it in under the wire on this one, huh? EDIT: I did NOT in fact make it in under the wire, because Patreon decided not to set this scheduled post live yesterday afternoon. Thanks, Pa...
2024-07-01 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Or, if the cart label is to be believed, Alex Kidd: The Lost Star. I love the quality control on 8-bit Sega packaging.
This episode probably comes off a bit negative, which is just going to i...
2024-06-26 12:18:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Another VHS capture of Sony's short-lived video magazine. This series is becoming increasingly weird, which makes it super valuable in my opinion. It's really great to see an alternate lens into th...
2024-06-23 20:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Master System coverage will continue until morale improves.
Aw, just kiddin'. There's nothing so ominous about this episode, which tackles a genuine delight of a game in Fantasy Zone:...
2024-06-19 12:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, I've had this Patreon for like a decade, and it's only now occurred to me that I can use it like a blogging platform. So I should do that, as a bonus for you cool supporter types.
T...
2024-06-18 11:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I finally made it happen, with no small thanks to MiSTER Add-Ons. I'll share the gory details some other day, but the R...
2024-06-17 13:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for a rare Content Warning from me, although I don't think the material here is that upsetting given the context. It's another Game Tech Video from Sony, this time hailing from May 1988, ...
2024-06-16 12:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is, I'm afraid, not the most auspicious start for the return of Segaiden! I've uploaded an incomplete episode this morning. It's not that I didn't have time to complete it, but rather that I d...
2024-06-12 12:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Segaiden returns this coming week. In the meantime, here's a little appetizer as I try to get my recording setup up and running for Master System.
Moving to a new place and jump...
2024-06-08 11:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a Very Special Episode of NES Works this week as we hit August 1989 and perhaps the single most seismic month in the entire history of video games... or at least since Famicom, SG-1000, and MS...
2024-06-05 11:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew, I almost didn't make my self-imposed deadline with this one. But here it is! The next-to-last episode of NES Works Gaiden Casio... well, next-to-last unless I should somehow come across the m...
2024-05-30 14:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have noticed that NES Works has increasingly engaged with world politics, real-life political figures, and public policy. Well, it's all been leading to this. For some reason, publishers de...
2024-05-29 12:15:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, I missed most of Rare's original creations back in the day between R.C. Pro-Am and Battletoads. That is, the games that weren't created under contract crunch for a p...
2024-05-22 12:13:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Oops! I meant to upload the second side of Capcom Game Music Vol. 3 but life got in the way. Well, eff you, life. Here's that vinyl rip. This rip doesn't sound quiet as good as the side 1 rip as th...
2024-05-19 14:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, it's me, the guy who hates playing sports games, here to tell you about a sports game that (as the kids say) whips ass. Is this the first console sports title to lean into the fundamental simi...
2024-05-15 11:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post