I remember having a Gizmo stuffy—possibly the one from the catalog page below—and taking him on a trip to the amusement park my mom took me on. I had to wear a backpack and keep him in it the entire time because, OBVIOUSLY, he couldn’t be exposed to sunlight.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL

Hey, I was on this! I guess they needed an idiot to make the rest of the guests look good, which I tried my best to do! 😄

Got the LRG release of Snow Bros today, and the case is… yuck. The clear plastic is super cheap, so it’s warped all around the top open edge on all sides. #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive

In case this is helpful to any Americans currently trying to figure out WTF is going on with extra costs when ordering from Japan: Purchased from: Surugaya Total price: 32790 JPY Charged price: $216.39 Regulatory Charges: $1.34 Import/Export Duties: $32.51 Duty tax processing: $17.00

Me: Walks into US conv store followed by Japanese film crew. Me: Pours large soda, stands there taking drinks. TV program guests: 😳 Me: Scrunches face, shakes head, pour drink out. TVPG: 😱 Me: Pours new drink, taste tests again. Walk to counter, worker on cellphone waves me goodbye. TVPG: 🤯

Are you looking for special Halloween present (those are things now) for a special someone? Get them DEMON ZINE SHINJUKU! 24 pages, full color, and detailing the strangest horror anime and manga!

Had to take our cat to vet urgent care, and they had a cat chonk chart on the wall. I am of the age where I am equally “I appreciate things like that” and “damn kids with all their internet slang.”

Laughing at the fact that at trunk or treat tonight, I had to inform a mother that her daughter was dressed as Princess Daisy, as she had no idea who her child was character-wise.

A few thoughts after digging through so much video game history: • Man, the 16-bit era was awesome • I really missed a lot never owning a Game Boy Color • PlayStation was pretty cool, man • The Dreamcast had so many amazing games and unique features and boy did it and that Sega deserve so much more

The duality of iPhone alarms in my home. Me: Two alarms, one for weekdays, one weekend. Edit either and change time as needed. Wife: TWENTY-TWO alarms, each to a specific time of day. (Some even only 5 minutes apart.) Turn on or off depending on that day's wake-up time.

Over my career, I'd never had the chance to talk to Tomonobu Itagaki, but he was someone who'd always fascinated me. (In part due to our shared public "hate" for Tekken.) Last year, I reached out to him out of the blue, and he was incredibly kind and friendly. I'm now really glad I did. RIP

Our twins are adding their first friend on Fortnite. They grow up so fast.

All that remains of my local Target’s Xbox section. Zero games properly displayed (around eight stuffed into a clearance area). One console, an Xbox Series S. Walmart still has its full section for now.

No thank you? The party here is already enough of an embarrassing mess.

With the arrival of the OVAs and Features, the four year wait officially comes to an end.

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

We’re at the Goodwill “last chance bins” shop, and someone found a bunch of late ‘70s Star Wars and Star Trek posters in fantastic condition. I don’t know how they even made it this far to show up in this place. I was kinda jealous as he was looking through them.

I just spent $90 on Fortnite Vbucks. I don't know that I've spent that amount in the entire history of the game up until this point. The twins don't really ask for a lot most of the time though, and they're doing fantastic in school, so full KPDH skins sets for all three of us it is.

OK Bluesky friends. Use the code “BSTariffRefund” on checkout to save 15%. Let me explain. So, since the new shipping restrictions and tariffs went into effect my sales have fallen off a cliff. And in the last 2 weeks I have received only a single order. (1/5)

Oh also, my copy of Dirty Pair came already damaged, so that’s cool.

Zoey's character model from Fortnite got leaked. KPop Demon Hunters supposedly arriving next week. As a parent to two daughters who have been asking me near daily when KPDH was coming to the game: Goodbye money, I'll miss you.

Hey look, they finally arrived! Now to wait for the OVAs + movies to hopefully also show up soon. (This case kinda sucks, but whatever I guess.)

…they make fake Lego sets based on the game Stray??

Wife is working hard on the twins’ Halloween costumes.

So, there’s no way Forza Horizon 6 doesn’t include a City Pop radio station, right?

It's like someone said, "Mollie doesn't hate Crunchyroll enough, let's find a reason to REALLY make them her arch enemy." I ask for so little in this world anime-wise at this point, why did this have to get fucked up?

In the February 1997 issue of EGM, a preview was run for Heaven's Gate, a new PlayStation fighting game from Racdym and Atlus. In March 1997... absolutely nothing of note would happen connected to the name Heaven's Gate. Nope, nothing at all.

It’s been kind of a nightmare seeing the AI art scene exploding right alongside our twins’ love for creating art getting so strong. Both will tell you that they want to be artists when they grow up, and I don’t have it in me to tell them those jobs may no longer exist.

One of the funniest examples of this to me was the time when someone posted on Reddit about going to my house along with some friends to play games, and how I had “a wall” of NeoGeo AES games. Bitch I wish that was true! My kids’ college would be paid for!

What's that weirdo niche 32-bit game that was finally released in English recently that isn't Kowloon's Gate but if I say Kowloon's Gate someone out there will know exactly what game I'm talking about?

Nights was a fantastic game. It was also an awful choice for Sega at a point when they desperately needed a new killer Sonic game. I don’t often support the idea of publishers forcing their teams to just make a sequel instead of something new… but Sega really should have demanded a new Sonic.

You and a random stranger are forced to play a score-focused retro arcade game. Person with lowest score is killed. Do you: • Go second, so opponent doesn't know your skill level and maybe doesn't try as hard? • Go first, and hope you score puts pressure on them that may lead to mistakes?

One of the biggest holes in my collection has been Bloodlines. Had a few chances to get decent CIB copies for $150, but passed them up. Now suddenly, price is $200+. Pulled the trigger on this for $90. I’ll just get a repo case and be happy. Unless it’s NeoGeo, never pay over $200 for a game.

My twins went in slightly different direction with their answers.

Quick thoughts. • SUPER excited to see Fatal Frame II getting a remake. • SUPER hate seeing Samus riding around on a motorcycle for some reason • Not sure why we're getting Danganronpa 2 again? • ...I kinda respect how crazy the Virtual Boy stuff is?

Not sure I can tell you the last time I bought a music CD. I wasn’t sure how hard this might be to get later though, even with its popularity.

Decades After Being Canned, These NES And SNES Games Could Be Getting A Release.

For so many years, it held strong, but my beloved white Saturn pad is finally succumbing to the dreaded yellowing. 😭 (White 3D pad for comparison.)

I know it’s still so early in the season, but man, I’m not used to looking at a #Huskers store and not being bummed out in recent years.

I know we all prefer .com, but if that's not available, which would you do: [name].site or [name].online? I kinda like .online for being a bit old-school (given the nature of the project), but just curious on opinions. Would you go "eww" at either of those? Or is there another domain you like?

Wait wait wait. I almost always ignore most of the modern Kemco releases. Should I not be? This looks kinda awesome?

CRT #3. Sony Trinitron KV-13M52 for $5. What am I doing with my life?

Hi everyone! Getting closer to the point where I'll feel ready to properly announce the fanzine project I've been teasing. For now, though, I wanted to send out a call for contributions to the reader/fan-focused section of the first issue (since it has no readers yet). Details below!

I have never played this game, I have zero interest in ever playing this game, and yet “the future is forsaken” has lived in my head forever.

Not only is it not a Lego Genesis, but it's the worst possible representation you could have for the console: that dogcrap 3-button controller. I guess thank you for saving me money?