Spending a few hours before the holiday break begins playing through the first full build of a game that I (re)designed, which (1) is pretty cool and (2) radiates the exact same energy as my "last day of elementary school before Christmas vacation" memories

I always get a laugh when my neighbor’s daughter parks her car next to mine. Which of these grey convertibles belongs to an old man, and which one belongs to a young woman in college?

Decided to finally give YouTube's A/B testing for a spin and was surprised to learn that there is no appreciable difference in click appeal between an academic-sounding video title and one implying genital trauma

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Profoundly surreal viewing for me and a bunch of peers

Santa broke so many Federation laws to bring me my gift this year

Time for the office holiday party, let’s ゴゴゴゴ

This month's premium Watch Out for Fireballs! is the live panel we did back in October with @jparish.bsky.social and @bobservo.bsky.social. It's called the Best and Worst 7/10 Games and we think it's a really fun time. Available in full to our $5+ patrons! www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

It miraculously looks as though I might actually be able to finish all four of the big work projects I had earmarked to wrap up before the holidays and actually enjoy a holiday! So naturally I'm curious to see who's gonna be the jackass that throws a wrench my way and ruins the next few weeks

Man, I initially parsed this "holiday tuna tree" as a set of tuna sushi roll pieces bound into a tree shape by a roll of nori and thought, "hmm, not bad", so once my brain fully resolved the details it was QUITE a comedown

Holiday project: experimenting with various bootleg Chartreuse substitutes to see if any of them hold up in Chartreuse-based cocktails

Holiday project: experimenting with various bootleg Chartreuse substitutes to see if any of them hold up in Chartreuse-based cocktails

The holidays are upon us, so please enjoy this video about (arguably) Nintendo's very first attempt at publishing a deliberate, tactically marketed Big Holiday Release in the U.S.: Tetris youtu.be/-5ji2Zr-ytA

Retweeting this just to head off all of the inevitable mentions that are gonna show up in my notification center today

You, a low-tier plebe: We should speed run ethically, as God intended Me, a pro gamer: It’s been 71 hours and 58 minutes, time to go spawn camp Jesus

The EGM Compendium is out and it's a great reminder that I've always been a hater* [*someone who scores games correctly]

Suikoden I is 30 years old 🥹

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Gutted about Rob Reiner. I just spent a week immersed in The Princess Bride and every bit of supplemental content on that Criterion set, and a big part of its appeal was the warmth and wit that Reiner radiated in every conversation. His work has been a huge influence on me—absolutely tragic news.

A year ago, I kicked off a long-term project to cover the Neo Geo Pocket / Color library. And now! You can freely watch my first NGP video at my YouTube channel. (Patrons, I'm aiming to have episode 7 completed this month, wrapping the monochrome library) youtu.be/BIHGMwyXzuM

I wish I could meet the inventor of port wine just so I could understand what kind of person would eat a handful of raisins and think, "You know, what I'd really like is to drink this"

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Somehow the social media context-free stream of consciousness about the video game award show I'm not watching is MORE bewildering than the weekly social media context-free stream of consciousness that accompanies sports events I don't watch

The annual tradition (long lunch break at the farmer’s market where we buy a Christmas tree and eat enough fried food to provide enough calories to get through the rest of the year) lives on

People keep asking when I’ll reprint the Game Boy Works books, and I keep telling them that I need to reshoot all of the packaging photography to bring it up to my current standards. Sorry! Anyway here’s a box containing about 85% of the ‘89/‘90 library

I don’t know why the horrible little gremlin on this NES manual is so caked up, but I DO know that someone reading this post owned this game as a child and it had a lifelong impact on their ideas about sexuality

I have come to realize that my all-time favorite genre of sci-fi is "humanity's last desperate hope rests on the tenacity of a small group of survivors on a very special little spaceship". Anyway apropos of nothing I've decided to finally watch Battlestar Galactica all the way through

If you have enjoyed my podcast and video musings on Jaws for NES, you may well find the Enhanced Edition teased here to be of some interest to you, a person who likes video games

My recent efforts to write an Analogue 3D review were derailed by the realization that the system's finer points require a better grasp of technology than I feel comfortable pretending to possess. The script gradually evolved into a LONG-overdue Nintendo 64 system retrospective: youtu.be/D5kJUofVGSA

It's like poetry, it rhymes

I know what I am. I don't have to feel good about it. But I accept it.

Every once in a while I am reminded of the time I saw Yes guitarist Steve Howe perform a solo acoustic set at a BBQ restaurant in Lubbock TX, a concept so bizarre that I would believe I had made it up if I didn't have his autograph to prove it happened

I finally watched "Starship Troopers" and I'm sorry but that was a GOD AWFUL take on one of my favorite Yes songs

Unwittingly booked dinner with a front row seat to a Christmas parade tonight

My brain does this thing where my dreams repeatedly return to consistent spaces that actually don't exist in the waking world, to the point that those places begin to feel real. Is this how losing your grip on reality begins

Good morning, everyone. I’ve got those spicy Willow for NES cheats you’ve been asking for

My streak of making videos about really good and fun games continues this week with a long-overdue patron request for Parodius Da! for Famicom. It's Gradius, except that you (yes, YOU) actually stand a chance of seeing the final level. Also it's very silly. youtu.be/WsswlPg7xFA

Here's my Bluesky Wrapped for 2025 - I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users) - I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users) - I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users) Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app

Tfw you realize your hotel is literally just around the corner from a sushi place that got a Michelin write-up a couple of weeks ago

I've read that in business dealings in Japan, it's supposed to be a big relief when an exec nods off in a meeting, because it means they're confident enough in your presentation that they don't need to stay tuned in to offer guidance or criticism, but… I don't feel like that is what's happening here

Oh my god, what? This is terrible and tragic.

This is one of those truly perfect images that gets funnier the longer you look at it

November's patron-exclusive video bonus is now up: an NES Works Gaiden on Activision's return to the Atari 2600 by way of a port of Irem's Kung-Fu Master, of all damn things. The post-crash Atari world was weird www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

Listening to Michael Sorich's line readings for Fujisawa in this 90-second span of "El-Hazard: The Magnificent World" was the first time I'd ever genuinely laughed out loud at an anime (and he keeps up that energy through the entire series) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCH...

That’s right, kids, and I wrote a liner note for every damn one of ‘em

Video patrons: those of you who have survived the Best Buy fistfights and mad rushing for retail bargains this morning may now rest wearily in front of your screen for 20 minutes to watch this slightly belated retrospective on my least favorite Nintendo console. www.patreon.com/posts/n64-wo...

In an episode exclusively for our $5 patrons: @bobservo.bsky.social @jparish.bsky.social & @feitclub.bsky.social parlay with phantoms in a podcast about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/144316...

Lots of fake and misleading info online, but this post is entirely true

Seriously, unless you were there and old enough to understand what was going on in the pop culture landscape at the time, it’s impossible to appreciate how dead Disney seemed to be for most of the 80s. NES Ducktales + The Little Metmaid hitting at the same time in ‘89 seemed like a miraculous fluke

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., which means that today I have published my annual "this one's an all-timer" Thanksgiving Eve video retrospective. This time it's Disney's DuckTales for NES: youtu.be/nhS7pn7oXsw