Next video should be up on YouTube this weekend. Just finishing up citations and some audio re-recordings. Should be around 45min long and speak about the Ghost Hunter franchise (Laplace no Ma, Paracelsus no Maken, Kurokishi no Kamen) as well as some history of Group SNE and Hummingbird Soft.

Gaming Alexandria has acquired and scanned the entire run of Technopoiis, and I have provided a history overview .Thanks to @playhistory.bsky.social and @marklincadet.bsky.social for editing and factchecking, and for Hubz for putting up with me summarizing many magazines on a hunch.

Absolutely stunned by this my condolences to all affected.

WIP video (mostly finished, just needs citations,credits, and some bits of footage that aren't essential) is currently exporting. Should be up for Patrons in a couple of hours barring issues. At worst it should be there early tomm. morning. Thanks as always for patience- final will be next week.

Things left to do on video - a bit more gameplay footage of late game for Laplace no Ma and Paracelsus no Maken - add X68000 Laplace No Ma version, Group SNE quotes, and gameplay systems discussion - record final edit voiceover - Edit to final voiceover - Release and hope the views are ok

So why the griping? Well, I've seen growing sentiment that folks should be faster in their output and, well.... there's so many creators doing fantastic work, but when folks put in the extra effort it takes longer. Plus, we have lives to manage in this hellscape. Patience - works will come.

Lastly, one thing I'd like to stress is that a lot of information on the internet isn't great, so sometimes we have to fact check, particularly with the nightmares of price data and release dates. A lot of the good sites are dead, and replaced by inaccurate places like Fandom. So it takes a bit.

The second is dungeon crawlers take longer to get footage from because they are notoriously difficult. So... I have to find and translate pages and guides wayback'd. Once the vid is done I'll make them available. Mostly because I want to see speed runners destroy the game out of pure vengeance.

The first thing is, sometimes when the internet fails me or information is contradictory I have to import stuff. I also help others. You can find my scans here (NSFW)- not always research related. Since LOGiN from 1994 was underrepresented, I had to manually scan em in. archive.org/details/@f-t...

It's coming, folks. Just taking a while. I'll go into why things are taking a bit in the next couple of posts.

I recently left my underpaying office job of 11 years to start my own electronics repair/modding business, and here's what I have to say about it so far: memorymachinepod.com/2025/08/22/i...

Current video is evolving a bit. It has since expanded from Laplace No Ma to talk about the Ghost Hunter series generally and related expanded media. Expect something closer to the "Ultima in Japan"or Saburo Jinguji video when finished, as I have to talk about SNE/Call of Cthulhu/late PC-98 etc.

Dealing with a family nightmare, in case delays occur. My mother's health crashed and she has lost the ability to communicate or understand. This has necessitated a lot of hospital frustrations. I hope things improve, but its early days in terms of diagnostics. It has been a hell of a year @_@

Subtitles still have to be added, but Q&A is now up. That's it for Gall Force - next video should be up in early October.

Script is done for Q&A, just waiting for there not to be a thunderstorm. Fatigue, work and illness have been slowing me up recently, unfortunately.

Hi @historyofhyrule.com, I wanted to ask a question - do you know if the artist for this picture was Yoshimiru? There is some confusion over other drawings and I wanted to double check.

New 600-2400dpi scans: This is a cool little activity/quiz book with a lot of great spot illustrations from artists you might know from other stuff like Nintendo Power- Shuji Imai, Hiroshi Aizawa, Yu Minazuki, Kenji Murata. Not much for #zelda but a ton for #dragonquest archive.org/details/book...

Heat wave and a small head cold are slowing things up a bit x.x 2nd extra should be up this weekend

Finally for Patreon folks the extra for Spectravision is complete and the extra on DOG is being constructed now. After that another Q&A, and then work on the next video. It's been a busy month.

Other new upload #2 The March 3rd 1989 issue of LOGiN Magazine, which features a Japanese look at American Studios, among other news and previews. Big feature on HABITAT. A card and some pages have a mild goof due to a slight accident with a saw. archive.org/details/logi...

Here are some uploads I've been working on: 1. This is a CSK Company Song CD given to graduates entering SEGA and CSK that features Isao Okawa singing enka standards. Thanks to @marklincadet.bsky.social for extra info and @saturnjaguar.bsky.social for alerting of auction. archive.org/details/02-csk

1st extra for Patrons should be up this weekend. Have some new uploads as well I'll be finalizing. My day job has been rather intense of late but I should be catching up today and tomorrow after a couple hours rest.

While working on the Spectravision extra I came across this gem lol

youtu.be/nK_qxJTGM00?... New Video on the Gall Force games is up! Also contains info on ARTMIC's campaign for the MSX, the origins of the MSX itself, and some cancelled games in the series that never saw the light of day.

Its done. Just corrections/acknowledgements / edit checks, and it should be up in the next couple of days. Patreon rewards to come a little bit later on.

Gonna be a bit later for final - health problems have my voice a bit messed up.

...or not. Looks like a fake account pretending to be Aniplex. This will take some thought.

After some copyright goofiness, the WIP of the Gall Force video is up for Patrons (with some audio issues and no source graphics/credits as of yet). Final should be up this weekend, with some acknowledgements of folks that used same sources but talked about different aspects of production.

All video done and final script finished. Now recording final script (once memorial day noise ends), editing to final audio, and adding music. Preliminary version will be up for patrons in the next couple of days. Finished version should be at the end of this week. Will be about 45m long.

So here's a stumped, or I'm faceblind.This is session 61, or BPS, thinking rabbit, SystemSoft, Sacom, Hummingbird Soft, XTALSOFT, Microcabin, and BOTHTEC. I cannot for the life of me identify the folks in this pic. Any thoughts? @bowloflentils.bsky.social? @gdri.bsky.social? Sorry if being dumb

Put a new scan up while working on this video. First time doing a big mag so middle was a bit tricky. PDF has OCR. NSFW. archive.org/details/logi...

Should (finally) be working on Gall Force video this weekend. I had to order in a LOGiN that had missing information about SCAP Trust - turns out the reason why the Gall Force RPG didn't come out was a combo of delays and late shifts in platform. LOGIN also previews their canceled Vietnam game.

HELP WANTED: please donate so we can acquire & digitize Coin Journal issues! (月刊コインジャーナル) We're pooling funds to purchase some of these incredibly rare magazines documenting a pivotal decade in Japan's arcade history. any $ helps, and please share widely. pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/05/help...

Waiting on materials for the next video - had to order some stuff from overseas to plug in missing information (the cancelation of planned Gall Force games). I think if this gets delayed I'll fall back on completing the "ALIEN and early Japanese PCs" one I've been backburnering for a while.

The average American has three friends.

This is a very unfortunate situation, gamepres does a great deal of information preservation and is *the* authority on PC-88 stuff. Please donate if you are able to.

www.1101.com/n/s/mother_p... Interesting interview series about localization.

Q&A for backers is done aside from sources and subtitles, and will be going up tomorrow evening. Thanks for your patience.

Happy National Pac-Man Day, y’all. Allow me to welcome you to The Pac-Man Zone www.13newsnow.com/mobile/artic...

Narration recorded for Q&A for patron tiers (finally, life and job interfered). Editing footage and captures, and then it'll be up :)

Excellent video on how debinding/processing/uploading works.

First, a huge point - getting numbers sucks. Here's an example- The MSX is an outlier because it was released in multiple regions. While one source has total sold at 9 million, internal Japanese sources have it at 3mil. That's a huge gap. Additionally, the MSX is a standard, not a specific hardware.

An excellent analysis here in the midst of today's big ol' snowball fight. (And yes, I have stuff to say about the Japanese market and I'll get to that a little later).

First stomach virus, then really bad cold. Lots of doctor visits and tests next week. Following that, I should resume work on the Q&A for the most recent video.

Tough topics require care. And it's the careful and sensitivite folks that are being hit b/c of YouTube's policies. This sucks. Historical analysis will be shuttered, leaving instead shock videos because of popularity. While a new censored version exists below, this takedown should be reversed.

If you haven’t yet watched my Donkey Kong video, MAR10 isn’t a bad day to do so. If it’s good enough for Nacelle and Discovery Channel to rip off uncredited, it’s good enough for u. youtu.be/gsCWPserdrs?...

I goofed on 2 of the pages (Issay Miyake Statues and a C64 ad) but thanks to GA members' help I was able to scan a very early issue of LOOP Magazine, a CSK-published that has some features on CSK games as well as Golgo 13 movie's CGI and an interview with YMO. NSFW. archive.org/details/loop...

Yep, please try to avoid using iOS for Patreon if you can. Ite just Apple being greedy.

Extras should be up tomorrow. Still editing a little bit.

Thank you for posting this, I used to live near there until recently. What a goddamn mess this is.