Artist! Quote with your fanart! #art #gravityrush #gravitydaze #fanart

That green alien reminds me of Tendril from the Inhumanoids toy and cartoon, right down to the red fangs at the middle of its mouth. Coincidence? Do they share a common, Cthulhu-derived ancestor?

You might guess that Ramza Beoulve's last name is supposed to be a riff on Beowulf until you meet another character in Final Fantasy Tactics who's just named Beowulf. But what if I told you this actually reinforces the central theme of the game? (This is the most English major thing I've written.)

anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this

This PocketStation's former owner was really into Tear Ring Saga, the barely disguised Fire Emblem that FE creator Shouzou Kaga made for the PlayStation after he left Nintendo. I don't have a physical copy of the game, so I can't tell how far along they were. What if I delete a 100-hour save?

10 minutes of unedited February 1988 Japanese TV news footage of Dragon Quest III release day in Shinjuku. The long lines outside stores and the cold weather! What's even more profound are the YouTube comments of those that remember their Mom or Dad buying it for them. Link: youtu.be/sLnXaSEcwzU?...

This is the coolest way to say “yeah I filed my taxes online with my phone this year” And granted, we already knew Tetsuo Hara is the coolest mf alive

Tetsuo Hara drew these to commemorate his having filed his tax return using his smartphone. Notice how he drew both of these on the same day despite no longer really being able to see particularly well. Stuff like this makes me even more irate that the upcoming TV series will be in crap looking 3DCG

New article! I write at length on Namco’s highly underrated RPG, 7: Molmorth no Kihetai (2000), a fairy-tale RPG whose sheen of innocence belies a darker narrative. Released during a critical moment of transition for Namco, 7 seems to have been forgotten by history: ogrerun.com/2026/01/08/7...

Mobile Suit UNCdam

I don't think I remember this episode of Scooby-Doo

This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk

I like how you can read that offer as being for an action figure of a Gundam Wing VHS or DVD. It's not a Gundam Wing action figure, you see; it's a little VHS tape or DVD with action figure arms and legs.

the enigmatic Female Staff nails it again!! hey what if they could just direct one

Wow wow wow, they're putting up Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers, two of the three unreleased games from the Virtual Boy's last wave? Strange that Bound High, the third never-released title, isn't there, though it leaked years ago...

Looking up Hyper Police DVDs, it's funny that the second volume is super common while the rest are more expensive. Was volume two sold cheap at Big Lots or something? And if that's the case, did they print even more than volume one? Also, the dub cast for this show is mostly still a mystery, huh?

Your pop is kind of a jerk, kid.

TEMPT ME NOT

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

Now that the Broncos are out, I can ignore the rest of the football season! Take that, you remaining...uh...*looks at schedule*

It's weird that this Stinkor movie trailer doesn't show him at all, but maybe they're building up to a big reveal. Seriously, this looks like yet another superhero movie. You'd think a barbarian fantasy world full of goofy monster dudes and laser guns and magic would at least stand out more.

Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone may be bad but it is the only entry in the series endorsed by the late Lou Reed

This is a pretty good recreation of a late 1990s website. All it needs is a huge pixellated gif of Tenchi Muyo's Ayeka and Ryoko fighting over an envelope.

The unreleased final NTSC US prototype of Mr. Gimmick for NES by Sunsoft has been preserved: hiddenpalace.org/Mr._Gimmick_...

Hmm...let's see. -Robot has giant head crest(s). -Robot has five holes in head. Looks good to me. I'll never forget Yutaka Izubuchi telling a convention audience "If you want Mamoru Oshii to approve your robot design, make it look like a bird, a fish, or a dog."

On the one hand the Broncos have a problem with Bo Nix being injured and out of play but on the other hand the new quarterback is named Jarrett Stidham so we can all talk about STID GOING HAM and THE STIDDY COMMITTEE and STIDDY'S KONG QUEST.

Filming begins for the live-action adaptation of The Boy and the Heron.

I haven't done #randomgamesaturday in a while. Here's the Greatest Hits version of Final Fantasy VIII, aka The Best Final Fantasy Game To Call The Best Final Fantasy Game If You Want To Start Arguments.

Time to break out my football day shirt. Go Boncos!

This recalls the comics from BEEP! wherein Mania/Madison and Maria/Crystal get Super Famicoms for lunch. And then Mania wears some for shoes and uses another SFC to mourn her Mario doll. Also, please don't smoke, Mania.

This makes so much sense it's alarming.

I still want an old RPG reissued with the option to switch translations on the fly. "Be careful what you say. The Amazons don't like strangers." [click] "Mind your tongue. The Amazons bear no fondness for outsiders." [click] "Watch yer mouth, sonny, unless ya wanna end up like that Bobbit guy."

A 1986 Japanese guide on how to program using the Family BASIC software for the Famicom features many cute illustrations of Mario and Pauline (known as "Lady" in Japan at the time).

This is weird because as annoying as it can be when someone "discovers" a thing that's been praised for decades, it's also annoying to gatekeep that. Today someone might play Tetris for the first time in their life and have something new and interesting to say about it.

Concept sketches for the 1994 Capcom D&D arcade brawler 'Shadow over Mystara'. The D&D Basic Set's successor, the Rules Cyclopedia, was the most popular version of the game in Japan and was starting to pick up some momentum alongside Lodoss RPG/Sword World.

Whoa, there's a good deal! Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons brawlers are a load of fun with their RPG bits and catchphrases. Yeah, catchphrases! By the Abyss! Is that yer best?

Also on clearance: this line of Transformers Blokees for about a buck each. These are supposed to be pretty cool figures. I'll have to see for myself! www.walmart.com/ip/Blokees-T...

I might be late to the party, but perhaps some folks haven't heard that GameStops are clearing out gashapon stuff. I nabbed a bunch of Kirby figures and a set of Zaku heads for 97 cents apiece.

2. Crystalis Feels safe to call this one of the most refined and fun Zelda-likes of the 8-bit generation, it's really good! Fast action, good music and visuals, complementary RPG stuff, and a story that punches higher than you might expect make it easy to see why this is held in high regard still

THE GUARDIAN LEGEND COMPILE 1989 NES

For years you have been asking: Who is Ray Gunn? This is Ray Gunn speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who has deprived you of plot details or cast information and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are speculating, you who dread surprises, I am the

Every Transformers toy should have "Converts from robot to [alternate mode] and back" on the package so people will know that the Transformer won't be permanently stuck as a car or jet or whatever.

Clockwork Aquario for TWO DOLLARS? Everybody buy it. Also Cannon Dancer, Air Twister, Shadow of the Ninja Reborn, a bunch of Cottons...there's a lot of good stuff for cheap.

The Capcom Secret Files have a lot of really cool art pieces, though. A standout is this Lego mockup for Strider 2. I think that's pretty neat

GameFan did not always grant covers wisely, though I'm not sure if any of these top Rise of the Robots or Mortal Kombat Mythologies (the latter of which also got a GameFan cover).

8th Man is an important work in North American fandom - it's one of the first titles to hit US TV following Astro Boy and Gigantor, airing in 1965. The title was important enough to warrant an episode guide mapping in the first-ever issue of Fanta's Zine.

I really think this is the year everyone will start saying YO! HOW'S YOUR BRAIN? as a general greeting.

WHAT VALKYRIE PROFILE'S SOUND MODE HAS A GOSH DARN SPECTRUM ANALYZER IN IT

All right, a translation for my favorite version of one of my favorite RPGs that never got an official English release! Time to update my recent post about it. www.kidfenris.com/2025/11/emer...