Formation Soccer on the PC Engine launched a beloved franchise. Human Entertainment took a sport that console games had been struggling to represent well, and took it to a new level. youtu.be/AkPdmFURy5A

Can honestly say I wasn't expecting this educational CD-ROM to feature live birth and Mortal Kombat-esque fatalities. Fortunately not at the same time, though I haven't been through everything yet...

I'm just going to come out and say it: jiangshi are the least threatening form of vampire. They've got a top speed that matches a turtle and you can just push them over if they do somehow catch you.

Osamu Tezuka's last project was Aoi Blink and the game version on the PC Engine has a lot of clever ideas. Unfortunately, it also has it's share of not so good ideas. youtu.be/l3KgKbRU8s8

This vague, rambling, morale destroying meeting could have been an e-mail.

After watching Majuular's U7:SI video, I thought, "I should play U8 before he gets to it. I've owned it for thirty years and never made any progress." Then I installed it and remembered why I always give up pretty much immediately. It's a game that's actively painful to play...

I see someone is still mad about Parasite winning best picture.

So the good news is the giant mountain of IP that EA is sitting on will be up for sail within about two years time...

This brings up something interesting about PC Engine games in general: they are incredibly inconsistent with their sound mix. No two PC Engine games use the same sound level and there's huge variation. I try to smooth that over, but Necross seems to have been a bridge too far.

I am genuinely annoyed that my schedule means that Die Hard is one episode off from my being my Christmas video.

Incredible stuff here

Necros no Yousai is a PC Engine RPG based on collectable figurines from a candy company because the PC Engine loved games based on collectable stuff from candy companies. It features a combat system near guaranteed to cause your eyes to hurt. youtu.be/ham6eq2Ybmg

I kind of want to look at that Mr. Beast video to see what kind of safety precautions he took before making someone risk burning alive for money (my guess, completely and totally inadequate ones), but I also never want to watch anything from or about Mr. Beast...

What time is it?

I've got to pick out a new game to play. And obviously by "new" I mean something old because I ain't paying new game prices; I'll pick something out of my backlog. After playing an RPG for three months, I'm in the mood for something more action focused...

For Random Game Saturday I have one of the big RPG hits: Persona 5 Royal. I have been playing it since the start of July and I think I'm likely to finish in the next few days as I've reached the treasure in the January palace. 120 hours is probably too much for an RPG...

Power Drift on the PC Engine is a real case of "You were so focused on what you could, you never thought about if you should!" An amazing technical accomplishment of a fairly accurate port of a Sega super scaler game spent on one of the least interesting super scaler game. youtu.be/pY-OwOcXhRw

It's difficult to overstate the influence Recettear's surprise hit of a digital English release was in terms of getting the Japanese games industry to turn their heads towards PC as a viable release platform. We all owe a lot to Andrew and his work and I'm so sad to hear this.

People have been telling me that the City Hunter PC Engine game is getting remastered and re-released. A game so bad that I found a case of someone who went to the Sunsoft offices in person to complain about it. All of the great Sunsoft stuff out there and City Hunter is what they want to revive?

Mildly disappointed that a big youtube channel made a video with one of the fun, goofy ideas that I had in the planning stages. Oh well. Ideas are cheap. I'll move on.

I'm getting a bit fancy tonight and making my sloppy joe sauce with catsup instead of ketchup.

I can promise you that this video that starts out about a long abandoned monument to a notorious murder goes some places. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v23...

Shanghai was a launch title for the PC Engine and rather than waiting for Activision to make their own sequel, Hudson got their own Shanghai II. With CD-ROM! youtu.be/v6OF68fCpSs

My favorite patch notes are for Daggerfall. Scroll to the bottom to get an idea of how unplayable the game was for those of us who rushed out to get it when it was first released. My favorite note is "The skeleton no longer walks backwards." en.uesp.net/text.shtml?d...

My upcoming PC Engine recording schedule is a challenge: - One of the best games on the system - Shogi - Decent port of a very widely ported game - Baseball - Mahjong - Educational reference CD-ROM - Iffy port of a popular arcade game - Very unpopular RPG - Great game - Bikini armor

There's a line of six TV plug and play arcade games in controllers released in Japan in 2006 called Let's TV Play Classic. Each controller/console contains four games.... kinda. Because what they actually have are two emulated arcade games and a unique, re-arranged version of each of those games!

I guess I need to add about another twenty games to my list.

Back in my day, game stories were "You're a good ninja, there are bad ninja, and they kidnapped a woman. Go kill them all and get her back." And we liked it that way!

I saw Jesus when He was going around rapturing and when He saw me he tried to hide behind a tree and hurry off. Jesus, you can't run from this! We're going to have to talk it out eventually!

I purposely made it so if you were to search "Famicon" on FamiWiki, you'd be redirected to the Family Convection Oven by SHARP instead of the Family Computer home console by Nintendo. If you want to know why we even have a page about a home appliance read the page to find out.

PSA if you have an original XBox replace those caps asap!!! Checked mine while doing a SSD install and more are starting to go bad even after I removed the clock capacitor years ago. Can't imagine how many of these have died from bad caps now.

The government says Tylenol is dangerous, but you can use acetaminophen instead.

Psycho Chaser on the PC Engine is one of those shoot-'em-ups that has some very forward looking ideas and unfortunately the rest of game can't match up. One of those "more interesting to talk about than play" kind of games. youtu.be/wP00NtwxC4Q

Because of this episode I learned of the Japanese disco version of the Popeye theme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CM...

The big problem with video game difficulty settings is that 90% of the time they are incredibly poorly implemented. And changing a multiplier to the health and damage settings is the absolute worst way to have difficulty settings.

This ranks down there with the oddest game boxes ever. What is going on with that picture where they cropped it and then put it on top of itself? Also, I'm pretty sure it's cheating to use the World at Vegas blackjack tables, but who's going to tell him that?

I can't believe I'm going to say this about a game, but Micronics did a better job than this developer with the concept. Do you know how badly you have to screw up your game development for Micronics to have the better game?

This goddamned woodchuck keeps chucking so much wood in my yard it's keeping me up all night.

I noticed that Lionsgate is uploading their Masters of Horror series to Youtube one short film a week and when I went to check how long until they got to Cigarette Burns I found that the wikipedia page for Masters of Horror has some weird linking. (About four weeks, BTW.)

It's funny, but I'm editing the video on the third SuperGrafx game on the day I have a video for the second SuperGrafx game...

Sharp Engineer 1: "I finished that case design!" Sharp Engineer 2: "Isn't that going to cause serious problems with durability and maintenance?" Sharp Engineer 1: "Uhh... have you seen how awesome it looks?!"

A second SuperGrafx game, Madou King Granzort, was released just four months after the system's launch! But don't worry, if they made something that was worth the wait... Uh-oh. youtu.be/RjF8G7eEmjk

For Random Game Saturday, I offer the DS version of Thor, a movie tie-in that's way better than it has any right to be thanks to Wayforward.

Oh I was totally going to buy an Xbox, but the new price increase means it's not happening now. Just kidding, I would never buy an Xbox.

I'm thrilled to have finally gotten my first accusation of being AI! I've finally made it!

I'm eagerly awaiting the new version of ublock origin for Samsung refrigerators.

In 1990 beat-'em-ups had almost entirely shifted over to the belt scrolling type, but Namco let the single-plane beat-'em-up go out in style with the PC Engine port of Splatterhouse, a great last hurrah for the genre. youtu.be/aKtTyU_NNkE

It's never a good sign when all of the other videos on a game I'm making a video for cap out at around 500 views and have no comments. But this game is actually good! Well, it's a solid port of a good game!