Right, that’s the first two Metroid replays of the year done. Time for Peak.

More Evercade rankings, so soon? Yes! Today's hot topics include: - Is Pitfall Harry the hero we need? - Gridrunner VIC-20 or C64? - How great is River Raid? - Beware the Ratman! - And more! www.patreon.com/posts/147299...

Fuck this pack of loathsome villains

Our Top 10 Playdate Games of 2025 episode is up 🟨 😯 sites.libsyn.com/412607/top-1...

For Patrons: Yesterday we caught up on NES Classics for Switch Online, today it's SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. All of 2025's additions are ranked here. Yes, all three of them! - Super Thunder Blade - ESWAT: City Under Siege - Streets of Rage Chat, is this app cooked? www.patreon.com/posts/147212...

I've been at this five years and it was unlikely that I'd ever give Sega platforms their due. So I took a look at every 8-bit console game on a Sega platform that was released in Japan and put it all in one video. youtu.be/yjBdqGMCO-g

For Patrons: It's the first post of 2026! We're catching up on the Switch Online NES backlog by adding the following three games to the rankings: - Tetris - Ninja Gaiden II - Battletoads How will they fare? Only one way to know! www.patreon.com/posts/147139...

Toshie the Hero and the Orbs of Destiny 2026 New Year's Sale! $0.99 for one week! books2read.com/toshi... itch.io/s/177851/12-... Some ebook providers take longer to update than others. They should be good to go, though!

The deeper dungeons of Moredecoom await... The award-winning Evercade smash-hit Roguecraft DX is coming to Amiga, Game Boy Color, and MEGA65! Good luck, brave warrior... #roguecraft #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #retrogames #amiga #mega65 #gameboy

Happy New Year from Japan!

I finally put together a list of my favorite games of 2025 on @rpgsite.net with many honorable mentions. It ended up being a very surprising year looking at how I expected 2025 to go last year. Enjoy: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1928...

Another batch of Evercade game rankings to end the year with! Today's burning questions: - Why did the chicken cross the road? - Can a VIC-20 handle a Defender clone? - Are the demons attacking us, or are we attacking the demons? - Why is a shark in a fishing hole? www.patreon.com/posts/147064...

Our second Game of the Year feature covers our picks for the best games on Switch and Switch 2 including games from @simogo.com @kazkodaka.bsky.social @hcnone.bsky.social @tobyfox.undertale.com @dotemu.bsky.social @tributegames.com @ballxpit.com @devolverdigital.com: www.patreon.com/posts/146982...

Here are our 2025 Top Ten lists for Switch and Switch 2 for TouchArcade. Skipped some obvious picks to shine a light on some lesser-seen choices. www.patreon.com/posts/146982...

I know everyone is having a lot of fun but get it all out of your system now because we are leaving Clair discourse in 2025

Our best mobile games of 2025 feature is now live including games by @playdigious.bsky.social @draknek.bsky.social @adriaan.games @potipoti.studio @panikarcade.bsky.social @futurefriendsgames.com @trampolinetales.com @ioi.dk and more: www.patreon.com/posts/best-m...

I did this too

I did my big post summarizing the Evercade year, ranking all of the new cartridge releases from 2025 and talking about the new hardware. All members can read this one, even if you're not a paid member. Just sign up and away you go! www.patreon.com/posts/146903...

I find it so weird how thoroughly the C64’s popularity in North America has been memory-holed

Trying to explain the (severe) issues with the Avatar movies to non-indigenous people often feels like that episode of Friends where Phoebe is trying to teach Joey French

I’ve written for magazines before but this is the first time I’ve seen a book about something I worked on. Very cool.

Time to observe the season in the traditional manner of my people

you wanna see a dead body

They say wisdom comes with age but I’m in my late 40s and seriously pondering buying the entire run of Saved by the Bell on iTunes for $20 Canadian

It is somewhat lamentable but the reality is that how much piss people will tolerate in their cup of water generally depends on who’s pouring the water

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

tetris lending their name to this SUCKS and they deserve to be shamed loudly and constantly over it

Patch day for Blast Rush LS on Steam and Switch! Highlights: - Improved loading in some spots, esp. on Switch/Switch 2 - Control remap in pause menu - Menu nav wrapping in Library pages ICYMI I shipped this game this year after a lot of hard work! Also it’s on sale! store.indie.io/blast-rush-ls

Amazon Japan lost my main Christmas present in shipping, and as it was a limited-quantity item that had to be preordered during a specific window, I guess I just don’t get it now. Just a toy and not all that important in the scheme of things but a bummer nonetheless. Merry Christmas!

Buying sealed 3DS games in 2025 and freeing them from their tragic fate

Also, I know not who “the father of indie gaming” is or if such a person could even be singled out, but if they could, it probably wasn’t someone who was in elementary school when the first indie gaming boom happened

I feel like 9/10 times you see someone referred to “the father of” some concept or character, it’s just some bozo-ass bozo whose main talent is putting himself in front of other people and running his mouth Apropos of nothing today I am sure

Another ACA NEOGEO sale is incoming: - World Heroes 2 Jet - Metal Slug 2 - Prehistoric Isle - Pleasure Goal: 5 on 5 Mini Soccer - Power Spikes II - Zupapa - King of Fighters 99 - King of Monsters 2 - Fatal Fury Special - NAM-1975 All titles 50% off until Jan 8.

It takes some galaxy brain myopia to look at a piece of data like “America’s favorite luxury toys had their worst November sales in the US since 1995” and frame that mainly as an industry-created problem I wonder what external factors could be at play here, hmmmm

You don’t have to stop liking a thing you like just because someone who worked on it did something that sucks But you also don’t have to defend something that sucks just because it was done by someone who worked on a thing you like

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has its moments where it almost perfectly evokes the magic of the original Metroid Prime, but it also can feel worse than any of the three previous games in the series. It feels closest to Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in many ways. Our review: www.patreon.com/posts/metroi...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is an essential purchase not just for Zelda fans, but for Nintendo Switch 2 owners in general. Our review: www.patreon.com/posts/hyrule...

For Patrons: I took a couple days' break from posting these, but the Arcade Archives Advent Calendar entries have kept on coming. Here's the fourteenth one! Which game is it? Only one way to find out! www.patreon.com/posts/145811...

I know everyone is having a lot of fun but get it all out of your system now because we are leaving Clair discourse in 2025

The Keighleys are unquestionably successful as a gaming event, but as an awards show I think they’re just a disaster. Nobody is talking about 95% of the awards at all. All of the talk is about trailers and reveals. If the award part was fully deleted I doubt many viewers would care at this point.

I run in a lot of retro gaming circles and one thing I am always going to be annoyed by is retro gaming people having a big pout about modern games. Not unexpected given the context, but still. Please look beyond AAA! So much great stuff out there!

Took a bit for the next article, but here is the abbreviated "10 Favorites" version of this article on the free site. What are your favorite Saturn games? If you want to read more, you know what to do! postgamecontent.com/post/8026392...

For Patrons: Yes, another article today. It's my 25 Favorite PlayStation 1 games! This was a tough one to narrow down. Apparently this thing was a big success? The full list will remain Patreon-exclusive, but an abbreviated list will appear on the free blog later. www.patreon.com/posts/145594...

For Patrons: Two weeks til Christmas means it's... two weeks til Christmas. I dunno, meme. Here's another Arcade Archives Advent Calendar entry! www.patreon.com/posts/145591...

I will simply watch the commercials I want to watch later

For Patrons: Day 10 of the Arcade Archives Advent Calendar. Rev up your engines and get ready to go! Remember, just $1 and you can read all of these! You can even cancel after and only end up having to pay that single dollar. I won't get sore, I promise! www.patreon.com/posts/145517...

For Patrons: You know the routine by now! It's December 9th, and we're opening another Arcade Archives Advent Calendar door. It's a favorite of mine this time! Let's dance! www.patreon.com/posts/145428...

For Patrons: It's December 8th, and time to open the eighth door of the Arcade Archives Advent Calendar. Today's entry is a rather noteworthy one, even if it has been overshadowed by one of its follow-ups. Sign up for $1/month to read them all! www.patreon.com/posts/145333...

Said it before and will say it again: if you learn how a name is pronounced and you intentionally continue to mispronounce it with pride, you’re a fucking asshole.