My edits of the Mega Man 7 and 8 stage selection screens, if all of the Robot Masters' stages were available to select at the start.

3½ yrs ago, I answered "what's the largest amount of money you've spent on video games?" on an episode of Gamology. I talk about amiibo and rare NES games, like Little Samson. All the other gamers just talk about DLC... am I wrong for thinking that's lame? www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7dq...

Gyakuten Saiban (J) (2012) (Ace Attorney) OBJECTION!

I don't use genericized brand names when referring to products. I say "tissue", not "Kleenex®". I say "frozen treat", not "Popsicle®". I say "inline skates", not "Rollerblades®". HOWEVER, one that I have trouble getting behind is saying "vacuum flask" instead of "Thermos®". Am I the only one?

Bluesky is really bugging out today, isn't it? Or is it just me?

FREE point-and-click adventure game! Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - Reforged is free this week on the Epic Games Store for Android! (Might be for iOS as well, but here in Canada, it seems we can't get free stuff on the iOS Epic Games Store app.) In any case, if you can claim it, do so!

Here's the Street Fighter II scene from City Hunter (1993), where Jackie Chan's character imagines the bad guy to be Ken when fighting in an arcade.

This is what the Hadoken looks like in Street Fighter (1994):

"The Street Fighter" stars @lisafoiles.bsky.social and Clarke Kohler, and besides iJustine (as seen in my previous post) also features Randall Park and SNL stars Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

OG YouTuber, Justine "@ijustine.bsky.social" Ezarik, has a cameo in "The Street Fighter" (2011) - episode 2.

Celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas now having 50,000 maps! Here are 100 words in game titles/map names, listed here by frequency. "Man" is among the most common, but "Woman" is the least. "Final/Battle/Dark/Kid" & "Space/Alien/Force" are next to each other.

How do you do, fellow NES kids? The NES has twelve games with "Kid" in its title. That's four times as many as the Super NES or Genesis, which only have three "Kid" games each.

I got it, dude! I achieved The Full House Trophy in Blue Prince this morning! Only took me until Day 105 (in-game days, that is).

Not a fan of the 2021 Mortal Kombat (the '95 one is MUCH more fun), but I'm actually looking forward to Mortal Kombat II! Will moviegoers shout "MORTAL KOMBAT!" and go ballistic in the theatre? (It's at least cooler than doing that to "Chicken Jockey!") www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqL...

Still celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas now having over 50,000 maps! For 3401 games, that means an average of 14.7 maps per game. This table shows the average number of maps per game, per platform. (How often do you see the Wii U ranked so highly?)

Is the VGA era of computer games the peak time for Sierra's "Quest" point-and-click adventure games?

Another "post-Room 46" challenge done in Blue Prince! (Censored to protect from spoilers.) I love this indie game so I recommend it to EVERYONE, even non-gamers. But no one I know IRL is playing it, aside from my bro (who was done with it after the first task of finding Room 46)... Really. Play it.

The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past was released on the Super NES in North America 34 years ago today. It's my favourite Zelda game! The "Light World" maps were the first maps I ever made, which led to VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas. vgmaps.com/Atlas/SuperN...

Still celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas now having over 50,000 maps! 3401 games have at least one map on VGMaps.com. Here's the breakdown by platform. 818 games are on the NES (including the Famicom and Famicom Disk System), a whopping 24%.

Still celebrating VGMaps.com having 50,000 maps! It's little surprise that the majority of maps are for console games. (It'd be nice to have more computer games mapped! And I don't know what to classify the Virtual Boy as, so it might as well be its own category.)

Does the Star's invincibility make you happy? Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=suSF...

Over 400 people have submitted maps to VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas! Thanks to G.E.R. for providing the data on these video game cartographers! It helped me to make this table of the top 30 mappers showing how many maps they've made, including how many that are for their fave platforms!

Xeno Genesis, an Amiga game from the '90s that was apparently lost for decades, but found and recovered only a few days ago, has been mapped by MP83 and is now on VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas! Hooray for game preservation! vgmaps.com/Atlas/Amiga/...

I've heard multiple people say, "I played that game on the emulator." Why "the"? That sounds awkward, like "I read a post on the social media" or "I played the song on the media player".

VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas has a NEW largest map! 🤯 G.E.R.'s HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG (PC) map is 3.65 gigapixels, >3x larger in area than his own Limbo (X360) map, and at 242 MB, 1½x larger in filesize than his own Ori And The Will Of The Wisps (PC) map! vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/ind...

Sure are some hot takes (of all kinds) about Chrono Trigger on social media today. (I guess the algorithm is just showing me more of what I react to, or pause my scrolling to read.) It's one of those games that I think everyone should play at least... twice. Yes, New Game+ is a must.

Since people on X are talking about "glazing" Chrono Trigger, and thinking about donuts, I thought I'd share this .GIF (I forgot the source)... In a typical RPG world where one loops east-west but ALSO somehow north-south, the world would have to be a donut shape for that to work.

After talking about how Skull Man and the other Mega Man 4 Robot Masters were created by Dr. Cossack, and remembering that MM11's Tundra Man was too, I began to wonder why I know that. The "Mega Man: Robot Master Field Guide - Updated Edition" book says so, but is it ever mentioned in-game?

I suddenly remembered that Tiny Toons: Looniversity is a thing. After the initial shock of "Buster and Babs are actually related now?", I literally haven't heard anyone talk about this show, ever. Just one of those things that comes and goes and no one notices? That's a shame.

Happy Easter Monday! Here's Buster Bunny running about in the demo for Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (SNES)! Unlike other developers who do a lazy job when making games with licensed characters, Konami did great with Tiny Toon Adventures in the 8- and 16-bit era.

Happy Easter! Here's a big egg! It's the Wind Fish's Egg from The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. I combined Game Boy Color footage with the Super Game Boy border, but normally, you can't play it this way, as the Super Game Boy won't use the full GBC palette.

Happy Easter! Here's the opening of Akumajou Densetsu, the Japanese version of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Nintendo allowed developers to use whatever chips they wanted in Famicom games (but limited them on the NES), hence the better audio quality in the Japanese version.

Still celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas having over 50,000 screenshot maps! Here's a summary of all the maps of extreme sizes, including the tallest/shortest/widest/narrowest (no thumbnails because they'd just look like sticks anyway).

Did you notice that Mega Man 4's Skull Man, Mega Man 7's Freeze Man, and Mega Man 11's Tundra Man all have a dinosaur in a frozen and/or purple background of their boss rooms?

I love Blue Prince, but a glitch made me LIVID. Had my best run EVER: reservoir, sanctum key, adjusted rarities, Power Hammer, etc. I was about to call it a day in the casino as it was a dead end, which would have saved. But I looked at the broken slot machine and THE GAME FROZE!

Remember in the mid-'90s when 3D Pinball was a hot game, bratty gamer kids were feared like they were black-hatted cowboys, and no one expected a girl to be good at games? (From Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide: Starring Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry.)

Still celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas having over 50,000 screenshot maps! After looking at the largest and smallest maps by image area, here are those in the middle. ozderya, who mapped the 50,000th map, also mapped many of the maps here at the center!

Just saw The Super Mario Galaxy Movie! It's great!

20 YEARS AGO, the April Fool's joke on VGMaps.com was a map set for a fake "Mega Man Solid X: Guns Of The Mavericks" being honoured as the Maps Of The Month. Mashing Mega Man X & Metal Gear Solid, it featured FOXHOUND as Mavericks with designs based on their names.

It is now the start of month 396 of STILL not having any screenshot maps of Shadowrun (Super NES) on VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas. (Okay, I guess it's actually month 288 since VGMaps.com wasn't around as long. 😛)

April 2026's #MapsOfTheMonth honour @ VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas goes to Will Mallia's Mega Man: Star Force - Dragon/Leo/Pegasus (DS) maps. Have you played them on the DS, or are you playing them on the Legacy Collection that recently came out? vgmaps.com/Atlas/DS/ind...

Critics should really be of the target audience that would actually choose to see the movie. If it's an action movie, action fans should review it. If it's an established IP, fans of that should review it. There is no value in the opinion of a movie critic just paid to be there.

I've seen that people have made "We Didn't Start The Fire parodies" playlists on YouTube, but my NES version isn't ever on them... Have you watched this music video parody of Billy Joel's hit that my brother and I did using NES game titles? www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xZK...

It's probably not referenced anymore, so I feel like I'm the only one that remembers that the original Indiana Jones trilogy are Chapters 24/23/25 in his overall film/TV adventures. The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull would be Chapter 26 and The Dial Of Destiny would be Chapter 27.

Celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas now having over 50,000 screenshot maps! After yesterday's huge maps (a BILLION pixels!), today we have the smallest (1886-3264 pixels), and they're all in-game maps from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. Thanks, @peardian.bsky.social!

Yesterday was the eight-year anniversary of the release of Ready Player One (2018). Using the YouTube multiplier, you can enjoy my music video of it with the music, despite the copyright claim, and you can more appreciate how I made it match the original: www.youtubemultiplier.com/69caa391a671...

Argh. Blue Prince shenanigans. North & south Antechamber doors open, but I couldn't get to it! ONE coin short for the Axe in the Armory, and the coupon book didn't help! Almost filled it all up, but the Archives made me choose the Lavatory and the Planetarium. Always tomorrow...

Ready Player One (2018) came out eight years ago today... I really enjoyed making this music video, matching it to a-ha's music video of "Take On Me". The music got nerfed because of a copyright strike; just play the song in another window or something. 😛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynic...

Still celebrating VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas having over 50,000 screenshot maps! We looked at the maps with extreme filesizes, but how about actual image area? The # of pixels? The maps for Limbo and Blasphemous have over ONE BILLION pixels, each! That's over a gigapixel!

With three days until the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on April 1, you could have a four-day Mario movie marathon if you watch a movie daily, starting today! My review of the 1986 anime film is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS-B...