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Completely Rad Famicom pirates

Posted in Art of Collecting, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Rare and Complete Pirates Ingredients for a cool pirate: 1 part Famicom casing, 1 part Famicom board, 1 part cheesey and/or awesome lable art, and 3 parts Chinese determination and ingenuity. The case in point comes via Gamesniped.com‘s update this morning. A Gamesniped forum member is selling three more Famicom pirates that he has aquired [...]

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5.83 days with Final Fantasy Tactics

Posted in Featured Article, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today is finally the day that Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is to be released, and it’s been a long wait. Its been a couple months short of five years, actually, since Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was released for the Gameboy Advance. In celebration of this event, and to kill time before I can slip out [...]

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Great Famicom games (that you can understand)

Posted in Art of Collecting, tagged , , , , , on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The Japanese version of the Nintendo, The Family Computer (Famicom for short) is one of my favorite video game consoles of all time. I love the hideous color scheme, the hardwired controllers with their ridiculously short cords, the add ons. The thing I love most of all about the Famicom is just how different it [...]

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Update

Posted in News and Updates, tagged , , , on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Sorry that I haven’t written a post all week, but my good ol’ lap top finally died on me and my new computer wasn’t ready until this afternoon. My apologies. I will have a new article up by Friday (tomorrow) night, but in the mean time I thought I would take this time to do [...]

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Four more reasons the Genesis rules

Posted in Featured Article, tagged , , , , , , , on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ah! Finally I am writing a follow up to one of the first articles I put up on the blog. Once again, I am going to give you four solid titles for SEGA’s 16-bit wonder that prove it can hold it’s weight against both the NES and Super NES. The best part? I found all [...]

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The Ten Best Konami Games

Posted in Lists, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The two things that have kept Konami on the forefront of video game publishers and developers are consistency and longevity. Going all the way back to the heyday of arcades, Konami has time and time again managed to put out fun, engaging games that challenge conventions and set new standards for excellence. There is hardly [...]

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Metal Gear: MSX2 versus NES

Posted in Featured Article, tagged , , , , , on June 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I am a big fan of the Metal Gear series, and it’s kind of sad to think that it will all be over once part 4 comes out on June 12th. Sure, Konami says that they will make more Metal Gear games, but as far as I’m concerned without Solid Snake and Hideo Kojima, they [...]

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The Ten Best Super Nintendo RPGs

Posted in Lists, tagged , , , on June 3, 2008 | 14 Comments »

The Super Nintendo was without a doubt the pinnacle of the golden age of the console RPG. There were classic console role playing games for earlier systems such as the first four Dragon Warrior (Quest) games and Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Phantasy Star, Golden Axe Warrior, and Miracle Warriors for the Sega [...]

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