This post is for anyone who enjoys reading my articles and wants to know when more articles will be posted. I will be aiming for four “main articles” and three “mini articles”. Mini articles will likely have a lower word count than the main articles. The first half of the…

It’s easy to see why demo discs evoke a sense of nostalgia. As a child, the lack of disposable income meant getting new games was rare. Demo discs were appealing because they were cheap and often included demos for different types of games. The beloved Pizza Hut demo discs are…

It’s been over fifteen years since the release of RPG Maker 3, the last installment in a trilogy of console-exclusive RPG Maker titles. RPG Maker is primarily known for its PC software and the console trilogy was a spinoff that didn’t reach the same level of popularity. One of the…

The Dragon Ball Z franchise has countless video games in almost every generation of consoles. These games dip into many genres, such as fighting games, role-playing games, and even board games. Many of them are okay or bad to play. Ultimate Battle 22 was terrible but Dragon Ball FighterZ was…

After developing a series of Tomb Raider games, Core Design wanted to make something different and ambitious. The result was Project Eden, an action-adventure game where the player solves puzzles by using four characters. The game had good reviews but didn’t sell enough to warrant a sequel, which is a…

Artdink has developed strange and unique games. In Tail of the Sun, you’re dropped into a world as a caveman and explore with no guidance. In No One Can Stop Mr. Domino, you must set up and topple rows of dominoes to solve puzzles. Artdink is most known for A-Train…

The most notable games based on Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga are Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji, Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Death or Survival, and Kaiji: Steel Beam Crossing of Despair. On the other hand, there’s more Kaiji games that seem to be lost to time. Around 2003 to 2004, Taito released multiple games based…

In July of 1998, Hudson Soft published B.L.U.E. Legend of Water, an underwater adventure game that sank into obscurity. Videos of the game on YouTube have a couple thousand views, and there doesn’t seem to be many discussions about the game online. Perhaps the game was ignored during what many…

Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji is one of the strangest games I’ve ever played. It’s basically a rock-paper-scissors game for PlayStation, and it cost nearly sixty dollars upon its release. On the surface, a game centered on rock-paper-scissors would be too simplistic. The gameplay would consist of randomly selecting a gesture and…