A classic. That made me think of this.

GIVE THIS MAN A JOB MAKING VIDEO GAMES, PLEASE

A little too Never Ending Story sounding, this is mostly just you reminded me that Astro Fang Super Machine existed.

Of course, you try flipping every game the bird at least once to see what happens. Giving Bad Dudes the finger meant doing nonstop windmill kicks through the whole level. I ask you, is there a better game than Bad Dudes? The answer is surely no.

Not done yet.

River City Ransom

Chrononauts is a card game posing as a board game. Win the game by manipulating time to create the future your character comes from. Very fun, fast paced, plenty of expansions for when the original set loses its shine (which it won’t).

I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take me out and do whatever I wanted. Now I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.

Needs butter.

Hey, I just read and wrote up the newest 33 1/3 book “Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack” for the O-Deck so go read it, yeah? It is a book that will make you like all the things you like a little more and so far has not been discussed elsewhere in the Kinjaverse.

My job selling stuff on the internet for a Japanese company has turned into a crash course on 70s and 80s anime- we got in a couple of boxes of LPs and they are all soundtracks for stuff like Space Runway Ideon and Delinquent Girl Detective and so on. Kenji Kawaii, but Maison Ikkoku. So in addition to being awesome,…

I just did, shared to the Observation Deck. Thanks again. I am super pleased that Journey is coming into vogue again with the reboot but there is something truer to the game in your raw take over this (inarguably enjoyable) replay-to-review MP post,

Would you mind if I posted your Journey piece to the O-Deck some time?

Luke, I love the vinyl posts. Make them a regular thing, please.

Papa Poppins

I really, really loved Bedlam. Bedlam is what happens when you write a superhero comic after the gloves come off. How far you can go when you don’t have a franchise to tarnish. Somebody once called it “The Greatest Joker Story Never Told.” Wait, that was me.

The Hohokum soundtrack was like $12 on LP and not only is it gorgeous but it came with a free download of several hours of game music mp3s. There’s also a 2LP picture disc of the Journey soundtrack coming this fall.

Also The Long Halloween is great, maybe Loeb/Sale’s best, and Knightfall is a piece of unreadable garbage. So there’s that.

I am on the waiting list for artists to adapt the manga. It will probably never come to pass- I’m not holding my breath- but it makes me feel nice inside to know that it is a possibility. Some day? Some day.