I doubt I’m the first person to point this out, but the UAZ-3151 (or the UAZ-469 it’s derived from) isn’t a SUV. It’s a military utility vehicle (there’s no “sport”) about it. It’s no more an SUV than the Willys MB Jeep is an SUV.

If so, that’s pretty awful. For starters, even the PS4 isn’t doing as well in Japan as hoped (though it’s certainly pounding the Xbox, and it’s possible the game couldn’t run on Wii U), and KOF as a series has its strongest international following in markets in Asia and South America where consoles (at least the new…

I’ve heard as much, which is good—though its complete absence from arcades at launch was interpreted as a giant middle finger to the section of KOF fans I belonged to (apparently that’s going to be remedied some time in 2017). Myself and everyone else I knew who’d been playing KOF since the Neo-Geo days ultimately…

I’m still perplexed how it became a PS4 exclusive. That’s kind of sensible among the consoles, if fundamentally contrary to SNK-Playmore’s practices for the last decade—they’ve always made sure to support multiple consoles in a generation, and King of Fighters XIII launched simultaneously on the PS3 and Xbox 360 (a…

I stand sort-of corrected, though that doesn’t change the fact that Matsumoto, whose multiple works I love now, never got that level of fame in Taiwan as a single blue robot cat. I didn’t claim Doraemon was the best known anime of the period after all.

It’s surprising. While we’ve certainly heard of him, nothing Matsumoto ever did approached the fame of Doraemon in Taiwan, despite debuting at comparable times in Japan. That being said, I really enjoy both the classic and modern interpretations of both Space Battleship Yamato and Captain Harlock, and have been going…

Apparently, Reiji Matsumoto was hot shit for the dozens of American fans of Japanese anime back then, I’d heard as much. :D Though that does mean that any distribution of SBY 2199 has to happen under the name Starblazers. In Taiwan, I could swear that conventions with cosplay were a known thing around the time I was…

I know, what I’m saying is that even though the new XB1 has such a drive, that by itself isn’t enough to buy it since I have a perfectly fine working XB1 I bought years ago.

(I should add, that’s all the more impressive given developer Free Lives—makers of the ultra-American Bro Force—are from South Africa.)

Upon further consideration (and watching AH’s competitive Let’s Play of the title), I realize this may be the most American video game I have ever seen. That is neither criticism nor praise, but an observation.

No need to apologize for the Japan. I have a working launch Xbox 360 (or rather, I know who has my launch console, because I exchanged it for one of the smaller revisions when those came out), so there will be exceptions. :)

Well, you pay a price for size and economy. The launch Playstation 2 (if you had one) had reliability issues so severe that Sony was hit with a class-action lawsuit—and lost. Though it’s been buried by time (as lawsuits usually are) the sheer success of the console magnified the problem further. Having lived in Japan…

Console breakdowns are consistently interesting across the board (I say this as someone who finds building his own PC to be a stressful, tedious process—rather than a fun hobby, as others might describe it—so perhaps it’s cathartic too). You’re obviously getting a lot for your $399.99, and even though the console…

“...save Vladimir Putin.”

I came for the futuristic Soviet cosmonaut on a lonely (Martian) moon walk. I stayed for the futuristic Tu-144-derived supersonic passenger liner landing with a MiG-31 escort. A completely unexpected surprise (practically everyone who’s not a aviation or perhaps space travel buff has forgotten that aircraft). Both it…

I was last in Taichung in 2010—perhaps it wasn’t well advertised or known back then. Missed opportunity!

Damn it, how does this exist in the city I was born in, and I’ve never gone?

Just say no to kids serving as dress-up dolls for their parents. *rolls eyes back at you*

Interesting. I got the impression that, in the wake of actual announcement, Sony hasn’t really talked much about the PSFro (with the exception of answering the occasional technical answer, which is important). Then again, I guess I could say the same thing about PSVR? The list feels a little bit on the short side, but…

Personally not a fan of parents dressing up their children for Halloween (though it’s possible this was her idea), but I have to admit that’s pretty darn cute.