My thoughts exactly Castlevania Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps please and thank you!! 

I remember cycling around one summer night during my first year in Japan. I made the mistake of thinking that the road running parallel to the one I came up wouldn’t end up in some farmer’s driveway. It did.

Castlevania II is not good game and is a waste of a slot

Castlevania II (US version) is one of the worst ones, so I can see why they might leave it out. 

Unless we have a major internet infrastructure overhaul in the United States within the next decade, this is dead in the water.

Epic COTD.

Some form of the game has been around since near the franchise’s start, so I assume it’s doing well.

This is the best option we can hope for.

That was how I learned poker: the Leisure Suit Larry 7 demo, which featured strip poker.

This is the perfect “kids today” moment, because kids today can see nudity with device in their pocket without any of the effort that old people like me had to go through.

You could make people learn anything when you get enough naked skin shown as a reward.

Please tell me there’s a suspicious duo on that pier that asks whether you want the bird or cage pendant.

Ah yes, the Official Dreamcast Magazine...these are all 12 of the issues I got as a subscriber back in the day, as well as most of the cover discs.

Obligatory (re: “Pioneer”, “Dreamcast” and “Online” being mentioned in the same article):

Here’s hoping the new series has the same wit as Sonic Boom did:

South Park did it!

I have “Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego” for the NES.  It came with a freaking encyclopedia in the game case.  A highly specialized encyclopedia that’s really more like a dictionary in the brevity of its entries, but quite the novelty nonetheless for a video game.

That feeling when the Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer will go well if it’s shown before the Detective Pikachu movie...