Well, they commissioned HIMYM, which managed to run for 8 years without its female lead even appearing once.

: snorts line of ketamine off album cover :

I wonder if Richard Splett has a CEO hat?

I only own one valuable game (Link to the Past in French), but a mint-condition complete-in-box copy is currently worth about 200E, while for the exact same box shrink-wrapped it's 1000E. Paying through the nose for the box is one thing, but sealed collectors are cray-cray.

I would like to state, on the record, my utter enchantment with the phrase "goons and maroons."

It's a weird one. It's understandable why there are so few right-wing comedians (because comedy is usually about forming a unique perspective, and conservatism by its nature rejects new perspectives out of hand), but it really doesn't explain how they haven't mastered basic wordplay.

That wasn't an apple, it was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And I don't think anyone would accuse the Huckabees of scrumping that particular orchard.

She may only be a woman, but goddammit she's got MY genes in her!

But the church is the centre of our hostile, conformist mob-rule community! Our very exclusionist way of life is under attack!

Good news: they just announced a Night Trap 25th anniversary re-release!

I used to love that game. Whatever happened to isometric shooters? The only one I remember hearing about in years is Hatred, and EFF THAT.

Shia LaBoeuf's looking for a new project

While I'm thinking about old adverts, does anyone remember posters for Ecco that advertised it as though it were a washing powder? It had a big picture of the box and the logo on the box was a dolphin curled in a circle. I think there was a tiny little Sega logo in the corner, but other than that it was deadpan, with…

In the early 90s, Sega went on a trip of doing some really weird advertising. I think most countries had a Sega ad that made no goshdarned sense. This was one of the more normal ones from the UK, featuring some white dude playing Megadrive the way literally nobody other than Mrs Misanthrope does. Also the phrase…

As someone who's spent the last year listening to Brexiteers talking about the EU like it's an actual German land invasion, that scans.

Strider's a Capcom property, not Sega. And the last Strider game was in 2014. It's a nifty hack-and-slash Metroidvania job, check it out.

I'm sure you know this, but that sounds like a better prize than if you'd ever got to play it. Collectors will pay vastly more for the factory wrap than for the game these days.

I didn't play it at the time, but its reputation lives on as one of the shortest games of all time. The fastest time on SDA is only 2m50s (!) if you play as the raptor. And that's with no skips or glitches.

There's a sweet spot of Puyo Puyo competency at which you're never quite good enough to finish each other off, but not quite bad enough to crap out. I spent about an hour in a 3-way game (it was actually a ripoff version called Blots) before one of the other guys just reached out and pulled the plug right out of the…

Ah yes, the classic "cyber-razor grip."