I gave up on getting any trick-or-treaters a long time ago. This year, I am going to have a small outdoor gathering with a few old friends and we’re all going to watch It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (among others) in defiance of Apple. I’m hoping this becomes our new Halloween tradition.

I also live in a rural area and I have never had a single trick-or-treater except for my nephew. Going house to house hasn’t really been a thing here in almost 20 years anyways. Most people take their kids to town where there is a baptist church on every street hosting a Trunk-or-Treat and the kids make bank on candy.

I wish they would give us a playable version of Sonic Xtreme instead. 

I 100% agree that we got the better SMB2. My 8 year old mind was blown with the new play mechanics and the bright, colorful world of the game compared to the original SMB’s drab (by comparison) tones. Howard Phillips sums it up perfectly when he says that the Japanese SMB 2 felt more like punishment than being fun to…

The world could really use another Heaven’s Gate right now: an internet-based cult that sweeps up these loons, convinces them to mutilate their genitals, then swallow phenobarbital to hop on a passing cosmic bus. This sounded laughable in 1997, but would probably be a trending hashtag in 2020. Go for it.

I love Nintendo so much but they fuck up pretty much everything when it comes user experience and delivery. Why do they hate us so much?

There were many other games whose OSTs tickled my aural sensibilities long before Spyro came along (SNES Square RPGs, Journey to Silius, various Mega Mans, etc.). However, Spyro was the first voiced character that really captivated me. He was just so stinking cute. I remember playing a demo of the game from OPM that…

The people putting confirmed preorders on ebay for $1000+ should be curb-stomped. Ebay should disable those auctions and suspend the accounts of the asshats who do this.

What if we finally got to play Sonic Xtreme?

Mario is Missing is missing.

This looks like it could be the next season of Fortnite.

Yeah, I’m really not interested in this game now :(

Atmospheric. That’s the best way to describe this game’s OST. Some NES games that I played before this one had some great, memorable music but none that I would describe as atmospheric. “Entryway” has a certain coldness to it. “Subterranean Cavern” sounds claustrophobic. “Hall of Mirrors” sounds like some twisted fun …

Ah, my first PSX game! I still have the old long box sitting on the shelf at home. Yes, the soundtrack does sound very much like the time period in which it came out (my wasted youth of the mid-90's), but that’s what I love about it. This game and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side got a lot of play in my…

Fwiw, Broadway was looted and vandalized pretty badly. The Nashville Metro Courthouse was set on fire too.

I feel the same way about FF3. It’s not that it’s a bad game at all or that I disliked it, but it just did not grab me the way FF2 did. My friend introduced me to FF2 when we were 11, and I was hooked from the first time I heard the music. I gained a new appreciation for FF3 over time after multiple playthroughs, but…

I really appreciate that. His comment about feeling guilty for being tired and grumpy when your kid just wants to play with you hits me on a deep, personal level. I’ve raised two boys by myself for the last 9, almost 10 years and there were definitely times that I needed to adult (house/yard work needed to get done,…

I know that feeling. I’ve been there, and I wish I could go back. I would love to play one of those “war games” my youngest would make up with his Skylanders. He always made the rules up as we went along, and the entire point of the game was for me to lose and him to win. I never thought I would miss laying there in…

There’s Loom! I have always wanted to play the FM Towns version of Loom! 

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