Thanks! It’s been a long few months of arguing with my parents over who was invited and who was not. I wanted to just go to the courthouse - not good enough for my parents. Said I would do the ceremony elsewhere so extended fam could be there but only if we had sole control over who was okay to be there. Family only -…

I’m planning a remarkably small wedding and I still wish we had just eloped instead. It’s such a pain in the ass. Ready for it to be done with (next week!) and just get on to the honeymoon and the rest of our lives already

I’m sure people will say that this “isn’t enough” or whatever, but Gen 2 is my favorite, so I’m super excited for this update.

Yeah that basically sums it all up. The CD and 32X were certainly large missteps in their own right but I feel like they were recoverable. And then instead they had the Saturn. And in all of those cases it was a combination of terrible R&D alongside terrible marketing strategies. No one had any clue what they were…

My only surprise is that it took a month for all of this to happen. Why wasn’t the response to it more immediate?

Yep, that about nails it. I did a ton of research into Sega for a book I just published and it’s really interesting to look back on it in hindsight. I was just a kid at the time of the Saturn but I do recall noticing that the KB Toys at the mall near me suddenly didn’t have a Genesis demo unit anymore.

The Wii U name managed to alienate both ends of the spectrum. It confused casual gamers who enjoyed the Wii for things like Wii Sports and Wii Fit because it made it sound like an add-on to their existing console. It alienated the more hardcore gamers who never cared for the Wii and had no intention of buying one. It…

Agreed. They’re getting it out to their core base right away with a system-seller in Breath of the Wild. Once we get to E3 and we get presumably more third-party software announcements, confirmed dates on first-party titles, etc., then the people who might have waffled on it at first glance will buy in and the stock…

Looking back at Sega in the 1990s it’s so easy to see that it was the Saturn that really killed that company, not the Dreamcast. They couldn’t come back from the mistakes of the Saturn (or the Sega CD for that matter). It was a series of missteps by that company for years and somehow people were still surprised when…

It was honestly so, so, so bad. I was working for GameStop at the time and for MONTHS I had to try my best to explain to people that no, it wasn’t an add-on for the wii, it was a whole new thing, and no it wasn’t a handheld, that was the controller, and it had a second screen on it, and.... you get the idea. They…

Link’s Awakening is available on the 3DS. I believe LTTP is also available if you have a new 3DS, but it’s also on the Wii U for sure.

I would say that Majora’s storyline was its strongest point. I honestly didn’t care for that game too much as a game but the narrative was compelling.

Yes! Though I cannot for the life of me imagine a reason why the mushroom wouldn’t show up.

I think Skyward Sword would have been 300% better if not for bad controls. Fingers crossed for a Switch port!

I understand that from my perspective I definitely look at it through rose-colored nostalgia goggles. It was my first Zelda title and the first game I was genuinely interested in besides Pokemon. Getting into Zelda ultimately sent me down the video game rabbit hole at large and I have LA to thank for that. That all…

I honestly hope it gets a Switch port so that you can play it with a pro controller or something. It seemed like a genuinely good game ruined by a shitty control scheme

I once cosplayed Marin and it was the most heart-wrenching thing I’ve ever done, I was such an emotional mess the entire time we were taking photos. Which of course were on a beach near a bunch of seagulls. Why do I do this to myself

This is a good list. Link’s awakening is a game everyone should consider as one of the best.

I attended public school and then a public state college. In Baltimore County Public Schools I learned that regardless of economic, religious or ethnic background, in the classroom you were equals. I learned that if you applied yourself you’d make something of yourself.

I once had to be the mascot for the minor league baseball team I was working for at the time. I fainted in front of an entire elementary school full of children.