This week I ordered a copy of the classic "Pacman-with-robots" game Iron Helix. You play as a probe investigating the wreck of an old spaceship while another rogue drone hunts you down and attempts to destroy you. I have not played this game since last century, but I very vividly remember the tension and…

And to think there were no takers on Simon Sees.

Excuse me, it's spelled "Judgmynt."

Lightyears aheaaaaaad of evoluuuution!

Fibbage is indeed pretty great, but I hope they keep adding more questions…

The best one I can think of that isn't obvious/hasn't already been covered is the Dark Space theme from Illusion of Gaia. I realize that I turn to Illusion of Gaia a lot but it stood out to me this time.

Oh my god I have to seek these out for various game nights immediately. I was aware of the Tetris game, but Zelda? Oh man.

Alexis Shepard likes seafood.

I missed this article and have noooo intention of wading in there. I have had a horrible feeling all week because of what's been happening. "Gamers" are awful, and at the very least, I'm glad that now everyone is being VOCAL about the terrible things happening.

I'm at the Pizza Hut.

Apparently! God bless the maintainers of the Final Fantasy Wiki and their obsessive-compulsive knowledge.

They grafted a Cid character into those ones via the remakes, which doesn't quite count but is impressive for consistency's sake at least.

Playing FFVII feels like reading The Iliad or something equivalent. It is a monumental work, and it just oozes with ambition and scope. You can palpably feel how weighty and influential it was at the time. But it is something clearly from another era and from a very different mode of storytelling. Some of the writing…

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To add to what everyone is saying: even though they are all standalone, they often share a lot of components. In the most famous example, every game in the series contains a character named Cid who often has strong ties to aerial transportation. Recurring names usually draw on popular mythology and religion, like…

In a third act twist, ACME are revealed as the real villains. You have been secretly destroying all their enemies so they can establish a New Geographic Order. You have to suffocate The Chief with the warrant she gave you on your first day, causing the entire organization to collapse. Then you hook up with Carmen…

Oof, the Newseum…

I recognize that there are people out there who probably played Hotline Miami, missed the point, and just enjoyed it because it was ultraviolent, and that sort of scares me.

You run, but you're not on the ballot. You just ask people to put you in the "Other" field basically.

Joke candidacy is truly a wonderful thing. I ran a college write-in campaign for every position, and after the student government weeded out the ones I wasn't qualified for, I still won two seats and somehow ended up beating a legitimate candidate.