I’ve been ordering older consoles and games from Mercari recently, which I’ve found to be much less scammy and shady than OfferUp, as I've also given up on most websites prices these days. It takes a bit of patience and effort, but in the past few weeks I got the GBA for $40 as well as a pair of PS1s that just needed…

That's fair, this one's fairly scuffed as well. I genuinely considered getting an SP instead for convenience, but the lack of headphone jack is too weird and at that point there's just too much functional overlap with my modded 3ds. If I'm making an illogical nostalgia purchase, why be practical? Plus I'm genuinely…

Coincidentally, I ordered a cheap GBA this week for a hit of nostalgia and it’s been really surprising to revisit one of my favorite consoles after over a decade (I went with the OG horizontal one, I like that layout better). I remember it being a little dim, but my god, the screen is awful - even sitting under a lamp…

Aww yeah, time to find out about the new Bakugan!

As I commented below, based on the fact that the site was in operation for at least 6-7 years it’s very possible this guy made over $100k the past few years on blatantly selling access to pirated games, movies, etc. You’re making a lot of assumptions about this guy - he may very well be recently unemployed due to the…

He made $30,000 - $35,000 in the final year of a site that (as far as I can tell) operated for 6-7 years. Even a low ballpark puts him at making over $100k in a few years selling access to pirated media, and I doubt running a site like that needs to be a full-time job, so he probably had a day job as well (and could…

So my assumption is that they're delisting these older games partially due to music licensing fees as well, which is why many older games get delisted.

It’s on Game Pass now through EA Play as well, which makes it even easier to access.

Yeah, I'm very much in favor of emulation for the preservation of gaming as an art form, so I was nervous to see the headline. But fuck this guy and his stupid life choices, he earned that verdict.

For tonight’s episode of Fanboy Fairy Tales, we go to the Ubisoft game factory’s military shooter assembly line...

Interesting. I’ve yet to start DQ7 because I’d heard so much that it’s a long game with slow pacing, more so than most games in the series. Certainly never heard it described as snappy. I’m definitely finding DQ8 to be a slow game, particularly because of the paper thin plot that’s mostly “oh no, the evil wizard’s…

Yeah, I typically do the same. I bought these and a handful of other 3ds games for my backlog on sale after the Switch came out and everyone immediately decided the 3ds was dead, I think I got each of them for ~$20. And I knew the Majora’s Mask 3ds was expensive and sought after, but mine’s the Hylian logo one, which…

I’ve been in the very bad habit of starting a bunch of JRPGs and not sticking with them over the past year, so I’m buckling down and doing my best to focus on a couple I was already pretty far in. Currently, that’s mainly been the 3ds version of Dragon Quest VIII, which I think I’m halfway through. Compared to XI (the…

Sakurai absolutely deserves a long and relaxing retirement if that’s what he decides, the man’s a legend. But I find it odd that he doesn’t seem to see the middle ground between “work myself so incredibly hard on massive game development projects for years on end that my body and health suffer” and “totally retire”.…

A similar RPG stat that I heard recently that’s both fascinating and makes me feel ancient is that the mainline Final Fantasy games have been in their weird experimental phase longer than they were traditional turn-based games.

Ash & Co after their encounter with law enforcement.

I’m surprised the article didn’t mention that this game has one of the most batshit premises in all JRPGs (a genre infamous for batshit premises, as I replay a game about the dying dreams of Frederic Chopin) - the president of the US is dying from a sudden nuclear attack on a major city, and wakes up in Ni No Kuni…

I'm surprised the article didn't mention that this game has one of the most batshit premises in all JRPGs (a genre infamous for batshit premises, as I replay a game about the dying dreams of Frederic Chopin) - the president of the US is dying from a sudden nuclear attack on a major city, and wakes up in Ni No Kuni…

*snaps awake from a dream within a dream*

Wildcard prediction: a new Torneko game now that rogue-like games are the hot thing, probably using DQ XI assets.