Once we figured out how to shrink down on the original Mario Kart, my friends and I would play cat and mouse, where three tiny racers tried to complete the course while one full sized racer did anything they could to squash the mice. If the cat squished you, you were done, and the cat won if he got all three. That was…

My young daughter used to fire up Burnout Paradise and pretend she was dropping her kids off at school, then driving to work. She obeyed all traffic laws. It was infuriating to watch.

When I used to play Mario Kart and I was way behind, I’d just turn around and start doing the track backwards to mess with the other players.

Greetings from Essen!

Adventure-game-wise, Sam & Max is always a treat.. both the original and the recent new entries were well done. Ditto for pretty much anything Monkey Island.

Removing the scarcity for TMs and Heart Scales was an improvement to this series. Even though I still check the online database and chart things out ahead of time for the most part, that freedom to experiment with a mon’s moveset is super valuable.

From the streams I’ve watched so far, yeah, Surviving the Internet and Monster Seeking Monster don’t translate as well for spectator games, but I absolutely want to play so much Monster Seeking Mosnter with a group of trusted friends. Civic Doodle looks great, and oh my glob I love the graphic design of Fibbage 3.…

I just caught up with them yesterday. Monster Seeking Monster looks really fun to play, but I’m not sure it’ll be interesting to watch, and it made me wonder if there was a card game you could whip up based on the idea. Bracketeering looks pretty awesome, Fibbage 3 is a classic, and both have amazing graphic design.…

Well this is weird. My Daughter turns ten today. Her name is Lyra (yes, named after the protagonist of this book). But that’s not the weird part. My son’s name is Malcolm, apparently accidentally and pre-emptively named after this new character!

Didn’t read all the above comments, and for a second thought you were referring to the actual Pope Francis... Been a long day

He wouldn’t be the first Gameological person to go from top-tier commenter to writer / artist.

As a small addendum, if you can get yourself to Symphony of the Goddesses, which also just added shows in Philly and Sydney this very week, I highly recommend it. Pure unadulterated joy from start to finish with a positive and enthusiastic crowd of fellow fans.

You’re one point shy of winning the game, no one’s trading with you.

“We’re just wondering why you stopped following us on Instagram.”

Duwease’s comment on Cuphead illustrates why the more recent throwbacks to 8 and 16-bit era difficulty are much less frustrating than actually replaying those old games. Dying over and over again in Shovel Knight or Super Meat Boy or whatever is no big deal, because the games are pretty generous in not punishing you…

Well the TV’s from the 80s. (I know because I owned damn near that exact model.) But it’s hard to play a video game on a 16mm film projector, so this isn’t too bad a substitute.

I imagine I will get a bit more done in Persona Q, and I was more than a little relieved when the game opened up more after the completion of the first dungeon. It’s still not quite as expansive as a Persona game, of course, but it feels much more robust than a main line Etrian Odyssey game (though I’ve yet to try…

“the most widely-admired sci-fi film to come out of the 1980s”

needs more a scanner darkly. my personal pick for best pkd adaptation.

What about “Gattaca”?