This epic haul is thanks to my good friend and fellow chapel hillian Ted. His parents gave him a call a couple weeks back and asked him if he had any interest in the families old computer stuff they had in the basement. If Ted didn’t want it, they were …
As you may or may not know, the North American release date was recently revealed for Final Fantasy 13. That date is March 9th, 2010. I said in an article last year that Final Fantasy 13 would be my sole motivating reason for buying a PS3. Holding true to my …
I haven’t posted any finds in a while, so here are some recent acquisitions. Of note, are three Super Nintendo games that I have wanted to play to a while now. The first of which is the sequel to one of the greatest and most horribly under-appreciated platformers of the …
Super Mario Bros. 2 was the black sheep of the original NES Mario trilogy. The gameplay, style, look, and mechanics varied vastly from the original game, and for a perfectly sensible reason. The game we played as Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally developed and released as Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki …
I’ve noticed that a post I wrote a couple years ago consistantly gets a lot of hits, so I decided it would be a good time to write a follow-up post to expand on the list. I do not speak a lick of Japanese. None at all. Even though I’ve …
Yes, yes. I know that it is Wednesday. I started taking some night classes this week (Statistics for Economics- arrggghh) so I am a bit late. It won’t happen again I swear! To make up for it, on this edition of Famicom Pirate Monday I am showcasing one of my …
I have been replaying Final Fantasy III (or VI, if you must be canonically correct) lately and I am having a hard time pinning down just exactly why I love it so much. I am not saying that it’s a bad game, not by any stretch of the imagination. I am saying …
This week I will be looking at something that is pretty common in the world of Famicom pirates, which is the licensed game knock-off. What I have here is a cheap looking plastic cart with a low quality label announcing ROBOCOP, but mysteriously void of any copyright information and logos. …