January 2009
5 posts
Les champs de bataille magnétiques
I will let the immature little child within me speak just this once:
Up until the first release of a Sonic game for a Nintendo console I don’t think I had fully realized that the SEGA empire had been lost after the battle waged on the videogames market for more than a decade. Today we see that over a dozen Sonic games were released for Nintendo consoles, namely Mario & Sonic at the...
Standard Reception 26/01 - Mixed Business
A lot of stuff coming in this month, great prices too. I just got dozens of bargains on items that didn’t sell during the holidays so this is pretty much a mixed bag of games for different platforms. In order to bring balance to my small collection, I invested in some interesting Super Famicom games as well. Eastern Mind seems to be quite popular these days: clicks seem to come from all...
K9
Japanese extravagances are a dime a dozen. In a country that worships everything that is a novelty and that is bizarre and outlandish, toy and videogame manufacturers have often made great revenues because of strange products that, somehow, captured the imagination of that public. Most of us westerners don’t understand aspects of their culture like the love for horse races or the respect for...
Standard Reception 14/01 - The Fami-Go-Round
Standard Reception 14/01 - The Fami-Go-Round
The thing I hate the most about mail orders is the waiting. There is nothing like purchasing the items you like in a store where they deliver them to you immediately. But, of course, since my taste for videogames requires me to make my purchases online, I need not say that I spend some time suffering, anxious for the parcels to arrive. Not that...
Standard Reception 02/01/09 - Saturnine
The Holidays have come to an end so it’s time to face a whole new year of joys and disgrace, of working time and of fun times. Let’s start with the latter.
(click the smaller images for bigger pictures if you wish).
The title translates to “Scary Stories at School” and this is one of those cheesy, FMV games with low-class...
