@Play: Angband Version History

Back in the GameSetWatch era, I focused more on a general kind of audience for @Play. No, really! I notice that I've gotten a fair bit more detailed so far in t

AKKA ARRH on Steam!

Please pardon our lack of a romhack review this week. It's not always easy to find a good hack to review out of the tens of thousands that are floating around o

Adam Dawes' Guide to Bubble Bobble

For 16 years now, Adam Dawes has had a guide to Bubble Bobble on his website that provides precise, detailed strategies for defeating each of the game's 100 lev

A Deep Dive Into Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Engine

Turbo Rascal

Turbo Rascal, more fully known as "Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" or TRSE, is a multiplatform game and demo development system, including a compiler, afull IDE and

Sundry Sunday: Lego Dimensions has GlaDOS meet HAL 9000

Lego Dimensions was much too awesome for this decayed world. Sadly, many of its greatest moments were part of DLC locked to various figures you had to collect i

Team Fortress 2 Stirs In Its Slumber

Team Fortress 2, Valve's infamous hat simulator, is, amazingly enough, still popular. Eons after it went free-to-play, years after it saw its last content updat

Base Builder 2023 Fest Indie Showcase

https://www.youtube.com/embed/goYdI3w9o7Q This is a spotlight of my favorite games played during Base Builder Fest 2023, all games shown are either demos or

Romhack Thursday: The Winter Lion

You can find romhacks of all kinds and levels of quality. Professional translations that seek to produce what an official localization would be, and slapdash la

News 2/16/23: Switch Online, Google Share Prices, MS v Sony, Toaplan

Welcome shlorbs and foobs to our mostly-weekly text-based internet news program! I hope you enjoyed our techno/bicycle horn fusion theme song! It's the number o

Randochrontendo

Chrontendo is, of course, Dr. Sparkle's great and long-lived journey to document and discuss every Famicom and NES game. He's made a lot of headway! He's also d

Josh's Favorite Games of 2022 -- Best RPGs

We now turn to the RPG genre, that also helped while I was writing my book on RPG design. We have some very different takes that go from being old school, to no

Webdepths: Recipe for Meringue Mario Mushrooms

Post date: February 12, 2009Archive date: July 6, 2012Wayback LinkOriginal URL: http://www.annathered.com/2009/02/12/valentine-meringue-mario-mushrooms/Found th

Sundry Sunday: The People's Mario

Content warning: cartoon blood, violence against Goombas. This one goes back a ways. I wonder how many people have viewed this in the past decade? It was pop

Investigating Bootleg Battletoads

The Youtube channel of chirinea mostly hosts cover songs, but they just posted an interesting short video (about 13 minutes), both explaining the Brazilian NES

Nintendo Direct 2/8/23

Thursdays here at the moment are the domain of Edit the Frog, so we put off our overview of the Nintendo Direct until today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v