Lost in the flap over the 20th anniversaries of the Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 2009 was the 20th anniversary (last month, in fact) of the Atari Lynx, the second-to-last console to carry the ill-fated Atari brand. The Lynx was, and remains, one of the finest examples of a machine that was both truly excellent and far too fatally flawed to succeed.
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Some Other Movie, Supplemental: Final Fantasy Unlimited
Starting this week, Elaine and I will, as promised, be watching video game movies and discussing them as part of the podcast. Even before we began this venture, however, I’d decided to watch an anime series through Netflix (and God bless Netflix, by the way) that was sparked by Final Fantasy, perhaps the most influential [...]
We Might Actually Hate Ourselves: New Podcast Segment?
In our never-ending quest to come up with some sort of consistent segment for Some Other Podcast, we’ve been through a bunch of ideas, but nothing has stuck yet. This time, though, we think we’ve stumbled on something good; the new segment that we’d like to try will be reviewing video game movies. Our first [...]
Sweet Jesus, Why?: A Brief Prinny Review
Have you done something horrible in your life that you would like to atone for? Do you enjoy being beaten around by little schoolgirls in fox costumes (ewwwwww)? Do you own a PSP? If you answered “yes” to at least two of those three questions, I have a perfect game for you.
