Roguelike Stranger
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I like obscure old video games and make a lot of videos about them. I've documented all of the Nintendo Famicom library and I'm currently working on the PC Engine.
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Famidaily: All of It - YouTube
All of the Famidaily videos in order.
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My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
"[Game that was extremely popular and had tens of millions of players] is the best game that you've never played!"
You know, I think I might actually have played that one.
You know, I think I might actually have played that one.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"[Game that was extremely popular and had tens of millions of players] is the best game that you've never played!"
You know, I think I might actually have played that one.
You know, I think I might actually have played that one.
Namco's biggest game on the PC Engine has to be Valkyrie no Densetsu, a magnificent port of an arcade game that's one of the best action games you can play on the PCE.
youtu.be/7Sjsf7WQcnk
youtu.be/7Sjsf7WQcnk
Valkyrie no Densetsu/The Legend of Valkyrie (ワルキューレの伝説) - PC Engine Power 165
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Namco's biggest game on the PC Engine has to be Valkyrie no Densetsu, a magnificent port of an arcade game that's one of the best action games you can play on the PCE.
youtu.be/7Sjsf7WQcnk
youtu.be/7Sjsf7WQcnk
Weird Monday morning thought: are any games allowed to become "retro" anymore?
Very few games become unavailable. Design sensibilities have become stabilized.
I was trying to think of the most recent game that would feel out of place if it was released today, and I have to go back to the PS2...
Very few games become unavailable. Design sensibilities have become stabilized.
I was trying to think of the most recent game that would feel out of place if it was released today, and I have to go back to the PS2...
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Weird Monday morning thought: are any games allowed to become "retro" anymore?
Very few games become unavailable. Design sensibilities have become stabilized.
I was trying to think of the most recent game that would feel out of place if it was released today, and I have to go back to the PS2...
Very few games become unavailable. Design sensibilities have become stabilized.
I was trying to think of the most recent game that would feel out of place if it was released today, and I have to go back to the PS2...
As an engineer, I totally get the desire to first make the crazy idea work and then scale it to be practical. But maybe those Disney Imagineers should have kept the scope of their project in mind before having an elephant sized autonomous mech smash through a wall and come at a crowd of executives.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
As an engineer, I totally get the desire to first make the crazy idea work and then scale it to be practical. But maybe those Disney Imagineers should have kept the scope of their project in mind before having an elephant sized autonomous mech smash through a wall and come at a crowd of executives.
With bird day coming up, I'll share my secret to perfect turkey: thermodynamics. Roast the bird at a bacteria killing, protein changing, but not water boiling temperature of about 175F. Once the temperature is consistent through the whole thing, go to 450 to crisp the fatty skin and it's perfect.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
With bird day coming up, I'll share my secret to perfect turkey: thermodynamics. Roast the bird at a bacteria killing, protein changing, but not water boiling temperature of about 175F. Once the temperature is consistent through the whole thing, go to 450 to crisp the fatty skin and it's perfect.
Taito's Jigoku Meguri on the PC Engine offered players a tour of hell. I didn't care for it much, but based on the comments on the video the game has a lot of fans...
youtu.be/DlqwWURDmiI
youtu.be/DlqwWURDmiI
Jigoku Meguri/Bonze Adventure (地獄めぐり) - PC Engine Power 164
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Taito's Jigoku Meguri on the PC Engine offered players a tour of hell. I didn't care for it much, but based on the comments on the video the game has a lot of fans...
youtu.be/DlqwWURDmiI
youtu.be/DlqwWURDmiI
I've decided I'm flipping the order of my Christmas video and my five year anniversary video. Christmas was going to be a monster catalog video but that feels like a better match for the anniversary so instead Christmas will be about a single game...
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've decided I'm flipping the order of my Christmas video and my five year anniversary video. Christmas was going to be a monster catalog video but that feels like a better match for the anniversary so instead Christmas will be about a single game...
For Random Game Saturday, I have Major Dream Major Wii Perfect Closer. "Huh,a baseball game?" you say. But this is the single worst baseball game ever made. A game so bug riddled that it makes the original Moero Pro Yakyuu look well-polished.
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For Random Game Saturday, I have Major Dream Major Wii Perfect Closer. "Huh,a baseball game?" you say. But this is the single worst baseball game ever made. A game so bug riddled that it makes the original Moero Pro Yakyuu look well-polished.
World Beach Volley on the PC Engine is a truly impressive volleyball game: impressive that they managed to do so many things wrong!
youtu.be/4SjP1hwJwLA
youtu.be/4SjP1hwJwLA
World Beach Volley/Sonic Spike (ワールドビーチバレー) - PC Engine Power 163
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
World Beach Volley on the PC Engine is a truly impressive volleyball game: impressive that they managed to do so many things wrong!
youtu.be/4SjP1hwJwLA
youtu.be/4SjP1hwJwLA
I'm not an adherent to the Berlin Interpretation, but can we please stop calling any game with any kind of randomness in it a "roguelike"?
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm not an adherent to the Berlin Interpretation, but can we please stop calling any game with any kind of randomness in it a "roguelike"?
I think this game is getting the shortest script I have made for any PC Engine Power video. It's just that bland and generic.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I think this game is getting the shortest script I have made for any PC Engine Power video. It's just that bland and generic.
Share a TV series you've watched beginning to end more than once.
Okay, it's short but that helps me rewatch it every once and a while!
Okay, it's short but that helps me rewatch it every once and a while!
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Share a TV series you've watched beginning to end more than once.
Okay, it's short but that helps me rewatch it every once and a while!
Okay, it's short but that helps me rewatch it every once and a while!
The SuperGrafx finally got a decent game with it's third game, just eight months after the system's release. Daimakaimura was an amazing port of a great game with one small caveat: the price of entry was incredibly high even in 1990.
youtu.be/Z6ktlD4pdk4
youtu.be/Z6ktlD4pdk4
Daimakaimura/Ghouls 'n Ghosts (大魔界村) - PC Engine Power 162
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The SuperGrafx finally got a decent game with it's third game, just eight months after the system's release. Daimakaimura was an amazing port of a great game with one small caveat: the price of entry was incredibly high even in 1990.
youtu.be/Z6ktlD4pdk4
youtu.be/Z6ktlD4pdk4
It's nice that the seabirds get their own local government office.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's nice that the seabirds get their own local government office.
Please ignore the one star reviews for my backhoe service from those jerks at Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please ignore the one star reviews for my backhoe service from those jerks at Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
Reposted by Roguelike Stranger
I have everything I've ever wanted
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have everything I've ever wanted
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Unto every console there must come a port of Lode Runner. Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu was that version on the PC Engine. Or at least the first version on the PC Engine...
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu/Lode Runner: Lost Labyrinth(ロードランナー 失われた迷宮) - PC Engine Power 161
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Unto every console there must come a port of Lode Runner. Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu was that version on the PC Engine. Or at least the first version on the PC Engine...
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
One of the weirder things about video games in the 80s and 90s are the games that are considered to be ports but are really completely different games. It annoys me when I see games with the same title lumped together as "ports" when they have different game play, levels, and possibly more...
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of the weirder things about video games in the 80s and 90s are the games that are considered to be ports but are really completely different games. It annoys me when I see games with the same title lumped together as "ports" when they have different game play, levels, and possibly more...
Reposted by Roguelike Stranger
Want some beat'em up platforming action? Here's "Edge" from TGL! Not only one of the best action games for the PC-98, it has long cutscenes throughout the game for one heck of a wild ride! Will our hero survive the kiss of death from his unwelcome guest?
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Want some beat'em up platforming action? Here's "Edge" from TGL! Not only one of the best action games for the PC-98, it has long cutscenes throughout the game for one heck of a wild ride! Will our hero survive the kiss of death from his unwelcome guest?
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
Irem's Image Fight got ported to the PC Engine and was a surprisingly complicated shoot-'em-up. Maybe too complicated for its own good...
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
Image Fight (イメージファイト) - PC Engine Power 160
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Irem's Image Fight got ported to the PC Engine and was a surprisingly complicated shoot-'em-up. Maybe too complicated for its own good...
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
This fortune teller software has stymied me. I have to enter my birthdate and the only guidance on acceptable input it gives me is a selection of four different calendars I can use. I've tried every combination of inputs I could come up with and it throws me back to entering the birthdate...
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This fortune teller software has stymied me. I have to enter my birthdate and the only guidance on acceptable input it gives me is a selection of four different calendars I can use. I've tried every combination of inputs I could come up with and it throws me back to entering the birthdate...
For random game Saturday I have one of the newest additions to my collection: Suzuki Bakuhatsu. One of the peak "Japanese games are *crazy* 🤪" games back when people thought that was a meaningful statement. I'm looking forward to disarming fruit bombs.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
For random game Saturday I have one of the newest additions to my collection: Suzuki Bakuhatsu. One of the peak "Japanese games are *crazy* 🤪" games back when people thought that was a meaningful statement. I'm looking forward to disarming fruit bombs.
When Bioshock came out, I was already sick of Radio Buddies so before I opened up the bathysphere I decided I would do the exact opposite of whatever they said untill I had no other choice.
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
There's no escape from Radio Buddy.
Oof. 😢
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
When Bioshock came out, I was already sick of Radio Buddies so before I opened up the bathysphere I decided I would do the exact opposite of whatever they said untill I had no other choice.
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
When I was working at a movie theater, Natural Born Killers did pretty well for us so we kept it a weirdly long time. And because it's a pretty long movie it was always the last one to end. So I saw the last five minutes of the movie probably thirty times...
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994). One of the most audacious auteur statements of its era, in our Soundtracks by Trent Reznor collection!
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When I was working at a movie theater, Natural Born Killers did pretty well for us so we kept it a weirdly long time. And because it's a pretty long movie it was always the last one to end. So I saw the last five minutes of the movie probably thirty times...
It's fun to find the weird connections in games, like finding out that the winner of a magazine contest for composing music for Lagrange Point is one of the people in the chorus singing "Sephiroth".
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's fun to find the weird connections in games, like finding out that the winner of a magazine contest for composing music for Lagrange Point is one of the people in the chorus singing "Sephiroth".
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...