FrDougal9000 / Apollo Chungus
@frdougal9000.bsky.social
Writer for Hardcore Gaming 101 (as Apollo Chungus) and Cartoon Milk. Occasional animation enthusiast, music composer and numpty.
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29 | he/him/whatevs
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Hello, Big Mac.
August 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hello, Big Mac.
@shoogles.bsky.social hey howdy, I ended up playing through the original Legend of Zelda during the week and managed to beat it for the first time after nearly 20 years! it wouldn't have been on my mind if not for your excellent vid, so I just wanted to let you know and thank you for that vid! : )
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@shoogles.bsky.social hey howdy, I ended up playing through the original Legend of Zelda during the week and managed to beat it for the first time after nearly 20 years! it wouldn't have been on my mind if not for your excellent vid, so I just wanted to let you know and thank you for that vid! : )
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ANGELINE ERA IS NOW OUT ON STEAM!!!
In this 3D ACTION ADVENTURE GAME...
🔍Every level is hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… so chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼 and a soul-shattering story!
PLAY TODAY! BUMPSLASH TIME!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
In this 3D ACTION ADVENTURE GAME...
🔍Every level is hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… so chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼 and a soul-shattering story!
PLAY TODAY! BUMPSLASH TIME!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
ANGELINE ERA IS NOW OUT ON STEAM!!!
In this 3D ACTION ADVENTURE GAME...
🔍Every level is hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… so chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼 and a soul-shattering story!
PLAY TODAY! BUMPSLASH TIME!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
In this 3D ACTION ADVENTURE GAME...
🔍Every level is hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… so chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼 and a soul-shattering story!
PLAY TODAY! BUMPSLASH TIME!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Hey howdy! It's the weekend, so why not relax with my latest @hg101.bsky.social article? It looks at the educational SNES sidescroller Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus, an okay game that teaches players about asthma via the medium of asthmatic dinosaurs! Really!
www.hardcoregaming101.net/bronkie-the-...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hey howdy! It's the weekend, so why not relax with my latest @hg101.bsky.social article? It looks at the educational SNES sidescroller Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus, an okay game that teaches players about asthma via the medium of asthmatic dinosaurs! Really!
www.hardcoregaming101.net/bronkie-the-...
www.hardcoregaming101.net/bronkie-the-...
Hey howdy, it's Bandcamp Friday so I might as well promote my music page. If there's anything there you like the sound of, maybe throw me a couple euros. (It's all free anyway, so no worries)
I'd happily recommend the albums FISH MUSIC, To You (Part 1?), and Doodles jimsjams.bandcamp.com
I'd happily recommend the albums FISH MUSIC, To You (Part 1?), and Doodles jimsjams.bandcamp.com
Jim McGrath
A musician who wants to make the best music he possibly can.
Inspired by:
Shiro Sagisu
Tomoyuki Asakawa
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Victoria Wood
The Divine Comedy
Mike Wyzgowski
Spiralmouth
jimsjams.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey howdy, it's Bandcamp Friday so I might as well promote my music page. If there's anything there you like the sound of, maybe throw me a couple euros. (It's all free anyway, so no worries)
I'd happily recommend the albums FISH MUSIC, To You (Part 1?), and Doodles jimsjams.bandcamp.com
I'd happily recommend the albums FISH MUSIC, To You (Part 1?), and Doodles jimsjams.bandcamp.com
Ever played Aladdin on the Genesis but wish it had cartoon pigs and was mediocre? Look no further, because I've got a @hg101.bsky.social article up today talking about Radical Entertainment's late SNES platformer Power Piggs of the Dark Age! www.hardcoregaming101.net/power-piggs-...
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ever played Aladdin on the Genesis but wish it had cartoon pigs and was mediocre? Look no further, because I've got a @hg101.bsky.social article up today talking about Radical Entertainment's late SNES platformer Power Piggs of the Dark Age! www.hardcoregaming101.net/power-piggs-...
what the...
I sat down to write a lil review for Earth Defence Force 2's Japan-only Switch port, and I somehow ended up writing over a thousand words on the thing. TL;DR - it's EDF, it's good times, but maybe there's too much here. Genuinely baffled I wrote so much...
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I sat down to write a lil review for Earth Defence Force 2's Japan-only Switch port, and I somehow ended up writing over a thousand words on the thing. TL;DR - it's EDF, it's good times, but maybe there's too much here. Genuinely baffled I wrote so much...
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FrDougal9000's review of Earth Defense Force 2 for Nintendo Switch | Backloggd
(TL;DR - so many words. I normally wouldn't say that, but I tend to bristle at Backloggd reviews that are more hundred/thousand word blogs than quick write-ups appearing on my front page. Shit's intim...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
what the...
I sat down to write a lil review for Earth Defence Force 2's Japan-only Switch port, and I somehow ended up writing over a thousand words on the thing. TL;DR - it's EDF, it's good times, but maybe there's too much here. Genuinely baffled I wrote so much...
backloggd.com/u/FrDougal90...
I sat down to write a lil review for Earth Defence Force 2's Japan-only Switch port, and I somehow ended up writing over a thousand words on the thing. TL;DR - it's EDF, it's good times, but maybe there's too much here. Genuinely baffled I wrote so much...
backloggd.com/u/FrDougal90...
Howdy folks, my first @hg101.bsky.social article in a while is now available to read! It looks into the pretty neat Japan-only Saturn platformer Willy Wombat, developed by Westone and featuring designs by Susumu Matsushita & English voice acting! www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Howdy folks, my first @hg101.bsky.social article in a while is now available to read! It looks into the pretty neat Japan-only Saturn platformer Willy Wombat, developed by Westone and featuring designs by Susumu Matsushita & English voice acting! www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
shout out to this fucking rad bit of Sonic fan-art by Matt Lyon, adorning the pages of Mean Machines issue 10 (July of 1991, making this one of the earliest known pieces of Sonic fan-art)
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
shout out to this fucking rad bit of Sonic fan-art by Matt Lyon, adorning the pages of Mean Machines issue 10 (July of 1991, making this one of the earliest known pieces of Sonic fan-art)
A bunch of pictures I took from the 1947 stop-motion adaptation of the Tintin book Crab with the Golden Claws (by Claude Misonne)
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A bunch of pictures I took from the 1947 stop-motion adaptation of the Tintin book Crab with the Golden Claws (by Claude Misonne)
Howdy everyone, hope you're all doing well! I've got a new article up on @hg101.bsky.social talking about the cute puzzle platformer Rolo To The Rescue, made for the Mega Drive by British dev Vectordean (of James Pond fame)!
September 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Howdy everyone, hope you're all doing well! I've got a new article up on @hg101.bsky.social talking about the cute puzzle platformer Rolo To The Rescue, made for the Mega Drive by British dev Vectordean (of James Pond fame)!
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good morning! watch my new video if you havent yet
seeing games in all the Wrong places
YouTube video by smudgebap
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September 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
good morning! watch my new video if you havent yet
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365 Days of Tunes - 263/365:
In Chuck Jones’ THE DUCKSTERS (’50), Porky is the luckless contestant on a radio quiz show run by Daffy Duck. Daffy’s zaniness as a game show host ventures into cruel territory as he punishes Porky throughout the short.
In Chuck Jones’ THE DUCKSTERS (’50), Porky is the luckless contestant on a radio quiz show run by Daffy Duck. Daffy’s zaniness as a game show host ventures into cruel territory as he punishes Porky throughout the short.
The Ducksters (1950)
Released on September 2, 1950.
vimeo.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
365 Days of Tunes - 263/365:
In Chuck Jones’ THE DUCKSTERS (’50), Porky is the luckless contestant on a radio quiz show run by Daffy Duck. Daffy’s zaniness as a game show host ventures into cruel territory as he punishes Porky throughout the short.
In Chuck Jones’ THE DUCKSTERS (’50), Porky is the luckless contestant on a radio quiz show run by Daffy Duck. Daffy’s zaniness as a game show host ventures into cruel territory as he punishes Porky throughout the short.
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Check out our discussion of Rolling Thunder! Also on this episode, my fellow #HG101 hosts talk about Pokémon Puzzle League!
#podcast #RollingThunder #Pokemon
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#podcast #RollingThunder #Pokemon
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Hardcore Gaming 101: Rolling Thunder (and Pokemon Puzzle League!)
LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that paved the way for Shinobi to exist. Then stick around for Pokémon Puzzle League, the puzzler th...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Check out our discussion of Rolling Thunder! Also on this episode, my fellow #HG101 hosts talk about Pokémon Puzzle League!
#podcast #RollingThunder #Pokemon
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#podcast #RollingThunder #Pokemon
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Hullo howdy, I posted a blog today talking about the Ace Attorney anime. It mainly digs into how the show took a very game-specific thing and made it work in the context of a TV programme. I hope it'll be interesting to read: cartoonmilk.com/ace-attorney...
Clever Case Placement in the Ace Attorney anime - cartoon milk
Finally watching a show that never interested me, and finding something to appreciate about it.
cartoonmilk.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hullo howdy, I posted a blog today talking about the Ace Attorney anime. It mainly digs into how the show took a very game-specific thing and made it work in the context of a TV programme. I hope it'll be interesting to read: cartoonmilk.com/ace-attorney...
Howdy folks, it's been a while! One of my @hg101.bsky.social articles got posted on the site today, looking at the solid point-and-click adventure revival Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse by @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social! It's pretty good! www.hardcoregaming101.net/broken-sword...
September 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Howdy folks, it's been a while! One of my @hg101.bsky.social articles got posted on the site today, looking at the solid point-and-click adventure revival Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse by @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social! It's pretty good! www.hardcoregaming101.net/broken-sword...
oh my giddy aunt i've done it. i've written a blog about animation for the first time in months, and put it on the internet!!!
i talk about a trio of cool animated films that i've seen this year in a casual manner, i hope this is a fun chill article to read! : ) cartoonmilk.com/three-mini-r...
i talk about a trio of cool animated films that i've seen this year in a casual manner, i hope this is a fun chill article to read! : ) cartoonmilk.com/three-mini-r...
Three Mini-Reviews of Cartoon Films - cartoon milk
Sometime in the last few weeks, I decided to create a Letterboxd list of all the feature-length films I’ve seen so far in the year of arlord 2025, and even rank them for the hell of it. Although I hav...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
oh my giddy aunt i've done it. i've written a blog about animation for the first time in months, and put it on the internet!!!
i talk about a trio of cool animated films that i've seen this year in a casual manner, i hope this is a fun chill article to read! : ) cartoonmilk.com/three-mini-r...
i talk about a trio of cool animated films that i've seen this year in a casual manner, i hope this is a fun chill article to read! : ) cartoonmilk.com/three-mini-r...
@fabraz.bsky.social hullo, just wanted to ask a daft question about Bubsy 4D. Will there be an option to manually change the colours for his shirt and tie? (Not counting the options for different shirt patterns in the costume menu)
I really dig the new design & I'm looking forward to playing it : )
I really dig the new design & I'm looking forward to playing it : )
August 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
@fabraz.bsky.social hullo, just wanted to ask a daft question about Bubsy 4D. Will there be an option to manually change the colours for his shirt and tie? (Not counting the options for different shirt patterns in the costume menu)
I really dig the new design & I'm looking forward to playing it : )
I really dig the new design & I'm looking forward to playing it : )
Kinda thinking I might step back from blusky, unless I got something of mine I wanna promote.
Lot of stuff be going on, and even as I mute loads of words, I still catch glimpses of stuff I can't do anything about and only serves to unsettle me.
So I think distance might be good for me.
Lot of stuff be going on, and even as I mute loads of words, I still catch glimpses of stuff I can't do anything about and only serves to unsettle me.
So I think distance might be good for me.
August 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Kinda thinking I might step back from blusky, unless I got something of mine I wanna promote.
Lot of stuff be going on, and even as I mute loads of words, I still catch glimpses of stuff I can't do anything about and only serves to unsettle me.
So I think distance might be good for me.
Lot of stuff be going on, and even as I mute loads of words, I still catch glimpses of stuff I can't do anything about and only serves to unsettle me.
So I think distance might be good for me.
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We never get around to posting any western RPGs, well this snow saturday we finally did it. Here we have the western RPG Wild Arms which features falling snow in the outside areas of Mount Zenom. Wild Arms (Playstation, 1996)
August 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We never get around to posting any western RPGs, well this snow saturday we finally did it. Here we have the western RPG Wild Arms which features falling snow in the outside areas of Mount Zenom. Wild Arms (Playstation, 1996)
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August 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
watching a bit of Jem and the Holograms, and this rando poster in the corner reminded me of the Ys 1 title screen lol
August 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
watching a bit of Jem and the Holograms, and this rando poster in the corner reminded me of the Ys 1 title screen lol
#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
oh cock i'm a bit late with this. lotta animal comedy cartoons this week, with the excellent T&J Trap Happy and the very rubbish Mansion Cat. glad that FIXED got to come out, even if i didn't jive with it all that much, and Technological Threat's a good time.
#LastFourWatched
oh cock i'm a bit late with this. lotta animal comedy cartoons this week, with the excellent T&J Trap Happy and the very rubbish Mansion Cat. glad that FIXED got to come out, even if i didn't jive with it all that much, and Technological Threat's a good time.
August 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
oh cock i'm a bit late with this. lotta animal comedy cartoons this week, with the excellent T&J Trap Happy and the very rubbish Mansion Cat. glad that FIXED got to come out, even if i didn't jive with it all that much, and Technological Threat's a good time.
#LastFourWatched
oh cock i'm a bit late with this. lotta animal comedy cartoons this week, with the excellent T&J Trap Happy and the very rubbish Mansion Cat. glad that FIXED got to come out, even if i didn't jive with it all that much, and Technological Threat's a good time.