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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.
For Random Game Daturday, I have Chakan the Forever Man, perenial punching bag of Genesis fans. It's based on a comic from the 1980s B&W boom and was one of those comics that looks like it came straight out of a 16-year-old's in class doodles. It was so *extreme*!
January 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Even the camera operators were on wires in Zipang! This fight up the stairs with people coming from both sides is 90 second oner, there's no room for a crane, and it looks manually run. Maybe they used a scissor lift but that's four stories they were moving through.
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Hattori tore out one of his own ribs. And then that rib had two tiny knives concealed inside it.
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Huh. A gilded evil king feels weirdly like current events.
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Hanzo Hattori's binoculars have a little shuriken in the view so he can remember to throw them at the people he's looking at.
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 AM
There's some really impressive camera work in Zipang. Not simply cinematography; being an operator on this movie must have been tough.

(Yeah, I'm sharing a lot as I watch the movie.)
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This guy fights with nine different gimmick swords and he has a sword caddie for them.
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
That man is wearing a bat on his head. That's more than Batman does.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Finally getting around to watching Zipang and it's off to one hell of a start.
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I'm just going to start adding fake countries to the edges of maps like I'm an early modern cartographer.

For example, I have placed the mythical country of "New Sea Land" off the coast of Australia in this map.
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The sole video on youtube for them (with 562 views at this moment) just raises more questions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvP...
January 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I don't know what this is supposed to be, but I had to share it.
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
January 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
For Yes That's Totally Random Game Saturday, here's global politics simulator Shadow President. Any political media pre-2016 now feels hopelessly niave regarding people being held accountable and being rational actors.
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Eggman might be a wannabe dictator, but he takes fire safety and building codes seriously.
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hey.
January 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Yeah! It's the character voted most likely to be drawn in a middle schooler's notebook in 2002!
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Okay, I'm now playing through Silver's story since I don't know how long I can keep this up and I might as well "enjoy" the full thing.

Silver, they are answering you directly. You're just an idiot.
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Sonic and his girlfriend have wound up in Windows XP for their big romantic scene.
January 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The camera in Sonic 2006 might be the worst enemy that Sonic has ever faced.
January 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Well, after failing the first stage, I'm beginning to get an idea of why Sonic 2006 is so hated.
January 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ummm... WHAT?!
January 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Here we go!
January 1, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Time to start 2026 off right.

I've never played it before, too.
January 1, 2026 at 12:21 PM