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A Very Merry Christmas! 2020 Edition EX Plus Alpha
Hello everyone, and a very merry Christmas to you all, unless you celebrate something else around this time of year, in which case happy whatever that is. 2020 has been a big challenge for everyone, so...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Boxing
Fighting game fans whinge a lot these days, but a lot of them don’t know how good they have it now. Back in 1987, the genre was still in the process of figuring things out and determining the best way...
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Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland – Give Me A Reason to Live
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > The nice thing about the original Arland trilogy is that although there was definitely a sense of narrative progression over...
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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a restful holiday season and found yourself with some nice gifts… or at least some nice vouchers or cold, hard cash with which to treat yourselves! With the...
View ArticleQ&A: December 2020
Welcome to the second monthly Q&A session, in which S-Rank Patrons over on Patreon get the chance to ask me questions about whatever they feel like probing me on. This time around, we ponder my...
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Brok the InvestiGator: Punch and Click Adventuring
It’s been a good few years since the point-and-click adventure was a “mainstream” part of gaming now. That’s not to say the genre is dead, mind — more that these days it tends to be the exclusive...
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Atari A to Z: Triad
Although their name might suggest otherwise, Adventure International put out many different types of game for the Atari 8-bit. One interesting example from the relatively early days is Triad, a game...
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Tokyo Highway Challenge: Around and Around and Around
The racing game genre is one area of gaming where, outside of graphical and performance improvements, I suspect it’s always felt quite difficult to innovate. After all, the fundamental concept of “two...
View Articleshort;Play: Fractalus
Rescue on Fractalus is one of my all-time favourite games, so I was tremendously excited to hear that a remake that has been ten years in development finally reached its 1.0 release the other day. At...
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Waifu Wednesday: Zhenji
By popular request (all right, one person asked for it) it’s time for another Warriors waifu. This week, we take a look at Zhenji, also known as Zhenshi, Zhen Luo, Zhen Fu, Lady Zhen or “the one with...
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Atari ST A to Z: The New Zealand Story
Taito made some great arcade games back in the day, some of which are more well-known than others. One which got a fair amount of attention back in the days of 16-bit home computers was The New Zealand...
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The MoeGamer Top 10 of 2020
It’s New Year’s Eve! In fact, as I type this, it’s New Year’s Day in some places around the world, so if that’s the case, uh, happy new year, and I hope 2021 looks better than the rancid 12 months...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Food Fight
The concept of a real-life food fight fills me with absolute disgust; while I do love a good bit of food, as my unfortunate waistline will attest, there’s something about food where, once it leaves the...
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Happy New Year! (2021 Edition)
Happy new year to you all! What a year it was, too, eh? Hopefully you all had some sort of opportunity to let your hair down a bit last night — while staying safe (in every sense of the word) of...
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The Music of Atelier, Vol. 9: Atelier Lulua – The Scion of Arland
After two full trilogies — Dusk and Mysterious — the Atelier series returned to Arland for one (possibly) last hurrah with Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland. And naturally, that meant a return to the...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Football
If it was not already painfully obvious from previous dalliances with digital adaptations of the sport, I do not “get” American Football. I get the basic idea, but I do not understand the execution at...
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A late one today! I’ve been podcast editing all day, in my defence, but with it being “back to work” tomorrow I wanted to make sure I got the weekly roundup done before I went to sleep! So it is a...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 46 – A Brave New Year
Welcome to the obligatory podcast-format beginning-of-the-year roundup of what we’re looking forward to! I’m joined for this session of eager anticipation by, as always, Chris Caskie of CCaskieArt. The...
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Atari A to Z: Universal Hero
The origins of the open-structure 2D platform game tend to be traced back to console games such as Castlevania and Metroid these days, but it was always a popular way to put a game together back on...
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Nekopara Vol. 4: The Smiles on Everyone’s Faces
This article is one chapter of a multi-part Cover Game feature! << First | < Previous The first three volumes of the Nekopara series each focused on a pair of the catgirls from the core cast,...
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