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Gundam Battle Assault 2

I've said before that I don't think that games age. Or at least, I don't think they "age badly." Nor do I think that you necessarily had to be there at the time to fully understand the cultural context to most games; doesn't matter if…

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Final Fantasy Tactics

Every so often, a game comes out that ends up defining something. Defines the year it came out. Defines its entire hardware generation. Defines an entire console. Or in the case of Final Fantasy Tactics, defines a genre. A title that will forever be used…

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Crazy Taxi

The Dreamcast, Sega's final plea for world peace, was home to the greatest arcade ports of all time: Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ikaruga, Cosmic Smash, Soul Calibur, and many other games that remind me we're in hell and games will never be this good again.

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Slap Happy Rhythm Busters

The year 2000. A pretty wild time for games, looking back. A year full of changes, with a new generation emerging, while the previous one was still going strong. The Playstation 2 had come out, while the original Playstation showed no signs of slowing down.

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oops i vanished again

Yeah, hey, I've been gone for a whole month again. I'll just tell you straight up: I had a fucking shit time in June, and I'm honestly still pretty mad about it midway through July. Other than attending Fyter Fest, last month sucked! I had…

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