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Retro Gaming Writing
Older games, preservation, and history.
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A New Era For The Journal - CEX Box #1
[Unboxing/Announcement] Launching paid subscriptions and a taste of what’s to come.
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When the Platform Goes Away, the Voices Don’t Have To
I originally shared this as a Substack Note, but after posting it there, on X, and on Bluesky, I kept thinking about it.
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What I Remember About September 11
Every year, as September 11 approaches, I find myself thinking about where I was that day.
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My First Comic-Con-ish Event in Over a Decade
I haven’t been to one of these in a while, so here’s how it went!
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Jason Custer's David Crane's A Boy and His Blob in... The Rescue of Princess Blobette Article
Jason Custer's David Crane's The Boy and His Blob In... The Rescue of Princess Blobette Article
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Tales of Hearts R: Infinite Evolve, or what an old sidegame can tell us about its series' history and current woes
Developer: Namco Tales Studio - Seventh Chord
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Found in translation: how Front Mission Second's English patch was remade after its Remake
Despite being a decent success in Japan and sporting some rather awesome character designs by Wizardry veteran Jun Suemi, many Western fans over the decades ended up treating Front Mission Second as a sort of afterthought, if not as the red-headed stepchild of Toshiro Tsuchida’s mecha-based sci-fi tactical JRPG franchise.
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Old Games Were Better
Corerunner by Felix Roth-July 15, 2026
This blog post describes why old video games are better than current ones. It also explains why it isn't just nostalgia.
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We Don’t Own Anything Anymore. We Just Didn’t Notice.
I thought I owned my games. Then I started reading the fine print.
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The life and suffering of physical gaming, between preservation issues, consumer rights and collector hermeneutics
While the issues around the looming end of physical support for the videogame medium in the console space aren’t specifically related to those videogame RPGs I usually discuss on this platform, my Substack’s focus on videogame history, not to mention my own thoughts as a videogame collector and preservation enthusiast, mean this is a topic I want to address
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These Sexy Throwback Shooters Cured My Cynicism
About time I stopped whining about mediocre FPS games, right?
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Sometimes the Best Posts Get Buried
When I started the Learning Arcade, some posts quietly got lost along the way. This is my way of bringing them back.
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The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #048
Brace your shelves; there's 30+ new books to add this week!
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The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #047
50 new books! A new Publisher enters the ring! Free Comic Book Day! And our volunteers are on fire!! (not literally though...)
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Fallout 4 | Mysteries in the Cursed Town of Salem
Entry 05: Taking a look into the town of Salem, and the mysteries surrounding its background and squandered opportunities!
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The Cozy Life
I’ve been thinking lately about how many so-called cozy games are out there, and before even talking about the ones I’ve played, I found myself wondering what a cozy game really is.
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The Games That Carry Us
I asked a simple question: What game helped you through a difficult moment in your life? The answers became one of the most meaningful posts I’ve put together.
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The art of Shinobu Tanno, a Vandalier in Parros
In the long history of artists contributing to the aesthetic trajectory of videogame RPGs, there are a few instances where one can observe the same trend that already affected classic art for centuries, with young painters learning from the masters and building their own manieristic islands by preserving their style while slowly improving on it in a variety
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The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #043
A world tour of book releases this week, across nearly a dozen languages
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Resident Evil Requiem - End of an Era
How Requiem is poised to bring the current era of the series to a close.
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Flying Through Geography: Using GeoFS in Social Studies Class
There’s something powerful about starting a lesson with: “Alright class, today we’re flying to Egypt.”
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More Than Just the Halftime Show
Today is the Super Bowl, and every year around this time I find myself thinking about how I even got here.
