Today, April 21st 2019 Marks 30 years since the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in Japan. While the US would have to wait until July 31st, 1989 to get the console, and Europe even longer, today is the day that little brick of a portable gaming system hit the market, and oh did it …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 53: Batman: Part II – Episode Review
Moving on immediately from the last episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd, we have James, dressed as Batman and playing various Batman video games, being held captive by Mike Matei, playing the Joke, forcing the Nerd to play more Batman games, these having more of a focus on the Joker himself rather than more …
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The Strange Case Of GameAnyone And Auto-Generated Accounts
There are a ton of gaming websites out there. One which I’ve never heard of is gameanyone.com. It appears to be more of a content aggregate site, mainly a place to post gaming related video links from YouTube and the like, alongside it having its own discussion forums, apparently. At least, this is what I …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 50: Superman – Episode Review
Oh, look, we’ve finally made it up to episode 50. Damn, that took longer than it should have. For perspective, we’re up to the Summer of 2008 in AVGN history. At this time the show was a major hit, and showed no signs of slowing down. In fact, production at this stage began to ramp …
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April 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold
You know the deal – new month, new games. I’m not wanting to draw out this intro as, honestly, writing about these feels like a bit of a chore but it’s sometimes nice to get to address something about these games that may (or may not be) mentioned in the Microsoft video, and this month …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 46: The Wizard / Super Mario Bros. 3 – Episode Review
Finally back to the chaos that is my attempt to review every Angry Video Game Nerd episode, we hit the amazing Super Mario Bros. 3 episode! Yep, just as the Nerd himself says in the opening, he’s reviewing a good game. One of the best, if you ask me. It’s a bit of an interesting …
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Gaming Memories: A Look Back At Final Fantasy VIII
Apparently today marks 20 years since the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VIII, an RPG with a mixed reception in the community but one that I absolutely adore. Let’s go back to the mid to late 90’s. RPG’s were big. Really big. The genre which had been a bit more of a niche in the …
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The 2019 Plans of Prince Watercress
Continuing a tradition started last year, I’ve decided to devote an entry today to the plans of my good buddy Prince Watercress. He’s certainly an awesome friend, and one of the most prolific content creators I’ve ever known. I’m completely serious. To give you a very simple summary, this guy has: a retrogaming blog, a …
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Christmas Memories Part 2 – Sony PlayStation, 1998
When you’re young, 5 years is a long time. By 1998 I was 13 and in the 8th grade. Gaming wise I had gotten a SNES a year beforehand, in 1997, from a friend of the family (as SNES consoles were relatively cheap by this time) since my Genesis had long ago been broken, and …
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Powering The PlayStation Classic – A Follow Up
This Entry Has Been Superseded By This Article: A Final Commentary On The Whole PlayStation Classic Power Supply Mess Over the past few days since the release of the PlayStation Classic, my article from several months ago titled “So The PlayStation Classic Doesn’t Come With A Power Supply, And That’s Absolutely Fine” somewhat blew up …
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So, Should You Buy A PlayStation Classic?
In the time span since the announcement of the PlayStation Classic and the subsequent announcement of the 20 games on the console, there’s been quite a bit of debate on if this latest mini retro console is actually something you should buy. People have done comparisons on the value of actual PS1 hardware and the …
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The (Relatively Unimpressive) PlayStation Classic Game List
Yesterday the full 20 games that will be featured on the PlayStation Classic were announced to a mixed reception. Some love the games presented, some are questioning what Sony is thinking, and others are stuck in the middle, slightly conflicted about the games list. Consider me in that middle group. Before I continue, let’s actually …
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The Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Turns 30 Today – My Story With The Console
Today, October 29th, 2018, marks 30 years since the release day of the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. This 16-bit beast, better known to us in the United States as the Genesis, would grow to become the first true threat to Nintendo’s dominance of the North American game market and would also grow to become …
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Remember Those Game Reviews I Said I’d Do?
A good while back I wrote about wanting to do some good old game reviews here on Xadara. That’s part of what this blog was originally supposed to focus on, just my love of gaming (especially the classics) and tech, with a very healthy dose of specific reviews of individual games, consoles, and other things …
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So The PlayStation Classic Doesn’t Come With A Power Supply, And That’s Absolutely Fine
This Entry Has Been Superseded By This Article: A Final Commentary On The Whole PlayStation Classic Power Supply Mess When the PlayStation Classic was announced earlier in the week the reception was mixed, with most of the commentary following the same lines as Nintendo’s retro-console entries. There was one complaint that was rather specific to …
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