The greatest video games of all time
Last update, March 10, 2012. Thanks to everyone who has helped maintain this site by sending me lists I missed. I really appreciate all of your emails, even if I ...
Nintendo’s Era of Censorship
Exact dates are difficult, but it was sometime between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s. Video games were enjoying their great second wind in the United States, and a ...
Items
Japanese culture is very into this idea that most things in life have an objectively ideal, or "correct" form. They even have a word, kata (型), which, although ...
The Pointless Samurai Level
Here's a trend I've noticed. The less inspired a Japanese-made video game is, the greater the likihood that game will include a pointless samueri-themed ...
The Characters
Beginning in the late 1990s, it became fashionable for various Japanese video game companies to churn out titles whose dominant theme was simply ...
