P4GA end credits song ❤

Next Chance to Move On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcAXBg5yGo

Perfect time to recommend this insanely detailed documentary once more.
Double Fine PsychOdyssey.

The mood change when Matt Booty walks in was so foreboding...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd70y34zh2erWWpMyOnh4UN_

The audacity of the new piece of shit in charge.

"I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027."

By laying off thousand of people yet again and getting rid of a bunch of studios as well as shrinking other studios down in the same swoop.

Brilliant plan!
No flaws detected, go right ahead! 🤡

Thank God Double Fine goes independent.

Nonetheless, fuck Microsoft, always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbS3L2isl0

Oh, just heard back from the person and he’s willing to do free shipping. 😊

Sent a message to a seller about a handful of Saturn FAN magazines.
Shipping added up to more than €100,
So if I'm able to get that down to like €30, I'll be happy and bite. 😊

Doing my daily Migaku sets and this will be a tough one, not just because I didn’t know the meaning, nor the English name, but also the picture didn’t help at all since I’ve never even heard of or seen this species before today. 😅

Listening to the Shiro guys talk about the Sakura Taisen limited edition which came with a clock, had me go looking for my Sakura Taisen 3 with the photo stand that has a little music box built in.
There’s another version with an actual music box and I could have sworn I had the nice big red box with all 4 games, but I can’t find a trace of it.
Might have sold it back to the shop along with Segagaga and Tryrush Deppy that I got peanuts for, and he turned around and put it back up for like 4-5 times what he gave me. 😭

I wonder why I started looking for other means to buy import games…

Planning on getting all my Japanese Saturn and Dreamcast games out of storage next week, when my 3 week summer vacation starts.
Been a while since I played my Dreamcast, so it’ll be a blast.

For now, I’m going through my PAL games and thinking back to all the weird and wonderful fighting games we got on the system.
One example of this is Tech Romancer.

had to post this amazing live version

True Story - Kawamura Yumi and Shihoko Hirata (LIVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCBrcekCok

Review for NiGHTS into Dreams on Sega Saturn from CVG 178 - September 1996 (UK)

This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

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Review for NiGHTS into Dreams on Sega Saturn from Mean Machines Sega 47 - September 1996 (UK)

This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/meanmachinessega1.html

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of what might very well be the best game ever created: NiGHTS into Dreams, which came out on July the 5th 1996 in Japan on the Sega Saturn.

Here is the preview from Official Sega Saturn Magazine 10 - August 1996 (UK)

This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/officialsegasaturnmagazine.html

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Feature for Carmageddon 64 on Nintendo 64. Including an interview with Ben Gunstone at Software Creations.
Taken from Total 64 No.23 Volume 2 Issue 11 - December 1998 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/Total64.html

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(part 2/2)

Review for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64.
Taken from Total 64 No.23 Volume 2 Issue 11 - December 1998 (UK)

(part 1/2)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/Total64.html

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Review for Bust-A-Move 3 on Nintendo 64.
Taken from Total 64 No.23 Volume 2 Issue 11 - December 1998 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/Total64.html

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And the contents pages for Total 64 No.23 Volume 2 Issue 11 - December 1998 (UK)

Total 64 No.23 Volume 2 Issue 11 - December 1998 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.

Enjoy! 😗

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/Total64.html

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As I'm working on the one Dreamcast FAN issue I have right now, I'm more and more in a Dreamcast mood.
So I decided as I edit the pages, I wanted to listen to a new podcast about the system.

While I don't want to name and shame, the episode was an hour long and the first 20 minutes was just talk about Tomb Raider, Pokémon and random PSone games...
As well as one of the hosts not even knowing which Virtua Fighter game released on the system or if it actually got one.

At which point I though "well, we're off to a great start here..."

They finally seem to be getting to the point of wanting to start talking about the actual Dreamcast and the one guy goes "before the DC, there was the Saturn, but the less said about that, the better."

At this point I just noped out and went "Yeah, we are not doing this BS today!" 😂

Back to the old trusted pods.
DC Junkyard, Sega Guys and Shiro.