Author: Chris Pinner
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Shin Ultraman
Explaining why Shin Ultraman totally rules is really complicated.
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Chris’s Games of 2022
I kept stumbling on thinking about death in the games I played this year.
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The IGN Top 100, Properly Edited
The IGN Top 100 Video Games List, condensed to the essentials, with all the flavor and volume of the full list.
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STGs: Where to Start
For some reason, you find yourself wanting to play STGs. Maybe you’ve seen Ikaruga mentioned so much that you feel like you should play it. Maybe you just want to try once of the “classic” or “retro” genres. Maybe you just feel too confident in yourself and need a videogame to humble you down. Whatever…
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The Dreamcast Sweet 20
Art by BachelorSoft Unlike other Dreamcast lists, this is being evaluated now in 2020. We like these games. We’d play these games right now, just try us. Grab your green goblin. Grasp your rod. Slunk your VMU. Fuck around and find out.
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Chris’s Sweet 20 of 2019
I’m not good at keeping lists of what media I experience as Rudie is, so if you want full accuracy, maybe check out his post. I try writing these things down in the Hobonichi Techo that I keep every year, but I don’t always remember to do that. But I do it enough that I…
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Police (Noir) Nauts
Author’s Note: Guess who didn’t actually play Policenauts? This guy. Guess who doesn’t care? Also this guy. Rudie did play it, but he told me to write this up based on our conversation about it. Hideo Kojima’s main understanding of human beings comes through watching movies about them (and not interacting with them). Even in…
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Bloodstained: Can’t Relive My Life
Not officially, because of course Konami holds that license and they aren’t letting it go to anyone, even the guy who did the most to build on it in the past 20 years. But the shadow of that game is inescapable in B:RotN, so it might as well be acknowledged up front, for good and…
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Tamagotchi, But I Am an Adult
In the year 2018, as the world seemd to regularly get more Hellworld on a daily basis, I decided to buy a Tamagotchi. I can admit that I decided to do it long before then, particularly in 2017, when this article showed up on the Ringer, but in 2018 I finally did it. Maybe I…
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Shit, I Might Actually Be A Kingdom Hearts Fan Now
I avoided playing Kingdom Hearts for years. I even start/stopped it a couple times, and certainly had fun talking about it with Rudie in an early episode of HP (Episode 11 – listen here if you dare) but I never could finish one of them dang games. So, it is with great…something…that I announce that…
Hinge Problems 