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Samurai Sam
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Player & collector of video games. Retro and import gamer. Also a transcriptionist by trade and a Christian.
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Collection essentials #545: Nintendo e-Reader (GBA)
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Collection essentials #545: Nintendo e-Reader (GBA)
Here’s an interesting little accessory that has fallen into obscurity over the years. The e-Reader is an add-on that is designed to read spe...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Playing Fire Emblem 3 book 1, and dang this early-game chapter sure is ridiculous
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Collection essentials #544: Animal Crossing (GC)
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Collection essentials #544: Animal Crossing (GC)
This is the first game in what would become a big franchise for Nintendo, helped out by also appealing to a lot of casual gamers. Well…techn...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Revisiting my original Animal Crossing town from 2002. Hank has been here since the beginning! (Though he may have been in my sister's town for a while and moved back)
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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@www.fireemblemwod.com Hola amigo, me encanta tú sitio web y las guías. Soy hablante nativo de inglés y me gustaría ayudarte a mejorar el inglés del sitio. Avísame si eso te interesa. ¡Gracias por crearlo! 😄
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Collection essentials #543: WarioWare: Twisted!
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Collection essentials #543: WarioWare: Twisted!
The first WarioWare introduced an original and very fun concept for a game, so it’s no surprise that Nintendo soon got to work on making seq...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Just beat Fire Emblem 1 for the first time! I'm surprised that it holds up as well as it does. The worst part is definitely item management.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Collection essentials #542: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega MicroGame$!
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Collection essentials #542: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega MicroGame$!
By the late ‘90s and early 2000s, the concept of “minigames” were becoming popular with game developers. A “minigame” is basically some smal...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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An edited screenie of a Windows 95/98 installer for Final Fantasy VII's PC version demo, with artwork of Barret glowering from the installer. A polygonal model barret has been photoshopped in with a text box saying "The hard drive's dyin' Cloud! Ain't gonna be enough room lef' for all the programs!"
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Trying out R-Type Delta tonight
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Getting hooked on Fire Emblem 1 which I've never beaten. Might be playing a lot more old school Fire Emblem soon...
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Collection essentials #541: Wario Land 4 (GBA)
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Collection essentials #541: Wario Land 4 (GBA)
And here we have the fifth (yes, fifth) Wario Land game, on (what was at the time) new and improved hardware. Wario returns with most of the...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"Hey, if our game is simple...why leave any button unmapped?" 😆
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Collection essentials #537-#540: Super Mario Advance 1-4 (GBA)
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Collection essentials #537-#540: Super Mario Advance 1-4 (GBA)
It’s the norm for a Nintendo system to launch with some kind of Mario game. Game Boy Advance wouldn’t be an exception. However, the GBA, per...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I could have sworn there were eight worlds in Yoshi's Island, but turns out there are only six!
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Collection essentials #536: Sonic Advance (GBA)
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Collection essentials #536: Sonic Advance (GBA)
Sonic the Hedgehog was, of course, one of the most successful and recognizable icons that emerged in gaming in the early ‘90s. He helped pro...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Trying this game out
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I beat Clair Obscur! It was fun, though admittedly it didn't live up to my lofty expectations.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Collection essentials #535: Rhythm Tengoku (GBA)
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Collection essentials #535: Rhythm Tengoku (GBA)
Here we have the last Nintendo-developed game released on the Game Boy Advance, one that would spawn a new series. As you’d expect from the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Collection essentials #532-4: Pokémon Ruby (GBA), Pokémon FireRed (GBA) & Pokémon Emerald (GBA)
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Collection essentials #532-4: Pokémon Ruby (GBA), Pokémon FireRed (GBA) & Pokémon Emerald (GBA)
Pokémon was far and away the franchise most closely associated with the Game Boy after taking the world by storm in 1998. The first “generat...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Collection essentials #531: Mother 3 (GBA)
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Collection essentials #531: Mother 3 (GBA)
“Mother” is the strange name of a JRPG franchise owned by Nintendo, which debuted with a Japan-only Famicom game that felt sort of like the ...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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There's such a huge number of games I've never played that I want to, and yet I feel like I could go the rest of my life just replaying stuff I've already played!
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Heave Ho is a fun and hilarious multiplayer game
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Heave Ho is $2.49 on Steam buff.ly/OQTLmwO
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Gord $3.49 buff.ly/9Qo1JEq

The Settlers: New Allies $11.99 buff.ly/TthJ5BJ
Deck playable

Vault of the Void $8.99 buff.ly/q7ebB8C
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The Procession to Calvary $3.99 buff.ly/qg8S9jQ

Idle Colony $4.19 buff.ly/QkODzFa
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Collection essentials #530: Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
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Collection essentials #530: Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
One Metroid on the Game Boy Advance wasn’t enough! For the second go-around, Nintendo decided to give us a full-fledged remake of the very f...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Had a little girl trick-or-treater dressed as Princess Peach and she got real excited when I recognized her costume
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM