Although this little Patreon endeavor primarily concerns itself with video games, I do occasionally stumble across little bits and pieces of lost media worth sharing. Here's one of them: a record that I've owned for more than 30 years and which does indeed constitute "lost media."
"But Jeremy," you say, "I can buy Marillion's Misplace...
2025-03-14 20:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We have reached 1989, friends. The gap between Master System coverage and NES Works grows ever slimmer. I'm still torn between whether I should just plow straight ahead and get Master System up to August 1989 and the Genesis launch, or if I should take things more slowly by layering in Atari and Intellivision material so that I've presented the ...
2025-03-12 14:02:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode seemed as good a time as any to mark Japan's transition from the Showa era to the Heisei, a significant cultural shift that happened during the period of time that I've been exploring in the majority of my videos over the past few years. Not only do these games fall right along that dividing line, along with the console that powered...
2025-03-05 12:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoa, gosh. I almost let February slip past without sharing a fourth bonus item. Well, here it is: a promo tape for the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Virtua Racing. It's short and a little disappointing, much like February! Actually, no, it's hard to be disappointed by this video when the announcer suddenly belts out a perfect, cheesy, English r...
2025-02-28 22:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"Another Japan-exclusive Mark III game?" you muse to yourself. "Boring. No thanks!" Ah, but what if I told you that this was a Phantasy Star spinoff? What then, wiseguy?
I mean, it's not, really. But it kind of is? I guess you'll just have to watch the video and see for yourself, huh.
2025-02-26 12:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends, my survey of Japan-exclusive Sega Mark III games continues apace this week with a couple of games that surprised me with their sheer goodness. Megumi Rescue in particular is a load of fun, and I have to imagine that people with the patience to get good at F-1 racing games would love Super Racing. It's nice that th...
2025-02-19 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been one of the most taxing and time-intensive "side" videos I've put together to date. But, you know, it had to be. Not only did I need to do justice to The King of Fighters R-1 and its place in portable gaming history, I also needed to put its place in fighting game history into perspective as well. Which meant a big ol'...
2025-02-16 18:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, up to episode 73 of Segaiden already. I would never have believed it five years ago. Life is a miracle sometimes. This episode concerns two more Japan-exclusive Mark III releases, although Galactic Protector feels a lot more exclusive than Solomon's Key...
2025-02-12 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I had hoped to have the latest monthly bonus original up this past weekend, but the next Neo Geo Pocket piece is a bit of a doozy and is taking longer than anticipated. So please look forward to that next weekend. In the meantime, here's another VHS rip that will in fact be deployed as part of that next NGP video. It's all part of the great circ...
2025-02-10 12:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, gosh. This episode brings 1988 to an end for Master System. Well... mostly. I do want to cover the handful of Japan-exclusive titles that showed up between March and September 1988. Hardly anything to speak of, really, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
I'm sure I will hear from people who really loved Miracle Warriors after th...
2025-02-05 14:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post
So. How's it going today? (Feel free not to answer that.)
For this weekend's bonus video, I just remembered that I had never posted the last two VHS rips of Game Tech Video. This one lacks the manic charm of the early volumes, but it does include a lengthy design interview with Bubble Bobble designer Fukio Mitsuji overlaid atop a Taito stu...
2025-02-02 19:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I dunno, maybe I should have branded this NGP Works or something. Oh well!
ANYWAY. Here is the first proper episode of my Neo Geo Pocket/Color series—that is, the first episode about a game rather than the system or market conditions into which it was birthed. I had originally planned to make this series a quick, condensed thing that co...
2025-01-30 14:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I always thought San Diego was in SoCal, just an hour or two north of Mexico. But here's Sega trying to gaslight (or maybe Gaslamp?) me into second-guessing myself. Rude.
Oh, wait, that's not Sega's doing. It's Parker Brothers. The audacity of these chumps! Daring to break the seal on third-party publishing for Master System all for the sa...
2025-01-29 12:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, it's a spicy one this time. Atypically so. Hence the age-gating—you'll have to click through to YouTube if you want to see this tremendously naughty video.
The thing is, though, I didn't realize it would be quite so naughty. You never know with these old import game VHS tapes. They usually are totally safe to watch w...
2025-01-28 13:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
"R" you ready for this episode? Looking back at this one, I think I was feeling a little punchy when I scripted it. But, really, there's only so much you can say about a mediocre light gun game based on a mediocre movie from the "transitioning into a regular Alex Jones guest" era of Stallone's career. On the other hand, R-Type—that's ...
2025-01-22 12:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a fun one—an official Konami-published video tape of the Contra arcade game. If you couldn't afford to own an arcade cabinet back in the day (and whomst amongst us could, really?), you could have the next best thing in the form of a video tape that shows you the whole game. I love things like this. It's absolutely wild to me to think th...
2025-01-18 23:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Segaiden is back! Provided you subscribe to the Sega Challenge newsletter, that is. The rest of you are out of luck, because this episode is not available at retail in the U.S. That's right, this episode tackles the stunning Compile shooter Power Strike, which some weirdos (read: everyone but the Sega of America marketing ...
2025-01-15 13:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening (somewhere in the world). Here is the second and to my knowledge final volume of the Taito history VHS series from 1990. As with so many of these tapes, I sure wish I had known about these VHS tapes back when I was covering the Famicom ports of these games! But it's still a cool thing to have ripped and uploaded all the same.
2025-01-12 15:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I should have posted this weeks ago, I know. But I didn't! And now here it is. What a world, what a world.
This is the final volume of the NES Era trilogy of photo/text coffee books. But I can tell you that sales have already been good enough that I'm thinking about putting together a 16-bit era trilogy. In the meantime, ther...
2025-01-10 22:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post
First: avoid this episode if you have a sensitivity to strobing effects. Solaris goes way overboard with them.
Second: you're watching the forbidden version of this video. The final public release will have a different media context clip at the beginning. Yes, I finally got a copyright notice (not a warning) on one of those o...
2025-01-08 13:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to you, now that you've slept off your New Year's Eve hangover and groggily logged on for the year 2025. We're entering January 2025 by looking back to... 1986? Games for a console that debuted in 1977?! Yes, I'm afraid so. But no, wait... it's not really true to say "afraid." I'd been holding off on coverage of post-crash Atari for the pa...
2025-01-01 19:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
One last video to close out the old year—one I've been wanting to create for a decade now and finally decided to pull the trigger on. I was hoping to be able to record this as an analog RGB signal from Analogue Pocket, but Analogue still hasn't made analog output possible from the Pocket's Dock... so I decided to just go ahead and pull the tri...
2025-01-01 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been mulling the prospect of tackling the latter-day Atari 2600 library for years now. Given all the other material I've set up recently as a supplement to NES Works, I realized I'd be abrogating my obligations as an elder nerd with noisy opinions about old video games not to cover the 2600. Like the Intellivision and XE Game System sidebar...
2024-12-27 21:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I figured if I started this post with a lot of positive vibes, the fact that this week's episode is running behind wouldn't feel like such a bummer. It's not the season for bummering!
Anyway, the delay is all for a good cause... sure, family holiday commitments have slowed me down, but mostly this episode is running late because I decided...
2024-12-25 12:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew. It's here.
My one regret with this Phantasy Star episode is that I didn't have more time to play for my recording sessions. Not just because I would have liked to have recorded material further into the game, but also because Phantasy Star is just really good and I want to play more of it? As mentioned in ...
2024-12-18 12:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, folk, it's been A Week. And the progressive enshittification of the Patreon interface doesn't help! Here's Golvellius.
2024-12-11 14:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, I skipped over Segaiden 67. You want to fight about it?
Nah, I'm just running these out of sequence here on Patreon because I had to completely rearrange my office over the past week and haven't had my capture system hooked up to record Master System footage. I'm working on it! Expect Phantasy Star next week, I hope. In...
2024-12-11 13:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey kids, you like the video game history, huh? Well, here's a look at video game history that is, in itself, historic. This VHS tape from 1990 helped pioneer the art of talking about how old video games brought new ideas to the table and influenced subsequent works, through the lens of Taito arcade releases from the late ’70s. Pretty rad, if ...
2024-12-09 21:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I won't be spending a HUGE amount of time at once on any of the sidebar also-rans of the late ’80s, so even if you have no interest in latter-day Intellivision, you need only wait until next week to get back to the juicy Sega and Nintendo stuff for a while. But you should be interested in Intellivision! It's an interesting little sidebar to th...
2024-12-04 13:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A new month, a new count on the bonus material. Numbers, am I right?
This one is a lot less obscure than the other videos I've posted this weekend, but I figure it never hurts to go with a crowd-pleaser from time to time. This tape shows off a bunch of Square's impressive late 16-bit era titles and was positioned as a visual showstopper to...
2024-12-01 14:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post