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Patrick Kulikowski
@pkrockin.bsky.social
💥 Excitedly posts about games/music.
🌎 Bay Area
🏀 2K Vegas
🤖 Ex-Capcom USA
🥁 Drummer
🐉 Breath of Fire Fanboy

🗯 Opinions = my own
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Remember to get Breath of Fire IV on PC for half-off on @gog.com's Black Friday sale! The sale ends on Dec. 3, 2025 09:59 EET!

Already have it? Gift it to someone and introduce them to this stellar RPG while helping support Capcom's underrated series!

bit.ly/FansBoF4
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Join us this afternoon as we kick off the Breath of Fire Relay! Starting today at 3PM EDT and running through the weekend.

Starting off will be Breath of Fire 1 Any%

www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
www.youtube.com/RPGLimitBrea...

www.twitch.tv/Shauny7188
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Me hearing the music in The Devil Wears Prada 2 teaser trailer: I, too, like the Street Fighter: 3rd Strike Original Soundtrack.
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
New OC dropped.
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yesterday, I saw Brandish SNES being sold at a local game shop for $24.99. Normally it goes for ~$90 just for the cart. I asked them if it was a repro, 'cause I couldn't believe my eyes. They discovered they mispriced it as a SFC cart and updated the price to $99.99. 🥴

Shoulda kept my trap shut! 😅
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I have the absolute worst luck with buying secondhand Dreamcast games. Can't catch a break with the heavy hitters sometimes; even when the disc gets resurfaced I get read issues.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I recall the back of the Ghosts n’ Goblins NES box showed the arcade or maybe PC version of the game, and man was I disappointed when I plugged it in and that was not how it looked!
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
With the Half Price Books in Berkeley shutting down soon, I snagged all of this for 90% off, totaling $11.90. Feels like highway robbery!
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
That time in third grade during music class when we sang a song about the things we were thankful for, and when the music teacher pointed at me:

Cassette: "I'M THAAAANKFUL, FOR..."

Me: "...Mortal Kombat II."
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving! Prince Jean and Prince Jean (?) have prepared an unforgettable dinner for you at Sima Fort. 🐸
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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@pkrockin.bsky.social : "I just got .hack/Infection."

@philsalv.bsky.social : "Ah. I know that one from the beginning of alphabetical games lists."

it's thanksgiving at my house
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Remembering that time Nintendo launched Breath of Fire II on 3DS Virtual Console on Thanksgiving 2016 so I pushed a CUSA blog post live then filmed this important tutorial.

eShop's closed now, but at the very, very least the game's on Nintendo Switch Online these days (and Capcom Town via web).
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This reminds me of that time in Malcom in the Middle when a character referenced "Double Dragon IV: The Sacred Stones", and I shouted at the TV "that's Double Dragon III, you IDIOT".

I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
Stranger Things 5: Kid plays Ghosts n' Goblins on an NES, but they're depicting gameplay from the arcade version of the game on the CRT screen, with NES audio. Illusion ruined, 0/10 show, do your damn research.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Stranger Things 5: Kid plays Ghosts n' Goblins on an NES, but they're depicting gameplay from the arcade version of the game on the CRT screen, with NES audio. Illusion ruined, 0/10 show, do your damn research.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Deluxe Edition for PS5, autographed by Hitoshi Sakimoto. Thanks @cvxfreak.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Pretty incredible that it took 7 years to get Ninja Gaiden II on there.
These #NES and #GameBoy games are now available to play for #NintendoSwitchOnline members!

NES:
☑️ Ninja Gaiden II™: The Dark Sword of Chaos
☑️ BATTLETOADS™

Game Boy:
☑️ Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
☑️ BIONIC COMMANDO
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Words to live by
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Breath of Fire IV (GOG) on sale for $4.99 USD until 12/3/2025 09:59 EET!

If you are a new GOG user, you can get an additional 15% off with code GOG15 (Expires 12/5/2025).

If you already have it, consider buying it for a friend or family member! 🔥

www.gog.com/en/game/brea...
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In Breath of Fire II, talking to an NPC that's out-of-bounds or inaccessible using a cheat device (such as going to Bow in TownShip as Ryu solo instead of talking to an NPC in Capitan that auto-warps you back to Bow anyway) will produce this dialogue, which calls out the date of the game build.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
3 thoughts:

1. I regret never getting very far in Goemon's Great Adventure.

2. It pains me that they removed the intro and Impact vocal themes from the English release.

3. It pains me even more how 1999 was the last time we got a new Goemon game in the West.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is a fantastic interview on YouTube with Implicit Conversions' CEO that goes over some of the challenges of bringing classic games to modern platforms.

But now I am HUGELY curious about what games/companies were being referenced in some of the anecdotes.

youtu.be/_Y_4nWJzsLg
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Ahyeah
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Confirmed: Burning Rangers sealed will leave a Burning Hole in your bank account.

If Sega ported this game, I'd be so happy.
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM