Random Stranger
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I like obscure old video games and make a lot of videos about them. I've documented all of the Nintendo Famicom library and I'm currently working on the PC Engine.
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Famidaily: All of It - YouTube
All of the Famidaily videos in order.
www.youtube.com
Hello, new followers!
My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It's also why I got kind of annoyed at the Super Bomberman collection hitting right then since I knew I had two Bomberman videos coming up in a few days and the Internet was about to be flooded with Bomberman stuff.
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
It's also why I got kind of annoyed at the Super Bomberman collection hitting right then since I knew I had two Bomberman videos coming up in a few days and the Internet was about to be flooded with Bomberman stuff.
Well, I finished the Bomberman PC Engine Power video in early December and started working on this video on January 1st.
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Well, I finished the Bomberman PC Engine Power video in early December and started working on this video on January 1st.
"I wish I had a manual for this game so I could know what these stats on the combat screen mean. Hang on, I do have the manual!"
*flip*flip*flip*flip*
"This manual doesn't explain anything."
*flip*flip*flip*flip*
"This manual doesn't explain anything."
February 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM
"I wish I had a manual for this game so I could know what these stats on the combat screen mean. Hang on, I do have the manual!"
*flip*flip*flip*flip*
"This manual doesn't explain anything."
*flip*flip*flip*flip*
"This manual doesn't explain anything."
I was not going to do an all-Bomberman games video. I only own about forty of the games and I'd still be gathering material if I did that!
February 10, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I was not going to do an all-Bomberman games video. I only own about forty of the games and I'd still be gathering material if I did that!
I played Saturn Bomberman in some of the clips.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I played Saturn Bomberman in some of the clips.
I just wanted to get it in there. 😀
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I just wanted to get it in there. 😀
I feel like my viewers are even more hostile to Bombergirl than I was.
You know who Bomberman is, right? Well, there have been three times in the 21st century where they tried to change Bomberman into something completely different and restart the franchise. None of them worked, but all for very different reasons.
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
Reinventing Bomberman
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I feel like my viewers are even more hostile to Bombergirl than I was.
I think the footage of the cartoon I used was from Jetters which I put together with the "Bomberman is Hudson's mascot" era. I was looking for visual reinterpretations.
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I think the footage of the cartoon I used was from Jetters which I put together with the "Bomberman is Hudson's mascot" era. I was looking for visual reinterpretations.
You know who Bomberman is, right? Well, there have been three times in the 21st century where they tried to change Bomberman into something completely different and restart the franchise. None of them worked, but all for very different reasons.
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
Reinventing Bomberman
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
You know who Bomberman is, right? Well, there have been three times in the 21st century where they tried to change Bomberman into something completely different and restart the franchise. None of them worked, but all for very different reasons.
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
youtu.be/6CZ5v5lnfYM
Because it was 1000 yen, has an English translation on the cart, and I thought, "That sounds so stupid I need to get it."
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Because it was 1000 yen, has an English translation on the cart, and I thought, "That sounds so stupid I need to get it."
That's put on there to make people mad, but I really don't like "cinematic" action games like that.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
That's put on there to make people mad, but I really don't like "cinematic" action games like that.
Loosely, it's the team around 1981, though the Storm drawing is 84 or 85. By the time NES X-Men came around she hadn't had the mohawk for years.
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Loosely, it's the team around 1981, though the Storm drawing is 84 or 85. By the time NES X-Men came around she hadn't had the mohawk for years.
Battle Fantasia. It's a fighting game with a fantasy RPG theme. It's honestly not *that* bad, but it's kind of clunky.
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Battle Fantasia. It's a fighting game with a fantasy RPG theme. It's honestly not *that* bad, but it's kind of clunky.
And just now I realized I forgot to put my boxed copy of Otaku no Seiza on the shelf and that was one I had in my mind when I planned the gag. Too many Japanese cart games don't have visible labels, so no Maka Maka, but that one I've got a boxed copy of...
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
And just now I realized I forgot to put my boxed copy of Otaku no Seiza on the shelf and that was one I had in my mind when I planned the gag. Too many Japanese cart games don't have visible labels, so no Maka Maka, but that one I've got a boxed copy of...
Honestly, I'm being kind of mean to it. I didn't care for it, but I wanted a fighting game on the shelf and that was the first one I could grab that I'd say had real problems.
If my Iron and Blood had a case, it would be on the shelf instead.
If my Iron and Blood had a case, it would be on the shelf instead.
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Honestly, I'm being kind of mean to it. I didn't care for it, but I wanted a fighting game on the shelf and that was the first one I could grab that I'd say had real problems.
If my Iron and Blood had a case, it would be on the shelf instead.
If my Iron and Blood had a case, it would be on the shelf instead.
If anyone wanted a better look at my bad game shelf...
I could have kept this joke going for a while, but I was pulling out a lot of stuff.
I could have kept this joke going for a while, but I was pulling out a lot of stuff.
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
If anyone wanted a better look at my bad game shelf...
I could have kept this joke going for a while, but I was pulling out a lot of stuff.
I could have kept this joke going for a while, but I was pulling out a lot of stuff.
I've tried playing Skyrim a few times and never did the quest they give you after you leave the tutorial.
February 10, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I've tried playing Skyrim a few times and never did the quest they give you after you leave the tutorial.
Reposted by Random Stranger
Thanks to the efforts of collectors, preservationists, original devs and emulator authors, I can present to you a newly dumped RCA Studio II prototype: Space Explorer forums.atariage.com/topic/209519...
RCA Studio II GOLD MINE! An interview with the Studio 2 Production Manager!
forums.atariage.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Thanks to the efforts of collectors, preservationists, original devs and emulator authors, I can present to you a newly dumped RCA Studio II prototype: Space Explorer forums.atariage.com/topic/209519...
Open World Game: "Well, here's the world for you. Now if you'll just step three feet to your left we'll start the first proper mission."
Me: "I'll come back and take a look at that on ten hours or so after I've done everything else on the map."
Me: "I'll come back and take a look at that on ten hours or so after I've done everything else on the map."
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Open World Game: "Well, here's the world for you. Now if you'll just step three feet to your left we'll start the first proper mission."
Me: "I'll come back and take a look at that on ten hours or so after I've done everything else on the map."
Me: "I'll come back and take a look at that on ten hours or so after I've done everything else on the map."
I have a bunch of footage of my cats being incredibly uncooperative on camera that's in my next bonus video. They want to have their nose in whatever I'm doing until I actually want them doing stuff in the video.
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I have a bunch of footage of my cats being incredibly uncooperative on camera that's in my next bonus video. They want to have their nose in whatever I'm doing until I actually want them doing stuff in the video.
I took one look at RetroArch and went, "Why is this burying everything I need to access and configure behind the worst interface ever?" and immediately went back to a pile of emulators because while they might have bad, bespoke interfaces for each of them, they're at least understandable.
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 PM
I took one look at RetroArch and went, "Why is this burying everything I need to access and configure behind the worst interface ever?" and immediately went back to a pile of emulators because while they might have bad, bespoke interfaces for each of them, they're at least understandable.
Yeah, the FDS release seems to have made Hudson re-evaluate Bomberman as a concept since there's just enough time after that occurred to account for the development of Bomber Boy and Bomberman (PCE).
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Yeah, the FDS release seems to have made Hudson re-evaluate Bomberman as a concept since there's just enough time after that occurred to account for the development of Bomber Boy and Bomberman (PCE).
Bomberman on the PC Engine was a big turning point for Hudson Soft as they discovered the franchise that will be one of their big two until they shut their doors.
Its launch coincided with the launch of the another revision of the PC Engine hardware: this time its portable.
youtu.be/gAMkgLjCoN8
Its launch coincided with the launch of the another revision of the PC Engine hardware: this time its portable.
youtu.be/gAMkgLjCoN8
Bomberman (ボンバーマン) - PC Engine Power 203
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Bomberman on the PC Engine was a big turning point for Hudson Soft as they discovered the franchise that will be one of their big two until they shut their doors.
Its launch coincided with the launch of the another revision of the PC Engine hardware: this time its portable.
youtu.be/gAMkgLjCoN8
Its launch coincided with the launch of the another revision of the PC Engine hardware: this time its portable.
youtu.be/gAMkgLjCoN8
Reposted by Random Stranger
"Marine Philt" is basically the other "Dead of the Brain" game! Except instead of zombies, this one rips off the Alien series. So here's more horror-themed graphic adventure on the PC-98!
youtu.be/vhXItpqzlk0
#pc9801 #pc98 #deadofthebrain #visualnovel #16bit #retrogaming
youtu.be/vhXItpqzlk0
#pc9801 #pc98 #deadofthebrain #visualnovel #16bit #retrogaming
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
"Marine Philt" is basically the other "Dead of the Brain" game! Except instead of zombies, this one rips off the Alien series. So here's more horror-themed graphic adventure on the PC-98!
youtu.be/vhXItpqzlk0
#pc9801 #pc98 #deadofthebrain #visualnovel #16bit #retrogaming
youtu.be/vhXItpqzlk0
#pc9801 #pc98 #deadofthebrain #visualnovel #16bit #retrogaming
Mine works, though the only use it ever got was passing through Japanese N64 games to my US system.
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Mine works, though the only use it ever got was passing through Japanese N64 games to my US system.