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.
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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...
I know I'm the last person who should talk about video production quality.
However, if I see you playing a game and you stretched a 4:3 image to "fit the screen", I'm stopping right there. There's no excusing that.
However, if I see you playing a game and you stretched a 4:3 image to "fit the screen", I'm stopping right there. There's no excusing that.
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I know I'm the last person who should talk about video production quality.
However, if I see you playing a game and you stretched a 4:3 image to "fit the screen", I'm stopping right there. There's no excusing that.
However, if I see you playing a game and you stretched a 4:3 image to "fit the screen", I'm stopping right there. There's no excusing that.
Writing my intro and realizing I've accidentally joked myself into another ten minute bonus video.
February 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Writing my intro and realizing I've accidentally joked myself into another ten minute bonus video.
There are exactly two video games with the word "parasol" in their title.
Both of them were released on February 15, 1991.
Both of them were released on February 15, 1991.
February 11, 2026 at 10:45 PM
There are exactly two video games with the word "parasol" in their title.
Both of them were released on February 15, 1991.
Both of them were released on February 15, 1991.
I can't believe this game franchise has two different games in the series they titled "Final" and then made new sequels after both of those games.
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I can't believe this game franchise has two different games in the series they titled "Final" and then made new sequels after both of those games.
Fushigi no Yume no Alice on the PC Engine smashed together Alice in Wonderland with a bunch of other fairy tales into a quirky platformer that's okay but didn't do much to stand out from the other platformers at the time.
youtu.be/I2CzzYIcXo8
youtu.be/I2CzzYIcXo8
Fushigi no Yume no Alice/Alice's Fantastic Dream (不思議の夢のアリス) - PC Engine Power 204
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Fushigi no Yume no Alice on the PC Engine smashed together Alice in Wonderland with a bunch of other fairy tales into a quirky platformer that's okay but didn't do much to stand out from the other platformers at the time.
youtu.be/I2CzzYIcXo8
youtu.be/I2CzzYIcXo8
"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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
Of all the treasures in my video game collection, the rarest might be a Nintendo 64 controller with a functioning stick.
February 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Of all the treasures in my video game collection, the rarest might be a Nintendo 64 controller with a functioning stick.
Going a little crazy this morning with b-roll.
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Going a little crazy this morning with b-roll.
The Kinnikuman (M.U.S.C.L.E.) cart in the last picture might be the craziest thing in these cases. The gold carts are competition prizes, but for Kinnikuman the prize was that the winner could change any character in the game to another one of their choice. Six unique carts exist for eight prizes.
February 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The Kinnikuman (M.U.S.C.L.E.) cart in the last picture might be the craziest thing in these cases. The gold carts are competition prizes, but for Kinnikuman the prize was that the winner could change any character in the game to another one of their choice. Six unique carts exist for eight prizes.
Game: "Hello! Do you want to go through a heavily scripted sequence to start your hero's journey?"
Me: "I refuse the call."
Game: "Well that's not how this is supposed to go."
Me: "I refuse the call."
Game: "Well that's not how this is supposed to go."
February 7, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Game: "Hello! Do you want to go through a heavily scripted sequence to start your hero's journey?"
Me: "I refuse the call."
Game: "Well that's not how this is supposed to go."
Me: "I refuse the call."
Game: "Well that's not how this is supposed to go."
There may not be any good Dirty Pair video games, but Naxat created a shoot-'em-up on the PC Engine featuring their generic counterparts the Burning Angels. And it turned out to be pretty good as long as you don't mind crushing difficulty...
youtu.be/xcwK3oxD0gQ
youtu.be/xcwK3oxD0gQ
Burning Angels (バーニングエンジェル) - PC Engine Power 202
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
There may not be any good Dirty Pair video games, but Naxat created a shoot-'em-up on the PC Engine featuring their generic counterparts the Burning Angels. And it turned out to be pretty good as long as you don't mind crushing difficulty...
youtu.be/xcwK3oxD0gQ
youtu.be/xcwK3oxD0gQ
For this most random of game Saturdays, I have Shadow of the Beast for the Master System, a game that has baffled me for decades why people claim any version of it was good. You have to have some severe Amiga poisoning to think Shadow of the Beast was fun.
February 7, 2026 at 5:06 PM
For this most random of game Saturdays, I have Shadow of the Beast for the Master System, a game that has baffled me for decades why people claim any version of it was good. You have to have some severe Amiga poisoning to think Shadow of the Beast was fun.
Boppin' is one of those games that the DOS heads will gush about and nobody else knows. The Windows native version is great!
February 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Boppin' is one of those games that the DOS heads will gush about and nobody else knows. The Windows native version is great!
I am slightly annoyed that a big announcement occurred four days early to sync up with the big bonus video I've been working on for weeks...
February 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I am slightly annoyed that a big announcement occurred four days early to sync up with the big bonus video I've been working on for weeks...
Am I really going to pull out a bunch of notoriously bad games to assemble a "terrible game shelf" that's just a joke that will be on screen for three seconds?
Sometimes I'm just amusing myself...
Sometimes I'm just amusing myself...
February 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Am I really going to pull out a bunch of notoriously bad games to assemble a "terrible game shelf" that's just a joke that will be on screen for three seconds?
Sometimes I'm just amusing myself...
Sometimes I'm just amusing myself...
This is one of those reprints where it's significantly cheaper to get the original.
speaking of: Console Archives Doraemon's getting a 40th-anniv code-in-a-box package, out June 25: replica boxes, manual & expanded reprint of the original strategy guide, ¥6980 https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09943240 🇯🇵 do note that the code's specifically for OG Switch, not Switch 2 or PS5
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
This is one of those reprints where it's significantly cheaper to get the original.
Reposted by Random Stranger
Video game intros and voice acting peaked in this moment
February 6, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Video game intros and voice acting peaked in this moment