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...
It's nice that the seabirds get their own local government office.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's nice that the seabirds get their own local government office.
Please ignore the one star reviews for my backhoe service from those jerks at Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please ignore the one star reviews for my backhoe service from those jerks at Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
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I have everything I've ever wanted
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have everything I've ever wanted
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Mr. Domino WIND CHIMES
Unto every console there must come a port of Lode Runner. Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu was that version on the PC Engine. Or at least the first version on the PC Engine...
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu/Lode Runner: Lost Labyrinth(ロードランナー 失われた迷宮) - PC Engine Power 161
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Unto every console there must come a port of Lode Runner. Lode Runner: Ushina Wareta Meikyuu was that version on the PC Engine. Or at least the first version on the PC Engine...
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
youtu.be/L5aA7_5lHq4
One of the weirder things about video games in the 80s and 90s are the games that are considered to be ports but are really completely different games. It annoys me when I see games with the same title lumped together as "ports" when they have different game play, levels, and possibly more...
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of the weirder things about video games in the 80s and 90s are the games that are considered to be ports but are really completely different games. It annoys me when I see games with the same title lumped together as "ports" when they have different game play, levels, and possibly more...
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Want some beat'em up platforming action? Here's "Edge" from TGL! Not only one of the best action games for the PC-98, it has long cutscenes throughout the game for one heck of a wild ride! Will our hero survive the kiss of death from his unwelcome guest?
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Want some beat'em up platforming action? Here's "Edge" from TGL! Not only one of the best action games for the PC-98, it has long cutscenes throughout the game for one heck of a wild ride! Will our hero survive the kiss of death from his unwelcome guest?
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
youtu.be/9WYL_tiG8OI
Irem's Image Fight got ported to the PC Engine and was a surprisingly complicated shoot-'em-up. Maybe too complicated for its own good...
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
Image Fight (イメージファイト) - PC Engine Power 160
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Irem's Image Fight got ported to the PC Engine and was a surprisingly complicated shoot-'em-up. Maybe too complicated for its own good...
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
youtu.be/qZSv0S15vlc
This fortune teller software has stymied me. I have to enter my birthdate and the only guidance on acceptable input it gives me is a selection of four different calendars I can use. I've tried every combination of inputs I could come up with and it throws me back to entering the birthdate...
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This fortune teller software has stymied me. I have to enter my birthdate and the only guidance on acceptable input it gives me is a selection of four different calendars I can use. I've tried every combination of inputs I could come up with and it throws me back to entering the birthdate...
For random game Saturday I have one of the newest additions to my collection: Suzuki Bakuhatsu. One of the peak "Japanese games are *crazy* 🤪" games back when people thought that was a meaningful statement. I'm looking forward to disarming fruit bombs.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
For random game Saturday I have one of the newest additions to my collection: Suzuki Bakuhatsu. One of the peak "Japanese games are *crazy* 🤪" games back when people thought that was a meaningful statement. I'm looking forward to disarming fruit bombs.
When Bioshock came out, I was already sick of Radio Buddies so before I opened up the bathysphere I decided I would do the exact opposite of whatever they said untill I had no other choice.
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
There's no escape from Radio Buddy.
Oof. 😢
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
When Bioshock came out, I was already sick of Radio Buddies so before I opened up the bathysphere I decided I would do the exact opposite of whatever they said untill I had no other choice.
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
I heard "would you kindly" so many times and it completely undermined the game's twist...
When I was working at a movie theater, Natural Born Killers did pretty well for us so we kept it a weirdly long time. And because it's a pretty long movie it was always the last one to end. So I saw the last five minutes of the movie probably thirty times...
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994). One of the most audacious auteur statements of its era, in our Soundtracks by Trent Reznor collection!
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When I was working at a movie theater, Natural Born Killers did pretty well for us so we kept it a weirdly long time. And because it's a pretty long movie it was always the last one to end. So I saw the last five minutes of the movie probably thirty times...
It's fun to find the weird connections in games, like finding out that the winner of a magazine contest for composing music for Lagrange Point is one of the people in the chorus singing "Sephiroth".
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's fun to find the weird connections in games, like finding out that the winner of a magazine contest for composing music for Lagrange Point is one of the people in the chorus singing "Sephiroth".
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
Or that the author of Cyber Knight's story is best known in the west as an anime character...
These Gundam games got weird.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
These Gundam games got weird.
When I die, people can absolutely make AI recreations of me.
Because I've seen that movie and it ends with my AI getting vengeance on everyone who ever wronged me including the people who made the AI.
Because I've seen that movie and it ends with my AI getting vengeance on everyone who ever wronged me including the people who made the AI.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When I die, people can absolutely make AI recreations of me.
Because I've seen that movie and it ends with my AI getting vengeance on everyone who ever wronged me including the people who made the AI.
Because I've seen that movie and it ends with my AI getting vengeance on everyone who ever wronged me including the people who made the AI.
I can't believe they had one of your companions in Metroid Prime 4 go, "I'm only three days from retirement."
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I can't believe they had one of your companions in Metroid Prime 4 go, "I'm only three days from retirement."
"Oh, an RPG. This will be an easy game to talk about."
[Hours later.]
"Okay, need to talk about hard sf, the novel, the official fan fiction, Beserkers, RPG magazines, the card game, and then I can get into the dozens of interlocking complicated game systems."
[Hours later.]
"Okay, need to talk about hard sf, the novel, the official fan fiction, Beserkers, RPG magazines, the card game, and then I can get into the dozens of interlocking complicated game systems."
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Oh, an RPG. This will be an easy game to talk about."
[Hours later.]
"Okay, need to talk about hard sf, the novel, the official fan fiction, Beserkers, RPG magazines, the card game, and then I can get into the dozens of interlocking complicated game systems."
[Hours later.]
"Okay, need to talk about hard sf, the novel, the official fan fiction, Beserkers, RPG magazines, the card game, and then I can get into the dozens of interlocking complicated game systems."
I'm not mad about anime translations. Please don't put on wikipedia that I'm mad about anime translations.
![From the Orguss article on Wikipedia:
A dimensional explosion transports Kei and his Bronco II variable fighter to a severely damaged future. There he is pursued for unknown reasons by the militaristic Chilam and aided by the Emaan, nomadic traders. Both sides have some unknown interest in Kei, referring to as a Tokuiten (特異点; lit. "singularity point"). Originally translated by US Renditions as "Differentiated Idioblast", it is more properly translated as "Singularity". In the ImaginAsian version, it has been translated as an "Idiosyncratic Point".[8] After Kei's Bronco II is damaged during a fight the Emaan modify it into the Orguss, the eponymous mecha from the series, which was later adopted and mass-produced as the Orguss II.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tnz2jgskuudu34mamtda4cwu/bafkreierpqfcq2rqpk7x557fo7z664idsvqkvvianim4qcb2zincote3ne@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm not mad about anime translations. Please don't put on wikipedia that I'm mad about anime translations.
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Thinking about Yakuman DS and one of the most relatable characters in all of video games again
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Thinking about Yakuman DS and one of the most relatable characters in all of video games again
There's some mixed feelings out there about the tendency of game companies to take a game that's only a few years old, polish up the graphics, and then re-release it at full price. Momotarou Densetsu Turbo on the PC Engine demonstrates that this goes back a long time...
youtu.be/h6BY32D0TO0
youtu.be/h6BY32D0TO0
Momotarou Densetsu Turbo/Peachboy Legend Turbo (桃太郎伝説ターボ) - PC Engine Power 159
YouTube video by RndStranger
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
There's some mixed feelings out there about the tendency of game companies to take a game that's only a few years old, polish up the graphics, and then re-release it at full price. Momotarou Densetsu Turbo on the PC Engine demonstrates that this goes back a long time...
youtu.be/h6BY32D0TO0
youtu.be/h6BY32D0TO0
One thing I've learned from the PC Engine CD-ROM games is that the terrible voice acting often really was by "whoever was in the office that day". Even Japanese developers did it, just not necessarily on high profile voices in their big games.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
One thing I've learned from the PC Engine CD-ROM games is that the terrible voice acting often really was by "whoever was in the office that day". Even Japanese developers did it, just not necessarily on high profile voices in their big games.
A recruiter reached out to me for a bilingual Japanese position and I told them that unless they needed someone to read RPG menus or fumble with the dictionary for them then I was probably a poor fit for the position.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A recruiter reached out to me for a bilingual Japanese position and I told them that unless they needed someone to read RPG menus or fumble with the dictionary for them then I was probably a poor fit for the position.
I was just reminded of the time a mobile game dev created a prototype multiplayer game that destroyed the interpersonal relationships in their office. Then when they described the game to the public, people who play board games went, "You re-invented Diplomacy."
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I was just reminded of the time a mobile game dev created a prototype multiplayer game that destroyed the interpersonal relationships in their office. Then when they described the game to the public, people who play board games went, "You re-invented Diplomacy."
Spotted someone outside my office window...
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Spotted someone outside my office window...
Bullet Proof Software apparently gave out floppy disks that looked like this as contest prizes. They were blank floppies, though. No special game or anything like that on them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Bullet Proof Software apparently gave out floppy disks that looked like this as contest prizes. They were blank floppies, though. No special game or anything like that on them.
Probably should have saved this for Random Game Saturday, but it's too cool not to share. This is a legit copy of King of Dragon Pass. When the designer ran out of printed copies and you ordered one from them, they burned you a copy and mailed it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Probably should have saved this for Random Game Saturday, but it's too cool not to share. This is a legit copy of King of Dragon Pass. When the designer ran out of printed copies and you ordered one from them, they burned you a copy and mailed it.