but it shipped, didn’t it! Looking at you pippin.

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it’s hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

You mean Alexander?

Hell, chess is huge right now, and it’s over 1500 years old.

It should! It’s allowed me to play so many games that are hard to find or expensive these days.

Part of it seems to stem from people’s excitement to infodump about how federated social media works.

That’s relevant and interesting to learn about, but the average person just needs to hear “make and account here and start browsing memes” first.

I don’t know the story, but that’s the genuine cartridge art they used for the first Mega Man in the US. It’s just terrible and looks nothing like the game.

I assume it’s more like a life’s purpose.

I’ve had a successful Ironman run on Commander difficulty in XCOM 2 (WOTC), but Legendary Ironman continues to elude me. I usually get back into it once or twice each year and try again. Maybe one of these days!

This looks right up my alley. Thanks for the rec!

Those old NES games broke my fear of failure, so roguelikes, soulslikes, and similar games where you have a real chance of losing are my jam.

This also applies to games with permanent roster losses like XCOM or Darkest Dungeon. I can’t get enough.

You could do what now?

I think I also hear Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden laughing.

Amazing! Teaching her the old ways.

This show looks funny. I should give it a watch.

You know how when you’re into something, and you hear someone speak about it so wrongly, with confidence, that it becomes immediately clear that they’re full of shit?

That’s every chess player reading his takes on chess.

Just spent a few minutes searching, and I can’t figure it out. The text almost looks like it says Virtua Fighter, but it doesn’t match any image results.

Not if you get it printed on a t-shirt!