Category Archives: Research

PC Gamer (US)’s Six Best Games Ever Made Lists, 1994-2005 (And the First Unified PC Gamer US & UK List from 2010)

Posted on November 29, 2025 by Brian

PC Gamer (US) did Best Games Ever lists in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2005.  After that, there weren’t full lists for a few years.  The next list is from 2010, but that is done with the US & … Continue reading →

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1998, Greatness, and the Eras of Gaming, Part I – What Makes a Year Memorable?

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Brian

I have no excuse for why I didn’t publish anything here in August or September, I just didn’t get to writing anything.  However, this month I have been very busy indeed, writing, researching online, watching video, and playing games for … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Computer

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Brian

————- INTRODUCTION ————-   This is a guide for how to use an old computer platform that I have had an interest in for some time now.  I wrote a Game Opinion Summaries list for some TI99 carts something like … Continue reading →

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Article: Why Zelda: A Link to the Past is Overrated (but good)

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Brian

———— Introduction ———— I love the Legend of Zelda games, they are among the best! Indeed, I have sometimes considered it my favorite videogame series. This action-adventure franchise is amazing thanks to its great gameplay, graphics, music, and design. I … Continue reading →

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Many Issues with the Iffy PlayStation 3 Operating System

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Brian

While I work on my next article, and it is in the works, how about this little almost ten-years-out-of-date, but new to me, list of complaints? I got a PS3 for the first time a few months ago, and while … Continue reading →

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Review: San Francisco Rush 2049 (ARC/N64/DC), The Greatest Racing Game Ever Made

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Brian

So, because it was the Olympics, I was watching that a lot… on my HDTV, at least.  Often at the same time, I was also playing a lot of this game again for the first time in a  while on … Continue reading →

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Article: Losing Rare, and How Nintendo Lost Western Developers

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Brian

I have started on a PC Platformers Game Opinion Summaries list, but that will take a little while before it gets started.  Today, though, I’ve got this!  This article was based on posts I made in this NeoGAF thread here, … Continue reading →

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Sega Saturn Game Info Box Color Codes & List of if Saturn Shmups Support Saving

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Brian

I made this list back in early 2009, a while after I got a Saturn, because I wanted to know exactly which Saturn shmups save, after learning that Darius Gaiden and In the Hunt don’t.  This version of the list … Continue reading →

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Sega CD games and “Bit Rot”: A worse problem than on other disc-based platforms? Why is this?

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Brian

Sorry for the lack of updates, but here’s something important. Hopefully I can get back to a more regular (at least weekly) update schedule after this. Introduction I know that this has been mentioned plenty of times around the internet, … Continue reading →

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TI 99/4A Function Key Listing

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Brian

This is just a little list I made based on looking online for this information, after failing to find a link online showing the order of the function keys for anyone like me who has a TI 99/4A computer (Texas … Continue reading →

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