After a long-ass absence (sort of burned out of retro gaming), and with finally a new image editor, I expect to get back in the scene very soon and present you with even more awesome Japanese retro games.

For those of you who actually still come to this blog, I hope you like the new look (Photoshop oh how I missed you).

Please note that some posts will be messed out due to reduced size of the blog, but I plan to fix them all little by little

Also, I need to mention that I'm having some problems with the blog comments. I have my settings to auto approve any new comment, yet for some reason some of your comments still show as pending approval. I really don't know who to fix that unfortunately....

I will approve any new comment as soon as I see them. so if you're there let me know.

These are just some magazine scans about an article on the「BANDAI ARCADIA」, as well as other 8-bit paddle consoles.

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This is a short-lived promotional comic series for the MEGA DRIVE game「EL VIENTO」by WOLF TEAM. The 4 chapters (stages) that were produced were released on the 「BEEP ! MEGA DRIVE」magazine in 1991.

The comic is a very common find around the net, but I still wanted to have it on the blog for commodity.

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The SEGA PLAYERS ENJOY CLUB or「SPEC」was a fan club formed by SEGA in 1988 prior to the release of the MEGA DRIVE mostly to support their incoming line of next generation stuff.

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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Japan's best-selling RPG series. SQUARE-ENIX has released an exclusive Wii compilation disc containing the first three DRAGON QUEST games in both their original 8-bit versions and 16-bit remakes.

But just how good (and worthwhile) is this compilation?

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