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Wednesdays with Andrew Gaiden - Sega CD Prior entries in this series: Introduction | NiGHTS into Dreams | Virtua Racing and more | Virtua Fighter 2 and Daytona USA Long before Andrew came to me

You have seen the games, right?

My growing collection of game collections My friend Shota and I were arguing the other day about what is to be done. He took what I would describe as a mild and possibly self-defeating attitude regardin

What are we if not what we own?

How many games does it have? In the olden days, the number of games on a system was an important consideration for prospective customers. Magazines would track this information and ads woul

There may only be 5 compatible games, but when you have the power of the Sega 32X-CD do you need more?

A crisis of middling proportions There are many kinds of crises. A crisis can be a conflict between a god and a religion like some Jehovah's Witness guy wrote about that one time, it can be a m

Gamers of a certain age

Reviewmancing Saga - Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven I often feel that things I have missed out on are better than things I have experienced. I'll occasionally read a breathless article about a game I haven't hear

What if there were a time when the Saga games were good?

Almost Famous - Dice, Scavengers, and Bastards The idea that publishers and platform-holders determine the games the vast majority of people are aware of through marketing, promotion, and their ensuing hype

This game is cool but you've probably never heard of it.

We are now entering the 'follow people and hope they follow you back' portion of our public relations master plan.

Wednesdays with Andrew - Virtua Fighter 2 and Daytona USA Prior entries in this series: Introduction | NiGHTS into Dreams | Virtua Racing and more Another day, another 1/7th closer to the day Andrew and I play Satur

There is virtua-y no way fighting games would have developed the same way without this game.

Arcade Planning for People without an Arcade Some time in 2005, I bought a Golden Axe arcade cabinet for maybe $200 or $300 from Craig’s List, which with inflation comes to about $36,000 today. My brothe

Now is the time to fill your home with decades old arcade cabinets.
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Committing to 2026 video game commitments Sometimes the videolamer staff always makes a commitment to play specific games in a new year and then fails to uphold that commitment. 2026 will be no differen

If we do not all finish the games we are committing to, someone will die. Hopefully someone bad and not one of us.

Let's keep working together It has recently come to my attention that a number of videolamer staff are trying to unionize. I am posting this open letter response here because I do not have

Now hiring scab writers.

Waving the White Flag - Wartales On the surface, Wartales looks a lot like other games I like. I enjoy large-scale simulations, I like fiddly minigames with bonus rewards, I love RPGs, and I ev

Not finishing games has always been an important part of the pastime.
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Dear lamer: Child rearing advice from a professional video game player In this exciting new series, our mascot answers letters readers have sent in with sage advice. Dear lamer, I am a real person who hacked their Genesis

It takes a village of influencers to raise a child.
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Wednesdays with Andrew – Virtua Racing and Panzer Dragoon Prior entries in this series: Introduction | NiGHTS into Dreams Another arbitrary amount of time, another entry in the ‘guy makes another guy play Satu

Mars and Neptune are widely considered government hoaxes, but most people still believe in Saturn
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Happy new year and a friendly reminder that you can still file 2025 New Year's Resolutions until April 15.

Don't look now, but I think I just saw a skeleton sneak into your body.
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The wait is over, videolamer has legitimized Bluesky.
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