Games

[ Jan 7 2004 ]

Vodaphone 256k Appli Gallery

J-Phone is now Vodafone in Japan. And that’s all the pre-amble you get, here’s a new gallery of only 256k games (roughly five times larger than the norm) which are really quite impressive.

Games

[ Jan 3 2004 ]

EDY Cash Card for Arcade Use

Something I noticed at the AOU show last week but only recently put together with actual facts was the EDY contactless cash-card from Bitwallet. Launched in Japan in 2002 it’s a prepaid cashcard that users can fuel up at over 1,400 AM/PM stores in Japan, among other places. Based on technology from Sony the EDY […]

Technology

[ Dec 23 2003 ]

New Video Primer: Complete!

I’ve been working on this for more than three months, but finally figured out how to put it all together coherently tonight. This is a layman’s introduction to a number of different things, starting with different video formats and how they stack up in terms of quality and resolution. There’s also a series of supplemental […]

Games

[ Dec 18 2003 ]

Stupid Sony! Ridiculous PSX!

Games

[ Nov 26 2003 ]

Three updates!

1. Zumi was mentioned in this month’s Edge magazine. Never mind that the mag is a mere shadow of its former self, they’re talking about Zumi! 2. Nintendo’s Monopoly was good for us. 3. The forums lost a chunk of the archive, but there’s a new backup regimen in place and I apologize for letting […]

Games

[ Nov 26 2003 ]

Another SQL failure

MySQL has failed again, and the forums are down until I can find a way to possibly reclaim the data and resurrect the missing forum. I’m somewhat displeased, moreso because I didn’t start doing the regular backups I promised last time this happened. ;) –2013 update: yeah, Windows’ habit of enabling disk caching by default […]

Games

[ Nov 6 2003 ]

Sega’s Megumi!

It’s not quite games-related enough to be shunted into the Games Division, so here it is: Japan’s Megumi, spokesboobs for Sega and countless other companies, and she’s famous simply for being famous. Check her out. Videos and pics! Woo!