Tuesday, April 26, 2022

All That I Can To Keep Track of Time in My Head (Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Hook)

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As with High Speed  we have here a swath of my childhood in the wrong medium. Two thirds of these were based on movies I saw and loved as a ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

No Such Thing as Society (Hollywood Squares)

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Guy Debord writes in Society of the Spectacle about how “In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an ...
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Friday, May 7, 2021

ACAB (High Speed, Hogan's Alley)

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My mother was a woman liked overly big, showy Christmas presents, and one year she decided to outdo herself and buy me a pinball machine. Sh...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

The Head That Wears The Crown (Heavy Barrel, Heavy Shreddin')

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The obvious question—the only one that makes any sense in context, is what exactly is heavy here. Or perhaps more usefully, what is the natu...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Of Illusions (Wario's Woods)

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And then, in December of 1994, it ended. The writing had been on the wall for a while - the last releases had been all the way back in Au...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Persistence of Mercury (Harlem Globetrotters, Hatris)

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The Harlem Globetrotters make an odd subject for a video game, given the degree to which their history consisted of kayfabe basketball. Not ...
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Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Widening (Gyruss)

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I've been down on video games lately. Admittedly, I've been down on life lately. But I'd be lying if I said I enjoy this blog as...
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