Category Archives: Technology

Gunmancy and Hackitude

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Nathan

Cosmic Star Heroine – Since I’ve been playing this recently, I thought I should probably say a bit about it. It’s made by an independent developer and is largely a homage to 16-bit role-playing games. I think it was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Humor, Names, Phantasy Star, Technology, Video Games | Tagged agency of peace and intelligence, aliens, alis landale, alyssa l'salle, araenu, borisusovsky, chahn keneko, cosmic star heroine, freedom festival, gunmancy, robots, z'xorv | 1 Comment

The Need for Speedy

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Nathan

The 1996 Oziana is unusual in that it contains only one story, Umbrella Island in Oz, by Ruth Waara. As such, it’s kind of weird that the cover picture has nothing to do with it, instead being a Dick Martin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged agree filtre, chameleons, cinderbutton the witch, dinosaurs, dorothy gale, international wizard of oz club, ivan montebank, joe bongiorno, ken cope, king sizzeroo, magic belt, oziana, pigasus, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, robin olderman, royal timeline of oz, ruth waara, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the magic cryptogram of oz, the wishing horse of oz, umbrella island, umbrella island in oz, waddy, witches, wizards | Leave a comment

I Don’t Think It’s Good to Work Too Hard

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve gotten into the habit of writing about a video game when I start playing it, then again when I finish, assuming I ever do. I do tend to post occasional updates to Twitter, however, thanks to the screen capture … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Dreams, Etymology, Families, Greek Mythology, Humor, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Sims, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, casey bat, cosmic star heroine, dalaam, earthbound, earthbound beginnings, giygas, jeff andonuts, magicant, master belch, mother 3, mr. saturn, nintendo switch, pokey minch, prince poo, robots, sword of kings, the sims 4, time travel, twitter, weapons | Leave a comment

Gone with the Northeast Wind

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Nathan

The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Poetry, Relationships, Star Trek, Technology | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, a side view of the nonestic islands, angela garvey garvey, army, aunt em, betsy bobbin, bill eubank, break dance, corwin davison poe, dorothy gale, fairies, fred meyer, frogman, h.p. lovecraft, hungry tiger, king evoldo of ev, li-mon-eags, limericks, magic belt, martha cornog, mcwogglebug, military, neal wilgus, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, polychrome, professor wogglebug, scarecrow, smith and tinker, spock, stuff and nonsense, the blue raindrops of oz, the computer wizard makes a comeback, the magic of oz, the northeast wind in oz, thorgose, tik-tok, timothy perper, tin woodman, tollydiggle, trot griffiths, two's of a kind, typhonic, ventilation, wendy roth, winds, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Radical Dreamer, Wake Unto Me

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Nathan

Since the version of Chrono Cross for the Switch is the Radical Dreamers edition, and I’d played through the main game, I figured the obvious thing to do was to check out Radical Dreamers itself. It’s a quite interesting novelty, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, another eden, chrono break, chrono cross, chronopolis, dalton, demons, general viper, goblins, griffins, guardia, guile, heckran, kingdom of zeal, lady riddel, lavos, lucca ashtear, lynx, magil, magus, masamune, masato kato, porre, radical dreamers, radius, satellaview, schala, serge, skeletons, weapons, xenogears, zero wing | Leave a comment

Jaguar, Jaguar, You Are Shining from Afar

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Nathan

I’m always interested in mythological references in video games I’ve played (and sometimes even ones I haven’t), and the two Chrono games definitely have a fair number of them. There are some SPOILERS for both Chrono games. I’ve seen fans … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Christianity, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Food, Greek Mythology, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Native American, Religion, Shinto, Technology, Video Games | Tagged amaterasu, atropos, atropos xr, bible, cats, chrono cross, chronopolis, cipactli, clotho, demons, dinopolis, dragon god, dragon quest iii, dragons, fate, fates, frozen flame, izanagi-o-no-mikoto, izanami, jaguars, jesus, kingdom of zeal, lachesis, leopards, lynx, moon, navel of the earth, omphalos, panthers, prometheus, quetzalcoatl, robo, robots, schala, secret of mana, serge, sun, susano-o-no-mikoto, termina, tezcatlipoca, three wise men, tsukuyomi, ukemochi | 1 Comment

The Serge Worked

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Nathan

SPOILERS FOR CHRONO CROSS! So, I finished Chrono Cross…sort of. There’s more than one way to beat the final boss, and the way to get the good ending involves using elements in a certain order. It’s a clever idea, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Families, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, belthasar, chrono cross, chronopolis, crono, dario, demi-humans, dinopolis, dinosaurs, draggy, dragon god, dragonians, dragons, dwarves, einlanzer, el nido, fairies, fate, frozen flame, general viper, glenn, guile, hydra, kingdom of zeal, lavos, lucca ashtear, luccia, lynx, marcy, masa and mune, mermaids, miguel, mojo, mother brain, neofio, nikki, princess nadia marle guardia, prometheus lock, radius, records of fate, reptites, robo, robots, schala, sea of eden, serge, skelly, starky, swords, time crash, time devourer, time travel, wazuki | 2 Comments

Hi, I’m Elfo!

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Nathan

I watched the first season of Disenchantment when it was still pretty new, then didn’t get around to watching any more until the fourth was about to come out. And we don’t yet know whether there’s going to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Futurama, Humor, Magic, Names, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged alva gunderson, bender bending rodriguez, demons, disenchantment, elfo, elves, john dimaggio, king zog of dreamland, luci, matt groening, mermaids, philip j. fry, princess tiabeanie, satan, steamland, trogs, turanga leela | Leave a comment

Fuzzy Pickles

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Nathan

I started playing EarthBound last week when I found it on the Super NES for Switch application. It probably wasn’t the best timing as the Switch version of Chrono Cross also came out that week, but I’ve been switching back … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cults, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Names, Religion, Technology, Toys, Video Games | Tagged aliens, buzz buzz, charles schulz, eagleland, earthbound, ghosts, hippies, jeff andonuts, maniac mansion, monkeys, mr. belch, ness, nintendo power, onett, robots, threed, zombies | 2 Comments

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Nathan

The 1976 Oziana is the first with Jay Delkin as editor. The cover has an Oz alphabet designed by Bill Eubank. I know The Baum Bugle used these to start articles for a while, and at the time I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Celebrities, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged bee zum, bill eubank, books of wonder, bronson pinchot, charles schulz, david hulan, donald abbott, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, golden cap, great detective, how the wizard came to oz, how the wizard came to oz and what he did there, i-wish-i-was, jack pumpkinhead, jay delkin, joe bongiorno, jojee, linus van pelt, magic flower, michael patrick hearn, nathan flower, nomes, ojo, ojo in oz, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, ozmonga, peanuts, perfect strangers, richard paul smyers, sawhorse, scarecrow, sherlock holmes, snoopy, the adventure of the cat that did not meow in the night, the annotated wizard of oz, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the lost sawhorse, the magic of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, x. pando | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Technology

Gunmancy and Hackitude

The Need for Speedy

I Don’t Think It’s Good to Work Too Hard

Gone with the Northeast Wind

Radical Dreamer, Wake Unto Me

Jaguar, Jaguar, You Are Shining from Afar

The Serge Worked

Hi, I’m Elfo!

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