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Consider Yourself Debrotherized

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Nathan

Since I looked into possible meanings of the story of Cain and Abel not long ago, that led me to the TV Tropes page of characters named Cain, or variants thereof. There are a lot of them across various media, … Continue reading →

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Wily Science

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Nathan

Having just recently attended a Kevin Geeks Out show about mad science, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some prominent mad scientists in video games. There are a lot of them, many in games I’m … Continue reading →

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Lode Runner, Lode Runner, Going Faster Miles an Hour

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nathan

In this post, I intend to address some connections between video games, many of which I haven’t actually played. I do remember playing Lode Runner on the Apple II in my elementary school days, though. You run around mazes and … Continue reading →

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Super Mario Apocrypha

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Nathan

Nintendo kind of seems to be steering away from Mario-related media as of late, as least in North America. I’ve heard that Archie Comics wanted to do a Mario title, but couldn’t get permission. In my younger days, however, there … Continue reading →

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Euro Mario Land

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nathan

I’ve occasionally come across panels from comics in the German Club Nintendo magazine, basically their equivalent of Nintendo Power, and they were sehr wahnsinnig. Not all of them were; some were fairly straightforward adaptations of games with a few jokes … Continue reading →

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When Mega Man Comes Marching Home Again

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Nathan

I’ve checked out some of the Mega Man comics from Archie, specifically the collections of issues one through four and nine through twelve. I have the volume in between these two, Time Keeps on Slipping, on order from the library; … Continue reading →

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Cover Art, American Style

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Nathan

Is there market research somewhere that says Americans like sparse cover art? I mean, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books had fairly intricate covers in the United Kingdom, but the States tended to reduce them to representational objects. Or look at the … Continue reading →

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