By: Erin

Posted: June 21, 2021

When first creating this website, I wanted to use it to post all kinds of weird articles and similar content to go along with the EMN programming guides. Well, after a day of Frankensteining together various tutorials and other peoples’ code, I’ve finally updated the articles section in a way that will make it feasible for me to toss articles up easily but also I’ve written the first article I had in mind! Introducing The Same Picture of Fei Fong Wong, an illustrated guide of every time the BradyGames Xenogears Official Strategy Guide used the one piece of official Fei art they had. I have other article ideas in mind, of course, but I’m glad I got this one up. More to come as they come to me.

By: Erin

Posted: June 20, 2021

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So, growing up, I had very weird experiences when it came to playing video games. Until I was in high school, my screen time was pretty severely limited. I had to choose between a half hour of videogames or a half hour of computer time twice a day. This meant that I had to be pretty selective with what I did and how, and while I do appreciate that it made me learn to use my time wisely (to an extent…) it did mean that my experiences were fractured.

I had many ways I caught up with gaming news, learned about the games I wasn’t allowed to play, and experienced much more than the allotted half-hour increments. One of those methods was devouring as many gaming magazines as I could, another method was watching my brother play, and my final method was reading and re-reading the strategy guides and instruction manuals for various games. This brings us to Xenogears.

By: Erin

Posted: June 10, 2021

Holy guacamole, I thought I’d never get through all these pages! Yes, EMN1’s programming guide is finished. All the posters are there, all the shows are there, all the movies are there, all the notes are there too! Obviously there’s still tons of work to do – Only two out of twelve EMN2 programming guides are done, plus there’s EMN3…why did we make so many channels?! Oh god. But hey, it’s okay! It’s fine. It’s cool! It’s all worth it and all super fun. At least now if people show up and watch EMN1 they can know what’s playing. Kind of.

By: Erin

Posted: June 23, 2021

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Caps of Retro Gamer Issue 4 courtesy of archive.org

“What? How?” you ask. It is, after all, absurd to pin the demise of Sega’s 1999 machine on the shoulders of two cartoon characters – and children, at that! And to this I say, you’re right. But at the same time, it’s needed, because if you read on I will tell you the tale of how these two cartoon characters failed us.