Movies, TV, & Video Games

For all your multimedia needs!

Hardcore Gaming 101 – I admit, I would’ve been more enthusiastic about linking to this site if it still looked like it did when I would spend hours on it during overnight shifts on the radio. Still, it’s a really cool resource for tons of deep dives into entire game series’. This is such a comprehensive resource of gaming reviews and history and opinions with tons of multimedia to enjoy, including comparisons of different ports of various games all done in good old text and image format. Again, they recently went to a full blog-based CMS, and I think that sadly it lost a lot of the charm for me as a result and it feels harder to just pick an article and dive in, but the info is still great and the pieces worth reading. I discovered so many fascinating games here, especially thanks to their articles on SNK and Neo Geo, and the D series.


Little Miss Kinamoto – A Cardcaptor Sakura fansite that is utterly loaded with charm and information straight out of the era of Rockman.EXE Online. I adore that there are anime screencaps, translations of Sakura’s incantations, profiles on CLAMP members, a truly impressive selection of merchandise in the webmistress’s collection, and my favorite section, “Learn Japanese” which provides helpful audio clips from the Cardcaptor Sakura anime so you can understand various phrases straight from your favorite anime. I’m not really sure why the banner seems to be dog-themed, but it’s a mystery for the ages.


Super Page 58: A Digitiser Archive – Oh my god, I love this. Basically, back in the 90s in England and into the early 00s there was a service called Teletext (or Ceefax on BBC). You could, on your television, view text and images in what was basically an early digital magazine or guide. It was the coolest thing ever to me as a kid. One of the things that ran on Teletext was a “magazine” called Digitiser, a daily roundup of gaming news, jokes, reviews, and letters, headed by two very boorish troublemakers with a flair for the artistic. This is attempting to be the most complete archive of the magazine’s work, with images reconstructed from old video signals and photos as well as entire histories and articles and interviews detailing the story behind the “publication”. It’s brilliant stuff and I wouldn’t have known about it if Mandy hadn’t found this site on the Fighters Megamix Wikipedia page. It sure made me nostalgic for Teletext, at least.


Panzer Dragoon Legacy & The Panzer Dragoon Saga Oasis – Mandy loves Panzer Dragoon. During their periods of researching it they stumbled upon these two awesome sites. Panzer Dragoon Legacy is a massive database of in-game text, official art, fanart, and lore for every single game in the franchise, and Panzer Dragoon Saga Oasis is specifically devoted to that specific game. They’re both a bit tricky to navigate but they are absolute treasure troves of information about the series just waiting to be uncovered. Unbvelievably awesome, and Legacy even has Discord groups and similar ways to connect with fellow fans.


Mighty Jack’s MST3K Review – Another great site Mandy found, a wildly comprehensive review site of every single piece of Mystery Science Theater 3000 media out there. It’s incredible how deep this dives. I like the highlights on specific quotes and riffs as well as judgment of the movies themselves. It’s really a ton of fun.


The Fighting Game Glossary by Infil – One of the absolute coolest websites I’ve ever seen! If you ever wanted to know about ANY fighting game term, this is the place to go. It has definitions for everything from Shoto to Sex Kick along with examples, videos, pictures, and linked glossary terms. It’s so well-designed, so simple, so effective. I adore this site. I wish the code or CMS was open-source – this is such a useful tool and exactly what I was looking for for other projects once upon a time.


Mega Man Legends Station – Another incredible gaming resource, this time for one of my own personal favorite series’. Mega Man Legends! I found this while looking for screenshots of Nino Island which has always been shockingly difficult to do and what I found was an up-to-date treasure trove of absolutely everything you could think of related to MML. Art, trivia, info, all of it collected in a super clean and easy-to-navigate site that is beautiful and snappy with an amazing old-school-meets-new-school design philosophy. It really shines and evokes the beautiful atmosphere of the games themselves. Amazing.