Post on NetHack now up for patrons. Up for everyone on Friday. patreon.com/posts/78309357

NetHack [1987-2023] lasts forever — long enough to crawl out from its hacker dungeon to take revenge on mainstream gaming once the whole world was on the 'net. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/net…

Post on Ancient Ys Vanished [1987/1989] up now for patrons. Will be up for everyone on Friday. patreon.com/posts/80305154

Ys [1987/1989] is defined by its negative space, bereft of friction and fiction. Its remake attempts to fill that space back up with razzle-dazzle. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/ys-…

Post on R-Type [1987] up now on Patreon. Up on the blog next Friday. patreon.com/posts/82966321

Why is there so much R-Type in R-Type [1987]? arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/r-t…

beyond grateful for david bordwell's work for many reasons, but the most recent one is the time/space he gives forgotten works of earlier 20th century lit within his mapping of narrative devices in crime fiction & how its developments & cycles helped shape modern storytelling

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out [1987] doesn't take place in an empty ring, it takes place in America. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/mik…

Hey, I'm a lot more active on cohost. cohost.org/arcadeidea You can also find me hanging around the Critical Distance discord server basically every day.

Post on Contra [1987/1988] + Metal Gear [1987], a little bit, up now on Patreon. patreon.com/posts/86259114…

I meant to write about Contra [1987/1988], but I wound up writing mainly about Reagan and a little bit about Metal Gear [1987]. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/07/21/con…

Surprise new post on Dopeman [1987] and gangster media in general for hip-hop's 50th birthday. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/dop…

I launched a Gofundme. Please help me get the money to rid my kitchen of cockroaches. gofund.me/c342496d)

Mega Man 2 [1988] is a platformer that is also a platform. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/meg…

I have gained and lost a job in the time since Thanksgiving, and am facing eviction next week. My roommates set up a Gofundme to try and piece together moving expenses like deposits: gofundme.com/f/facing-evict…

Miracle of miracles, we finally secured a place to move to! But we still need $1580 for the deposit in this Gofundme, and we need it by this Tuesday, and even meeting that goal leaves us with nothing to spare. Thank you all so much for your help so far.

And we're back. arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/pol…

arcadeidea.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/sna… Forgot to do the rounds posting this one