electronic games

  • Please Be Nice To Me!
    July 6th, 2009By Bren Inou
    My goodness, I’m almost at 20 articles with Games To Dust! So much have I learned about video games over the last few weeks. I started to play video games online again, No not World Of Warcraft or Modern Warfare. Maybe a little Pokémon but the game I’m talking about is » Continue Reading
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  • I Remember That!
    June 18th, 2009By Bren Inou
    One Piece Dragon Dream on the Game Boy Advance is one of those games that remind me that sometimes video games can be a bad investment. It’s not that it’s not a good game or anything it’s just it is a tough game to review. By the way, I love that » Continue Reading
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  • Is It My Destiny To Become Shaman King?
    June 4th, 2009By Bren Inou
    First Up, Shaman King Master of Spirits for the Game Boy Advance. Shockingly as bad as the cartoon was, the game is actually really good. Really really good! You play as Yoh Asakura of course on a journey to recover the pages of the tomb of shamans or something like that. » Continue Reading
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  • It`s A Miracle!
    May 25th, 2009By Bren Inou
    Miracle Girls on the Super Famicom is probably the most basic platform action video game I have ever played. Now, I have never actually seen the anime version of this but I know it exists because I checked on Wikipedia before I did this review. Miracle Girls has one basic goal, » Continue Reading
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  • What happens in Akihabara…
    May 7th, 2009By James Q. Clark
    photo credit: lucamascaro What is there to say about good old Akiba that has not already been said by someone with twice the number of comics as myself? It is truly a kind of heaven on Earth for video game nerds, anime freaks, internet cafe connoisseurs, computer geeks, manga maniacs, and » Continue Reading
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  • Games are Good For You vol. 1 – Learning Japanese
    April 24th, 2009By James Q. Clark
    “You can understand everything? Really?” My fiance is incredulous as I go over the instructions for her new cell phone. It is not that difficult really. Surprisingly, the hardest part are the words written in katakana; I have to say them out loud quickly to hear what word they are supposed » Continue Reading
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  • Gamers, Here and There
    April 15th, 2009By James Q. Clark
    If you see several businessmen sitting on a train all playing Nintendo DS, what is your immediate impression? In the United States, the situation might novel or amusing; you don’t dwell on it, but there is something curious about adults playing video games. In Japan, however, you hardly give it a » Continue Reading
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