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The sale of the Intellivision brand to the Atari brand means it’s finally legal for me to play Intellivision games after only 40 years.

As I promised Terra in my last post, I would be playing Drakkhen for the Super Nintendo. It’s 3D! It has dragons! You get to create your own party! And dragons! Well, there may be a couple bad eggs in the bushel. I really knew nothing about this game. Although I was a huge Atari ST fan at the time and played a lot of RPGs on it, I missed it on its original platform (and I hear it was better there, too, though graphically it looks pretty similar). Still, it’s better late than never. I started hearing bits and pieces about it on retro RPG YouTube channels, and when I saw it at the Hartford RetroWorld Expo, at a reasonable price, I took the plunge and bought it. ...

Some call me a Warrior of Light. Some call me a renegade. Some call me when Chaos rears its corrupted head. But you can call me Garland. Jack Garland. I’m the one they call when there’s nobody else. Jack Garland? Didn’t we just kill you in Final Fantasy I? And… weren’t you Chaos? I honestly hadn’t heard of this game until Squenix sent me an e-mail talking about the demo. This happens again and again. Cool games that everyone (but me) has heard of, I come to it eons too late, way after it would have made sense. ...

Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, and now Persona 5 Strikers. The Persona 5 legacy lives on in this new, action-oriented chapter in the story of Joker & Friends as they seek to save the innocent people of Shibuya, once again. Futaba warns us about Shadows I have not yet finished Persona 5 Strikers, so this is more of a quick look than a full review. ...