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Favorite Publishers/Developers0
Everybody has their bad games, but these publishers and developers have churned out enough great stuff for me to keep me genuinely interested in their work, even if it goes into genres I ordinarily don't play. If there's one on this list, I highly re
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Games Purchased in Tokyo Summer 20090
This is the list of games I acquired in my trip to Tokyo during the summer of 2009. The majority of them are probably from Super Potato in Akihabara, but there are probably other sources, too.
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Arcade Games Played in Tokyo Summer 20090
Game centers in Tokyo are a pretty damn flashy spectacle and as long as you don't have epilepsy, that's in a good way. This is thusly a list of arcade games I gave some love to over the course of my trip in summer 2009.
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If Pepsiman were a developer, she'd be taking notes from these games.0
Good games or bad, if I were ever to be in a designing position at a game developer, these are the ones on which I'd be taking notes. By no means is this a "best of" list, though; sometimes the greatest hits offer the fewest lessons because of how th
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Quirky Games Worth Checking Out0
Sometimes it's a premise too abstract to ever make gangbusters in the mainstream. Sometimes it's got a unique sort of charm you just can't find elsewhere. Whatever the reason, these are games that, while very likely flawed in some way, are still wort
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Games I Own That Go Against My Conscience0
Bad games are bad games, no matter how you slice them, but sometimes it's precisely because of their mediocrity that they're still worth buying anyway. That's what this list is for, compiling games I know I probably shouldn't own, but have acquired a
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Games with Iconic Final Boss Battles (Spoilers much?)0
For some reason or other, these are the games whose final bouts within the main storyline stuck out the most to me. It might be the gameplay, it might be the difficulty, it might be something else altogether. When a game knows how to not make its las
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Best of 20090
Pepsiman: Best of 2009
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Abstract Game of the Year Awards 20090
[blank] of the year awards tend to be rather cliched affairs at times, even if I'm not helping by making my own lists. To rectify that, the following is a list of 2009 games that would get more abstract awards from me. It doesn't necessarily take a w
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Games That Have Deprived Me of Study Time at the Worst Opportunities0
Ordinarily, I'm a pretty studious person. I have my book-cramming and paper-writing schedule more or less set into stone so I can properly budget free time into my routine. This tends to work out pretty well. I get stuff done and usually still have e
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Characters I'd Gladly Push Off a Cliff0
Sometimes there are characters who just have it coming. They're bad people/things that haven't really done the best job at existing and because of that have made your time dealing with them, even electronically a living hell. These aren't necessarily
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Things Chie Would Enjoy More If They Were Like Steak0
In the Persona 4 canon, it's well established that Chie. Loves. Steak. A lot. You hear about this in the game often enough to the point where it's really surprising there isn't more fan art of her having romantic relationships with that than, sa
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E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games0
Pepsiman: E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games
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Games I'd Buy Just For the Box Art0
Good box art is something that's really unappreciated, even in this age of people debating about the artistic value of video games. At their best, they not only tell you at a glance what a game is about, but what makes it special and why it should ma
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Abstract Game of the Year Awards 20100
In continuing with last year's list, the premise for these game of the year awards is simple: Absolutely every game that's come out within the past year is a winner in some regard if you think hard enough. It doesn't matter how arbitrary or
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One-Hit Wonders: One Game Per Series That's Completely Worth Playing0
Like movies and books, successful games that were once an original IP have a knack for getting sequels and spawning entire series in their wake. What this list seeks to do is simple: Take a series of games and boil them down to one entry that I perso
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Pepsiman's Shopping List0
Even if it's economically detrimental to me in the end, I like hoarding my video games. Save for a few instances where I sold games that I either had extra copies of or just disliked extremely, I've more or less held on to every game I've ever gotten
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When Games Were Still Just Games: Returning to the Roots0
A lot of games these days take themselves too seriously. All too often, developers half-heartedly attempt to provide some grander justification for their gameplay mechanics to provide alleged immersion or believability for the player. Usually, this a
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E3 2011 Most Anticipated Games0
Pepsiman: E3 2011 Most Anticipated Games
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Games Played at TGS 20110
Even if TGS isn't a particularly relevant event anymore even for Japanese games, it was always on my to-do list as a purveyor of video games if I were ever in Japan at the right time just so that I could witness the sheer spectacle of it. Considering
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Games Purchased in Japan- Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 Semesters0
Much like the last time I was in Japan, this current outing in Japan is for relatively serious business, what with it involving a study abroad gig and all. I'm here primarily to make my language skills more competent and lay the groundwork for what w
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Abstract Game of the Year Awards 20110
Now in its third year running, the basic premise of the annual Abstract Game of the Year Awards remain the same as always. In these times when video game awards doled out from video game outlets are taken a bit too seriously by the masses, this list
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Pepsiman's Future Coverage List0
This is mostly a list that I'm maintaining for my own purposes, detailing mostly Japanese-only games that I plan on covering in some capacity in the future. The actual coverage itself could be anything from a section in a larger blog post to a full-o
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Putting Yourself on a Pedastol: Pepsiman's List of "Educational" Japanese Games0
It should be no revelation when I say that if all you're doing when you're learning a language is practicing textbook exercises and using formulaic sentences, you're not making the most of your time nor your potential. Most of the battle of becoming
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Pepsiman's Neglected Reviews0
This is probably true for most everyone that plays and writes about games in a non-professional capacity, but I tend to play and complete a lot more games than what I actually get around to reviewing. But sometimes there are games that I mean to or o
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GOTY 20120
Game of the year lists are something I only very rarely do anymore outside my satirical ones that I've done the past few years on the site. It's hard for me to quantify liking one game over another, especially when my personal playing history has ind
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