• Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Stuart Gipp

    ...fantastic. Mental and fantastic. One minute you’re fighting a giant artist’s mannequin, the next you’re hiding from screen-sized rockets while shrunk to the size of an ant. Genius. 1. Astro...

  • Carbonated News (November 2004)

    ...story of a young samurai traveling to the States in search of his older brother. The game is currently scheduled to be released in Japan this winter, but no American...

  • Carbonated News (December 2004)

    ...heartbroken, but don’t fret too much that only the Japanese gamers are getting this one — you wouldn’t wanna play it anyway. The reason the game’s US release is being...

  • Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Justin Walden

    ...at all and was retooled from a Japanese game called Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic, whereas Japan got the “real” Super Mario Bros. 2. The gaming industry is weird like...

  • … of the Month: Puffy AmiYumi

    Japanese Pop Band That You Can Listen to While Playing Games With Crappy Soundtracks of the Month: Puffy AmiYumi Now, I’m sure everyone reading this has already heard about Puffy...

  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

    ...for its story—especially not a Game Boy Castlevania game. In the year 2035, our hero, Soma Cruz, is visiting a shrine in Japan during the first solar eclipse of the...

  • [NSFW] Nester’s Funky Bowling (VB)

    ...that it actually ended the career of its creator, Gunpei Yokoi, at Nintendo. Only in Japan can your entire career be tanked because of one shitty hardware design. The dude...

  • [NSFW] Nintendogs: Lab & Friends (DS)

    ...No, actually, Nintendogs is absolutely massive. In Japan, it’s the biggest thing since, erm…chopsticks. Well, all I know is that they simply can’t get enough of it! At the moment...

  • Submissions (January 2006)

    ...for you to follow, I’ll put them in the form of a list: 1) Spoonlad. Where the hell is he. He was my favorite Gates of Life character, and he...

  • Submissions (February 2006)

    ...of the Last Issue Dear GameCola, My favorite part of this issue was Low-Rent Adventures in Japan. I’ll be your laugh track, Richo! Also, I enjoyed the new format (although...