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Keywe collectibles6/22/2023 This year our video games gift guide is divided into three sections: one for hardware, books, and collectibles, one for games geared towards adults and older gamers, and a section for games meant for the whole family. If you have the same problem we do – where there’s more gamers in the house than there are consoles and TVs, back issues of Under the Radarare a great way to pass the time while you wait for your turn with the controller. Order them here, or consider giving an annual subscription as a gift this holiday season. The classic arcade game, 1942, can finally be yours in a cool smaller form. Originally released in 1984, in the vertical shooting game you are a World War II flying ace fighting in the Battle of Midway. Your aim is to reach Tokyo to destroy the Japanese fleet. While it’s a bit odd that a Japanese company would design a game taking place in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where the Americans are the heroes and the Japanese are the bad guys, 1942 was a hit in Japanese arcades in the ’80s. New Wave Toys’ Replicade version features the original arcade game in a smaller size and you also have the option of playing its sequel, 1943. The game cabinet lights up and the sound is impressive for its size. What’s more, it comes with an external joystick and an HDMI port, which allows you to play the game on your big flat-screen TV. I also like how there are power-ups.” By Mark Redfern ( Buy it here.)Ī Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games (Bitmap Books) My eight-year-old daughter Rose says: “I like 1942 because it’s cool how you are in the air, but it’s not just planes you fight but also boats with cannons. Top-down overworlds, turn-based combat, character progression, anime sprites, and downright epic quests revolving around your heroes saving their world. Japanese RPGs have been part of the video gaming experiences for as long as many of us can remember. (My first? Huddling around my cousin’s TV at a family Christmas party and hacking through slimes in Dragon Warrior on the NES.) Bitmap Books, the publishers of the most handsome, informative, and heavyweight tomes on gaming history out there, have turned their focus on Japan’s unbelievably vast contributions to the roleplaying genre with their new 2021 release, A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games. Over more than 600 (!) pages, an ace crew of gaming critics provides detailed write-ups for hundreds of different games from the last forty years. These include all the installments of the genre’s big daddy franchises such as Final Fantasy, the Tales of games, and the aforementioned Dragon Quest, but also the lesser-known series and countless near-forgotten obscurities. WD_BLACK D30 Game Drive SSD (Western Digital) With screenshots, box art, and chapters that explain the genre’s history and growth-not just in Japan, but with Western gamers-this is a wonderful volume for JRPG fans to take a walk down memory lane and remember their favorites, as well as discover many releases they undoubtedly missed out on.
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