Category Archives: Video Games

Reviewing a new free and open source reaction game for Android called Click Switch.

A story about EA considering shoving ads into its AAA games led me to remember a time when you could buy an EA game and own it without ads. That gave rise to other memories.

On how I used RetroArch to create a controller configuration for an NES-to-USB adapter and then copied the configuration files into Lutris’ Libretro directory.

An account of setting up an NES 2 controller with my Linux computer using a Mayflash NES-to-USB adapter to play Pokémon Red on an emulator.

If a Pokémon appears in 5% of wild Pokémon encounters, I should expect to see it once every 20 encounters or so. What if I told you that it was more like once in every 118 encounters?

Playing Pokémon Red with the only controller they originally designed it for, a Super Nintendo controller (some context and caveats apply).

I use the 2004 NBA Finals to pin down precisely when I received my copy of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, 20 years ago.

I test whether there are rules for breaking the rules of the tutorial of an underrated classic game, Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy Color.

I filtered all headlines and descriptions containing the word “Palworld” from appearing in my RSS and ATOM feed items. I did not know until April 1, 2024, that I also needed to filter “Pal World.”

Although I do not use my “smart” TV’s operating system and thus cannot buy things from its store, I confidently recommend against buying smart TV games from a smart TV store.

I introduce my Pokémon Prismatic Adventures project, wherein I will play through Pokémon Red, turn my play-through into a novel/strategy guide, and serialize the novel here at The New Leaf Journal.

I recall a creative strategy I used to take down a difficult enemy called the Reaper in Persona 3 FES. Instead of the common approach (using Thunder Reign), I made use of a special move called Infinity.