index on p. 253, introduction p. 252

circa 350 early console video games, based on GameCenter CX’s chronology
segments, mainly Nintendo Famicom, secondarily Disk System; first year of
the Game Boy included.

Origins of GCCX’s format

we examine multiple “crap games” or kusoge, in particular their representation in popular media,
and challenge the notion, culminating in what we call a “counter-theory of kusoge” : these video games, we argue,
are in fact the opposite of bad games, but their taboo themes – either of worker revolts or flawed heroes – have
earned them an undue p…[Read more]

Mixed manga and anime notes

(see initial description)

volume 2 of the manga. [end of the PC-98]

(see the prev. description)

Various news from October

GCCX : Castlevania Rondo of Blood

in the following, the novel but unusual step of creating scientific
tools for a manga was attempted in light of the work’s importance as an
autobiography and visual document of an understudied subject – i.e., the
world of eroge.

“an entire scholarly market of “modern”, or even “contemporary”
histories of Japan exist in a strange place where Nintendo and the other
Japanese video game companies never existed or mattered…”

GCCX : Dragon Slayer IV

GCCX : ‘Kung-Fu Heroes’

GCCX : “Takeshi’s Challenge” (challenge part)

GCCX : Hakone trip (‘Hot Springs Game Travelogue’)

GCCX continuation : Koei cont.

GCCX cont. : Koei

GCCX cont. : Konami continued

GGCX cont. : Konami