John Ricciardi
@johntv
ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。
Yeah I’m not tired of it at all, I just have a bunch of other stuff I want to play and also I was getting a bit -too- hooked. Decided to clear floor 100 and all the super spicy stuff and then give it a rest for a bit. I still have one title to go but…maybe another time……
Happy World International 8-4 Day! We applaud Nintendo in choosing to release two previously unreleased Virtual Boy games today in honor of this momentous occasion. But if you’d rather kick it old(er)-school, why not revisit the OG that inspired it all?
Splatoon Raiders was great. Still have some post-game stuff to do but man overall, felt like classic S-tier Nintendo stuff. More of this, please
Yeah! ❤️ Another scrappy young go-getter who spent his early days kicking around the CompuServe forums was none other than @geoffkeighley.bsky.social
Don’t forget the hit sequel, featuring some of the earliest published work of @markmacdo.bsky.social and Lee Saito, among others
Haven’t gotten any new amiibo in a spell but today’s were a must (welcome, Spirhalite-style Deep Cut!)
Raiders commercials been dropping as of late, little under two weeks to go~
A little frightening to think N64 dropped 30 years ago today but man that was an incredible summer thanks to Mario 64. Got my import system a couple days after launch and never looked back. PS and SS were starting to find their groove too, just remember it being an amazing time
Firin’ up ye olde Splatoon to see what the story mode was like and the incredible, unbearable slowness of Wii U is driving me insane
I order stuff from amazon USA like five times a year and I swear three of them show up damaged
Switch 2 after one year: I love it. It’s by far my most played platform - anything that I know will run smooth on Switch 2, I’ll play on Switch 2. Otherwise it’s PS5 Pro. Between the two, I feel like we’re covered pretty well!
Happy 40th anniversary, Famitsu! The issue that drops today has a whopping 400+ pages including lots of congratulatory msgs from various game devs and pubs. If you look closely you might even find us in there… 👀 @famitsu.com @weeklyfamitsu.bsky.social
40 years ago today the landscape changed permanently. Happy birthday, Dragon Quest 🐲⚔️
Lovely time at BitSummit as always, thanks to everyone who said hi or spent some time, and sorry to anyone I missed! Crazy to think it’s been 13 years since this thing started in a little hall with 170 of us… Now it’s what, 50,000+ attendees? Still my favorite event of the year ❤️
Taking a moment to appreciate this oversized mouse pad Square Enix put out a few years back, still the best mouse pad in the history of mouse pads
Found it. Atsushi Asada. Thank you ascii article from 2001 ascii.jp/elem/000/000...
Wrapped up Pied Piper after a three-day marathon. It felt good stepping back into this world after being away from it for so long - the characters and storytelling have always been on another level, and PP was no different. Maybe I’ll revisit the main trilogy someday once my backlog clears up a bit…