Sorry, I'm wasn't trying to be a dick when I came up with the headline above. The fact is, though, I haven't been all that inter...

In a perfect world, this post would include 27 ways to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the PC Engine's Japanese launch day, which occu...

I actually have a lot to say about the wacky TV spot that can be enjoyed below (and here ), but all of it was rather eloquently summed up by...

Now that I've seen it, I'd really like to know how TV viewers at the time received it. Did they consider it corny or cheesy, as most...

If I told you Square Enix just released a minute-long TV commercial for  Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call that features only 14 seco...

While writing up this blog post earlier in the week, I came across the following commercial for the Japanese release of Grasshopper Manufa...

The folks at Sony recently prepped a special TV commercial to celebrate the fact that Japanese sales of their crazy-survival-action-game-sta...

No, I'm not talking about Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or even Serena Williams. I'm talking about the peerless--and o...

True story: I've never played Hudson's oft-criticized, PC Engine-based fighter,  China Warrior (known as  The Kung Fu in Japan). ...

Super Mario 3D Land will hit the streets in the Land of the Rising Sun in just a few weeks (on Nov. 3, to be exact). As such, Nintendo'...

I've rarely met a Japanese gaming commercial I didn't like. Retro ones, especially. I think it's because so many of them are equ...

As I'm sure you could tell as soon as you visited today, this is once again an ad-free blog. I promised when I added Google AdSense to...

You've just got to love this "classic" Game & Watch commercial. I mean, it features the Mary-oh brothers (I've alway...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will hit store shelves around North America in just a few days--on June 19, to be exact (pre-order ...

The first of four posts written by yours truly has been published over at Tiny Cartridge. ( Here's a direct link to it .) It's a q...

Probably not, but it couldn’t have hurt. The folks at NEC (or TTI) would have had to redo the commercial’s song, though, since I can’t m...

When I first saw the following commercial--which seemingly is being used to promote the Move-enabled PS3 version of Top Spin 4 --I thought i...

Actually, I can't imagine enjoying a Lady Gaga version of the following ad even half as much as I enjoy the current, Kylie-fronted itera...

This rather epic, if a bit corny, commercial was used to promote Shigesato Itoi's Mother (aka EarthBound Zero ) prior to its Japanese r...

That's assuming, of course, this Mistwalker-developed RPG is released in North America at some point. Even if it is (and, sadly, that...