Fabio Friday

The folks over at 1up.com posted a feature about Electronic Gaming Monthly's best and worst covers earlier today. Unsurprisingly, the following Fabio-centric cover was deemed one of the magazine's lesser efforts.

Thankfully, EGM's third issue wasn't a complete wash. After all, it included articles about two intriguing-but-ill-fated systems: The Atari Lynx and the Konix Multisystem.

Read: "The Best/Worst EGM Magazine Covers"

It's that time of month again...

No, it's not that time of month, silly; it's the time of the month where I obsess over a game--or, more likely, a system--I wish I owned.

Which piece of gaming equipment is the object of my obsession this month? The PC Engine.

Sadly, this isn't the first time I've spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about NEC's little white wonder; in fact, I've  done it a number of times since I first became aware of the pocket-sized system in the late 1980s.

This is one of the best photos of a PC Engine I could find on line.

How exactly am I obsessing about the PC Engine? Oh, reading reviews of its games (TheBrothersDuomazov.com is current fave), searching for images of the system and its games on Flickr--that kind of (bat-shit crazy) thing.

Ironically, I bought a PC Engine CoreGrafx II and a slew of games on eBay a few years ago--only to turn around and sell the whole shebang when my husband and I moved to Seattle. It's just as well, I guess, since I've always preferred--and, as a result, wanted--the alabaster original.

See also: 'I hereby declare March 15 Hug Your PC Engine (or TurboGrafx-16) Day'

Mario: 'Are you Mr. Gay?' Luigi: 'Yes I am. Are you?'

NeoGAFfer "lijik" shared the following in-the-works sketch in the popular gaming forum's main Super Mario Galaxy 2 thread this morning.

OK, so the way Luigi is leering at Mario in the last panel is a bit creepy. Still, I like the artist's style. (I'm especially enamored with Mario's hands and feet, for some strange reason.)

You had me at 'spiritual successor to Half-Minute Hero'

Although I've only played the demos of Half-Minute Hero that I downloaded from the PlayStation Store shortly after I purchased my PSP a few months ago, they were enough to assure me that I'd love the full experience.

As such, I'm sure I'd love Jikan de Phantasia too. After all, it's being made by the same folks--at Opus Studio--responsible for Half-Minute Hero. Also, it's being billed as a "spiritual successor" to that MMV-published title.

According to someone in the know (OK, it's just a NeoGAFfer), Jikan de Phantasia, which will hit the streets in Japan on July 8, is supposed to be the perfect RPG for the on-the-go gamer, as a full game session--including events, dungeons and boss battles--is generated based on the amount of time a player has to devote to it.

For more information (and images), check out this NeoGAF thread or this Famitsu.com article.

Betty White called; she wants her N64 back.

OK, so the N64 in the following image isn't Betty White's. In reality, it belongs to blogger James Wragg's girlfriend.

Wragg bought, painted and presented the system to his girlfriend as an anniversary gift earlier this year.

Although Wragg calls the Cath Kidston-inspired design "a travesty to mankind everywhere," I beg to differ. Kind of.

(Via kotaku.com)