Chris Kohler's discussions

Yes: Anyone in the world can become a member. https://www.gamepres.org/en/support/ Read more

Yeah, and weirdly if Setsuna didn’t have a manual, I wouldn’t have been inspired to comment on this, even though in that case the discrepancy would have been even larger. The fact that it actually did have a little tiny single-sheet manual was what got me thinking about it. Read more

Thank you so much! Also, nice recursive photo, hopefully someone can take a pic of them holding the book in front of that photo, and so on. Anyway, very nice of you to say. Glad you liked it. Read more

Correct - the game’s entire plot is dissected within the book, so finish it up first if you’re concerned about that! Read more

It’s definitely a landmark game in that way for a lot of people - it was the game that forced so many people to cross the Rubicon and start importing, and later, to start translating their own games. Read more

Correct. The rest are blank so you can write down passwords. Read more

The box is the rarest and most expensive part of that set, though, since it was never sold brand new - the box was only ever set out on the shelves at Blockbuster Video when the game was for rental. Read more

Who knows if anyone will ever read this, but here is a magazine story I just saw on a poster about the explosion in popularity of Salty Bread.

More of a dinner roll that happens to be in a crescent shape. There’s a huge air pocket inside too, meaning the ratio of buttered, salted, crunchy outside to chewy inside is quite high, making it even more edible as a junk food snack versus just eating a piece of bread. It’s incredible. Read more

I used to live in the same house as the guy at the beginning of this video. Read more

Fixed, thank you! Read more

This is a good comment. Read more

Fixed, thank you! Read more

Or this water gun I saw in Daiso...

À chacun son goût. Read more

It does have that, yes! Read more

If you watch towards the end of the video, you can see the Nintendo developer documents that EGM almost surely got its hands on to write this piece, as all the info in here is from there. Read more

Yeah, I wrote that article! ^_-

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These, like the EVR games mentioned in the story, used film clips played via a standard projector, and thus wouldn’t be considered “video games” in the way we understand the term. Read more

Yes—the original story misstated this. It’s been fixed. Thanks! Read more