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Depends on the severity of the offense. Don’t wait for Nazis to specifically start Nazi-ing in your community, kick 'em out ASAP. Anything less than that though, probably let it slide.

If you’re in the US, Round 1 is a Japanese chain that expanded into the States a while back, and they brought a lot of imported stuff with them. Still a lot of gambling too, but keep walking until you find the section where they keep the good stuff.

You can also check Zenius-i-vanisher, a community-maintained database of what games are at what arcades. If you’re looking for a specific game, they may know a place. Just note that info on there may not always be up to date, double check when an arcade’s entry was last updated.

Glitch from the original Pokemon Red/Blue.

NES: Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!

GB: Pokemon Red

SNES: Panel de Pon

GBC: Mario Tennis

N64: Paper Mario

GBA: Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django

GameCube: Kirby Air Ride

DS: The World Ends With You

Wii: Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

3DS: Kid Icarus Uprising

Wii U: Hyrule Warriors

Switch: Puyo Puyo Champions

Linux: Skullgirls

Android: Simon Tatham’s Puzzles

Arcade: Vampire Savior

I don’t want to try to pick out a least favorite for every single platform. But I’ll name just the two games I detest most: Puyo Puyo Tetris and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, because I blame them for killing the IP today.

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Pretty good! Was about to say it reminds of Mamono Sweeper, then I saw the shoutout on the win screen.

This game ran at 60fps on the Wii, and now it’s running at 30fps on Switch. What are we doing?

The problem I have with it isn’t the feed, it’s the ownership.

Bluesky isn’t much better.

These days I mostly just grind the same handful of games. Actually having a hard time pulling myself away long enough to get through the JRPGs on my backlog…

• Skullgirls
• Them’s Fightin’ Herds
• Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]
• Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul, Riichi City, IRL)
• Slay the Spire
• Puyo Puyo Champions
• Panel de Pon

It’s been years since I finished CrossCode, but I just cannot stop thinking about the characters and world. I won’t spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t experienced it yet, please go play this game it’s on sale right now and make sure you get the epilogue DLC, but Lea holds a special place in my heart for what an emotionally compelling protagonist she is.

I can’t think of any other games where slowdown is a necessary mechanic.

It’s quite common in retro shmups, particularly bullet hells putting way too many sprites onscreen. Designers were always aware of it and intentionally balanced the difficulty around it, and some later games even include artificial slowdown just to preserve that feel.

I recently got hooked on Twinkle Star Sprites, a Neo Geo versus shmup. Chaining enemies on your screen sends attacks to the opponent’s screen. Those attacks can be bounced back, and reversing a reversal can create special attacks or even a boss summon. There’s a lot going on and it’s tragic that no spiritual successor ever tried to recreate this formula.

It did get a JP-only PS2 sequel, but it looks to just be largely the same game, just with a different cast of characters and the lovely spritework replaced with a much worse low poly 3D.