Distant Arcade

Distant Arcade is a gaming blog where we discuss video games from the past, present, and future with a focus on just writing about whatever’s on our mind. With that in mind, you won’t find breaking news or anything like that here, just solid writing about games that we all love and, in some cases, truly hate.

TIL: The Legend of Zelda series used samples from 90s sample CDs

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Gronya explores Dragon Quest’s “daddy issues”

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Happy 30th, Tekken!

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Who does Sony expect to buy all their expensive PlayStation 5 products?

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Build your own Nintendo PlayStation. Kinda.

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Won’t you Come See My Hole?

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DuckStation creator threatens to pull the plug on the project if harassed after making licence changes

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A 90s jungle mix from the 32-bit era

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Every Pokémon that Wolfe Glick has won a tournament with

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Vircon32: a new emulated take on the classic 32-bit era

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A SEGA sign outside Gatwick Airport’s arcade

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A terrible Smeargle thought

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f4mi on the PlayStation Broadband Navigator (PSBBN)

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The frenetic art of Kawaguchi Yoohei aka kawayoo

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A portable PS4 by Francesco Tempra

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HeavynSent on gaming in 1998

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Gronya plays Dragon Quest XI the hard way

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Fabien Sanglard on the Super Nintendo’s video system

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Happy 35th birthday (in North America), Sega Genesis!

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Was the PS1 era the ‘golden age’ of JRPGs?

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Crosspost with LOGiCFACE about PS3 clusters

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Game preservation made harder by capitalism

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Zac Builds built his own Nintendo Switch OLED and it was hard

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Shout out to VideoGameVotary on collecting every Nintendo Wii game from North America

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Nestani’s SDGQ speedrun of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

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Analogue dropped a new line of Analogue Pockets made of aluminium

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Johnstone’s quest to complete the Pokémon Crystal Pokédex

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Sean Seanson’s epic 6+ hour review of every Capcom game on the PS1

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Beck Abney just set a new world record in Mario Kart 64 150cc All Cups (with skips)

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Kuroda Kyousuke’s top 20 Game Boy Advance games

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Pokémate: that time Square Enix made a Pokémon mobile app

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What’s in a SNES cartridge?

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HeavynSent on the ‘charming aesthetic of Namco games’

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I’m reliving my PlayStation era and expanding it

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Here’s swordsmankirby’s speedrun of Virtual Boy Wario Land in 24:01

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Here’s an ACE speedrun of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals that took just 195 seconds

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Poke Transporter GB: another way to trade Gen I/II Pokémon to Gen III

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Slimes galore at Yokohama’s Dragon Quest Carnival

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Digital Foundry tested every Sega 32X game

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Happy birthday, SEGA SG-1000 and Nintendo Famicom!

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Donkey Kong and the names he could have had

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Gronya’s Dragon Quest tier list

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Nathan Grayson on the Switch going out swinging

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Peanut Butter the Dog speedruns Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB

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Happy birthday, Nights into Dreams!

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A collection of Knxwledge’s VGM samples

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TIL: Final Fantasy Tactics was meant to be an RTS game

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The Gamer’s 10 most historically important JRPGs

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Jamar Ramos on one of his favourite games, Chrono Trigger

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I’m sorry to tell you but upscaled pixel shaders look crap

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Your world will never be the same with the Genesis!

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