Year: 2011
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The original Star Ocean was undoubtedly one of the last great 16-bit RPGs to be released on the Super Famicom. The Star Ocean cartridge was engineered to include a S-DD1 chip, which was used to decompress graphics on the fly, allowing for the cartridge to contain more than the maximum 48 megabits. Sadly, by the time the game came…
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One of the main reasons I started The Epic Backlog blog way back in early 2009 was to motivate myself to play through some of the video games I had missed out on, as well as to finally finish some of the ones I had started but left idle. Since then, I’ve been able to…
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Most of the games that I play are games that have been sitting on my shelf for months (and in some cases… years) before I get around to playing them. I tend to excuse this behavior by telling myself that it’s a good idea to let my games age just a little bit before I…