Miyamoto-Free Gaming Zone

If gamers wish to reject Nintendo as well as opponents of Nintendo (Sega, Sony, Microsoft) that were praised and respected by Super Mario Bros creator Shigeru Miyamoto, here are some video game platforms that gamers who dislike Shigeru Miyamoto can move to.

Vectrex: A vector display-based video game console that did not have any ports of Nintendo games at all. While the Vectrex is remembered for being a commercial failure, its port of Namco's Pole Position is definitely one of the best games for this platform.

NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine: Need a true 16-Bit alternative to the Nintendo-Sega rivalry? NEC conceived that answer with the TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine. It did not have Mario or Sonic, but it had Bomberman, Pac-Land, Raiden, Splatterhouse, all 4 Valis games, various Bonk games, Cotton, Magical Chase, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, Valkyrie no Densetsu, a couple of Gradius games, Lemmings and and many more. Surprisingly enough, the NEC PC-Engine outsold the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. Ironically enough, Sega released some of their games for the NEC PC-Engine such as Golden Axe, After Burner II, Columns, a couple of Puyo Puyo games, Shinobi, Space Harrier and Bonanza Bros.

Casio Loopy: A console marketed to girls. The Casio Loopy was more like a printer that printed custom stickers, and it predated the Game Boy Printer by 3 years. It's definitely Nintendo-free and Miyamoto-free territory because not a single game that was published by Nintendo, Sega, Sony or Microsoft was officially ported over to the Casio Loopy.

Epoch Super Cassette Vision: The successor to the Epoch Cassette Vision, the Super Cassette Vision had a mediocre game library which included Namco games such as Mappy, Sky Kid and Pole Position II. Unfortunately, this rival of the Famicom ended up being promptly forgotten. At least it was available in France, meaning this console was not Japan-only. And it does not have any ports of Nintendo games or Sega games at all.

Atari Jaguar: Atari's last console is definitely one of the most underrated consoles. Unlike the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Atari 7800, or even the Atari 8-Bit Computers, the Atari Jaguar has absolutely no ports of Nintendo games whatsoever. It has Rayman, Raiden and Doom, and if you like fanservice ladies, you can always go with Thundra from Kasumi Ninja and Volcana from Ultra Vortek.

SNK Neo Geo: The home of the King of Fighters series, the Samurai Shodown series, the Metal Slug series, Waku Waku 7, some Puzzle Bobble games and some Bomberman games. No games from Nintendo or Sega on this arcade cabinet.

Panasonic 3DO: It may have been a commercial failure, but it had some great games such as Gex, Doom, Lemmings, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, a Suchie-Pai game and even SNK's Samurai Shodown. The 3DO, however, lacked ports of games published by Nintendo, Sega or Sony.

TL;DR: If you are a gamer who dislikes Shigeru Miyamoto, these seven video game consoles are among the best options right now, even if all of them are discontinued products.

P.S. The versions of Lemmings and Doom on any of these platforms are from the pre-Sony and pre-Microsoft period.

Thinking of other things other than other ladies 5

Hey folks, I'm back with yet another comic about my OCs in a lawyer-friendly version of the "Thinking about other women" meme.

While not as common as the Apple II's presence in Singapore, the Commodore C64 had moderate success in Singapore's home computer market in the 1980s. This means there is a possibility of Singapore having a community dedicated to the history of the Commodore C64 and its game library, with Jaleco's Rod Land being one of those games. The question is, if Singapore had the C64 port of Rod Land, how rare would that game be in that region?

Speaking of Singapore's home computer market in the 1980s, Japanese home computers were also marketed in Singapore. It's also possible that Singapore had the Sony MSX, the Fujitsu FM-7, and the NEC PC-8000, but they were less common than the Commodore C64.

MapleStory had multiple time-limited crossovers with other franchises, with the Japanese version having the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Crossover Event. Now that it's over, the next crossover event could have SAMG and Nexon come to an agreement to have the Teeniepings from Catch! Teenieping come to MapleStory in another time-limited event, and this event will be in the South Korean version and the Japanese version. After all, the Teenieping series hails from South Korea just like MapleStory.

Many regions where Nintendo consoles are marketed in can only have either the Famicom or the NES. Singapore, however, was one of the few regions where the video game stores had both the Famicom and the NES.

It's unknown if Rod Land's Rit or Princess Crown's Gradriel could survive the realm of Golden Axe. Maybe Golden Axe's brutal setting would be far too much for Rit, but Gradriel would probably end up destroying Death Adder in record time.

PC-FX Appreciation

Fun Fact: The NEC PC-FX appears in the NEC PC-FX game Comic Road, where you can actually purchase an NEC PC-FX console in the game.

The NEC PC-FX has made just one cameo appearance in the PC-FX exclusive title Comic Road. Other than that, the PC-FX did not make any cameos in any of the other PC-FX games. Then again, there are some video game consoles that did not make a cameo in any game at all, especially when it's any Atari console that's not the Atari 2600. No wonder Atari had fallen by the wayside. Even forgotten Japan-only consoles such as the PC-FX could make a cameo appearance in one of its exclusive titles while the Atari Jaguar did not make any cameos in any Atari games at all. Looks like NEC is in a way better than Atari.

Now all we need to do is to identify who now owns the intellectual property rights to Comic Road after NEC officially exited video games altogether...

Overshadowed by Bloodbaths

Author's Note: While 17 July 2024 marks 25 years since the official debut of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants as well as the 125th anniversary of the establishment of iconic Japanese company NEC, there is very little to celebrate because the 10th anniversary of the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 has overshadowed both of these events. Not to mention that Paramount, the owner of Nickelodeon, is in financial turmoil...

There is such a thing as a "Medal of Dishonor". It is an award no one wants to be proud of. The shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, however, is a war crime so bad that it is not even worthy of a Medal of Dishonor. To be fair, though, for some people, being awarded with a Medal of Dishonor is a fate worse than death. Killing 298 people by shooting down a passenger jet with an anti-air missile, however, is a terrible war crime, and is therefore, not worthy of even a Medal of Dishonor. Committing such a heinous war crime is definitely far more disgraceful than receiving a Medal of Dishonor for stupid actions by a massive distance.

Console and Computer Equality

Let's face it. All of these consoles and computers featured in this comic would have moderate success in Singapore if not for the video game prohibition of 1983 that saw arcades banned for several years. Part of the prohibition included Singapore Broadcasting Corporation banning any telecast of video game commercials whatsoever. Even educational games such as Oregon Trail and Basic Math/Fun With Numbers were also affected by the prohibition.

While video game consoles and home computers were not banned by the prohibition, the period of that prohibition greatly affected the Commodore C64 and the Colecovision, and these two gaming machines were more popular than some of these consoles and computers featured in this comic. Sometimes, we just cannot have nice things, all because we had to protect our morals.