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With a release of an actual, official, real life Pokémon pinball game announced in February to celebrate 30 years of this franchise , I thought of this game made by Tiger in the 90s. I don't know how I first discovered it, maybe through a YouTube video, but I went and purchased one through Mercari because I wanted my own Pokémon Pinball at home and that it looks cooler. The first time I tried purchasing it, an eBay seller never shipped it out to me, so I had to get a refund. It was my first negative experience with eBay.  And yes, I am aware of the Pokémon Pinball GBC and GBA games and those are pretty cool than this, but if you want a physical real life Pokémon pinball game, this is the closest thing you can get. Or if you're having trouble finding that new Pokémon pinball machine in real life (if your game store or whatever place doesn't have it), then try this. Previously, I reviewed a DBZ Pinball game , now this time, I will be reviewing a Pokémon themed-pinball game ...

Like my portfolio and official SaGia website , this one is also made by Weebly. I call it: Kira Kira Nostalgia Show. This site will have a blog portion talking about various nostalgic stuff, as well as various stage shows (sometimes).   I’ve started this website since Saturday night, and it’s still a work-in-progress. But, I’m loving with how the site turned out.  The inspiration behind the site would be me reviewing vintage and obscure stuff mostly on my Blogspot blog and archiving manuals over at the Internet Archive, which I started on 4/9. Previously, I was originally going to archive some manuals over at a website called ManualsLib, but the moderators are mean and rejected my submissions, so I chose to move to the Internet Archive after deleting my account over at ManualsLib. Another problem with that site is that it’s full of ads and has a negative reputation over at Trustpilot.  I was nervous uploading some stuff and preserving it over at the archive since pe...

So, short post.  Back in 2022, I made a post talking about a lost stage show based on original Dragon Ball. Man, that was 4 years ago. Well, sadly, the show still hasn't been found. Also, images I shared of that post are starting to get hard to find on Google... thank goodness I saved those images, because when I searched the exact same thing (キャラクターショー1987), I couldn't find the image I shared in that post anymore. Maybe it also has to do with Twitter (I'm not calling it X) changing a lot and images being scarce to find. In that post, I shared someone in a Bulma outfit. While reverse image searching last night, I found a thumbnail of someone with the same Bulma head, but not the outfit that she wears. I click on it, and it takes me to a Dailymotion video showing off the studio that did the AB Groupe dub (known as "the Big Green dub").   Also at the end of that video, Nozawa (Japanese seiyuu of Goku) makes an appearance, dubbing over a scene with the French voice o...

Back in 2022, I made a post about memes and in a paragraph, I mentioned that I stopping caring about modern memes. And boy, I'm glad I still stopped caring. I remember when memes used to be image macros or reaction images or object labeling memes. I was there when the LazyTown memes were big (We Are Number One!). Does Vine even count? Cory in the House became the greatest anime. Heck, memes introduced me to the late and great Chuck Norris (not just the memes, but a website I used to be on called Scratch when I found this game about him). I also used to watch meme compilations or people react to them. And now?  "Ha, ha, six [censored/redacted]even". Family Guy clips. Subway Surfers on the bottom of a video. AI. A lot of the memes nowadays on Know Your Meme, which was my source for learning about certain memes I didn't understand, come from TikTok, which I despise. And what's so funny about that dang number? I don't get it. And I don't want to know what it ...

Yuup, I was interviewed for the third time about my indie comic, SaGia!  From my Instagram: "Thanks to @4talespodcast for yesterday’s interview about my #indiecomic SaGia! Out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.  Name corrections in the interview: Drakens not Drakons Lain not Lane"

Another DBZ MGA product, huh? Previously (on Dragon Ball Z, lol), I took a look at the obscure Battleship knockoff which has never been documented online that much: Dragon Ball Z: Battle Strategy Game - Frieza Saga Edition. Something about the words "Frieza Saga Edition" suggests they were planning another version (possibly based on the Cell/Androids arc), but never happened. It's a fun game and check out my review on that. I want to add on in my review of that game: when I first got it at my doorstep and opened the game box, it reeked of a cigarette smell. I can’t stand those types of smells, so, I looked on Google for some help, used some dryer sheets, putting some inside the three boxes: one box holds the game, one box holds the pieces inside, and the other stores the two boxes and the figures which are in plastic - the front of the box displays the figures using a plastic window.  While that worked for two days, after I took out the sheets, the dryer sheet smell was s...

Edited in: CapCut Animated in: Procreate (not Procreate Dreams) How did I achieve the "retro" feel? A software called ntsc-rs. The audio sounding like it came out of a VHS? I used Audacity to do it, following a tutorial I found on YouTube on how to achieve the "VHS camcorder" sound. I also made a version with narration, but backed out of sharing it online. I'll make that version exclusive to the official SaGia blog sometime when the series celebrates its anniversary. As for the HD version of the ad, I will share on the series' second anniversary. Disclosure: Music is artificially generated. The reason I had to do this is because one, I don't know how to compose music, and two, I tried reaching out online to see if a real human composer would help me. No one really seemed to care and it barely got any interaction, so my only option was to sadly generate music using A-eye… I'm not putting out what website I used. https://wimbearn.neocities.org  |  lin...