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Elizabeth Sandifer

Elizabeth Sandifer created Eruditorum Press. She’s not really sure why she did that, and she apologizes for the inconvenience. She currently writes Last War in Albion, a history of the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. She used to write TARDIS Eruditorum, a history of Britain told through the lens of a ropey sci-fi series. She also wrote Neoreaction a Basilisk, writes comics these days, and has ADHD so will probably just randomly write some other shit sooner or later. Support Elizabeth on Patreon.

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  1. Kiki Basco
    October 24, 2016 @ 9:53 am

    I was on board with this article until you dissed Volt Catfish. It’s a literal electric catfish, which I only learned was a thing after playing multiple video games where catfish randomly (or so I thought) had electric powers.

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  2. Kiki Basco
    October 24, 2016 @ 10:01 am

    Oh, and just adding to the points with actual (as opposed to secret) historical fact: Rockman and Forte wasn’t even reskinned; the graphics look pretty because the graphical assets (including two of the bosses) were taken directly from Megaman 8 on the PS1.

    I’m actually curious how you feel about MM9, which is arguably the best Megaman game despite coming out in 2008.

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  3. Frezno
    October 24, 2016 @ 12:46 pm

    Our emulation experiences mostly line up, although mine was time-shifted about two years to discover ROMs and emulation in 1999 or so. My first memory of emulating the SNES is doing so with friends at a public access site, each of us playing Rockman and Forte from a shared folder. The savestates one of us made saved to that folder, so everyone could load them (or have theirs rewritten.) I recall being the one to beat Burner Man.

    Oh yeah, and X3 kind of blows. Synth grunge isn’t my style, and it crows itself into a collectathon of sorts with all the useless chips and ride armors and whatnot.

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  4. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
    October 28, 2016 @ 1:36 am

    This blog is starting to feel like a secret history of my own life…I went to CTY in Hamilton College, I went to the Danbury Mall as a kid, I loved MMX…

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