Tsurezure
The Sound You Make on a Game & Watch
Nintendo made the Game & Watch until 1991, long after my own childhood peak. I picked one up again and finally heard it — not music, but the small note...
The Shape Was Made for the Hand, and the Hand S...
A flat controller wears flat — a single smooth spot under the thumb. For years I thought every controller aged that way. Then I understood the PlayStation controller: its strange...
What My Father Refused to Sell
My father's shop was a pawnshop first. Games came later — a friend handed him about fifty cartridges, and he set them on a shelf. It grew into something neither...
The Slime That Stopped Being Frightening
When Yuji Horii built the first Dragon Quest in 1986, he made the hero grow a little stronger with every step. The weakest monster, a single slime, can kill you...
Tsurezure — what this word means
What the Japanese word "tsurezure" means, and why this blog carries the name.
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