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My recent Examiner articles

Since restarting my writing attempts as a Santa Ana Fashion Examiner (I’m not actually that close to there), I’ve managed to squeeze out 8 articles in the past 30 days, 7 of these being in this month alone. My Labor Day post was surprisingly popular and put me near the top for a few days among other Examiners in the various categories I’m in. I’ve managed to focus more on local events and brands…

For his second Throwback Thursday offering today, Randall Malus takes a look at offensive stereotypes in video games. Fun! #PacMan #MarioBros #NinjaGaiden #MegaMan #TBT

The story that starts this second Throwback Thursday Examiner.com article is 100% true.  At the time, I thought the guy was insane for placing Italians above…well, above every other “minority” currently competing in the Oppression Olympics.  Little has changed over the last ten years (fourteen or fifteen if I consider the time since I truly attended that lecture). I won’t even attempt to comment…

For today's first Throwback Thursday post, Randall Malus helps you find classic games in Cleveland ten years ago. #classicgaming #videogames #halfpricebooks #retrogames

This first Throwback Thursday entry, another article written for Examiner.com, came about after I received an email (a form email sent to all writers, not a personalized email indicating that anyone on staff had any actual notion or knowledge of my work) mentioning that I might get more readers if I did something with a bit of a local flavor.  It was to be sort of a beginner’s guide to the city…

Gobble some balls with Namco’s Pac-Man

As you can no doubt tell by the sophomoric title, this article marks the exact point at which I stopped fully caring about what Examiner.com wanted (as what they wanted didn’t pay anyway), and started to do whatever it was I felt like doing. Oddly, people seemed to like it. Originally published at Examiner.com on July 22, 2009. Namco originally wanted to call the game Puck-Man, but wisely…

This Week in Wii: Sega’s Fantasy Zone 2 comes to the Virtual Console

This article was the first piece I’d written for Examiner.com, and was thus my “audition” piece. As a writer, I find I have two speeds: “Me” and “not me.” That is to say, I either insert a great deal of my voice into my work, or I write as a talking head who might as well be anyone. This is an example of the latter, by design. Just the facts, ma’am (or sir). As the title suggests, the article…

The Examiner Articles: Introduction

Here’s a rant I wrote for my Malus ‘N’ Mayhem blog about four years ago, when I found out that a former “employer” of mine decided to delete some of my articles because…well, actually, it’s explained in the rant below. Originally published 09/19/2015 WARNING: INCOMING RANT So, back in 2009, I became the local Retro Gaming Examiner for Examiner.com, a news site populated by up-and-coming…

For his second Throwback Thursday offering today, Randall Malus takes a look at offensive stereotypes in video games. Fun! #PacMan #MarioBros #NinjaGaiden #MegaMan #TBT

The story that starts this second Throwback Thursday Examiner.com article is 100% true.  At the time, I thought the guy was insane for placing Italians above…well, above every other “minority” currently competing in the Oppression Olympics.  Little has changed over the last ten years (fourteen or fifteen if I consider the time since I truly attended that lecture).

I won’t even attempt to…

For today's first Throwback Thursday post, Randall Malus helps you find classic games in Cleveland ten years ago. #classicgaming #videogames #halfpricebooks #retrogames

This first Throwback Thursday entry, another article written for Examiner.com, came about after I received an email (a form email sent to all writers, not a personalized email indicating that anyone on staff had any actual notion or knowledge of my work) mentioning that I might get more readers if I did something with a bit of a local flavor.  It was to be sort of a beginner’s guide to the city…