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Nihon-gin #1: Ki No Tea

I recently traveled to Japan with a mission. Well, several missions, actually, some of which were work-related. But one of those missions was to sample as many Japan-made gins as possible. Ever since the country debuted its very first native distillation two or three years ago, craft gin has kind of exploded over there. It’s a drop in the rocks glass compared to Japan’s extensive history of…

Reminder: You should come see us talk live at Midwest Gaming Classic

Yes, that’s right: Next weekend (April 8, to be precise) Bob and I will be setting up camp at Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee to present our first live Retronauts panel of the year. Last year, we waxed eloquent about the Sega Master System with the help of some SEGA experts; this time around, we’ve rounded up two local Splatterhouse experts in order to talk about, yes, Splatterhouse. Caitlin…

A drink fit for a queen

Since my visit to France last fall, I’ve become interested in aperitifs, a category of liquor I’d never really dwelt on before. I was surprised to discover the French don’t really seem to do a lot of cocktails over there, preferring instead to drink their whiskey and gin straight (when they even bother with gin). They also do likewise with all the liqueurs we Americans normally blend into…

Le Gin de Christian Drouin: Calvados barrel-rested gin

I seem to travel a lot these days, and I’ve begun to make a point of picking up a bottle of gin when I journey out of town. Not some random mass-market gin, mind you, but a bottle of something available only locally whenever possible. Whatever you may personally think of gin, I’ve found there’s no other liquor that more effectively expresses the unique profile of a region. The French call it…

Gintendo Stream #41: Game Boy’s 30th anniversary

This is not my finest work ever, since I progressively shifted to harder and harder games, but it was a good time regardless.

Games played in this stream: Super Mario Land, Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Kid Dracula, Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge, Tobu Tobu Girl — the latter of which currently has a Kickstarter runningfor a…

Yes, Zelda is this week’s big topic. That and Switch, but at the moment most people only care about Switch because of Zelda. Sadly, though, Nintendo won’t let us stream the new one, so in lieu of Breath of the Wild I will instead be streaming the Zelda that will serve as a subject for this week’s Retronauts recording marathon: Link’s Awakening. (I was going to stream Power Blade today, but we’ll…

I will once again be taking to the virtual airwaves this afternoon for another Gintendo livestream, this time at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT). I’ll be playing another pick-up from my trip to Japan, generously donated to the cause by Eric Klein of Kyde and Eric. It’s a little thing called “SameGame.” That’s sah-meh gah-meh, not same game. I discovered SameGame the same way I did Puzzle Bobble: By way of…