The Old School Otaku Lounge

Only $8, those were the days

I did like how Dragon's Lair kickstarted a trend with some LD games being anime like Esh's Aurunmilla

Fuck NES Dragon's Lair though

I remember Virual Idol 2000, I think there were a couple more around the early 2000s, tangentially with Namco pushing Reiko Nagase as a virtual race queen

Apparently they have it until the year...2054?

Wow.

Some time ago I bought this Jewel Hunter Lime garage kit from Mandarake. Very beautiful, but the weird thing is I can't find any info on it. The companies on the box are legit but there's nothing on it on Myfigurecollection. Could it be a bootleg? Nevertheless it's a very nice kit, beautiful Atsuko ...

Anyone remember that old "Underwater Ray Romano" meme for Utawarerumono?

That's a neat article zimmerit. It didn't occur to me that it could have been a video game promo. That Macross 3D looks interesting, if only because 3D animation halfway or near the turn of the century is engaging. A couple of days ago someone linked me a couple of tweets from anime writer Masumi Ka...

https://youtu.be/J2BF8v8CCLk One of the first "Wow" things I came across when I started getting into retro anime was that PV of a Creamy Mami/Heavy Metal L-Gaim crossover. Due to whatever circumstance it never came to be and that PV is the only proof of its existence. Now I thought that wa...

Hi there, I'm Phase. I joined up some time ago but I was really nervous about starting a thread until I sucked it up and decided to introduce myself. I'm a younger guy, finding myself really attached to more classic anime, but I'm also pretty new to it all. I'm always aching to learn more and more, ...