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A crop of the arcade cabinet artwork for Jr. Pac-Man as a cartoon illustration of the round boy with a helicopter beanie painting his own name on a sign while a ghost crushes on him from behind the sign.

A Personal Account of Jr. Pac-Man, the GOAT Maze Chase Game

By Jed Pressgrove • April 12th, 2023

Jr. Pac-Man has shown me what a maze chase should be – and reminded me of game history’s countless unexplored corners.

A cropped view of an illustration titled Connoisseurs of Prints by John Sloan, where an art gallery is full of onlookers dressed sharply with top hats and monocles with some very serious discussion of the artwork going on

Reviews Vs. Advertising: A Response to IGN’s Dan Stapleton

By Jed Pressgrove • March 7th, 2023

We live in a world where numbers carry weight. Why not use them as part of a commitment to genuine, divergent opinions?

Far Cry 5’s Paranoid Right Wing Fantasy

By Jed Pressgrove • April 6th, 2018

Far Cry 5 is clearly a right-wing fantasy that uses an extreme religious cult to mock the American left.

Link stands, back to the camera and intensely small, in teh bottom right of a large open world as pictured in the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Conformity in an Open World

By Jed Pressgrove • September 20th, 2017

Modern open-world games—known for their nonlinear structure, sizable environments, and seemingly limitless tasks and things—might fulfill a human need for enjoyment, but they also ask for a commitment to gluttony.

Letters from the Rapture

By Reid McCarter and Jed Pressgrove • September 29th, 2015

“Do you think the failure to engage with Rapture as a work regarding spirituality is borne of fear? Or intellectual laziness?”

Publicity Trepidation

By Jed Pressgrove • June 17th, 2015

A dissenting opinion on the value of Silent Hills‘ PT.

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