We meet once a week at her house, her kids like playing with my kids, I love talking to adults that understand me and we laugh a lot. A win from every angle!

Trying to get better at blogging again. The writing is good for my English and even though I do not write lengthy personal essays like Gaijinwife I still feel it helps.

I like them as the little cuts at the ends make grabbing big and heavy items much easier.

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I was overjoyed when I saw the original Japanese artwork (the one for PUCKMAN, not the ugly Midway version, but once I started the game I was greeted with the Japanese table graphics.

Artwork as present in the Apple App Store:

But when you start the game it looks like the Japanese cocktail, 2 times instructions and a tiny playfield that a lot of people complained about online:

If it was up to me I would have it like this:

But seeing every reviewer complained about the small size of the play-field maybe something like this would be much better:

Of course the above only works for the die hard PAC-MAN fans who are aware of the much better Japanese PUCKMAN graphics. The rest of the world sadly only know PAC-MAN by the hideous graphics made my Midway games, the American distributor.

Midway USA on the left, Namco Japanese on the right.

UPDATE:

I contacted Namco and explained my concern with the misleading screenshot on the Apple store as those graphics are no where present in the actual game app. received a rude reply on how that was a flyer and not a representation of the actual game.

On the left what it looked like on the webpage, on the right what it really looks like. For some reason I thought, or maybe better hoped, that it would be a plastic shape with Stevo sticking out, sadly it’s just a print.

Guess much better for sticking the phone in my pocket

The quality of the case is very good, snaps real tight and plenty of space around the camera so the case does not interfere with the lens like some cases do.

Love this puppy, loads of metal, fine engineering, recording and still working 99% (small repair in one of the wheels, known problem).

My son refused to wear his facemask when he got some baikinman from school and now me, my wife, my daughter and the grandparents are all sick.

Of course people here wear masks to keep germs out but the other big reason is to keep your germs to yourself, never thought of it that way, makes perfect sense! Only problem for me with my big nose is that the mask does not close so I steam up a lot.

Took some photos but that’s not even 10% of what they have, if anyone is every looking for something rare and would like to get it mint, often in original box, let me know!

Rows and rows of dirt cheap PS2 games.

Nintendo DS

Classic NES and SNES games.

Handheld LCD games.

Wonderswan, NeoGeo Pocket, Gameboy etc

Wonderswan, NeoGeo Pocket, Gameboy etc

Misc boxed games.

Steering wheels, joysticks and proper NEO GEO consoles.

Controllers for pretty much any console.

Stacks of GameCubes, Panasonic 3DO units and some NEC consoles.

Plenty of vintage Nintendo consoles with some boxed, new, never opened Nintendo Gamecubes!

Hinata waiting for his school bus to arrive.

The school bus has a girl opening the door and helping the kids get in. Judging by Hinata’s face he’s LOVING it!

Off they go, is that not the cutest school bus ever?