Ziggyny's Game Emporium

In the second NES installment I'll go over games I mostly discovered during the time I owned an NES, which was in University and was 14 ...

{Found this post in my draft folder and figured better really late than never, right?} Monsters follow very precise rules for how they act...

Commander Data sent the number 3 through space and time to break a time loop and save the USS Enterprise from perpetual destruction. It took...

I made it down to Chaos with this configuration. (I forgot I couldn't actually leave the dungeon so I gained the 50th level inside. It w...

This is actually a word that begins with a bloody S! I am talking, of course, about SABRE! I picked the item up that allows me to cast this ...

Welcome to Ziggyny's Coding Emporium. Today we're going to be discussing pointers using the random encounter system of the video gam...

It took 8 tries last night but I finally killed Lich. He killed me 4 times and his trash killed me 3 times but the 8th time I got him. The c...

My intention was to try to beat the game as just a thief if it was at all plausible and only upgrade to a ninja if I felt it was going to be...

Before I'd decided to run the solo thief I'd actually started a game up with a normal sized party. I used a party based on the webco...

I did a lot of digging yesterday (ok, I googled "how much health does Lich have in Final Fantasy Origins" and clicked each link un...

I leveled up to 28 and made it to Lich. He has 400 health according to every FAQ I've been able to find. I'm sure I did well over 50...

I don't have a whole lot of time to play on Wednesday and Thursday (sleep, work, and raiding all get in the way) so I haven't gotten...

There have been some comments about how a single fighter is probably better than most parties and a single thief is abysmal. I don't dis...

Last night was a long, tedious, but ultimately productive night. I loaded up at level 22 and plowed my way to level 25. At 24 I wandered aro...

All information summarized here was provided by this very in-depth FAQ . It turns out the original Final Fantasy on the NES had a plethora o...

I made it to level 20 yesterday and decided to give the wizards another shot. My first encounter was with three wizards and I managed to kil...

This is an age old debate that takes place amongst World of Warcraft tanks. Would you rather take less damage per swing or would you rather ...

I managed to take Garland down without much trouble, but then ran into the problem that the random encounters in the next area were all hard...

In the original Final Fantasy there is only one way to get bonus stats: to level up. You can level at most 49 times, and can gain at most 1 ...

First up will be the original Final Fantasy, though I will be playing the Playstation version since my NES doesn't work and frankly I l...