Ziggyny's Game Emporium

I've been doing some poking around on the Speed Demos Archive and Speed Runs Live ever since the Awesome Games Done Quick marathon and...

Last night saw the conclusion of my Final Fantasy IV game. I cleared out most of the final dungeon (I don't know of any paths I skipped ...

Yesterday I finally pulled off my first death in this playthrough of Final Fantasy IV. I remember Bahamut being a real jerk and having to co...

A couple months ago I started on a bit of a Final Fantasy music binge. I'd search YouTube for random playlists of music from the games a...

One to be born from a dragon hoisting the light and the dark arises high up in the sky to the still land. Veiling the moon with the ...

I can remember having real trouble with both the Land of the Summoned Monsters and the Sylph Cave in previous playthroughs of Final Fantasy ...

One of the things I noticed when I was reading about bugs in Final Fantasy IV was how many bugs revolved around a weapon I'd never used....

Final Fantasy IV was the first RPG I'd ever played. I can remember renting it from Midnight Video over and over again without completing...

Final Fantasy IV brought with it a brilliant innovation in terms of how and when characters got to take actions. In the previous games every...

One of the interesting things I've been learning as I've been playing through the Final Fantasy games is just how many weird bugs ex...

I can remember playing Final Fantasy IV as a kid and having real troubles with the boss fights in Castle Baron. After you break in via the s...

My brother commented on yesterday's post about the 'infinite' victory Game Genie code and said that the thing he most remembered...

My brother had a Gamie Genie for the SNES when we were kids. It came with a book of codes you could enter to modify how games worked. Infini...

Often in a console RPG the bad guys will have a chance to finish off the player characters. Obviously they never do (or the game would end) ...

One of the NPCs in Final Fantasy IV is a fellow with a jaunty hat named Namingway. He's a bit of a stalker in that he appears in prett...

I'd been debating in my head which version of Final Fantasy IV to play when the time came and had not yet made a decision. Last night I ...

Looking ahead to the next step in the marathon we have my all time favourite game: Final Fantasy IV. There have been many different versions...