Mollie L Patterson
@mollipen.bsky.social
Writer, designer, podcaster, militant redhead, retro tech/SNK/Mega Drive fangirl, mom to twins. As seen in GameFan, Play, EGM, etc. Co-author of The EGM Compendium. Once known as shidoshi. And yes, I made that Persona website. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇦🔵 mollielpatterson.com
I fell down a fucking weird rabbit hole. Random video suggested on YT. A Japanese guy whose family moved to America talking about the differences between the two countries. Plenty of other videos out there like that. I'm half-watching while doing other work, but something starts feeling off.
In the latest Generic Video Game Podcast, @24bitaje.bsky.social and I talk about my recent trip to Japan, the joys of still shopping for physical games, and some of your messages. Subscribe or download below! #podcasts
A Generic Video Game Podcast About Shopping in Japan in 2026
A perhaps-ly named conversation about video games between Anthony Ernst and Mollie L Patterson. :: Episode 068:: We mostly talk about Mollie’s most recent trip […]
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After years of sitting in the garage unopened, Nintendo Labo day has finally arrived!
✨ I've launched an archive for some old website projects—and I'm excited to announce the return of GameFan's long-lost AnimeFan Online site! Both its launch design, and the version that existed until GF's end, are up for you to check out! Relive a lost era of anime at archive.morningproject.com
In an "old people using computers" moment, I have now learned that you cannot, in fact, gift people the Fortnite battle pass with vbucks after buying vbucks to gift my daughters the new battle pass. 😩
Finding deals on Facebook has felt miserable lately, until today when I randomly found someone selling off his old “Saga” games for $5 each. No super bangers, and they were almost all missing manuals, but a few pick-ups I was curious about.
Everyone misunderstood my example, so let's try again. I have a new project "FAKE NAME". (I don't want to say the real name yet.) I wanted fakename.com but it's taken. I was picking between fakename.site or .online, wanted .online, but now gone fake-name.com is available. Is the dash offensive?
I am not expecting much from this, but anyone out there an IP lawyer, or know one? I'm trying to get something figured out, and just want some quick guidance from one on if trying to hire an IP lawyer would be the right direction to go in or not.
It's unfair that I missed the era of working at EGM when I could have been photographed and then photoshopped to look like I was lounging around on a giant console.
Kids will never understand how sacred token order was.
Hi! Do you: * Own a Sega Genesis or Mega Drive that is easily accessible? * Know for sure what revision its internal board is? If so, please DM me! I need help testing something, and it'll take you 30 seconds or less if you've got the console(s) itself handy.
Oh Japan, I miss your beverage choices so much. Every day, I could pick something different and exciting. Every day, my mouth could enjoy a flavor nothing like the one it’d had the day before. And my beloved melon soda. 😩 America may be free, but our drink isles never will be.
Have a lot of unexpected thoughts about game shopping in Japan that I'll put into a blog later, but for now, Mollie's 2026 Japan Pick-ups! All prices US $1 = ¥160. First up: Issue 88 of Continue (which is now back in print) focused on Dreamcast for $11.25, and a used Apple HomePod Mini for $42.50.
I’ve now learned that JPN -> CAN -> USA is a hell of a lot easier than JPN -> USA in terms of immigration.
Man, KIX is just tax/duty free shopping hell now. I miss what the airport used to be.
I have, after all these years, learned the opposite of the gaijin seat: when you’re sitting on a train, and OTHER gaijin come sit next to you, and it makes you, a gaijin, nervous. 😅
There’s an 8 (or so) year old girl here playing Taiko no Tastijin on the hardest charts, with her own drumsticks, playing BOTH DRUMS AT ONCE, and every accomplishment I’ve made in video games now feels like nothing.
Gachapon to commemorate the physical releases of classic Sony games on PlayStation. palpatineironic.gif
I bought my dream Mega Drive game today. $150. 😅 (Not Battlemania II. I can’t even dream of buying that.)
Somehow, @24bitaje.bsky.social and I have now done a show for three months in a row! This time, we focus in on the death of physical media. Subscribe or download below! radio.morningproject.com/archives/1059
Cannot believe I’m saying this, but… are we going to hit 170?
*You go to work at EGM2, excited for you job* You: Hey boss! What games do I get to play today? Boss: Actually... we need you to make a few flags for a layout.
Anyone I follow know any HARDCORE Pokemon TCG people I could ask a few questions to? I'm trying to get a proper read on a few cards I have that have been very hard to get a real picture of due to rarity.
Anthony and I are going to do a shorter podcast episode tonight about Sony's physical games announcement. If you want to send over your thoughts for us to read, send me a DM here or email gvgp@morningproject.com.
Some fun excerpts from the EGM2 issue I'm working on.
