Dual Orb 2

Among the 90s SNES games I've been clearing off my backlog is Dual Orb 2, a jrpg made by I'Max and fan-translated by Nightcrawler / Translation Corp.

( A well-translated but badly balanced Final Fantasy clone )

Most of the fan-translated jrpgs left me with a faint feeling of disappointment, that the game wasn't officially localized back in the day and that most people won't get to play it. I don't really have that feeling here--the game is too hard in broken ways, and the plot is too much of a re-tread of the rest of the 16-bit jrpg era without adding anything new.

Twisted Kaiju Biology

Someone put far too much thought and effort into a sci-fi treatise on Kaiju biology, mostly centered around the "rubber-suit" Godzilla films. It's am amusing read that makes about as much sense as most comic book or Star Trek technobabble.