Sunday, October 27, 2024

Mid Term Long Form Assignment.

I liked games until I started living alone. The games I liked were the Momotaro Dentetsu series. It's called "Momo-Tetsu" for short. Momo-Tetsu is a timeless classic game released for the Family Computer in 1988. The player becomes the president of a railroad company and travels around real stations all over Japan in a sugoroku style, buying properties at each station and competing for the largest total assets. Momo-Tetsu is a sugoroku game for up to four players.


At the start of the game, the destination is determined by a roulette, so you roll the dice to reach your destination. When you arrive at your destination, you will receive money as a "subsidy," so you can buy "properties" in various places to increase your assets, and the properties are not just food, but also a wide range of facilities such as mining, agriculture, and forestry. There are various reasons why Momo-Tetsu is popular, including the fact that it was the first in the series to introduce online battles, it is a title that looks good on gameplay commentary, information about it spread mainly on YouTube, and it has been a long-running staple game. Furthermore, the demand for games has increased as people spend their time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic! I am one of those people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I used to play games with my sister almost every day. 


However, I don't like games very much now. The reason is that I liked games because my sister invited me to play them, and I started to like them too. Now that I live alone, I don't have the opportunity to play games with my sister, and with my part-time job and university, I don't have the time to play games. However, when I went back to my parents' house, I wanted to play games with my sister again!!!

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

October 22, 2024 - Halloween is Coming!!

 The Halloween event "TOKYO DOME CITY HALLOWEEN" will be held at Tokyo Dome City for two days, October 26th and 27th, 2024.There are many events where the whole family can make autumn memories, such as Strider test rides for children and a Halloween parade, as well as photo spots decorated with Halloween pumpkins and workshops for making Halloween decorations using pumpkins. I often go to Tokyo Dome to see my favorite idols perform, so I want to go to this Halloween event as well.

I'm not as interested in Halloween as I am in summer festivals or Christmas, but I do like eating sweet potatoes and sweets sold at this time of year. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of caramel-flavored foods in the fall and winter.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

October 15, 2024 - Funny Apartment Names!

 I live in an apartment called Elegance Kawagoe. Why elegance? My apartment has no elegance at all. English is used in a way that you don't really understand, like in the video. I think the reason why fake English is used instead of Japanese is simply to make it easier to remember. It is more memorable and easier to remember when written in katakana English than when written in kanji.

January 7, 2025 - Final Assignment!

 I think the first video is a very useful YouTube video for foreign tourists and Japanese people traveling. I think the traditional Japanese...