A case display for "The Indie Game Moment," including the box for "Cave Story" on the 3DS.

A wall display for "Women Behind the Worlds."

A closeup of the game Hotel Dusk for the Nintendo DS.

I was really happy to see Cave Story and Hotel Dusk there. Both games left an impression on me.

Sign for the Japanese Indie Games exhibit on the wall.

A case display with titles from "The Era of Homemade Games."

A case display with games and plushes from "The Age of Freeware."

A case display with titles and plushes from "The Rise of Doujin Games."

There's a temporary Japanese Indie Games exhibit up at the Strong National Museum of Play.

Nah, weeding is healthy.

NYC gets Mamdani AND Godzilla??? Stay winning New York.

The expressive flexibility of Unmatched is really fun. Designs like Shakespeare's deck make me pretty eager to try whatever they put out for it.

Madrino and Madrino 2 in a standing organizer labeled, "Returned Games."

A dry erase board from Madrino with smiley faces drawn onto the appliance icons.

A smudged dry erase board from Madrino being cleaned.

Cleaned dry erase boards from Madrino.

Sometimes processing board game returns at the library means cleaning dry erase boards. 😅

The kids at last week's program loved Madrino. I was worried it would be too complex/random, but they really enjoyed designing and explaining their own floors. It was borrowed immediately.

Box cover for the card game Pride of Ninja

Cards from the Blue deck in Pride of Ninja

Cards from the Red deck in Pride of Ninja.

A game of Pride of Ninja in progress with the Red deck.

Finally got Pride of Ninja to the table. Card drafting with a front/back row dynamic for effects. Comes with 2 decks, and we enjoyed both but Red was definitely more thinky with some risky strats for scoring. Love the artwork and card resolution post-draft.

The box cover for the card game, "New Record! Continue?" with a smiling arcade cabinet.

A game of "New Record! Continue?" in progress.

Colorful arcade cabinet cards and a "Record Holder!" victory token.

Really enjoyed our first play of New Record!➡️Continue? The theme is very well applied and I learned about community notes (communal journal?).

Trade paperbacks of Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men.

Catching up on Marvel, ty public libraries.

Three comic books released today, including Assorted Crisis Events, Absolute Wonder Woman, and Absolute Martian Manhunter.

Haven't been this jazzed for new comic book days since middle school, when I went from reading Secret Wars and Strange Tales out of boxes in my cousin's old room to following then current runs of Avengers. It's so nice to be excited about monthly releases again, especially when they feel so timely.

Was skeptical I'd dig Bleeding Hearts but I should've known not to doubt Camp's writing.

I'll get this question when I demo, and in that context I can at least flip it back to them by asking what kind of games they like and go from there. But the same weirdness is there of implying I should give them preferences when I'm there for every title the publisher has. . .

A green package of comic books with two strips of green tape that say, "The Green Room."

A print of Absolute Martian Manhunter and John Jones.

A comic issue cover for Profane #1, with the profile of a red haired woman and a man with a pistol pictured where her face would be. Signed by Javier Rodriguez.

An alternate cover by Artgerm for Zatana: Bring Down the House #1, signed by Javier Rodriguez.

A green martian from The Green Room! Stoked with these Absolute Martian Manhunter prints, and really impressed by their care with the signed blind bags.

A hand of cards from The Third Man.

Setup for Ghost Lift.

A game of Bested Another Time in progress.

A hand of bat cards from Bested Another Time.

New year, new games.

Cards with animals in colorful hats for the board game Petiquette.

Two players using one finger each to suspend a small wooden drone with gifts atop it in the board game Pick N' Packers.

A precarious stack of miniature gifts atop the edge of a wooden drone platform in the board game Pick N' Packers.

Both Petiquette and Pick N' Packers are great for the holidays because they are fun to watch and ESPECIALLY listen to.

"How could you NOT play a duck in a red hat?!"

"Why would you stack the truck like THAT?"

"We need to go HERE, why aren't you pushing?!" "I AM!"

Someone trying to balance a miniature wooden chicken wing onto a miniature grill in the game Barbecubes.

An ice rink board with different colored bells and a player about to slide a metal ring under them in the board game Snowp.

The colorful board for the game Magical Athlete.

Two number cards from the game Flip 7 and some wooden ghost point tokens.

Barbecubes was a pleasant surprise. Very simple dexterity game that makes good use of the tin as a mini grill.

I LOVED Snowp. The scoring rules make the final shots of each round exciting as players plead for others to not eliminate their color.

A small pouch designed to look like an onigiri.

A small pouch designed to look like an onigiri, opened to reveal plastic baggies of wooden ghost tokens.

A table with drink glasses, board games, and an onigiri pouch with ghost tokens.

Ghost token onigiri.

The board games Catte, Bestes Another Time, Snowp, and Tir Na Nog in a backpack.

Games for Secret Santa

A pile of new Japanese board games.

It's that wonderful time of year again. Tokyo Game Market games arrived in time for holiday meetups!

Scared me that the library Hoopla was ending 😅

YAAAASSSSS MUSUBI!!!!

But also I'm very surprised to hear staff gave you that assurance.

Comic panel of Absolute Batman in Absolute Wonder Woman.

Comic panel of Absolute Wonder Woman holding a massive sword in Absolute Batman.

Idk if I'm more excited to see Hayden Sherman's take on Absolute Batman or Nick Dragotta's take on Absolute Wonder Woman's sword.

The lineup was really strong this year. Grats on the quick sellouts!

A panel from the comic book "Ultimates: 2 Years In" feature a translucent Ultron with red eyes.

A panel from Earth X featuring Aaron, or Machine Man, with a translucent body and red eyes.

"Ultimate Universe: 2 Years In" immediately endearing me to Ultron with the throwback to Aaron/Machine Man in Earth X.

The Krang, Michelangelo, and Donatello miniatures from Unmatched: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the game board.

The Unmatched: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board game in the middle of the Krang scenario.

Three of Michelangelo's cards from the board game Unmatched.

A toppled Krang miniature surrounded by ninja turtles and an April O'Neil card that won the game.

Unmatched: TMNT was a homerun. The Krang co-op scenario presents a lot of challenges from different directions, but the board synergies with Krang's cards make it stand above the previous Adventures box. Love that the turtles work well together for co-op but stand out individual for competitive.

Living my best "cartoon character wardrobe" life at these events.

Kenji running a demo of the board game Petiquette at the Oink Games booth.

Always a pleasure at the Oink booth. Petiquette was REALLY fun to demo and it was great to see Subtropical Japan get a wider release as Tropichaos.

The acute displeasure of realizing you purchased a box of decaffeinated black tea by accident.

A large teddy bear meeple with a robed skeleton looming behind it.

Spooky.

Cat Sudoku!