This year, almost for Japanese and Chinese, is the year of the Rat. My asian horoscope sign is exactly the rat. As far as my Japanese friends tell me I should to have a lucky year and so I decided to make some online shopping: I will buy a special "Rat" edition Tamiya Mini4WD from Hobby Link Japan and I will preorder Nights for PS2 (Nightopia Dream Pack version) from Play Asia just to be able to partecipate to the Lucky Draw that they will held till February 29th (since I'm a Rat I'm supposed to be a lucky otaku this year!!).

At the Nuremberg Toy Fair I spotted this beautiful Lego Indiana Jones diorama (OK I know I'm not a great photographer).

Our Japanese otaku idol photographer friend Julie has posted about a really cool retrogame called DON JOUAN. This videogame appears to be the very first dating sim produced in the west (way before my old friend Peter Payne started the localization of Japanese bishoujo games for the western markets).
DON JOUAN runs on the old Oric 1 microcomputer  and if you got a flashcard for your DS you can play it on the new DSORIC emulator!
It seems a really cool way to celebrate San Valentine for all retrogamers out there (and remember: with hentai games you don't even need to spend money on a date with your girlfriend)! Happy Valentine day and don't eat to much chocolate!!


Note: In the last few days Julie (aka Amano Ai) has been busy working as a model at the Osaka Automesse and as a Race Queen in several races so she couldn't update her Besidegames page ans slipped to number two spot in the Besidegames Highscore ranking so, as a San Valentine virtual present to our lovely idol photographer,  we should help her go back to number one trough clicking the score buttons in all the posts on her blog as many times as we can!