About Shinkansen Retrogamer
Shinkansen Retrogamer is a blog that reviews video games and anime from the past so that people can revisit their childhoods, including the things they missed as children and teenagers. It also covers video games and anime not released outside Japan, including the anime series that left the North American airwaves. Think Fox Kids (later Fox Box, then 4Kids TV), Jetix, and Kids’ WB! (in the case of Canada, Teletoon (now Cartoon Network Canada), YTV, and TVOkids, or in the case of the UK, CBBC or in the case of Australia, ABC Kids — not to be confused with the American ABC).
Shinkansen Retrogamer (formerly Shinkansen Retrogaming) was inaugurated on Medium in late 2018, after The Cube, a publication on Medium, was shuttered. In mid-2021, the retrogaming blog started reviewing anime from the past, including anime series that were not aired on American airwaves. We want people to revisit their childhood and have the new generation watch the shows.
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About the hobby writer
Cory Roberts, better known by his pen name Samurai Cory, is an American illustrator and manga artist born in 1990. He draws Y2K clothing and big sneakers and spends most of his time creating artwork and manga.
He never had any formal education in art, but was entirely self-taught, and his passion for drawing was evident from watching anime from the mid-to-late 1990s to the Y2K as a child to reading how-to-draw manga books since he was a teenager. He is also producing the upcoming webcomic series, Shibuya Brawlers.
In his spare time, he runs this retro gaming and anime newsletter on Substack. You can see him in his ultra-baggy tank top, ultra-baggy JNCO jeans (or alternatively ultra-baggy jorts), and oversized sneakers.
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All images, GIFs, and magazine scans posted on this Substack newsletter appear under the banner of fair use (even when edited/cropped) as supplemental material to support retro gaming and anime, with the exceptions of pictures from Unsplash, Pixabay, Wikimedia Commons, Pexels, and the hobby writer’s own photos (CC BY 4) taken from his iPhone 15 (except for the image in the “About” page) that are either CC-BY-SA, CC-BY or the Unsplash/Pixabay/Pexels license — which will always include credits to the original photographers). All materials used in this Substack newsletter are the copyright of the respective rights holders. Shinkansen Retrogamer does not tend to infringe copyrights and does not promote misinformation, homophobia, white supremacy, or anti-Semitism. It also does not use AI-generated tools or images.
Frequent sources of cover and magazine scans are MobyGames, Sega Retro, Sonic Retro, The Arcade Flyer Archive, Puyo Nexus, MiniTokyo, Zerochan, and the Internet Archive. Frequent texts and sources are from the Japanese and the English Wikipedia.
Shinkansen Retrogamer does not violate the personality rights of the individuals since this retro gaming/retro anime newsletter on Substack is run by one person and is not a commercial site. If you are concerned about your personality rights in the image(s), please email the hobby writer below with the post(s), and he will either remove the photo or blur/pixelate your face(s)/information.
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Where to find the hobby writer
Follow Cory on Bluesky (@samuraicory.bsky.social), on Instagram/Threads (@mrsamuraicory), on Facebook (@samuraicoryart), on Behance (/samuraicory), on ArtStation (/samuraicory), and on YouTube (@samuraicory).
For inquiries, art commissions, or just to say hello, reach me at coryrobertsintokyo@gmail.com.
