{"id":13553,"date":"2023-12-09T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2023-12-09T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:06:33","slug":"robotmans-cheap-classic-jrpg-calendar-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13553","title":{"rendered":"Robotman\u2019s Cheap Classic JRPG Calendar 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s calendar time again.\u00a0 And this is for me to put on my wall in a more respectable way than one with robot porn on it.<\/p>\n<p>So far in my calendars, I&#8217;ve done all the major game consoles, home computers, and even some peripherals like controllers.\u00a0 I need a new calendar this coming year, and I&#8217;m pretty much out of classic consoles and computers.\u00a0 I really scraped the bottom of the barrel with some of them anyway, so now it&#8217;s time to change gear.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, I&#8217;ll be looking at the box art from some of my favourite JPRPs that I&#8217;ve played.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I mentioned<\/a> how I&#8217;ve been playing many games of that genre recently, so why not.\u00a0 The games in this showcase are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Questron (Commodore 64)<\/li>\n<li>Dragon Warrier (AKA Dragon Quest, Nintendo Entertainment System)<\/li>\n<li>Phantasy Star (Sega Master System)<\/li>\n<li>Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD)<\/li>\n<li>Vay (Sega CD)<\/li>\n<li>Phantasy Star IV (Sega Genesis)<\/li>\n<li>Lunar: Eternal Blue (Sega CD)<\/li>\n<li>Grandia (PlayStation)<\/li>\n<li>Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (PlayStation)<\/li>\n<li>Grandia II (Dreamcast)<\/li>\n<li>Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia (PlayStation 2)<\/li>\n<li>Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier (Nintendo DS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That first one isn&#8217;t a JRPG, but it&#8217;s an Ultima clone, and computer games like Ultima inspired the whole genre of JRPGs back in the 80s.\u00a0 So there.<\/p>\n<p>This calendar isn&#8217;t really special or meaningful to anyone but me, but I do recommend playing all the games on that list.<\/p>\n<p>Download the calendar here for free if you want it:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cheap-Classic-JRPG-Calendar-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robotman\u2019s Cheap Classic JRPG Calendar 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s calendar time again.\u00a0 And this is for me to put on my wall in a more respectable way than one with robot porn on it. So far in my calendars, I&#8217;ve done all the major game consoles, home computers, and even some peripherals like controllers.\u00a0 I need a new calendar this coming year, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[537,624],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-calendar","tag-jrpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13556,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions\/13556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}