An unused review for Zero Tolerance (Mega Drive)

I've been writing for the video game website Hardcore Gaming 101 under the accidental pseudonym of Apollo Chungus for nearly five years now. I've written over 50 articles for the site, some of which have been published in books such as NES Cult Classics and The Guide To Retro Indie Games Vol. 2. One of my earliest articles even inspired a fan translation, for the obscure puzzle adventure game Noobow on the Game Boy.

I'm lucky to say that I've never had problems writing for the website in all that time. However, there is one article I wrote which can't go on the website. Not for any bad reasons, don't worry.

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An opening post

Hullo there.

My name is Jim McGrath, though if you're reading this, chances are you know me better as either FrDougal9000 from the Cartoon Milk blog or Apollo Chungus from Hardcore Gaming 101.

I've written plenty of things over the years, and sometimes I end up writing things that I never fully complete, ideas that don't have an outlet, ramblings, or articles that can't be used for the above websites. So I thought I'd create a place for these things to exist, outside of my head and perhaps for someone to find, maybe look at and possibly(?) think "well, this is quite interesting".

I'm awful at trying to hype myself up, mainly because I don't want to be the sort of egotistical ponce who thinks anything I say is automatically interesting because I'm the person saying so it's therefore interesting.  I believe all opinions and thoughts are compelling in some way, detached from whoever they come from, and I hope that whatever I write on here will be at least be enough to make the reader think... Well, just to make them think at all would be enough, to be honest.

I hope that you might be one of those people. But I guess we'll see.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day.

-Jim/Dougal/Apollo

(26th March 2022, listening to - Unforgettable, arranged and performed by Tomoyuki Asakawa: