As a kid, I didn’t have any 16-bit consoles, and at best, my experience with
them was restricted to playing them for a short while when hanging out with my
family’s old friends and their kids. Out of the games I got to experience that
way, I played Sonic 1 and 2, Columns, Tom & Jerry: Frantic Antics and
other games, but not any of the Streets of Rage games. Instead, the first time
I discovered this games was when I discovered emulators.
Note to self: if your distro’s repositories don’t have a Perl package, it’s best
to install them from CPAN instead. A tool called cpan minus (In Alpine, its
packaged as perl-app-cpanminus) can do it easily, either installing packages
into one’s home directory or globally.
One of my big interests is things relating to riichi mahjong (リーチ麻雀): a
variant of the Chinese tabletop game “mahjong” invented in Japan. It’s a rather
complicated, but fun game where the players take turns picking and discarding
tiles (which function similar to cards in a game like poker) in order to build a
winning hand.
I have a bunch of FreeType settings that I prefer on my systems, and
these differ from the defaults on basically every Linux distro these days.
2026 update: This is a rather old post, made back when the monitors I used
were pretty low-resolution, and saving every pixel of space seemed like a good
idea. These days, high-DPI monitors are more common, and the old settings I
preferred look absolutely terrible on these.