Kamek no longer tells Mario to "go to hell" in the Simplified Chinese script of the Switch version of Super Mario Galaxy 1+2. The Switch translation is more literal to the Japanese script, where Kamek tells Mario to roll on the ground instead.

You can only get Mimic with Cheese in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince as part of a promotion with McDonald's in Japan, and it ended over a year ago, what a bummer.

Months after playing The Caligula Effect 2 I'm still thinking about this car (the only car in the game) that doesn't fit in this too-shallow, too-wide garage whose door, if visible, would be angled, and which requires the driver to drive over a curb.

Even this far into the project I'm finding new Konami games. Like Etiquette Teddy, a Tamagotchi-like handheld game that checked how your breath smelled and a bear would become depressed if your breath smelled bad.

Bomberpino was a Bomberman game that was available by scanning a QR code in special boxes of Pino chocolates in 2023. Many sources describe this is a "mobile phone" game. You were given an error message if you tried to access it outside of a phone or tablet, but it seemed to run on a webpage.

Games named "Dance Dance Revolution": 1998 - Arcade original 1999 - PS1 2001 - i-appli (maybe has subtitle?) 2002 - PC, US only 2006 - Mobile Phone 2010 - Wii 2010 - PS3/Xbox 360, apparently different from the Wii version 2013 - Another arcade game 2014 - Updated version of the 2013 game

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch and Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch - Pichi Pichi Party are two distinct Game Boy Advance games that came out the later part of 2003. One a rhythm game, one a Mario Party type board game.

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Many hours into pasting spreadsheet cells into bulleted lists I have realized that instead of a "developed by Konami" list and a largely identical "published by Konami" list, I should have a "developed and published" list, and then two small lists for the few games that were one or the other.

Fewer than 2,000 people have this many achievement points in Guild Wars 2. Before SpriteCell I was a prolific editor of the Guild Wars 1 and 2 wikis. Can't wait for Visions of Eternity.

I’ve finished the data collecting and statistic generating parts of my next project. I’m going to try something new and announce what it is before it’s written. Every Konami Game - every release of every Konami developed or published game, year by year, for each of the three big regions.

The insistence that this is a "Premium Value Product" makes me suspicious about the value of this product.

It's a bit weird that Fandom's 500 error page is Pokémon branded, isn't it? This was not on a wiki that was related to Pokémon. Did they pay a licensing fee for this?

The Suikoden I & II remasters are called "Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars" on PS4, PS5, Steam, Xbox One, and Xbox Series. On Switch 2 they are officially named "Suikoden I & II HD Remaster for Nintendo Switch 2 Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars".

How long do you think it will take for there to be a Switch 2 game that allows you to control a mouse with the mouse? It will definitely happen at some point.

I've been looking through Kingdom Hearts reviews from magazines since I'm playing it for (essentially) the first time. Of the 15 reviews I have on SpriteCell 11 complain about the camera, but one review said it was good. Seven reviews say it is a difficult game, while two found it easy (I agree).

There was someone, possibly working for a magazine, who wrote an MMORPG column through the 90s until right before World of Warcraft launched in late 2004. I believe I read them on a site that was unaffiliated with the original home. I'd like to read them again but can't find them.

The headline says fans are just now finding out how Mario got his name and are stunned, the article cites a *2015* interview, and the actual truth is that this story was known for decades before *that*.

Kit Ellis, who used to work at Namco Bandai Games America, says he ghostwrote the Game Developer magazine history of Pac-Man credited to Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani in 2005.

The amount of hours I've wasted because a guide/FAQ mixed up east and west...it's in the double digits over my lifetime.

Disappointed to see that, for the first time, ChatGPT is the number one referrer to SpriteCell.

Hudson Soft's American publishing arm, Hudson Entertainment, was seemingly left to its own devices, making games like Charlene's Beachside Solitaire and selling hip-hop ringtones. It's funny seeing "Hudson" credited with things like this in places while the Japanese side made cutesy Bonk games.

GameFAQs has a 1968 board game. (It also doesn't have dozens of mobile games released in the last 10 years I'm trying to find information on)

Is there any resource that allows you to see the release date and release countries of applications released in the App Store and Google Play? Both current and delisted, and I'm not interested in downloading anything.

Shigeru Miyamoto says Kazuhiko Hachiya (new outside director of Nintendo) engages in unconventional activities, like researching video games.

There's an IP that vandalized several Wikipedia pages in 2018 relating to my next project. Several of the edits survived until I fixed them just now.

You can sort every game on GameFAQ's games by difficulty. Some of these aren't very sincere, but Sburb isn't even real, it's a game that is central to the webcomic Homestuck. It's been on GameFAQs for eight years and has guides and Q&As, all playing along pretending it's a real game.

The founder of Metacritic considers the weights publications get to only effect the final score by a point or two, which is fairly in line with the differences between Metacritic and OpenCiritc scores I've seen. Maybe I should analyze the differences sometime. www.gamesindustry.biz/metacritic-c...

English Wikipedia infoboxes for video games aren't supposed to list Japanese release dates unless the game was made in Japan. Pretty much every "list of games for [system]" uses only NA, EU, and JP releases dates, because those are the three biggest markets and they are well documented.

Two Miyamoto interviews and eight JRPG reviews extracted from Games Business today.

An interview from all the way back in 1982 about making the game Kick. content.time.com/time/subscri...

If you try to look up who made the PlayStation version of Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever with Me, many places online list “Stone Heads” as the developers, despite Parodius being a Konami series that they seem to always make themselves.

Dance Dance Revolution: Winnie the Pooh

The United Nations World Food Programme published a game in 2005 where you buy and distribute food to the fictional country Sheylan.

Yes, my next project will include games hosted on the NABU Network, a Canadian computer system that connected directly to a cable TV network (if I understand this correctly) from 1982 to 1985, that I am learning about just now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NABU_Ne...

The next project, the former "procrastination project", is underway. It will stretch from 1977 to the present day and won't be quite like anything else I have made. I also need to find somewhere else to advertise the survey because I only got 2 responses.

When you announce a 42 day delay of a movie that's 2 years away it's because you want to release during a more advantageous time frame, and not because you know the movie is going to eventually take 42 more days to make, right?

Please take this poll comparing how various websites handle video game genres. I've put six of the biggest and most active game databases against each other by comparing what genre they consider 17 different games to be. forms.gle/WrcnzEJsvcFz...

Please take this poll comparing how various websites handle video game genres. I've put six of the biggest and most active game databases against each other by comparing what genre they consider 17 different games to be. forms.gle/WrcnzEJsvcFz...

Few consoles release in June but it's not the rarest month. (These dates are all from Wikipedia. There are many ways to decide which console releases count, this is merely one of them.)

Few consoles release in June but it's not the rarest month. (These dates are all from Wikipedia. There are many ways to decide which console releases count, this is merely one of them.)

I looked at every Game Awards to see what kinds of games were most likely to win and then constructed an elaborate scoring system to try to predict the winners this year once the nominees are announced. spritecell.com/mp8-the-game...

I wish I wasn't so allergic to chat rooms because the handful of video game history discord channels I know about have a lot of great people in them talking about interesting things.

I've been working on the graphs for the next project, so I'm almost done. This one will be more updated and more relevant in November and December. After that I want to poll people about something. Then I can start the "procrastination project" that I got excited about while working on this project.

Shigeru Miyamoto has mentioned rolling around at a park in three interviews, twice he specifically says "roll around and hang out".

The Xenoblade wiki has a page detailing how hundreds of proper nouns are pronounced with IPA symbols as well as detailing voice actor's accents. It's been almost entirely written by one person, Gilgameshkun, since 2012. xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/English...

I kept seeing people say that Final Fantasy XI still needed PS2 devkits to make new content, despite no longer being playable on PS2 for many years. The FF wiki claims it too, with no source. Well, here it is. It sounds like they scrounged dozens of devkits from around the world.

Some sports games name themselves after the year they are released, some name themselves for the year after. Here's a chart of how each yearly sports series does it.

Which would you rather have? An asymmetric controller that you play one-handed and hold at arm's length or a controller with three analog sticks and the face buttons are in a line along the top?