Entry 07

lol this entire era of politics has proven to me that rules are indeed fake

"Oh yeah Bomberman Jetters. That anime where they copied the SEINFELD Theme." ...the what......THE WHAT?

"𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗖 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗠"!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA Source: www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/Lqg...

I used to work for a company called GameTap, we were probably the first "Netflix for games," started around 2006. It didn't go well. I used to think the idea was ahead of its time, and maybe it was, but I also think times have changed and this no longer makes sense. 🧵

Quick -- what was the last Super FX game? Yoshi's Island? Nope -- it's Winter Gold, released on the late date of November 28, 1996, after the N64 was released. This falls into a very unique, exclusive category of games -- First-party Nintendo software ONLY released in Europe. Are there more? 🧵

Check the credits and you can see that this was actually a project of Nintendo of America -- many NOA peeps including Ken Lobb were credited with production and design, with Funcom handling external development. This was surely intended to be released in the US. www.mobygames.com/game/11280/w...

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

No lyrics today. Just love & light to all my LGBTQ friends, fans, and loved ones. <3 I'm sorry about the state of our country.

I put my entire ass into it when I talk at GDC and I'm so glad it resonates with people! Thank you to everyone who was there and submitted feedback. I hope they put this on YouTube so I can share it!

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(solemnly) You've had mail.

1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

Today I'm releasing an early prototype of Nintendo's "Joy Mech Fight" (FC), from over a year before its release! This build, then named "Battle Battle League" (FDS), was created for the 1992 Nintendo-Dentsu Game Seminar. Links are below! hiddenpalace.org/Battle_Battl...

Just in from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

This is why crediting people for their work is so important in video games.

It’s fucked that Takashi Tateishi didn’t even know it was a beloved, super popular piece of game music until like last decade

I've read this interview before, rly wholesome tbh 🥺 in my case, I'm pretty sure a few of the ringtone composers I've connected with had no idea their work lived on and was still being enjoyed, too. those arent even credited, but if theres a will theres a way

crazy that anyone would buy a windows product key in this day and age. you can literally google for product keys and they work immediately for install and then activate with massgrave far faster and easier than windows itself can

Oh look white men declaring genocide going on murder sprees. Wonder if anyone has spent the day talking about that.

Takashi Iizuka has reiterated that he has no interest in remaking the Sonic Adventure Games. #SonicNews Full story below (credit to @bluevivacity.bsky.social for the thumbnail, felt too perfect to not use, hope you don't mind): www.sonicstadium.org/articles/son...

Wicked, selfish, and immoral. People like this should be shot at on-site. www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

Now’s a good time to take a look at that humble bundle backlog you’ve amassed over the years and step back from the frenzy that is post covid video game production

Over half of Japanese game companies are using AI in development according to a new survey, including Level-5 and Capcom www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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...folks we have bad news We're missing one more issue. Volume 5, Issue 6, March 2005. Our nightmare never ends

Guess who will save the princess this time!!

Mega Man Legends

The demo version of Mario Kart: Double Dash contains an unused Game Over screen. Notably, the smoke graphics used here are humorously called "smork" internally. It is unknown if this is a legitimate misspelling of "smoke" or if the word was deliberately spelled in a funny way.

In Super Mario 64, there is a 1/256 chance of a fish spawning when Mario jumps out of water anywhere. However, during development, the fish were instead restricted to a single spot in Whomp's Fortress, which spawned them continuously in the form of a bountiful fountain of fish.

In Super Mario RPG, the Guerrilla enemy is a "knock-off" of Donkey Kong. This is referenced in a unique way by its Japanese name, which replaces two of its characters with similar ones as though on a bootleg product logo. In English, this could be conveyed as e.g. "Donkev Konq".

If you are in the US military, this is your reminder that it is illegal to follow an unlawful order.

Lammy Blows It

Take this Jimmy Kimmel energy. Apply it to everything. And we will win.

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

got the covid and flu vaccines. woo hoo

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. Thank you, Joe Biden. apnews.com/article/amaz...

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

they're gonna mint an 88¢ coin just for him. god what a stupid country

In Yoshi's Island, a "tongue overflow" glitch exists whereby Yoshi's tongue is able to fly away and begin gaining infinite length, overwriting the game's memory. The tongue-based corruption can have any number of effects, including skipping to the credits and ending the game.

Capcom if you're doing all this Mega Man Cross Media shit and don't have an actual Mega Man game somewhere I'm gonna get mad I'm giving you rope until your NYCC panel but you're on notice

RT to piss off and confound anyone with basic knowledge of video game history, then reply to me to explain what it is they were trying to actually convey here