I got ratatouilled for a while but the rat was not good at anything? Just a total fuckup. No skills

"APX picked up DragonQuest in their last full quarter...Then Atari went belly up. According to their accounting department, they never sold any copies, or at least they never sent me any of my promised royalties." - www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo... anyway here's a copy I just found!

happy Buckingham Nicks Day to those who celebrate www.rhino.com/aod/buckingh...

I reposted a bunch of games I typed up from books and magazines today. This one is special though. It is literally 11 lines of BASIC code and it is addictively fun. It was created by 田垣勝久. The people who create these are amazing and I feel honored to be able to bring their games to life for others.

"I should get that movie The Red Turtle, and then never watch it" - a thought I have apparently acted on twice so far

Are you pitching a major mainstream outlet (think TIME, CNN, NBC, etc) about NES 40th anniversary coverage? Get in touch. ONE PR is working once again with @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social director (and the best Nintendo historian!) Frank Cifaldi and organizing limited interview opportunities.

doing some research and figured id reach out to the sky - im looking for games journalists, freelance or otherwise, who absolutely love exploring upcoming indie titles!!

We're hiring a Technical Artist! If you are an artist, and technical, come work with us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/digitaleclip...

I am reading Elton John's autobiography and I just got to the reveal that he had sex for the first time in, I swear this is true, the Hotel Miyako (now Kabuki) in Japantown. I just feel like there should be a little plaque.

This passed almost entirely without notice, but the 1978 arcade game Block Fever was preserved for the first time and added to MAME. This was Nintendo's second arcade video game, and as far as I can tell the only Nintendo game that had not previously been preserved www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWr...

Can't believe he's making people play Umamusume.

This passed almost entirely without notice, but the 1978 arcade game Block Fever was preserved for the first time and added to MAME. This was Nintendo's second arcade video game, and as far as I can tell the only Nintendo game that had not previously been preserved www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWr...

The latest buzzy thing in game collecting is that a Donkey Kong went for $370K. Now that Bananza DLC doesn't seem so expensive, does it

Happy 40th anniversary to Super Mario Bros.! Here's my probably-from-1985 US copy and probably-from-1985 Japan copy.

Spinal Tap II was great. Very well done final bow for a fake band that at this point might as well be real. What's the difference?

My hot take that will get me cancelled is that I think the subscription service model is why we're getting stuff like Virtual Boy, and why we're getting all these third-party oddities. It doesn't make sense at $10 a download but it makes total sense if you're trying to keep people subscribing.

Playing Mario Galaxy in handheld mode with a stylus was amazing and I am gonna play through all of Galaxy 2 the second it comes out

Happy 40th anniversary to Super Mario Bros.! Here's my probably-from-1985 US copy and probably-from-1985 Japan copy.

Nintendo's mistake was not selling a clever 3D gaming toy, but console-izing the Virtual Boy, positioning it as the next Nintendo game platform you needed to own. Basically like if they released the next Mario and Zelda games as Alarmo exclusives.

The news that Rosalina's storybook is now in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and has new pages is interesting when you consider that Koizumi had to "sneak" story into games while Miyamoto was generally against it and in fact asked Koizumi to strip the story down to the basics in Galaxy 2!

I'm trying to figure out why Virtual Fishing would only be in the Japan app. All I can think is that the other releases have mostly (if not entirely) English text, making them pretty understandable in English, whereas Virtual Fishing seems to only have Japanese-language menus.

I’m actually SO happy about the Virtual Boy NSO announcement. The original is such a wonderfully weird console, but it never truly got its due. I’m incredibly excited, and I hope it inspires others as it did me! (pictured: pre-ANTONBLAST research)

Virtual Bowling is by far the most expensive game to be added to Switch Online. There are a couple sitting on eBay for $10K. Not quite worth that, but I can't think of another game on the service that would sell for anything close to this.

OH RIGHT we also made a video game that was in the Nintendo Direct? Almost forgot about that what with all the Virtual Boy stuff

trying to figure out how to buy one to open, one to keep sealed, and one as an emergency offsite backup

Live your life such that when Nintendo announces a new Virtual Boy, people think of you

Incredible. The sheer amount of effort going into this. Hardware. Licensed games. They finally got all the handwritten letters i wrote

yeah i make video games,

when the magazine promises you naked ladies but gives you guybrush threepwood

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.

It turned out my wife and I *both* remembered this from our childhoods www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNf...

I one hundred percented Bart Vs. The World

Was at the flea market today and found an NES game with a sticker from "Starland Club" - the predecessor to eStarland!

I was like "wow this gas pump is going extremely slowly" and turns out I missed the environmental storytelling

At the Jack London museum. Writing used to be so cool. You got to carry around a little box with every drug in it and once you were fucked enough up on toothache heroin you started saying shit like "I am a brain merchant." You write like 100 books and then die of raw duck and mercury poisoning

At the Jack London museum. Writing used to be so cool. You got to carry around a little box with every drug in it and once you were fucked enough up on toothache heroin you started saying shit like "I am a brain merchant." You write like 100 books and then die of raw duck and mercury poisoning

How To Get A Woman's Attention And Talk To Her While She's Flying On A Magic Carpet Holding A Pidget

yeah, well i ALSO got a huge score at Pink Gorilla* *in 2012

How To Get A Woman's Attention And Talk To Her While She's Flying On A Magic Carpet Holding A Pidget

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I’m so tickled by this story. We confirmed this game has been hanging in the store at $12 since MAY, and that it came from a random Famicom lot from Japan, meaning we paid no more than $3-4 for it. Happy this is going to a good home! Proof that sometimes you can still get one over on the pros!

Whoops, somebody got a $1K game for $12 at Pink Gorilla. Knowledge is money! My eyes would have glazed right over this.

Snuck one in under the deadline! This is a lot more real than the fake one I got scammed with last year! Thanks to this getting re-released, weirdos like me who want the original don't have to pay A Literal Thousand Dollars anymore

Well, that's a very smart idea.

I just took a picture of both these games the other day. The one on the right is a licensed version of the one on the left!

HEY NJ/NY FOLKS I'M DOING ANOTHER SIGNING AT THE WONDERFUL @eastsidemags.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY!!! COME HANG OUT!

Almost [Super Mario Bros. 2] #strugglesofgame

Dan Amrich told me that multiple people at Gamescom said that The Making of Karateka was one of their favorite games. Now obviously, if The Making of Karateka is one of your favorite games, you're a huge nerd. But you're my kind of nerd, so thank you. www.digitaleclipse.com/games/karateka