Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

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Upon acquiring a used Super Nintendo, an entire living room was upended to accommodate the retro console’s addition. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"

An old collage with various fighting game "You Win" logos.

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When I dumped the Unreleased Japanese version of Burnout 1 PS2, unaware it never came out in Japan, I left it in my “non-priority” prototype pile for nearly a year When I finally revisited it, I realized it was a important build👇 www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/unrelease...

Just discovered that my RenderWare video has been played for the last three years to students in the Game Engine Architecture course at the University of Michigan! Man, I had no idea. So inspiring to see something you made used in that way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ynx...

I’ve been looking forward to playing Ghost of Yotei! But there’s a bit of a gap between paying £50 to play it and paying £530, so looks like I’m just watching it on YouTube.

The tell in that phony Windows 12 article is the implication that Microsoft engineers would ever get the go-ahead to rearchitect Windows.

I have no evidence for this statement and yet I believe it to my core: if IBM had continued to develop OS/2 over the last 25 years, it would have overtaken the install base of Windows long ago.

This whole interview rocks

This Week in Gaming posted these awesome images over on Facebook. Look at all those boxed consoles! I miss these kinds of stores so much. Now it's mostly Funco Pops and figures.

Cool, why did you change it

With a double jump, blaster, and aN oversight-induced infinite jumping technique, Jar Jar Binks is the best character in The Complete Saga on DS Video game redemption for the Gungan. 🏆

Pokémon Red & Green sold poorly in Japan when they launched in 1996, only catching on months later. Apples and oranges, I know, but this is indicative of the shift in how execs at game publishers, streaming services, and Hollywood studios need instant results or they pull the plug. It's unhealthy.

In celebration of Cookie's Bustle Day, I'm breaking the entire protocol I've been setting up behind the scenes and, I suppose, officially launching my VOD channel. Please enjoy a full stream of the English translation for Cookie's Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKd...

You know the fireballs that start bouncing around in Mario Bros. when you take too long to finish a stage? Did some similar "hurry up" mechanism appear in video games before this? I'm pretty sure yes, but I can't think of an example or what to call this to search around. Anyone?

FFXIV would have been killed a few weeks into 1.0 in this ludicrous industry state. No Man's Sky would have been abandoned in a couple of months. Seriously, what the hell happened to having a chance to turn a game around? Do we not do that any more?

Our job in 2026 is to do something so egregious with Cookie's Bustle that the actual copyright holder emerges from oblivion to stop us

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BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

This interview comes from Gamer Handbook which I scanned last year! Be sure to check it out, I was quite chuffed to come across it archive.org/details/Game...

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

I've found a couple of old forum threads that mention a handful, but has anyone put together a list of links to chronogaming projects (channels/blogs)? Would be a useful resource.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.

playing this licensed Cyberpunk 2077 game and I think it's proof electromechanical(?) games are not a dead art. yes, those are real targets with shit projected on them. yes, the balls you shoot out have laser lights to make it look like energy blasts. yes, it's fucking cinema.

Just a small Fantasy Zone doodle! #fanart #SEGA

please don't put on the web that they got mad

If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.

Dig how Marc puts Zelda in conversation with its predecessors and contemporaries. Nintendo has long been treated as a singular wonka-like place, but as Marc shows, it’s a developer like any other—playing the work of its peers and responding to them

Yeah, it may have been 'not somehow curved and yet also weirdly angular' and 'actually fit into a pocket', but I'll take the silver DS Phat over this any day of the week.

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Title Screen | Mario Kart Wii

Weekend Project: Translate the Windows 95 version of A-Train 1 into English, introduce scaled graphics so it can be enjoyed on modern monitors, make map editor easily accessible. Available now at github.com/maspling/a-t... if anyone is curious about the start of the long running series.

From “Dig Dug” tactics to “Xevious” secrets and “The Tower of Druaga” that helped shape Zelda, Masanobu Endō pioneered concepts that still resonate in games today, from hidden secrets to layering story into gameplay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmKv... #MasanobuEndo #Xevious #TowerOfDruaga

This will never, EVER get old.

the monthly update for February. and January. and, uh, December. hey, at least I got the post up on the last day of the month for once. savestate.site/stage-clear-...

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Hey everyone, the legendary M2 has arrived here on Bsky - show them some love and follow! みなさん、あの伝説のM2がついにBlueskyに登場しました！ぜひフォローして応援しましょう！！ @mtwo-game.bsky.social

hi, i played the newzealand story untold adventure on steam, the remake of taito's 1988 classic arcade platformer, it's very bad!! i was gonna save this for a stream but it's too much of a downer so here's a thread of things that are bad about it

New scan: PC Strategy Games issue 2 (May 2000)! • Interview with Richard Bartle, creator of the first MUD and, therefore, the progenitor of every MMO • Kristen Bowditch's editorial lamenting the marginalisation of women in the strategy games boys club • Reviews include The Sims, Planescape Torment.

Come for the Dungeon Master and Gunship dives, get the witty and nuanced arguments that we're not giving the Atari ST its dues. Thank goodness for people like Dudley pushing back against the homogenisation of collective memory.

my galaxy brain theory is that remakes are a cultural coping mechanism so we can pretend games are still progressing, “i mean it must be outdated if its getting a remake,” and so it’s irrelevant what the remake Is so much as what it Represents if i were smarter i could cite baudrillard here

waking up on Europe time and opening Bluesky to check the latest romhacking/translation news