Burger left an insta to be posted post-mortem, 10/10 no notes, classic Burger

In the Feb 1985 issues of LOGiN, game publisher Bothtec tried something unusual. Instead of a typical ad that looked like a spread from a catalog, they just printed an uncolored illustration (by in-house artist Kauyuki Takimoto), a list of their current and upcoming games, and their contact info.

What people think making a video essay is like:

Business Tour (1984) - Bothtec

Everyone send your love to the great Burger Becky while you can

I am also still waiting.

The rollercoaster ride this block of text just took me on.

I watched a preview vid about Metroid's annoying tutorial guy, and while the attempts at humor didn't bother me (from what I saw), what *does* rub me the wrong way is the idea of some rando Samus just met mansplaining to her how to use her own shit. Shades of Adam M, I'm a little nervous.

For people unfamiliar with my lore, I had an emergency gallbladder removal at the beginning of the year. An area of skin on my stomach has been numb since then, but to my relief feeling has finally started to return. The downside is that the fresh nerves are hypersensitive and it’s driving me nuts.

I can’t believe they stealth-dropped a Samus Direct to distract from the Epstein Files. youtu.be/7mBR0H1F5hs?...

I can’t believe they released the Epstein Files to distract from the Epstein Files.

PITCH: A comedically cozy reimagining of Hexen called Heckin’.

For the last year, one of my neighbors had a Trump/Vance sign proudly displayed in his apartment window. Recently he removed it.

I may have made a tiny change to my hair in the last week.

So my first impression of Air Riders is that it's for the type of person who put more hours into Battle than Grand Prix in any particular Mario Kart game, and wished someone would flesh that mode out more. Which is absolutely great for those people. But that has never been me, I bounced.

Why were there gender-balanced teams at Sega in the late 80s, and why was this never the case again afterwards? I also provide a chronology of the industry's pioneers in Japan, while addressing the issue of gender discrimination, before discussing working conditions more broadly in a later chapter.

"They're called Action Figures."

I don't often get super into turn based games, so hear me when I say that Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is an amazing tactics game. Grab it while it's available! It's on Switch but I don't think the DLC is so GOG is your best bet if you want everything.

there were also more unique specialisations, like this graph paper from Capcom's arcade division—it's a little hard to make out on this image, but the squares are vertically elongated to compensate for the fact that their arcade hardware at the time output rectangular pixels

been thinking about Tecmo's specialized map paper highlighted in the Ninja Gaiden dev commentary posted at @shmuplations.bsky.social. need to get or somehow make pads of these. shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/

The Nintendo VS System was two styles of arcade cabinets that each had two screens. Now that we know they internally pronounced it "V-S" rather than "versus," I wonder if Nintendo DS was a callback...?

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Sighs for hopefully obvious, admittedly complicated reasons.

ushering in an era of bold socialist leaders who support trans rights and make really great font choices

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

“Have you heard the news?”

I’m worried the “4” in the title is going to kill it by making people think they need to play the first three first. They should’ve just called it Metroid Prime Beyond.

Can anybody link me examples of video essays on YouTube where someone dropped the f-bomb uncensored and the video reached triple K views?

Sounds like one of the last clear-eyed political outlets in America, Teen Vogue (no, really) has fallen too.

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

Every medium has a huge discovery problem right now, and the saddest part is that we know algorithms can be created to make it easier to connect art with its audience in a hyper specific way, but no one wants to let creators do that for free.

The Simpsons have apparently broken all of Epic's servers. Homer: "BAAAART!"

Can anyone give me an example of a Hero-Shooter that predates Metroid Prime Hunters in 2006? Not a class-based shooter but one with all individually named characters that have distinct abilities unique to each character.

Games Done Queer is streaming all weekend. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Billie Eilish calls out billionaires, and Colbert announces what she’s just donated:

These are both very solid additions to the cast, but you know who I'm still holding out for? >_> <_< (Dazzler.)

I want that Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection so bad, but I can't afford any new games right now.

Something for the font enthusiasts

I think this quote in here really sums up why it’s so hard, sometimes, to really get the history of games that we should have

Reposting the shit out of this in the hope that they’ll fix it if enough people are talking about it.

They were trying to disrupt Steam?????? Valve being the only company to successfully stave off an Amazon monopoly play.

In HS I kept up with movie news by frequenting a site that did a daily roundup summarized in a sentence or two and a link, until the site changed formats b/c one page a day didn’t generate enough ad impressions. I can’t tell you how much I wish someone would do such a daily roundup of gaming news.

Holy shit, I was just saying in Gaming Alexandria voice chat the other night that I wished Device 6 would come to Switch because more people need to experience it. Now if only there was a way to get ilomilo on Switch…

If you come across a statement from any group or individual that the console wars are now over because Halo is now on PlayStation, please do not engage and definitely don't signal boost. The laughable claim that the console wars started with Halo is clearly just people trolling for attention.

It’s exciting when someone publishes long-form on a subject you’ve been researching for years. Here’s a thread commenting on this article in more detail. If you do the retro computer, read the article & then come back here. Apologies and respect in advance to @ernie.tedium.co 🧵👇

I don’t mean to turn this into a Dick measuring contest, but

I don’t mean to turn this into a Dick measuring contest, but

I forget who, but years ago someone once referred to my Atari videos as the "Velvet Underground" of historical retrospectives in that they didn't get massive viewcounts but were influencing how other people considered their approaches and perspectives