Video Game History Foundation

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287945/

@GameHistoryOrg It's called #bubsy_litterbox, and because we have so many historians hanging around, we're scooping out all kinds of interesting clumps.

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Quality content Frank

Once, I won a raffle for a free game from a guy giving away duplicates from his collection. He told me I won a copy of Mario Paint. When I received the package, I opened it to find Bubsy. I reached out to the sender, but he never responded. I'm convinced now that if I play this cartridge, I will die in seven days.

7:05 pm

True story

7:05 pm

I also think it's a terrible responsibility, so I took it with me when I moved cross-country. I've yet to play it.

You bear the mark of Bubsy

Accolade AcctionBox

Bubsy (TV Movie 1993)

Directed by Tom Burton. With Jim Cummings, Pat Fraley, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen. Bubsy Tries to save the world while also babysitting for his nephew and niece.

7:11 pm

oh dear

oh, yes, it's bad.

for your viewing displeasure

7:16 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNdbdSCuC4

geekzilla

Bubsy Pilot

7:16 pm

He just called himself the "prince of personility"

excuse me read the script it's "purr-sonality"

excuuuuuuuuse me

also that still looks like an ms-paint comic

7:18 pm

it was ahead of its time is all I'm saying

Bubsy starts every day by kissing a picture of himself

They are interviewing "Virgil Reality" in the episode.

7:20 pm

twitches

@Gus Lanzetta I need you to get an exclusive interview just for this channel with the person who runs the "Bubsy Games" store account on Mercado Livre

7:25 pm

a small ad. "Order now before it's too late!" (edited)

7:25 pm

Mortal Gomebat sounds fun

7:26 pm

Better start hunting for the proto of that

Bubsy Games listing https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-908061760-nes-nintendinho-baby-boomer-phantom-system-_JM

Nes, Nintendinho, Baby Boomer Phantom System - R$ 100,00

Encontre mais produtos de Games, Video Games, Jogos NES, Outras Séries no Mercado Livre.

Wow Bubsy really hit it off in Brazil

7:32 pm

Thing is

7:32 pm

that "gomebat" ad

7:32 pm

ran for months it seems in different newspapers

we just got a new pledge because of this channel

without correction

7:32 pm

yesssss

Joined for the Bubsy silly-ness, staying to support vg history & preservation!

7:33 pm

I sampled all the bubsy vocal samples from the SNES from hardware, if anyone cares to have them, haha.

actually gus that account has some really great stuff

7:33 pm

they always have. sealed phantom games, etc.

Welcome @illusory wall to this happy bunch of purr-fessionals.

Thanks @Wietse van Bruggen !

7:36 pm

You nailed it @illusory wall

7:37 pm

you're replacing @Hubz for the lead roll

haha

Whomp whomp

okay the end of that wav is worth it

haha, wow

"I've clawed myself to the top to become the classiest kitten in this whole catatonic town" - actual quote from Bubsy pilot

EXCUSE ME.

7:44 pm

"cat-a-tonic"

7:45 pm

smdh

Excuuuuhuuuuhuuuuuuse me princess

7:47 pm

I like how the other cat character and "virgil reality" keeps forgetting Bubsy's name. So far this is the only redeeming thing about this video. (edited)

i like that the movie is directed by "tom burton"

my body is ready

so that's not placeholder box art, it's the front of a brochure

7:52 pm

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/885276542720507904

https://tcrf.net/Super_Bubsy

I'm more angry than I should be that this isn't a pop-up https://t.co/ezO79vXHX5

7:54 pm

wth number 9

8:01 pm

Finally the bubsy fans have their shrine they can pilgrimage to.

8:06 pm

I cringed and smiled at the same time.

8:06 pm

It must've looked awkward.

8:07 pm

We also need @Kate Willært 's purr-fessional opinion on the Bubsy pilot. She seems to have watched most of the horrible tv/movie game spin-offs. (edited)

I blame you all for this:

8:20 pm

Does it too have the Curse?

Well..Bubsy did start knocking the screen in that screenshot..he might be coming out of the tv Ring style any minute now

I can't even believe that we actually talk about Bubsy enough that it needed its own channel

you can't??

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Clearly Boogerman is the one most deserving of a channel

10:59 pm

Seriously though, a Bubsy channel is well worth the $10 I spend every month alone. So blessed

Of all those old and weird platformer mascots, why is Bubsy the one that keeps popping up in my life?

@MonsterDunk did you ever dump those bubsy prototypes you played on stream like a million years ago

this is important, we have a channel for this sort of thing now

I did. I should probably redump them to make sure the dumps are good (or as good as a Bubsy dump could ever be, I guess), I kinda did everything hastily first time around. I should probably just put those out there or something, there's nothing especially fancy about them if I remember correctly.

it seems appropriate what with bubsymania taking the nation by storm

it made GI's cover

11:23 pm

11:24 pm

that sounds right

as a kid i always had a vague notion of what bubsy was even though i'd never played it thanks to magazines

11:25 pm

i think i mayyybe played a little bit of bubsy 3d at some sort of kiosk once and stopped very soon after starting

This is just the retail version. So much for “for preview only,” I guess.

please return it they're waiting for their copy of bubsy back

11:27 pm

that was their only one

11:28 pm

this magazine was really strange

This SNES Bubsy is different from retail but I haven’t played it enough to see any differences.

a rare bubsy

I believe you mean "an accolade bubsy"

we can throw it to evan at snes central to look at if you want

i've seen that bubsy guy and let me tell you, he doesn't deserve any accolades!!

he tries to look at every dumped snes game and write something on it

Yeah, it'd be cool to see if there was anything meaningfully different about it.

let me look at the notes they sent game informer, there might be something in there

12:12 am

@Gus Lanzetta not yet, but it's here

if i'm remembering right when you streamed it there was some sort of pre-title screen "hey this is a preview" thing so there's that at least (edited)

I need to have a rom dumping day sometime soon, they're starting to pile up

or maybe it was on the title screen? it's been a while

I'm running it right now and don't see anything like that, but I streamed a handful of dumps that day.

yeah i remember you playing more than one snes bubsy proto

Yeah, now that you mention it, I might have another one. Either that or I'm thinking of Earthworm Jim, I might have two of those. I'll check.

the stream i'm thinking of is before you dumped them actually when you had a bunch of snes games in the office and you also played that one localization proto for that atlus beat em up

This Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego proto I have has slower music on the title screen.

i remember it because it was when i was binging on stuff after signing up for premium and i sent you a very sloppily worded site pm about dumping all that stuff at like 5am

And now I have this Bubsy proto running in a window on loop. So the music is making me lose my mind.

@Gus Lanzetta We were all just waiting for a release valve

what could possibly go wrong?? this is it, baby

CAREFUL, SHARP THINGS CAN POP BUBSY!

someone recently made me aware of "super bubsy" for windows 95 which is a weird thing

12:37 am

it's the only game developed by ati according to mobygames and it's just high rez bubsy 1 with no music and you get clips from the pilot of the bubsy cartoon as rewards

12:37 am

"rewards"

12:39 am

also, as the Bubsy Bobcat Wiki has just informed me via their one and only trivia entry for super bubsy, "Although 50 humorous quotes are in the games files, only 12 ever appear in-game. It is unknown why this happens."

12:39 am

some unreleased bubsy cuts, who knows what wild shit he's saying in there (edited)

Super Bubsy

"BUBSY HAS COLLAR I.D."

12:41 am

Delete TCRF

BUBSY WILL BE BACK IN JUST A MEOW-KNIT

i had just gotten the same idea and tabbed back in to paste the link

FANGS FOR STICKING AROUND!

WATER YOU DOING TO THAT BOBCAT!?!?

I like that the first video link I found was on Daily Motion. It's TOO REAL for YouTube.

12:43 am

oh wow midi music http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nn5ow

Super Bubsy (1995) PC Gameplay by Shreklol Shreklol - Dailymotion

Watch Super Bubsy (1995) PC Gameplay by Shreklol Shreklol on Dailymotion here

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the youtube cops would be on that in a second

12:43 am

oh huh

12:43 am

i guess the video i saw just had the music turned off

12:44 am

it made more sense to assume they just didn't bother because it was bubsy

seems like this user has a thing for Bubsy vids.

12:44 am

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lyrfb

Brutal Doom Bubsy Doom.wad by Shreklol Shreklol - Dailymotion

Watch Brutal Doom Bubsy Doom.wad by Shreklol Shreklol on Dailymotion here

12:45 am

also: I had not considered Japanese Bubsy!

12:45 am

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n5h1r

Bubsy Japanese All Cutscenes Super Famicom by Shreklol Shreklol - Dailymotion

Watch Bubsy Japanese All Cutscenes Super Famicom by Shreklol Shreklol on Dailymotion here

Bubsy Worst Video Game Characters Ever Report

12:45 am

furiously mashing report

Super Bubsy predates probably every HD remix

What are the tenants for the Church of Bubsy?

A Marvel crossover where no one can remember his name, but he’s convinced Wolverine does

1:13 am

“Whatever you say, bub”

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1:16 am

So if a character that people enjoy ironically ever got a legit good game, would it ruin the appeal?

What are you people doing in here.

1:26 am

(Lack of question mark is not a mistake)

I can explain, dad.

someone has to get to the bottom of this

https://gph.is/14950lI

George Lucas wishes he had a creation nearly as influential as Bubsy.

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Can we pin that message, please?

1:32 am

There. Bootleg pin.

hi, the 70s Howard the Duck series was kind of important and was more subversive and interesting than anything marvel has done in a long time

1:38 am

it's a shame the character became a joke

1:38 am

anyway bubsy

But then Lea Thompson goes off with John Leguizamo as Luigi

1:43 am

What if him as Luigi fought him as Clown?

Super Mario Bros Super Show + Sonic Boom + Bubsy = Ultra kitsche

John Leguizamo as the.... you beat me there because I was trying to think if that characters name is really just "Clown" and then I got mad at spawn as a grown-ass man in 2017.

Lol

Oh. THAT movie version...

Who plays Bubsy in the 90's live action film?

1:48 am

Follow up question, are they just a dude and a shirt? Makeup? Prosthetics?

1:49 am

So live action Bubsy is anime. A lot of the world suddenly makes sense to me.

I feel like it should be CGI in the style of Garfield

1:50 am

So you’re trying to go back in time and make a 90s movie a reality?

We dream big here in the bubsy litterbox, Kate.

What if the story of the movie is Bubsy in the present feeling like a failure, and goes back in time to try and make himself a big success

1:53 am

What if the big twist is that he was originally just moderately successful and a cult classic, but his efforts to “fix” the past are what led to the hype that made him so hated?

Bojack Bubsyman

The only reason the Bubsy movie didn't make it to production is because Bubsy thougt the script was too ridiculous.

@Kate Willært Isn't that the plot of the Twin Peaks finale?

Haven’t seen the true finale yet...

Whoops :X

Unless you have?

1:55 am

We haven’t...I meant that to be like it’s in the future

1:56 am

Wait wait I got it

1:56 am

Bubsy should def be Corey Feldman

1:57 am

That’d work

1:57 am

Heh

Beautiful image in my mind @Gus Lanzetta Thank you so much

This is a completely different direction playing on this casting, but what if Bubsy is a figment Of Wiseau’s imagination...no one else can see him, everyone thinks he’s crazy...but the big twist is that this figment is able to interact with the world because Wiseau is a telekinetic...so he actually is delusional, but his delusion is interacting with his mutant power to wreck havoc

2:01 am

Heh

I guess we need bubsy emojis

need is such a strong word

Can you do shirts with different symbols?

3:44 am

Or just repeat the same ! emoji with different emotion labels

we can do whatever you want

3:46 am

Bubsy Litterbox is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past. And here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Bubsy Litterbox is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

of all the ways i've misused my money this year i think pledging monthly to a secret bubsy cult is the most egregious

3:53 am

also who would win in a fight

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2

Dr. Wright would tell the mayor to surround bubsy's house with industrial zones

3:55 am

the crime rate would take care of the rest

hello, i increased my pledge so i could keep up with all the hot bubsy scoops

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So we have a mailing list with over 2,000 people that I've only ever used the day we announced the crowdfunding campaign

4:10 am

I should send our second email ever, announcing Bubsy Litterbox

Make sure to include #BubsyFacts

Finally joined Discord, now that there’s a dedicated Bubsy channel

thanks ballz, we won't let you down

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Thanks for the laughs. Reading the night chat I missed was a great way to start the day

Important research findings: I've found the person from the Netherlands that posted that usenet message on wanting to import Bubsy in 1993.

9:38 am

Questions?

9:40 am

He was really craving for it:

9:40 am

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.games.video/qzeiJDphUk4/AkKJ9puQHmkJ

I found some pre-production Bubsy art

11:43 am

That is a dark timeline.

Swaddled Bubsy is absolutely going to be my black metal chiptune band name.

2:57 pm

https://twitter.com/TommyWiseau/status/940455567830556672

6:00 pm

"Almost Purr-Fect" -GamePro

6:02 pm

"Award-Winning Sights and Sounds" -GamePro, upon running a review for a brand new game that had not yet been nominated for any awards

It's hard for me to imagine anyone being Actually Positive about Bubsy at or after its release.

6:03 pm

Pre-release? Sure, give 'em the benefit of the doubt and the genre was still big at that point. But I remember getting my hands on that near-final game and thinking it was just garbage.

I think this is what fascinates me about Bubsy, every (published?) critic loved it

6:04 pm

or at least wrote that they did?

It came out just before I started getting in and around the edges of the whole games journalism thing and I remember thinking that most of the reviewers out there were just terrible and wrong most of the time.

6:05 pm

So... I guess that's just a never-ending cycle for this line of work.

oh yeah, that was me in 2004 or whatever

6:06 pm

6:07 pm

I've talked to Andy McNama about Bubsy, he despises the game, said it was awful, etc. Here he is giving it an 8.75

6:07 pm

not calling him out specifically or anything, it's just weird how everyone was flipping out over this game

6:08 pm

and then once the dust settled everyone said it was garbage

Did you point out the score to him, to try and understand what the mindset was at the time?

no, this was just casual lunch talk last time I was out there

6:10 pm

I had never seen his review until 5 minutes ago

I wonder if he’d remember...might help shed light on what was happening here

6:11 pm

I feel like even the EG crew were rarely very critical, but in their case it felt like they were so enthusiastic about this new young medium in general that they just wanted to encourage its existence

well, keep in mind I also have all of the PR material that was sent there, and it was a lot

6:12 pm

just about every magazine had some sort of making-of feature too (edited)

Like people maybe felt too familiar with the devs at that point?

in general I just think the PR campaign on this game was extremely effective

6:14 pm

and yeah that's probably part of it

I’m wondering if there was some sort of assumption that it was going to be well received, and not wanting to be the lone person shitting on it...it reminds me of Other M, and how critics all accept now that it was a disaster, but X-Play was the only publication willing to call it out out of the gate

6:18 pm

I’d be curious to see a range of scores for other platforms at the time, to see which games were actually considered worse or better

6:21 pm

I wonder if there’s established research about the impact PR can have on making someone like something that’s mediocre

6:21 pm

All I can think of is New Coke, and that’s the opposite in every way

6:22 pm

People legit liked New Coke better when they didn’t know it was New Coke...and would get angry when told they didn’t prefer classic, they refused to believe it

6:22 pm

And that’s part of out of tradition

6:23 pm

So how do you achieve the opposite...creating a new bland thing and getting people to believe they like it (until everyone else says they hate it)

I also wonder if some of this has to do with most of the magazines of the day being fairly enthusiastic about, like, everything. I feel like no one was really taking games or game coverage especially seriously back then... even the people generating the coverage.

6:24 pm

Actually, I guess I'd say that VG&CE was better about that sort of thing.

There are plenty of far worse games than Bubsy from that era, but it’s just baffling to me it got so much praise. I think Kate’s theory has some merit.

Was Bubsy even that bad? I’ve only played a few minuets and it seemed bland but not broken

It’s not the worst

6:25 pm

It’s just completely average, slightly below it maybe

it's pretty bad.

Yeah, maybe by the standards of the day it's less bad than it seems now. It's easy to look at it now and see how utterly unresponsive the controls are and just completely dismiss it, but back then... hmm... no, I remember thinking it was pretty awful back then. I don't know.

the heart is there but it feels like it was made by people who had never made a platform game before. it feels bad to play.

No. Even by the standards of that day I find it baffling.

I’d say maybe it was rated just above average then, but I seem to recall in the 90s that GI used the full scale...average was a 5 instead of broken being a 5 like school grading (50 = F)

I wouldn't take game informer from 1993 seriously at all, it was still a HEY KIDS pamphlet

Controversial counter point:

That was Andy on his second nickname ("Game Hombre" instead of "Game Dandy"), so he had been there for at least a little while.

Boogerman was better than Bubsy?

EWJ plays way worse, but the graphics are so pretty that it got good scores...people back then weighted scores towards graphics, so did that play a role?

right but it was still elizabeth olsen as EIC

I don’t think that EWJ plays worse

6:28 pm

It definitely plays worse on Genesis

6:28 pm

here's VG&CE's review. Andy Eddy actually does address the control problems

Still a pretty high score.

yes, too high

EWJ has a giant delay between button press and action because they wanted to use extra frames to make the movements smooth...to beat the game, you have to learn to adjust to the broken timing by expecting the delay...Okay, if I jump here and press whip at this moment, the one second delay will grab the thing

I'd imagine if you asked Chris Bienieck now he'd be baffled at his 8 (lower-right)

And because you can get used to the unresponsiveness, you can convince yourself it’s not broken at all, just “harder”

Yeah, totally. EWJ is a great example of a game that I used to think was just very hard and now think is very bad.

I’m still baffled that I can’t change weapons on the Genesis version?

you can change weapons on the snes one??

6:32 pm

I only played Genesis

Yes

Even I remember the Bubsy coverage, but then I remember being incredibly surprised when Bubsy 2 was out

The thing with EWJ is that I didn’t realize what was bad about it until I’d learned more about game design...I didn’t have the critical skills to recognize the problem...and if reviewing a game, you don’t want to claim bad controls ruin it and then no one else mentions that problem and it turns out maybe you’re just bad at the game...could that have been a factor too maybe?

I’m replaying tonight to see if I notice it!

6:34 pm

Is this specific to the first EWJ? I have more experience with the second game

Both...you press whip and he immediately starts the wind up...but the wind up means half a second before the whip is fully extended and “hits”

Right

Incidentally, Other M almost had this problem...in a making of vid, they mention the producer pointing out to them the unresponsiveness Of including the full extension motion

I also wonder if even subconsciously critics were grading American-made games on a different scale than Japanese

He told them to have the gun fire before fully extended...that players eyes wouldn’t notice it was wrong, but if they didn’t the delay would “feel” wrong

Well

6:37 pm

We could look up more reviews from different countries

the UK critics were a littlie harsher

Now I want to see a documentary that interviews each critic and tries to understand the mindset of the time, and how their opinion later changed

6:38 pm

Not accusatory, just trying to understand the context

6:39 pm

Bubsy def seems like a case study of some sort of bias that should be studied

It got a 90 from Power Unlimited

6:40 pm

Which was the biggest game magazine at the time in the Netherlands

The biggest difference between Bubsy and EWJ is that the latter is more fondly recalled today despite being more broken...how much of that is the quirky likeable character designs and humor?

Still is

I disagree that EWJ is more broken than Bubsy

There are some levels that are not fun

So Bubsy’s problems can’t be adjusted to?

you have to wrestle with EWJ a lot but it never insta-kills

The isometric level where you have to bounce a balloon to the whole level is terrible

6:42 pm

Yeah

that's EWJ2

Yes

EWJ and that fucking water level lol

I love EWJ2 for unscientific headcanon reasons

Yess

I believe that it is intentionally bad and is saying fuck you to the player for wanting a sequel

Heh

The bouncing puppies level is great

"Jim is Now a Blind Cave Salamander" is my favorite

Except for the quiz bit

the quiz makes that level!

6:45 pm

that level hates you

6:45 pm

the whole game hates you and I love it

6:45 pm

even the puppy bouncing is hateful because it makes you do it three separate times, and they're all really long

6:45 pm

like 1/4 of the game if you play it through is spent on that two screen section

Is the level where you have to escort that dog and have it not try to rage on you in the first one or second one?

no that's EWJ1, the one in EWJ2 is that Peter Puppy has puppies of his own that he's throwing out of a two-story building

6:46 pm

you have to bounce them on a marshmallow, it's So Random

Yeah, I like that bit..I remember really wanting to finish it without any puppy splashing on the ground

I wish release dates from that era were more defined. That GI review says March 93 for Bubsy, GameFAQs says May, Moby and Giant Bomb only have the year.

I can also totally understand where that level would kill the game for someone (edited)

@MonsterDunk That's definitely something I've been working on.

Can I add ‘European’ release dates to that wish?

Well we just need more European magazines that aren't scanned in arse quality! (edited)

I'll see if the PR for Bubsy can get us a date

6:56 pm

will take a while, gotta move 5GB of PDFs off of network storage so I can search them

6:57 pm

also re: magazines, my hope is that this feed scanner will make scanning magazines something that isn't terrifying

6:57 pm

I'm starting to build up donations even of magazines that we already have so that we can consider de-binding for scans

I really need to get myself full Adobe Acrobat so I can OCR my back catalog.

In 15 years everyone here is gonna look back on December 2017 and think "What did I do with that month? Did I really spend it just talking about Bubsy?"

what you think we're going to stop in January?

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7:01 pm

here's the EGM review crew

7:02 pm

and what's fun about our library being hyper-focused on one area (20th century American magazines primarily focused on video games) is that we can supplement that with Sendai's additional reviews of the game in "Super NES Buyers Guide"

7:03 pm

Martin Alessi somehow gave the game both an 8 and an 88%

7:04 pm

in the same month

7:09 pm

okay going through all this PR. in October 1992 they announced the game as a March 1993 release, in the WCES packet that January it says April, still looking

7:10 pm

on track for April as of April 1:

7:10 pm

7:11 pm

May 20?

7:11 pm

7:12 pm

same exact press release dated June 3 (handed out at Summer CES no doubt):

7:12 pm

7:16 pm

BUBSY FACT: It is canon that Bubsy doesn't know how to spell the word "definitely":

7:16 pm

There's a Bubsy II video?!

I don't think they have it anymore, there's only maybe 20 VHS tapes at the GI office

7:19 pm

I didn't look at them yet though so maybe!

7:20 pm

here's the map though

i wish i had a publicity pal

That's the end of the new Bubsy game

7:22 pm

He's working as a tour guide and monologuing to himself about how he just needs a better agent, that's the ticket

okay I think that's about the best I can do, sometime between April 1 and May 20

bubsy being an april fools joke seems about right

oh hey btw

9:20 pm

9:21 pm

I love how I get this notification

9:21 pm

And think, what?

9:21 pm

Then I come to the chat... and it all makes sense

welcome back to the litterbox, bro

So, the lag because of animation having to play out in EWJ is actually worse in the second game, where it also impacts shooting. Guess I just got really used to it

(edited)

Notifications on discord? Braver than I

10:20 pm

Feel like my phone would melt even if I limited to just servers I actively check on (edited)

@Wietse van Bruggen i was surprised when i first replayed the games as an adult, because i didn't remember the animation lag either...similar to how our memories up-rez graphics of games we played long ago (edited)

Learning about the fireball hitbox in Genesis Ghosts and Goblins was a revelation

3:35 am

"This game is insanely hard. This must be the true challenge for experts" 20 years later "Oh the fireball's hitbox is almost entirely infront of the sprite."

wait what is this channel

11:30 am

is... is this a whole channel dedicated to bubsy

11:30 am

Yes, Zeipher. You are home. You are finally home.

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ohhhhh, bubsy said that

11:57 pm

i didn't realize til i saw the attribution

Bubsy: most likely to make racist comments about Italians?

12:05 am

i'm imagining a comic that catches up with a modern aging Bubsy, graying fur...he's still trying to be cool, but just comes off as a prick

you weren't here when I did my giant rant about how I'd do a new bubsy game, were you

i thought i'd read the backlog, but maybe i missed it / forgot

too complicated to repeat, but it was basically a combination of Sunset Boulevard and Bojack Horseman done as a platform game (edited)

is Bubsy a prick?

he was a child star who had it all and still thinks he's special

12:15 am

and covets his prized collection of video game cartridges in his weird mansion shrine to himself

so y ou're platforming on his hoard of merch in his mansion?

well at least for one level

Is he also a reseller?

all of the storytelling is entirely environmental

12:18 am

it's a dumb platform game using old bubsy mechanics, but all of the environments tell the horrible story of what happens when someone who only knows fame gets it taken away

now i'm imagining him being voiced by David Spade tho

12:30 am

he even kinda looks like a human version of Bubsy http://img.soundtrackcollector.com/cd/large/Dickie_Roberts_206162418.jpg

it's not super fleshed out or anything but for sure I want the theme of one level to be that part of hollywood where people dress up as characters and charge people to take photos with them

12:38 am

that's where bubsy goes to work

heh

maybe he's wearing a batman outfit

does he dress as someone else, or does he stand around waiting-- ah heh

either one is sad

12:39 am

so they both work

i like the idea of someone complimenting him on his obscure Bubsy costume, and he's not sure whether to admit it's really him or not lol

Plot twist: It's Frank who compliments him.

Double twist reversal: at the end it's revealed Frank is actually Bubsy in disguise

Dont worry, he is a trained purr-fessional

tempted to sign up for discord gold so that I can use gamepro 5/5 emojis on that 2 page spread

I have the EPS for that

3:03 am

maybe I should make emojis out of them

3:07 am

haven't found the files yet but I did find this

3:08 am

That'd be a sweet tattoo

would you make it look like he ripped your flesh open?

Heh

Get it right on your heart like Tony Stark

hahaha

5:41 am

it would work as a chestburster ref

5:41 am

and you know bubsy loves those refs

I'm trying to think of the reason why that mel gibson thing is reffering/what its relevance is...and I'm struggling to think of any..

Pretty sure it’s Lethal Weapon era “stud” Mel Gibson

everytime i see unread messages in bubsy_litterbox i ask myself "do you really want to be complicit in this?"

3:26 pm

the answer is "no" everytime but i click it anyway. i don't know who i am anymore

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What congressmen do I need to write to get Bubsy accurately classified as a narcotic?

3:36 pm

I know the Bubsy lobby is strong, but there has to be someone with integrity left. I still believe.

Never happen under the current administration. Orange people stick together

I could make another comparison joke here about enormous hype for something nobody likes, but I think I will just let that one lie

"What could possibly go wrong" was what most people were saying about the 2016 election

England: Brexit was the worst possible thing we could possibly have done to ourselves...

4:46 pm

America: Hold my beer.

Bubsy: Time for a purrfect cat-astrophe

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Also like 45, Bubsy was a terrible joke from my childhood that somehow never went away

4:48 pm

I wonder if the start point of the Bubsy revival was the Ulililia video

Now there is a development that would leave me cat-atonic

Bubsy v Socks the Cat

4:56 pm

Felix

4:57 pm

There was a Felix the Cat multimedia CD-ROM playset thing in the 90s produced by a small company that also landed the rights to do the same thing with Hello Kitty

4:57 pm

I'd love to hear the story of how that deal happened

Yeah... I guess I wonder what was on the rights holders' minds when considering how to approach CD-ROM stuff

As did literally every unrelated media company.

"Hi, we're Sony Imagesoft. We'll make a multimedia experience using your property known worldwide for $500,000 development costs." "Hi we're Mike and Stan out of Stan's garage. We'll do it for $5,000"

I wanna hear the Mike and Stan story

i need to go throughthe boxes at my dad's place to try and find some of the beta mac games he got from work

3:23 am

they were mainly very young edutainment titles

3:23 am

that I think my dad's company was doing print ads for?

3:24 am

Probably the same as the final products aside from hard crashing at 90% completion.

Oh wow

3:39 am

That's stuff I'm very very historically interested in (edited)

now I'm curious what games they were. They were designed like a lot of the multimedia edutainment games of the 7.6 era. talking cartoon character walks you through quizes

3:46 am

all i remember is that your goal was to recover treasures that had been stolen from a skeleton pirate's treasure hoard

when i think Mac edutainment my first thought is Swamp Gas...anyone else ever play that game?

the game? No. The arcade with zero educational value? yes, for 3 continuous years of schooling.

there was an arcade?

wow, no videos of swamp gas on youtube

yeah...

but yeah, after you complete a round you get a coin that you can spend at the arcade back on the mothership

ah lol

4:04 am

if i saw it i'm sure i'd remember that part

iirc it was just a hacky version of space invaders

4:14 am

but the appeal of playing a minigame in a learning game that you can't learn anything from is strong for children (edited)

i recall how many classmates liked to spend as much time possible hunting in Oregon Trail

you collected 8,622 lbs of meat, but you could only bring 200lbs back to the wagon.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/271192-bubsy-for-the-atari-vcs2600/

Bubsy for the Atari VCS/2600 - Atari 2600

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Bring Bubsy Home

5:17 am

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BUBSY-overseas-version-Super-Famicom-SNES-JP-GAME-/312025054507?hash=item48a6247d2b

BUBSY overseas version Super Famicom/SNES JP GAME.

NES/Famicom SNES/Super Famicom Nintendo64 GameCube Wii GameBoy GameBoyAdvance NintendoDS Nintendo3DS Wii U NintendoSwitch. SNES/Super Famicom. Item Appearance Like used good condition. Version Japanese. | eBay!

disappointed bubs doesn't have a crash bandicoot style redesign for the japanese market

drops something in the litter box

8:51 am

Start knitting!

In this painting we see man's desire to kill god portrayed. Beautiful and haunting.

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https://twitter.com/plunkbot/status/926011001262170112

plunkbot (@plunkbot)

PlayerUnknown's Bubsy

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11679951/1/Bubsy-and-the-Ice-Climbers

That uh

3:52 am

That has quite an ending

I did not expect it.\

3:54 am

The only other fan fiction i've read was one I was in that was monster hunter themed

"Hey!" Bubsy called out to Popo and Nana as he waved his right hand at them. "Aren't you two kids too small to be doing some climbing? Can't you pawsibly try something else?"

11:49 am

cries

11:54 am

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8796503/1/Smash-Bros-the-final-battle

11:57 am

I'll just leave this one here without comment:

11:57 am

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11682043/1/Sonic-and-Bubsy-A-Romantic-Struggle

11:59 am

I’m disappointed that nobody wished the channel a happy Bubsmas

I hope Santa Claws brought everyone nice things

I'm sorry, I furgot

Bubsy in Home Fur the Holidays

Better prepare your Bubsy new year’s puns

You know, I don't know if I like all this Bubsist behavior.

8:48 pm

What about people who like Gex?

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Gex has better games than boogerman, but I like the idea of boogerman more than Gex

2:30 am

Gex is just PG TMZ

2:30 am

Boogerman is the penis notebook from Superbad

Gex is a disappointment because the movement set of a gecko/lizard should be a good possibility space for platformers and they did NOTHING with it.

3:17 am

Does it even have wall climbing? I can't recall

3:19 am

https://youtu.be/BmPGL5sCzMw?t=170

TonberryDon

Gex Walkthrough Part [1/18]: Rocky Horror Picture Show.

3:19 am

Oh yeah, it is a powerup, half a point and still uninspired.

3:19 am

oh no, the powerup was just well timed.

3:22 am

These wise cracks

3:23 am

ok, Gex dev team, ok, let's talk

3:24 am

First of all, number one, numero uno

3:24 am

If you have infinite wall climb ability

3:24 am

Maybe your level design should have some verticality. Just a tiny bit.

3:25 am

That is my critical review of the design of gex based on a video of it on the internet.

there's good wall climbing in gex 2

I'm about 6 minutes into a speedrun and pretty sure you are trolling me

3:44 am

Gex has an overweight cousin

3:44 am

Named Cuz (edited)

3:45 am

"He is saved by Gex after being locked in a cage by the Gangsters."

3:45 am

By the Gangsters

We do not speak of the False Prophet in these hallowed halls.

Happy holidays, all bub

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2

Hah, did you delete it?

I couldn't bring myself to keep it up

12:29 am

Oh what the hell

12:29 am

https://twitter.com/BubsyThe_Bobcat/status/947274490001494016

Bubsy (@BubsyThe_Bobcat)

2018 will be our year, Bubsy Nation! Happy New Year! #Bubsy #BubsyNation #HappyNewYear

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12:29 am

I just don't get why Bubsy is so ripped in that picture

Whoooooah

I'd say that seems far fetched, but considering the gator phenomena...

2:58 am

Like Zoe Quinn says in the opening of Crash Override, she had a breakup so bad that it involved intervention by the United Nations.

Happy Mew Ear's.

NICE.

The biggest mystery stemming from that tweet...why does Bubsy have a verified twitter account?

There can only be one bubsy

the twilight zone episode where the washed up actress wishes hard enough and ends up back in her old movies is on and it's making me think of bubsy

if bubsy just wishes hard enough he can go right back into that cartridge and it can be the old days again

Bubsy in Furever Young

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those good old days of magazines half heartedly recommending the original bubsy game

it was not halfhearted

is that the guy from clay fighter?

i think so?

God, does someone still have that Bubsy in a storage unit? (edited)

I'm imagining six of them hung up like they're on meat hooks in a freezer

And... Chun Li?

oh good call

The three heavy hitters of the fighting game scene in 1994

3:19 am

BRB writing a parody article about tracking down the Bubsy suit only to learn that someone used a conversion kit to turn it into their fursona (edited)

I doubt it is parody.

[bubsy Why So Serious? meme]

bubsy with the word "damaged" tattooed on his forehead

This was posted in the HG101 discord

What...what am I looking at

Fire Pro Wrestling I believe. I haven't actually played it yet though.

What is a Bubsy? A pile of miserable sequels.

i hate this

that is fire pro and that is bubsy. these are the truths ive learned about this world

Excuses, excuses..hand drawn Bubsy sign..do it

Just a tad jealous there Gus

Enjoy it!

The sign should just be his T-shirt on a stick

take the sprite of Chu Chu nailed to a cross in Xenogears, and replace it with Bubsy

Whoa.... hahah

Hot take on bubsy on Facebook: it’s good because rise of the robots got bad reviews and Bubsy got good reviews.

1:12 pm

I do not believe in Bubsy hype.

3:31 pm

Though I would read a TV Tropes article named Bubsy hype

So it turns out at least one of these vhs tapes I got starts with porn

Why are you posting that in this channel? Is it Bubsy porn? Is the world ready for Bubsy porn?

7:36 pm

I mean, I've been around the block, I know Rule 34, there is certainly Bubsy porn out there, but are you telling us Gremlin was producing Bubsy porn before Bubsy even existed

Har. I always forget what channel I’m in on my phone

Hey @Frank Cifaldi . Last night I was trying to free up some hard drive space, when I stumbled upon the Steam folder for the Mega Man Legacy Collection. It was surprising to me because the folder was just called "Suzy" and I had to dig deep to find any Mega Man or Capcom references. What up with that?

Secret project name that never got fixed basically because of staffing reasons

8:58 pm

(I was minus the lead engineer for the final weeks of dev)

Bubsy as playable character in Megaman Legacy Collection as Easter Egg confirmed

I named it after Adhering Suzy from the first game, they used lady names for projects at Capcom at the time

oh, and the exe was just called Proteus?

9:01 pm

Interesting. Just curious; thanks for the info.

Proteus was the name of the engine. Same deal, person who was supposed to fix it before release got pulled from me

oh, I posted this in Bubsy channel?! I am shame.

9:06 pm

There is nothing more Bubsy than Mega Man.

9:22 pm

I am pretty sure I have insulted someone but I am not sure who.

I will ban them immediately

Mag mag maggity mag bub

Saw this shirt last night at MAGFest. I think I'm cursed now

I just realized he also had paw hands

Oh lord

i hate this

I want to invite him to my panel

He'd be my best man at my second wedding

Also spotted at MAGFest: Bubs-kira https://cdn.designbyhumans.com/i/S0q2SjYHQZ2UzCKrgqL8lNLkkhj9lNTizPS8GP1SQ0MLIDAAyuZamZkaVACxTpKVoU6BlSEA.pr690800-2-3595636.jpg

1:21 pm

Please enjoy these updates of only the Bubsy-related content at this event (edited)

oh no https://theyetee.com/collections/agdq/products/bobcat

Bobcat by The Yetee

Designed and donated by Nina Matsumoto AGDQ is upon us! For those who aren't in the know, Games Done Quick, is a week long speed running charity event! People come from all over to play games super fast, and all the money raised goes straight to charity! During this event, Awesome Games Done Quick, all proceeds go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation! We'll be donating $4 from this design to the Prevent Cancer Foundation! The Prevent Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit that has invested over $140 million towards cancer prevention research, education, advocacy, and outreach programs nationwide! They've funded scientists and medical institutions, and dedicated themselves to cancer prevention and early detection! We're honored to donate to such a noble cause and such an excellent foundation! We are projecting to have all AGDQ orders out before the end of February. We appreciate your support and patience while we tackle this endeavor— please understand we are aiming for a world record when it comes to printing and shipping out your order but we also need to adhere to our 100% run, no glitches. If the RNG gods favor us your order will be out far sooner than expected. Expected to ship by the of February.

bought

No

I think I have to

4:33 pm

I know what Im wearing when @Frank Cifaldi comes to the Strong

4:34 pm

It's Done

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I don't approve

https://twitter.com/spellbot_/status/950060242351599616 Tagged Frank in it, no worries

chris (@spellbot_)

this past December, I designed and 3D printed this Bubsy figure that's now officially a prize at @GamesDoneQuick! try donating during the Bubsy II run! @BubsyThe_Bobcat #AGDQ2018

oh, a Bubsy amiibo

So would that unlock the signature bubsy T-shirt in Style Savvy

8:43 pm

or a full bobcat fursuit

It erases all of your save data

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oh god, that would be amazing

not Bubsy, but another mascot https://twitter.com/Cybershell/status/950241843475759104

Cybershell (@Cybershell)

This ad where everyone is looking at Rayman's dick raises a few questions: 1. Is his dick detached from his body like his arms and legs? 2. Is it actually canon Rayman has a big dick? 3. Considering his height how is his piss making it into that urinal? (possibly related to #1)

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The second annual meeting of the Church of Bubsy.

Shooting Bubsy?

This was the Castlevania one we couldn't get to work.

Bubs in the Shell

Bubsy needs a music video this epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo

DeltaHeavyVEVO

Delta Heavy - Ghost

Anyone staying up til 5am for the GDQ Bubsy run?

2:01 am

I will be happily asleep (edited)

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i passed, but you better believe i'm gonna stay up for the gex 3 run

highly recommend the superman 64 one

Thank god for VODs because I feel like half the runs I wanted to see were in the wee hours of the morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHiwxMXRkzY

Games Done Quick

Bubsy II by garbanzcurity in 17:36 AGDQ 2018

8:18 pm

i haven't watched but i just thought y'all would want it

Three minutes in and they've already called the game "kind of a mess," "pure evil," and "utter trash"

Oh it's Bubsy 2

8:37 pm

I despise that game

"[The runner] is making this game look really playable, but I promise it's not"

I want a speedrun of Bubsy 3D

They do exist.

you misunderstand: i want a GDQ run of Bubsy 3D so watching it is socially acceptable (edited)

Hate-watching the Bubsy 2 run

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FYI, it's 40% off on GOG with free soundtrack

The premiere platformer for the Switch

5:00 am

enjoying the gex 3 agdq run

https://twitter.com/EnixSSB/status/953112376127164417

Enix (@EnixSSB)

Watching a Super Mario 64 120 Stars TAS speedrun but I’m currently more interested in this fucking saga in the comments section

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lol

did you guys see the tasbot block on agdq? slightly boring to watch but philosophically very interesting

the super monkey ball run?

they wanted to do a tasbot run of a disc-based game, which is impossible because of loading times being unpredictable, so they basically fed super monkey ball replay files from an emulator on to a gamecube memory card

9:40 pm

mostly I'm just glad it wasn't yet another code injection

Right, I caught that. I wondered if that would've been the case with a modified Wii/GC where it runs from SD storage.

read speeds can vary from sd cards and from readers

The other tasbot bit with that Super Mario World hack had some code injection I think.

9:41 pm

right

oh I didn't see that one

it was pretty fun, its pretty spectacular what the players did to get through that without tool assist as well. I think it also highlighted for me why i hate most mario maker user made levels

(edited)

I wonder if you could get TASBot to play something with loading times if you gave it a light sensor

10:36 pm

as long as it didn't stream anything that might work

meaning it waits until it sees a screen and then resumes?

Was thinking of games where you know that the loading screen is going to be dark, and the play screen afterwards light

could get scanline-accurate if we're reading form a CRT

ha, i like how we're slowly moving toward using R.O.B. as he was intended

that's what I was thinking

10:46 pm

like actually connect it to R.O.B.

Probably still wouldn't work due to stuff based on number of frames game has been running or current RTC and similar. (edited)

Down to $20! https://www.gamestop.com/ps4/games/bubsy-the-woolies-strike-back/152927

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back

Our favorite Bobcat is making a triumphant return 20 years after virtually disappearing from the world stage (N64/PS1). Yes, that's right, Bubsy is back and starring in an all new adventure, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back! Yep, those no-good, yarn stealing always annoying intergalactic trolls, the Woolies, are up to their no-good ways once again! They've stolen Bubsy's most prized possession, the Golden Fleece. Now Bubsy is on a one Bobcat mission taking on Woolies, Bumble Bees, Sharks, and UFO's to collect an insane amount of yarnballs and bring his Holy Grail of Wool home.

Yknow what I think would be an amusing indie fan game

4:17 am

Mario and Sonic (and sidekicks) are missing

4:19 am

Toad goes to a bar full of retired side scrolling heroes to recruit them...each character gets one level, to introduce people to these obscure old characters

4:20 am

At the end it turns out pac man has kidnapped them, because he’s bitter about how they’ve eclipsed him when he did a side scroller first

oh yeah that's good. or you do the watchmen thing and there's a mascot killer mystery

But if we’re doing Alan Moore, we’d have to figure out which female character is inevitably going to get sexually assaulted, and I’d rather not

Or if we're switching to a different comics comparison kinda like the forgotten comic character limbo from Morrison's Animal Man.

4:31 am

I need to play that Captain Rainbow translation at some point, that game also has an interesting recontextualization of known characters

Or Priest’s room of “characters I’ve worked on that have been cancelled” when he started his Deadpool run (back when Deadpool could be cancelled at any moment)

4:33 am

Oh, someone translated it? I need to play that

I think the translation is finally finished yeah. It only took like 10 years or whatever. haha

4:41 am

May have to dig out the old hacked wii.

I feel like the original tick cartoon did the sidekick bit

comic did it first HMPH

7:53 pm

(I love the original comic and have have first prints of every issue, among other things)

I've only read a few of the comics here and there...to my great shame.

if you want to read the Tick comics, just know that all you want to read is the original series, The Tick, which is 12 issues long

nice!

8:00 pm

I am not much of a comics guy

8:00 pm

they frustrate me to no end

there was some decent stuff occasionally after that (the venture bros. dude wrote the first couple spinoff issues) but for the most part it was all pretty bad

I think Tick fandom was the first group of fans that ever ruined something for me.

there is also a "#13" you should avoid. 12 ends on a cliffhanger, ben edlund found a lucrative career in television, years later they hired some other guy to finish it up

ah comics.

man, there being a "tick fandom" never even occurred to me until you said that

People running around screaming SPOOOOOOON isn't as common now as it was in the 90s/00s

Tick, Freakazoid, and The Mask are probably directly responsible for Family Guy

ugh, family guy

8:05 pm

but you're probably right

8:05 pm

though I prefer M.A.S.K.

I am trying to find a way for you to read the originals and it is absurdly difficult

For the tick comics? yeah

indie comics from the 80s and 90s are kind of a deadzone. was pretty hard to find the original MIB comics too.

so technically you can get a current collection of them for like $36, which is way too much IMO

Yeah. I see it on amazon in tpb form for 30+4 for shipping.

Oh this is my yearly reminder to try and buy the TPB of Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, the comic adaptation of the cancelled game

8:11 pm

aaaaaand there's only one copy, with no photo, on Amazon for $50

8:11 pm

hrm

I can get you down to $16.25, so far, but you'd have to get colorized versions of 1-6

is it just 4 issues for indiana jones?

8:13 pm

if so, it's on ebay for around 20

I am still holding out hope that I get all of the Fate of Atlantis and Iron Phoenix comics from discount bins

yeeeeah, but I really don't like owning floppies

Floppies are a bother

especially because my bed is mere centimeters too short to fit a long box under

8:16 pm

(I live in SF. Space is at a premium)

And the earthquake insurance

better earthquake insurance than flood insurance

Does renters insurance cover quakes?

oh, hah, Iron Phoenix is part of the Indiana Jones Omnibus 2

8:18 pm

and that's just $25

I guess I could look at my policy

okay so speaking of: don't expect you to remember but I think the best way to read the tick is to get omnibus 1-3 (ignore 4 and 5). 2 and 3 are super cheap if you order straight from the publisher, 1 is around $10 if you are patient and wait for one on ebay

8:20 pm

or you get the dumb current edition if you're lazy, or you, idk pirate them?

8:21 pm

they're not even on comixology somehow

there are a few torrents around, things on mega

I'm pretty sure New England Comics as a publisher just exists as a one or two-person entity that does nothing but have the comic book rights to the tick

amazed they aren't own by disney

8:22 pm

though i guess tick rights are at amazon currently

they keep putting out new ones that look terrible

8:22 pm

well maybe the television rights, but I doubt it

8:22 pm

I think edlund owns all rights except comics

8:23 pm

and then it gets weird. he owns any of the characters originally created in the comics, but every time there's a new show they make new ones that can't carry over to the next show

8:24 pm

so you've got die fledermaus in the cartoon and then bat manuel in the fox show (edited)

Have you watched the amazon show?

yeah, it sure is the tick

i was kind of amazed

ick, only sub $30 copy of omnibus 2 on Amazon is a former library copy

yeah get them from NEC http://www.necpress.com/Ticksearch.aspx?q=[BOOKS]

8:35 pm

$5. for the first print, new

I’m glad Amazon picked up the tv show and all, but I really miss Edlund’s art...the art in those issues was fantastic

I agree and it's weird how seldom I hear people talk about his art

I was just watching One Punch Man on Hulu, it reminds me of The Tick a lot

1:29 am

But on the topic of Edlunds art, I wonder if any of the collections also collects all the color pin ups, because those were really good too...but it seemed like each reprint had different stuff

So here's a fun thing

1:38 am

I have every published piece of Edlund Tick art in a box with the original comics, which I intend to get bound one day

1:40 am

1:41 am

This is my favorite

1:45 am

1:46 am

I only have a tiny catalog image but I love this shirt

Nice

1:52 am

Some day I want to do Critereon style collections for deserving runs

yeah that's kind of the idea I guess. I'd have to scan and print some pages to really do it

totally unrelated: I read "deservering nuns" instead of deserving runs at first (edited)

Coming to CBS this fall

I feel like we passed Peak Nun years ago.

https://twitter.com/NCommentarys/status/956242051544309760

NC 👑 (@NCommentarys)

Whoever made this game your parents don’t love you https://t.co/6n7g06GwX2

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Kids reviewing bubsy

5:53 pm

"With an averag score of 4 (very fun) Bubsy scored very high in in this test. Michael thought that it was a fun whacky game with excellent humor, and Rick (14) also found it to very humorous game. Vanita thought that the way Bubsy died was very comical. All the testers praised the high quaity graphics and the accompanying music."

5:53 pm

The conclusion: kids have no taste.

well, also - and I'm sure there's some good science reading for this - playtests with kids are super difficult to get good data from

5:54 pm

because you feed kids pizza and let them play a new video game and ask them what they think and it's like yeah, duh

5:54 pm

they're having a great time

did you know there was a bubsy/sonic 2 double pack released in the UK http://atariage.com/forums/blog/234/entry-9453-cruizin-ebay-august-2012-telstar-sega-megadrive-duo-pack/

Cruiz'in Ebay August 2012-Telstar Sega Megadrive duo pack

I like to post things in here from time to time to show the various merchandise that has existed for Bubsy. This current one the person has a opening...

9:41 pm

the 90s' two finest mascots together at last

I can only jope future historians don't care about promotional releases of games consoles, because that is going to get confusing

9:51 pm

"So did suzuka motorsports give out a special branded PS2, or did someone just slap some space stickers on their system because they felt like it?"

9:51 pm

See tons of people who put gameboys up on ebay without removing any stickers just in case they accidentally ruin the value of one of those pokemon center limited editions

9:55 pm

Alternatively if you bought 2000 gameboy colors in the launch colors, but bubsy branding on them, and released them back into the wild

9:55 pm

you might create enough evidence thta Nintendo had planned to team up with Bubsy for a new Bubsy platform

https://twitter.com/wario64/status/957651243811315713

https://www.amazon.com/Mens-Accolade-Bubsy-Nation-T-Shirt/dp/B0779QFGH9/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1517056741&sr=1-1&nodeID=7141123011&psd=1

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back Purrfect Edition (PS4) is $14.42 at Amazon https://t.co/NvHZFzqn7B

4:28 pm

why does binary have a business card

4:28 pm

what is his profession

yeah that's like mickey mouse having a business card

"NO BIRTHDAY PARTIES"

that would be like if you bought a box set of Beatles albums and it came with a card that said "The Beatles is music"

Bubsy's ID registration with the state of california says "Party Affiliation: Yes Please."

It would be worth it if there was a dedicated phone number you could call any hour of the day, and whoever picked it up would answer "Yeah, this is Bubsy"

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/274961-bubsy-for-the-vic-20/

Bubsy for the Vic 20 - Commodore 8-bit Computers

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6:45 pm

Nothing is safe from Bubsy.

my wife wants an exclamation mark shirt. she doesn't know this exists. I'm not telling her.

Quick. Someone tell her.

If we send the shirt as a gift, does that count as a charitable donation?

I think it gets you banned from the Discord

my wife isn't a charity

@Phil Salvador So no writing off that!

https://twitter.com/Zerochan/status/958558923451174912

H.K@post-evo (in japan) (@Zerochan)

The four hundred fifty dollar Bubster

I wish I didn't like that cover

it’s real fucked up that it’s good, because it’s for bubsy.

i only found out recently that that version has a dub

11:07 am

dubsy

11:07 am

but also all the lines are kinda generic and they didn't really try to redo his quips in japanese

11:08 am

which seems like a massive missed opportunity

11:10 am

considering how much japan loves cat puns

11:15 am

they did nyat make the meowst of bubsy

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Japanese games are treacherous because there's a billion terrible games with great covers.

i suspect the japanese attitude is "If you want something from the west, you're probably just going to want it in a western style."

2:48 am

During the recent surge I saw the japanese version of steamed hams, and they left in the Upstate New York joke. I'm an american and I barely even get that joke.

Never underestimate the Japanese understanding of Utica and Albany.

Albany is a beacon for hope, I swear

So this is going in the litterbox because it's terrible but I'm still proud of it

5:01 pm

Back in 2003/2004 I made a bunch of terrible joke games with a friend from the Mario fangame site I used to help run, and they've all basically disappeared from the internet apart from like, someone's Box.com account

5:02 pm

They all end with an ad for a fake URL that another friend just figured out was for sale, so now they have a semi-permanent home on the internet again

5:02 pm

And since they were made with Games Factory, I put up the source files too

5:03 pm

For everyone to never remember forever. History! (edited)

oh that's awesome

Duh, I forgot the website. Be warned again that the games are purposely awful and in some cases impossible (I stand by Waligie Dark and Quest for the Golden Treasure) http://geoshities.com/dipstick/

geoshities was available???

Somehow!

6:44 pm

We kinda want to give geoshities pages to other people who made awful crap as teenagers, but we have to figure that out

aw that's such a good url

It is good Sean Connery has a place to call home on the world wide web.

besides ytmnd

naturally naturally

I don't know if this bot has legs, but it is quite good.

11:39 pm

https://twitter.com/vg_erotica/status/959194681224593413

vg_erotica (@vg_erotica)

His gaze was on her, intent and unmoving and, while he had not moved, it seemed as though he had grown larger, more looming. "How can I make this night more satisfying for you, my lady?" The soft question set her heart racing and her stomach turning. "Git gud."

2:36 pm

A review with some negative points on bubsy 1...when bubsy 2 came out

uhhhhhm

11:27 pm

https://legendsoflocalization.com/how-they-translated-bubsy-into-japanese/

Legends of Localization: How They Translated Bubsy into Japanese

How were all those English cat puns, jokes, and movie references handled in the Japanese translation?

god there's too many of these

11:51 pm

Christened my wife's new sketchbook and pens by putting this on page 3 while she's at work

When are you speedrunning Alf?

11:54 pm

I think Ive asked this before.

I practice once in a while

11:54 pm

I just do not have a consistent strat for the bats

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ALF-Sega-Master-System-SMS-NEW-SEALED-NM-SUPER-RARE-US-VERSION-VGA-80/152866341345?epid=214640621&hash=item23978b41e1:g:WHMAAOSwjDZYl3dM

ALF (Sega Master System SMS) NEW SEALED NM, SUPER RARE US VERSION, VGA 80!

For those who don't know, VGA (Video Game Authority) is a well-respected authenticator and grader of factory sealed video games. A grade of 80 is a good grade and represents a near-mint specimen - a SILVER LEVEL grade. | eBay!

80, gross, might as well be covered in mud

Just wait until a nice sealed box of them shows up

fun fact: my mom named me after the baby from the final season of ALF (Eric)

12:38 am

considering he appeared just a few months before i was born i can only assume she saw the baby on tv and was like "oh okay"

No way

that's what i was told anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@retrohistories @simonc there's a community of people who rip models from the games for a posing program called XNALara...when i discovered that, i was like "hey i know what i should do..."

oh that's rad. I figured you were using ripped models but I didn't know that ALL of those would have gotten ripped

totally replied in the wrong room, oops

@izzy (she/her) "Ah, Eric, so that is what babies are called."

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I love Clyde’s stuff.

yeah, his books are required reading imo

Clyde?

cylde mandelin, tomato

3:27 am

legends of localization guy

Ohhh right

3:30 am

I have his Earthbound book

someone should do a licensed Frank MIller's Sin City game, and as a joke make it just a noir Sim City game

it just launches the black and white mac version

Sin Ant

I should put together a pitch for a Boss Fights book for Iron and Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft

https://twitter.com/Neoriceisgood/status/960518739815956482

Neorice (@Neoriceisgood)

Basically half my fanart workfolder is just me copy and pasting my kissing sonic/bubsy sprites onto other characters I've made ...

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5:03 pm

This is wrong.

Perfect opportunity for VGHF valentines

5:15 pm

"Don't worry, I won't dump and release you!" "I would pay Frank Sinatra $9 million to be in an ad for you." "You reprogrammed the gate array to my heart!" (edited)

I'm gonna dump and release in the toilet.

Nintendo downloaded our relationship and sold it to you for $5.99

Is that going on your valentines card this year?

2:06 pm

"You. Me. What could possibly go wrong?"

I was about to say how do we not have a Bubsy exclamation emoji but I suppose this is most of the way there ❗

"can't spell sex without two thirds of Gex"

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oh lordy

HAHA that's your winner.

I just saw some sick Gex footage.

4:19 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSu48hIsaFU#t=0m59s

SEGAnetwork

Crystal Dynamics Saturn Games

i wanted to react to this with a gex emoji but unfortunately we don't have one yet

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Nor should we ever. To invoke his image is to invoke the spirit of evil in the domain of our lord, Bubsy.

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I have another nomination for best worst Mario suit.

5:23 pm

https://twitter.com/nintendomemo/status/961007716545318912

Nintendo Memories (@NintendoMemo)

Best cosplay of Summer CES 1992 https://t.co/nZTh4inrQs

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man, i was just watching that vid when it got deleted suddenly.

The little leg lifts makes me uncomfortable

We don't need Gex we have stargoose

sorry https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/961745755835895808

eric 'slow moe crow' neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

https://t.co/XkmZWnaD7A

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No you are not.

11:39 pm

Not one ounce of bone in your body is "sorry"

i almost choked on my sandwhich when i read your comment because you're definitely right

11:41 pm

sorry not sorry

man

2:17 am

that's an extremely good gex

Generation X

1:18 am

Gen X

1:18 am

Gex

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1:18 am

He’s clearly the mascot of a generation

sex symbol of a generation

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I just saw several people recommend Bubsy as a good game for 5 year olds. They must hate children.

Here's something funny that I came across. I found a guy who plagarized some writing from elsewhere, and I found that the only other piece he had done for the site he was on was a Bubsy review. It's all connected.

bubsy is the root of all

Bald super Mario is the best thing I saw today

11:08 pm

this somehow feels true to the donkey kong character

Wait what's the context for bald Mario?

I thought of the movie

i actually uncovered some obscure bit of game history via bubsy today

1:38 am

so like, i posted in here recently that there was a bubsy/sonic 2 double pack released in the UK

1:39 am

that was released by a company called "telstar fun & games" whose business mostly consisted of these kinda double packs on various systems

1:40 am

but they did publish one unique game on gameboy, under their own name, that hadn't been previously released by someone else (in europe at least)

1:40 am

Bubsy 2

1:41 am

and i discovered that the Nintendo licensee code in that game is shared with some later GBC releases by a company called Evolution Entertainment who mostly released weird stuff from Taito (which is extremely my jam)

1:45 am

I don't exactly know what the connection between Telstar and Evolution is, but Evolution's games seemed to be transferred to a new publisher called Eon at some point, who then entered into a joint venture with an Italian company to form Digital Bros, whose publishing offshoot was 505 Gamestreet, now 505 Games

1:46 am

505 Gamestreet was straight up my favourite publisher in the PS2 era because they put out SO much weird Japanese stuff & it was run by a guy who basically just released stuff he liked, like he was into shootemups so they put out a bunch

1:46 am

(they turned boring later on when I guess some higher up decided they had to make money or whatever)

1:49 am

but anyway i thought it was interesting that my favourite 2000s-era publishers of obscure Japanese games somehow have a history that traces back to Bubsy bubsy

as someone who backed nintendo in the console wars, i remember playing bubsy when it came out and thinking "super nintendo may not have sonic, but this is just as good"

Super NT is here. You know what that means.

1:57 am

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1:57 am

Only the finest Bubsies now.

HD artisan bubsy

2:13 am

the only bubsy game i own is a bootleg copy of the first one on megadrive, and the only megadrive-compatible console i own to play it on is a handheld clone with fucked sound

2:13 am

my bubsies are not optimal

2:14 am

but in a way it seems appropriate

all bubsys are by necessity imperfect

2:50 am

and in these imperfections we see the world

Oh dude I love PS2 era 505

5:00 am

Localizing Simple 2000 games and stuff

Yeah there were others like Midas doing similar things around the same time too, it was a good time to be a European fan of weird Japanese games

8:45 am

It's a shame none of them stuck it out long enough to localise Sukeban Shachou Rena imo

It had to be done

8:10 pm

Did it spontaneously combust after this photo was taken?

Well. It is quite a dirty cart so the Super nt doesn’t really like it

8:17 pm

I’ve only got it to run one time so far and it crashed in the demo loop

8:20 pm

My old zelda alttp cart which I haven’t used in...10 years? Ran completely fine on the first try.

8:20 pm

This is Bubsy hack confirmed right?

https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/963877999862050816

eric 'slow moe crow' neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

roses are red gex is better than bubsy one is a sex icon and the other is a flub, see? https://t.co/0ur23laKzJ

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I like that you didn't get rid of the back of the hat even though it would be a super easy clone stamp

i just knew there had to be 20 other ppl working on this at the same time and had to be first, obv

That's just his shadow.

BUB SYNICKT

This magazine (Power Unlimited) did a preview of Bubsy in their September 1993 issue...and actually gave a score on a preview..

10:13 am

Review in the October 1993 issue

10:25 am

I am sorry to report that cleaning up all my carts has made Bubsy run again on the Super Nt

5:02 pm

he may be clean on the outside but he'll always be dirty on the inside

Clean Contact, Crummy Code

In the same issue bubsy got a review score from that Dutch magazine

6:28 pm

rocket knight Adventures got a lower score

I mean of course the Europeans would like Bubsy

6:29 pm

I read a UK mag that had a fawning interview with one of the Bubsy people as well

Well. It’s hard to take the scores serious..I mean..these are the scores for cd-I zelda and link..

6:31 pm

Holy shit lol

Scores in the first two years of that magazine existing barely got lower than 7

Just a year late the same reviewer states in his review that the cd-I zelda games were not as good as Nintendo’s own. Yet he almost proclaimed them masterpieces one year earlier

6:40 pm

Someone needs to feed this bot Bubsy or perhaps just replicate it using Bubsy.

7:54 pm

https://twitter.com/vg_erotica

vg_erotica (@vg_erotica)

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Steven Seagal (@sseagalofficial)

From Team Seagal Steven Seagal has just become the worldwide ambassador for the Bitcoiin 2nd Generation crypto currency. Press Release https://t.co/aY13wDCbzh You can sign up for the Bitcoiin-2nd Generation here https://t.co/jJ1ZBWSivA Using Referral Code "Segal 9"

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11:02 pm

Who would be the ambassador for Coinsy?

i mean, frank DID create the litterbox...

Just call them Cifaldis?

11:08 pm

“Tall cappuccino? That’ll be two Cifaldis”

failing that i think Ben Esposito would be my second pick

What's the going rate for Cifaldis in Doge?

Will I crash the economy if I change my name?

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there's another tweet that's still up:

12:23 pm

https://twitter.com/sseagalofficial/status/965898618443051008

Steven Seagal (@sseagalofficial)

From Team Seagal Steven has just become the worldwide ambassador for the Bitcoiin 2nd Generation crypto currency. Press Release https://t.co/aY13wDCbzh More to Follow Love and Peace Team Seagal

How many did you buy?

oh and this needs to be shared here too of course. Pure litterbox material.

2:15 pm

Should I send you a framed copy?

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Hahaha

https://twitter.com/ActionZacku/status/966391824037244928

Zac Bertschy (@ActionZacku)

wait WHAT WHAT https://t.co/LCW4Rz9iXL

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omg

2:15 pm

I need to play this now

https://twitter.com/FFXVEN/status/966674137291874304

Final Fantasy XV (@FFXVEN)

A FREE PLAYABLE DEMO for #FFXV Windows Edition is coming next week (26th Feb)! If you pre-purchase/purchase FFXV Windows Edition on @steam_games before 1st May you can also claim the Half-Life Pack via Steam Workshop!

https://t.co/ZRNh69BOQM

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2:46 pm

Half-Life 3 Confirmed

2:46 pm

...that's not even a fake.

They said it was madness to transform Half-Life 3 into a road trip featuring a prince and his buddies, but it just proves that the genius storytelling of Valve's defining property can be applied to any setting!

The game is so meta, no one even noticed half of valve left the company to make half-life three in square enix's studios.

8:04 pm

Gabe Newell is the kwisatz haderach of game development

I need an image of Gordon Freeman riding a Chocobo

Yelling

8:05 pm

'I've come up with a new reciPEHHHH!'

Nevermind that, I want to see a Fat Chocobo headcrab zombie

boots photoshop

Now here is a man that knows how to play to his entire audience!

I aim to please

Also this picture of Gordon Freeman has three distinct living creatures in it. Half Life 3 confirmed!

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I may have taken this too far

9:05 pm

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haha

9:05 pm

I laughed hard

Bubsy 3 for Genesis confirmed!

Maybe not all video game history, tenuously connected or not, is deserving of preservation.

11:00 pm

Even in the age of infinite storage.

I just hope some historian 100 years from now looks at this and gets all confused.

Kids boredly swaying, half paying attention in the VR museum as an elderly millennial explains with great fervor how Bubsy was not the Freeman, as was commonly believed. (edited)

We WILL rewrite history and make Bubsy the greatest gaming icon of all time...

Is that even rewriting though?

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I only just now noticed that this kiwi is smoking in the arcade version of new zealand story

3:23 pm

The "Cool Rebellious" one.

3:33 pm

That's emoticon material.

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Friday Morning Scanning Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0gj8yrLaXE

Edwguard Flows

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild OST - Hyrule Castle Mixed & Extended

https://twitter.com/luulubuu/status/966677077939425280

🏳️‍🌈Lulu🏳️‍🌈🍔 (@luulubuu)

My favorite final fantasy characters; Gordon Freeman Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda and Ariana Grande

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The Ariana Grande event in the FF mobile game was crazy weird.

I love ridiculous crossover events. In SD Gundam GGeneration Genesis there's DLC to unlock the singer of the theme song as a mecha pilot.

https://twitter.com/king_darian/status/967487241638391809

Chris Warriner (@King_Darian)

Finally, a way to play Game Boy games on the go! https://t.co/WN0lh1Hxox

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As intended.

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Make sure to nominate Bubsy for the Video Game Hall of Fame! http://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/nominate

Do it, Ill wear my shirt to the meetings on it. Make me talk about Bubsy

Can we have a Golden Raspberries of Video Games too?

only if the awards are "The Most Mediocre " rather than "The Worst _"

1:03 am

i'm still surprised Adventure hasn't been up for nomination in the "Influence" category...IMO, Legend Of Zelda and Kojima's entire career might not exist without it

Spacewar and Adventure both. I really think a video game hall of fame without those is like a rock and roll hall of fame without Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry (edited)

agreed

1:05 am

tho Spacewar is maybe the Sister Rosetta Tharpe of games

Or maybe the Howlin' Wolf

lets all stuff the nomination box

1:06 am

does it even work like that?

Anyone can nominate, then it gets narrowed down somehow by their people, so its not a straight popularity contest

1:08 am

They got weird last year with Nurburgring 1 somehow becoming a finalist. I think someone just wanted to be clever and be like, see, we knew this German guy made an arcade game once. It did not get inducted. (edited)

Sonic and Wii Sports making it in before foundational games is weird to me

1:11 am

but, i also have a lot of complaints about the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Well yeah, I would not look to them as the paragons, but at least back in the day when they were not inducting people based on what the ratings would be for the induction ceremony, they at least started by getting all the key people from the 50s and early 60s in there

nods

before trying to pretend heavy metal never existed

1:15 am

I get that for them it makes sense to put in a few more modern games that were big sellers to increase their profile, but they are doing what 5-10 a year? They could get a few more pioneers in

i dislike that they've widened the definition of "rock & roll" to include pop as a whole in order to appeal to a wider audience at a time when rock & roll is admittedly at its deadest

1:16 am

but i'd rather see a separate Pop Music Hall Of Fame

1:17 am

even if the R&R HOF ends up becoming just a small wing of it...at least the word wouldn't lose its meaning

I agree

1:17 am

but then if they really cared about rock and roll, they would have located the darn thing in Memphis where it belongs

but Memphis doesn't seem like a very rock city anymore, it seems more country? i think R&R should rename themselves Pop, and a new R&R can start up in Seattle

No, I would not call Memphis a rock city today. I can certainly see Seattle over Cleveland. But heck, I can practically see Ottumwa , Iowa over Cleveland

But it's the original rock city

2:09 am

elvis and all that

I nominated Mike Mayfields Star Trek

Right. Memphis has my vote, which I am sure will be given all possible consideration by the powers that be. =p

9:06 pm

Interpretation 1: Bubsy's life is so perfect. It's what he always dreamed of Interpretation 2: Bubsy cannot dream, he cannot sleep, he cannot look away from his own life

Bubsception

I think it's more that the entire character of Bubsy is so specific to its time and place and so one-dimensional that it is a creative feedback loop that never evolves

what's the source of that comic? i feel like i've read it before

that's in the Japanese manual

We've all read it before. It's embedded in man's DNA.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507976912/super-mario-world-chapter-0-snes-and-super-nintend

Gian Gaetano Milani

Super Mario World: Chapter 0! SNES & Super Nintendo/Famicom

Nintendo is going to approve it! Super Mario World: Chapter 0 - The 1989's Super Mario World version! For SNES, Super Nintendo/Famicom!

7:54 pm

Seems legit

Absolutely, its right in line with Nintendo's history of tolerating random people starting Kickstarter campaigns to complete and bring old prototypes to market. They have just been waiting for the right random guy to come along for this job! (edited)

I recall someone posting in an FB group last year, all proud that they had received a cart with the “beta” version of Super Mario world, and the guy thought it was a real thing. Don’t think he liked it all that much when I showed it was just a hobby recreation someone made based on available screenshots..

Lol, so that's what that is? Oh lord

Yeah

https://www.giantbomb.com/tv/# Bubsy prototype on Giant Bomb TV

Giant Bomb

The largest video game database online, Giant Bomb features Game Reviews, News, Videos, and Forums for the latest in PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, DS, 3DS, NGP, and more!

2:44 am

huh, just noticed Bubsy does the high-res transparency blending. Should check it out.

2:45 am

Bubsy is over

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over? i missed it?

2:56 am

what time did it end?

It was only about a 10 min sequence. They just launched this so not super familiar with it, but I think it is essentially "live" so no archive or rewind.

2:58 am

IT IS TELEVISION

2:58 am

THE FUTURE

2:59 am

We are powerless to the endless content

Silicon Valley: "it's a streaming service that always streams! Log in at any time to something already playing!" "That's television. You've invented television."

3:40 am

I can't wait until Silicon Valley figures out how to invent the home phone

“The snapchat of streaming, where everything is only available once!”

(I should clarify one point. No archive as in the actual running stream. You could, of course, watch the original video, except some of these like the Bubsy video are behind a subscription so...)

Subscribe to Bubsy TV

And I am pretty sure Twitch would prefer to be considered Internet Television. They've done a lot of work to actively discourage archive watching.

3:45 am

But it is too popular to completely turn off.

The Bubsy Channel

Bubsy After Hours: Pants Optional

BBC - Bubsy Broadcasting Channel

3:47 am

24 hours of antiquities shows where they try to sell Bubsy paraphernalia at auctions.

The Reality TV era Bubsy show

Yeah, but need a subscription for some stuff

3:58 am

I was going to link to the Bubsy bit but can't

Awesome Possum might have the most impressively bad parallax scrolling I have ever seen. (edited)

4:05 am

An accomplishment!

https://twitter.com/VGArtAndTidbits/status/971345445673930752

VideoGameArt&Tidbits (@VGArtAndTidbits)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons / Ages - character artwork.

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1:22 pm

Don't confuse with your right

3:35 pm

https://soundcloud.com/nelward/omg-mr-write

3:35 pm

or write

3:35 pm

whatever

Gus, ah, didn't realize it was also sub only. Good to know.

Mario took his sweater off

9:35 am

His nipples firmly protected

people praising bubsy in the analogue discord, tssk tssk

7:28 pm

http://www.defunctgames.com/reviewcrew/3/bubsy-the-bobcat-what-did-critics-think-at-the-time

Bubsy the Bobcat: What Did Critics Think at the Time? - Defunct Games

These days, people seem to hate Bubsy the Bobcat. You see the feline claw his way to the top of many worst character lists and I don't think I've met a single person clamoring for a Bubsy reboot. But what did the game critics think when Bubsy t...

Is Bubsy the RC Cola of video game mascots?

1:11 am

When I was a kid I somehow convinced myself RC was my favorite cola

1:12 am

Admittedly, they had a cool logo, so there was that

No, this doesn't work. RC recognized what made Coke enjoyable and made a product that hit the same notes, Bubsy looked at Sonic and learned all the wrong lessons

1:14 am

It would be like if all they got was "brown and fizzy" and it tasted like spaghetti-o's

(This logo, not the extreme 90s one) https://za.pinterest.com/pin/247627679487866763/ (edited)

Signs

Vintage Plastic RC Cola Sign. $22.00, via Etsy.

sonic is no coke

Sonic is def Pepsi

Correct

yeah, that checks out

Maybe Crash is RC

It feels like a nice change of pace at first but now when I go to a restaurant and order Mario they go "Is Sonic okay?" and I just get water

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It’d be tempting to say Bubsy was New Coke, except in taste tests New Coke actually was superior, people just refused to acknowledge it because they don’t like change

1:25 am

(Kirby is New Coke)

I wish they'd do a limited run of New Coke

Oh no I think Bubsy is OK Soda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Soda

OK Soda

OK Soda was a soft drink created by The Coca-Cola Company in 1993 that aggressively courted the Generation X demographic with unusual advertising tactics, including endorsements and even outright negative publicity. It did not sell well in select...

1:26 am

Attempting to be a hip, self-aware update but basically just the same thing but worse

Lol perfect

Shit you're right

wow, i have no memory of that

I should do Forgettable Cola

1:29 am

And bet on it being memorable

Is the jester from Pandemonium! Faygo then?

Who is Surge?

Gex?

Samus is Dr. Pepper...never in consideration as one of the major cola/platform icons, but obviously the best

Get isn't Xtreme enough

1:33 am

Gex

Alright, N++ guy is Surge

Surge is like Shadow The Hedgehog

Yeah that could work

I feel like Shadow the Hedgehog would be tea

what's Bonk?

Grape Drank

Bonk is the real RC

1:37 am

"oh yeah, there's a third one, I keep forgetting"

Heh

1:38 am

Bonk is 2D RC, Crash is 3D RC

My grandma drank Shasta, which I think is Awesome Possum?

When you don’t feel like a platformer, is Link 7up?

Hm

1:44 am

Link's the lime flavor of La Croix

1:44 am

Too sophisticated to be a sugar soda

https://twitter.com/topherflorence/status/973684562315415552

D👁CFUTURE (@topherflorence)

a bubsy, gex, duke nukem team up game with so much dialogue that is functionally a bad podcast

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(warning: not safe for anywhere)

11:38 pm

I am proud (?) to be preserving this piece of game history (edited)

oh mannnnn

wow

Since I've junked up General enough I'll drop this here. Quite a thing.

5:47 pm

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/974324389066956803

Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog)

"Et tu, Eggman?" #IdesOfMarch

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lol

Admittedly worse than Secret Writers Club, however I just learned of this..

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https://tcrf.net/Front_Mission:_Gun_Hazard

Front Mission: Gun Hazard

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Unlikely new to anyone here, granted, but new to me.

yikes

https://twitter.com/vg_erotica/status/973993023368585217

vg_erotica (@vg_erotica)

He pressed a kiss to the soft skin at the base of her neck. She gasped his name. He scraped his teeth across the soft lobe of one ear until she shivered in his arms. "Talk to me." "Graphics 8/10."

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I try to use stargoose conservatively

I have never really enjoyed a twitter bot until she put that one together.

I am currently playing two games: Beethoven's 2nd and Dog's Life. This has been the case for days now, and I only just now realized they're thematically tied.

This demands an explanation

both are examples of the classic "hero's journey" narrative structure

Hero's journeys you say? I was just going to play my favorite board game.

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http://www.analoggames.com/story/heros-journey-home/

analoggames

Hero’s Journey Home

I’m Graham Cranfield, and I’m an illustrator and game designer from Richmond, Virginia, USA. Game design is something I can only do on the side for now, and I think I prefer it not ever…

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mortal-kombat-movie-oral-history-815287

'Mortal Kombat': Untold Story of the Movie That "Kicked the Hell" ...

The film — which broke the video game curse 20 years ago this week — survived broken ribs, bruised kidneys and ridicule from Hollywood: "Everyone was telling me this wouldn't work and my career would be over," recalls producer Larry Kasanoff.

"broke the video game curse" in what way?

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obviously they're not talking about the curse of bad video game movies, because it was bad and there's still yet to be a legit good one

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but if they mean the first movie to not bomb, Street Fighter already did that

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but i'm not sure if you could call the failures before Street Fighter a curse...two bad movies isn't a curse, you need at least three

First to make money then.

that was Street Fighter

was it profitable?

according to Wikipedia, it made 3x its budget

neat!

although, 2/3 of that was from international box office sales

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Mortal Kombat was the first to be #1 at the box office on its opening weekend, so i guess that's it

did you go to the live show

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I went to the live show

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I am so sorry for you

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I don't remember too much. there was a lot of fighting.

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also kintara's face mask fell off and she held it on with her hand

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KittenCarl

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maybe the one I saw was unofficial

i went to the live show

in retrospect my neighbor's house doesn't seem like an appropriate venue

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kate what are your memories of the mortal kombat live show?

MK was the right balance of campy for the time

fighting...did it even have a story? i don't remember

Considering the source material and all

the story was "these people gotta fight"

To the death

i mean, my memory of it is so fuzzy, i'm not sure if i actually saw it or just a commercial and convinced myself i saw it

Actually

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Does MK ever address why it is a fight to the death? I'm sure it does just blanking.

12:56 am

Like a three point you lose system not enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO8_Uva1GM

Mortal Kombat Secrets - MKSecrets.Net

Mortal Kombat: The Live Tour - Electronic Press Kit

12:56 am

"I thought it was way much better than Power Rangers Live"

So it is like symbolic deaths to avoid all out war? Kind of a noble premise in a weird way.

the story is in here

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I don't know that this was properly conveyed to me on stage

is there a list of tour dates anywhere? the one on wikipedia is way incomplete

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god it's still going

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sorry what I fell asleep

the Minnesota angle:

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https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62624596.html

She's no mere Mortal; Fridley native Kerri Hoskins puts edge on `S...

The producers of "Mortal Kombat - The Live Tour" promise bigger lasers than a Pink Floyd... | Article from Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) February 9, 1996

oh she played Kintaryl

does that vid scroll a list of tour dates by chance? the lack of tour dates online is super disappointing

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but if i saw a Pink Floyd concert at that age, i'd probably still remember it

I don't think it does but I couldn't finish it

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yeah because y'all were going to go home and pirate the game

1:06 am

wait I have a better joke

1:06 am

you guys would be confused because you played the famicom version that had mario in it

1:07 am

yeah that's the explosion brain version

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FINISH HIM (rubs a guy with a rabbit)

@Gus Lanzetta Just talked to the Williams sales guy this morning and he was more than happy to put in a good word for me to get anybody from there

He didn’t do MK but he knows all the people there and did the later games

Yes. He was there 81-83, 85-90, 95-99

here's a bigger version of that mortal kombat video btw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AFk2nYfads

Mortal Kombat Komics

Mortal Kombat - The Live Tour

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i think?

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at least it's twice as long but dunno if there is other material

https://twitter.com/jim_felis/status/975410738348134400?s=21

Jim Lu (@Jim_Felis)

@KirbyInformer This was in the Nintendo NYC today :) https://t.co/jEaFEaAox4

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I admit to feelings of wanting to hug

not hugging Kirby

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if that was a thought

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you're a monster

to be fair, if you tried to hug him he'd probably think it was an attack and eat you

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he'll eat people for less

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just sleeping peacefully, for instance

What if I hug it from the side

what you could do is let him throw a heart at you and take control of your body, and then maybe he'll have you hug him

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or maybe he'll just use you as cannon fodder in the next fight

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i'm not actually sure of Kirby's pronoun, "it" might be more appropriate, since it's essentially the most adorable Lovecraft-esque monster ever created

I think the right pronoun is “the Pink Satan”

no

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Poyo

@Wietse van Bruggen What kinda racket are you running over there? https://kotaku.com/suspected-drug-dealers-arrested-hiding-cocaine-lsd-ins-1823875295

Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested Hiding Cocaine, LSD Inside Fake Ni...

Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA.

I wonder what nootropic stuff gamers get into

ha!

You got jipped dude.

Dang it. I’ll have to resort to hiding it in wooden shoes again. (edited)

ahha

https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/976645855586365440

Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion)

How Japan pictured the Super Mario series in America. From the KC Super Mario Manga series.

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Our mission statement fulfilled. Let's close this mother down. We've done good.

I can only have one response

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Putting my new scanner to good work

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So, the World Video Game Hall of Fame nominations are out and no Bubsy. Once again the world fails to recognize greatness!

I thought about making that joke

Somebody had to do it, so I sacrificed myself for the good of the team. (edited)

Should have nominated it

I may be willing to sacrifice myself for a cheap joke, but I do have some standards sir!

Such a great oversight. A line has been crossed! I’m dumping Bubsy

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I dumped bubsy but the rom fails to load. Typical.

Bubsy took a dump on you

one day i'll turn Bubsy into an action RPG

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it will be called Ys: Bub

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but its a human with orange hair wearing the icon shirt

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and the exclamation point is backwards

What in the https://twitter.com/nvmusa/status/978782351311474688

Videogame Museum (@nvmusa)

Here's a weird throwback to when games were so hardcore that you'd get a free pack of smokes when you bought a game. Yes, they're REAL cigarettes! Thanks but no thanks, Tengen!

KLAX sounds like some sort of disease you catch

Wow

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I feel like I'm in The Rocketeer

Where at?

Do you see Timothy Dalton anywhere? (edited)

Somewhere in South Carolina, I'm out for a funeral

aw, sorry to hear

Thanks!

Kind of looks like how they decorate Mellow Mushrooms up here.

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(and now I want a fancy pizza)

Someone send me a Wendy’s burger

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Consolation Fries

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Is it you putting on your bubsy suit and roaming the streets of Tokyo?

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Dang

Do tell me if you put up any of the fun around Chicago stuff we did!

i've been hit by the "bracket" bug...i suddenly had a list full of ideas, including some tricky gaming ones

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tho i also keep having ideas for joke ones...like a bracket with no theme at all

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mario vs. coca-cola...DVD vs. pillows...

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i did a search, and it didn't seem like anyone did this: https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status/979861063192719360

Kate Willært 🤘🏻 (@katewillaert)

Soda / Pop / Carbonated Beverage Bracket.

It took me too long to send the clip I filmed for Devin to him.

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https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status/979898374504767489

Kate Willært 🤘🏻 (@katewillaert)

Here's a challenging bracket for Nintendo fans. Have fun.

spoiler: my winner is Super Metroid

https://i.imgur.com/6rJFZYF.jpg

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Our boy in brown hanging out with big time over here

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I'd probably lean Super Metroid on that list as well, although I plan to do a fresh play this year. It has been eons.

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Alternatively I go back and forth on SMW and SMB3

Now I’m left wondering what Bubsy was priced at

I honestly can't tell if it is in a special glass enclosure for the fancy types, or if it serves as a lean on/angle buddy (edited)

2:39 am

Considering Tecmo bowl is above it I am not so sure

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Also I had no idea Aero Fighters was so rare/expensive

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(Spoilers: it is an okay shmup)

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(Do not pay $550 for Aero Fighters. Talk to me first. I will point you at a better shmup.)

Dang, it actually is one of the expensive ones

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I mostly stick to SFC games, so I have no idea what the SNES price market is like

2:44 am

seems like we're getting to the point where it'd be cheaper to learn Japanese and buy a j-region cart of an RPG than buy the original US SNES cart

Yeah, looks like Sonic Wings goes for around $50 on ebay so that'd be the way to go

No, it goes for $200+

I mean at $550 just buy the dang arcade PCB, like what are people even doing.

The $50s are the repros

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Oh, right

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sonic wings

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duh

I see some listings for the JP cart at around 25 euro

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aero-Fighters-arcade-game-PCB-Jamma-vertical-shooter-board-working/332487622300?hash=item4d69ce7e9c:g:nTUAAOSwEEBaMuuT

Aero Fighters arcade game PCB - Jamma vertical shooter board working

Selling an Aero Fighters arcade PCB arcade board. Jamma style, fully working and tested before this posting. Comes with a marquee which is a little toasty. | eBay!

2:50 am

oh wow $90

I still find the concept of people buying console full sets to be absurd (edited)

2:50 am

Like, I'm working towards a complete collection of Gundam games, but at least there's a unifying theme there

2:51 am

People who're going "my top three most desired games are a rental only licensed fighting game, a stunt racing game, and an M-rated game about a squirrel who says fuck"

2:52 am

Like, what is you even doing?

i go back and forth between SMW and SMB3 as well, especially the All-Stars version

I've still never played SMB3

it's probably the best of all the NES games

Sounds like an opportunity to me

well, there's only, like, 2 NES games I like, sooooooo~

which ones are they?

Castlevania is one

It’s home alone 2 right? RIGHT?!

TMNT is the other, right?

man, I can not even remember

Kirby's Dreamland?

I like Final Fantasy, but I don't know if it would qualify considering the interface of the original release

Just get all the Lolo games.

I like DQ1-3, but I've only played them on GBC

Don't like 4, or haven't played?

If 4 had come out for GBC I would have played it

4 might be my favorite DQ. Easily one of my favorite 8-bit RPGs.

checks the shelf

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oh wow, i own 4 on DS

hah

and have no memory of playing it

The remake is pretty good too

4 was the Four Heroes Of Light one, and Five was the Dad one, right?

It has an interesting plot structure, particularly at a time when, let's be honest, it was a lot of manga pastiche

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Might be thinking of FF? Not entirely sure, hah

OK, now I'm remembering how I played SMB3

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with the round-robin MP mode, at friends' houses

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and I died to the ramp in level 2

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continuously

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that was my reward for waiting six minuted each life

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4 seconds of holding right

SMB3 is incredibly impressive when you consider it is an 8-bit platformer. Even with MMC3 at its back, it is an impressive piece of work.

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The only thing that overshadows it is they went on to make Mario World on much more powerful hardware.

a programmer friend likes to point out that Kirby is an even more impressive game technically, probably the most impressive NES game

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i still haven't played through it

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i'm watching a video to look for the ramp

Kirby is impressive, although came out in what? 93?

it was like one of the last games

seems like everyone gives that title to Gimmick

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for its physics

It does have the benefit of being informed by 16-bit design ethos, but all the same. It is NES+MMC3. It is a massive mapper but it doesn't solve all problems.

is this the ramp? http://prntscr.com/iyshec

Yeah, Gimmick and Little Samson kind of form the masters of 8-bit

That's the one

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dozens of green marios met their end on that bloody slope

were your friends dying too? how did the roundrobin work?

It's the standard 2P mode

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play until you clear a level, or die

ah

and to be totally accurate it wasn't that slope

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because this was the all stars version

ah ok

Oh man, It is weird to see coins being represented in game with a dollar symbol

so it was this http://prntscr.com/iysj5m

a meat grinder

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the graveyard of empires

lol

3:23 am

the person in the screenshot is pressing down instead of right

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but i'm totally not judging you

I should really try that All Stars physics patch

what does that do?

restore SMB3 NES physics

I think 2 and 3 were fine, it is just the original and 2j? Let me find it

3:27 am

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/167

SMAS SMB/Lost Levels Brick Fix

Since the very first day I played it, something has bothered me about SMAS’s version of SMB (and L

3:27 am

Anyway, I got bored the other night, and decided to track down the problem and fix it once and for all. It was actually much easier than I thought, just a case of reversed Y velocity…silly Nintendo.

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That seems...

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Like it should be way buggier if that is the problem

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In the NES version, Mario bounces back very quickly after breaking a brick block. When Mario jumps and breaks a brick in All-Stars, he is pulled upward for a split second. Unfortunately, this small change wrecks the rhythm of the original game; in All-Stars, instead of rebounding off a brick block without losing speed, when Mario makes a running jump and breaks a brick that is connected to another block, he'll bump into the adjacent block and fall straight down, resulting in a total loss of momentum.

This change affects both Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, but Super Mario Bros. 3 was spared, thankfully.

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ah, that makes more sense

OK, world 1 down

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game seem OK

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The amount of hidden secrets is nice

one thing i miss in modern games is secrets

Ironically, Skyrim and Fallout 4 were pretty decent in that regard

3:45 am

like, cave/dungeon entrances are all signposted

Lainer, lost the thread there a bit, sorry, which game are you playing precisely?

SMB3

Got it, thanks.

but in weird nooks, crannies, and tucked away on top of roofs and such you'll find weird pairs of clutter items

3:46 am

that usually function as designer signatures

Exploration in particular was warped considerably in popular gaming design.

3:47 am

I had a friend who worked at a very large studio reason it to me that making this stuff is expensive and time consuming so you might as well do everything you can to make sure the player sees as much as possible.

nods

3:49 am

being a Metroid fan, i love games that encourage exploration...tho i haven't played Skyrim or Fallout because they seem so overwhelmingly massive

3:50 am

BOTW is the only overwhelmingly massive game i've played in a long time, and i felt a little guilty spending so much time in it instead of trying to be productive

Friend of mine worked on the Vita Assassin's Creed. He never had insight into the "rationale" of it, he just knew they hired a lot of people who wanted to make lots of models

3:50 am

so they put lots of stuff in the game

but i like that Kirby still holds the torch of bite-sized games that encourage exploration and secrets

I say the Vita version because when they did the HD version they replaced all his meshes

I have a lot of thoughts about Assassin's Creed, most not worth visiting, but chief among them is being a big old grump just because I want my precious Prince of Persia back.

Sorry, I played PoP as a child, so I have nothing but hate for it

3:53 am

I have more fond memories of dark castle

Original has some jerk design in there, for sure, was thinking more Sands of Time.

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Though also not a perfect game.

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I just like the way it handles the mechanics of moving around a space better.

3:55 am

The reality is it would have turned into AC's parkour system one way or another, but a boy can dream.

There's still a place somewhere for a technical jumping game

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where it is, I don't know

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it would be a hard sell. have to do it with something that has brand recognition, but isn't as risk of destroying that value

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Something like Bubsy

Now we're on to something

I legitimately think you could getaway with another Bubsy game, even after the passing breeze of the most recent

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if you call it Bubsy 3D 2

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because Bubsy 3D is basically its own brand beyond Bubsy

I think the time has long past for non-threatening platformers. The audience that would be most interested has moved on and very unlikely to return, so we just have niche pockets and the one obvious big exception

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The metroidvanias will carry on as that niche audience is there (edited)

4:02 am

The maso meatboys and the likes

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And Sonic will do whatever sonic does.

kart race, hopefully

4:04 am

the two best sonic games ever made have him behind the wheel of a car to slow him down

Sega proudly Announces Sonic Spinball 2

4:06 am

PR representative kicks at dirt and gives something sounding like an apology

Hat in Time was supposed to be good

4:08 am

and a whole lot of people wanted that gecko game to be good

4:10 am

Sega of America announces Spinball 2 exclusively for Xbox One, so that hopefully no japanese person ever sees it and tells their bosses that it exists.

i want to see an Olympic Games style team-up of Sonic and a Nintendo character, but pinball...picture this:

4:13 am

Metroid Prime & Sonic Spinball

There should be an Opa Opa pinball game

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It'll be the only good game in the franchise

Overall I think I prefer SMW. The cape is very broken though.

The cape being broken is what made it fun for kids who are bad at hard levels

1:18 pm

Like using the p wing in smb3 to skip the hardest flying ship

True. And secrets..yes they were great

1:19 pm

Just got to this one again

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The Japanese manual explicitly mentions the flutes as an alternative to battery saves. They even kinda apologize for the lack of it in that context.

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The bottom P.S part

@Kate Willært the bethesda open world stuff might be hard for you to play, if you equate "exploration" with "ability to see everything by playing"

5:16 pm

stuff like the fallout games is more about doing whatever you feel like without anything breaking, you don't 100% it

i've been getting better about it...i have some funny stories about classic games i never finished because i stopped when i realized i'd passed a missable collectible

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now i can turn it off, but i still enjoy a game i can 100%

there's a lot fewer 0/100s on your menu in bethsoft games

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except for that one awful one in the thieve's guild quest in skyrim

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The game just politely reminds you that you can always level more

I played a lot of New Vegas, the way you play that game is to do whatever you want until you feel like beating the main story, and then play it again to try to do things other ways

Might be of interest to some here, and not really sure where to drop it. But I worked out the seed used for the Link to the Past race at AGDQ2018, if feeling adventurous, it is fun to play and go back to the race and compare, even if you don't complete it.

10:19 pm

http://vt.alttp.run/h/ZeM4g4xLGj

ALttP VT Randomizer

ALttP Web VT Randomizer

10:20 pm

Need to use the vanilla japan rom to generate it

10:20 pm

Zelda no Densetsu - Kamigami no Triforce (Japan).sfc
MD5  : 03a63945398191337e896e5771f77173
SHA1 : e7e852f0159ce612e3911164878a9b08b3cb9060

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Not rev 1, not rev 2.

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If you get this hash at the file select you should be good

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Race link for convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMK7bVmcic&feature=youtu.be&t=1574

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And this is where I say New Vegas is better then FO3 and FO4 because I am that guy.

that's okay, I am too

10:35 pm

I played FO3 and didn't really get into it but was like "okay, realistically, this is probably the best new fallout anyone could have done, so bravo"

10:35 pm

and then like ten minutes into new vegas I was like "oh. this is fallout 3."

The way they fleshed out the systems really completed the package. And I like the writing better pound for pound.

the writing is significantly, significantly better

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just not even the same class

Yeah New Vegas is my personal favorite Fallout. I didn't play them until 3 though, and still need to go back and play the originals.

Finding ways to see the joy in fallout has been on my to-do list for a long time. So far I’ve never gotten the hang of it. The overhanging dystopian atmosphere is definitely not a plus for me.

The music, do it for the music

4:38 pm

I remember hearing Rocket 69 for the first time and was like "Wow this was actually an old song?"

They are quite cynical, Wietse. I don't fault anyone if that is a turn off. (edited)

Yeah, that is the turn off for me.

I loved 3 and 4, but didn't really get into New Vegas

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I did something early on that I didn't feel I should have been allowed to do, and from a role-playing perspective it felt like I had "finished" my character's story

Ironically I feel like the story of FO4 is a rarity in modern sci fi

10:55 pm

in that it is an opptimistic post-apocalyptic story

FO4's story tugged on my parental heartstrings in a way that made me forget it was post-apocalyptic

I can't speak to that part of the story, but it's one of the few times where you'll leave a videogame world in better shape than you found it

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as long as you don't plunge humanity into the dark ages by joining the brotherhood, of course

but they have such cool outfits!!!

Cool, so kill those feudal bastards and take them off their cold corpses

Which is why i finished the game wearing Maxson's jacket, which I didn't get by asking him nicely.

ditto

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it's a shame it's far and away the best armor in the game

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very little reason to wear anything else

There's always a point in the Bethesda games where you level up enough that armor becomes mostly a cosmetic choice

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Not if you stay on max difficulty setting on FO4 above level 25

11:14 pm

I ended up kicking it down to just hard because there were like 4 enemy types that would just refuse to die

11:15 pm

kept having to rely on this one legendary weapon I just happened to find, 150 hours ago, on a random mid-level bear

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a gattling gun that did explosive damage with every bullet

ooo

11:21 pm

Wow, your Sanctuary is looking kinda sparse there

Yeah. I didn't like building things.

I should take better screenshots of the things I've rebuilt

I had enough beds for all my companions and that was all I felt like doing.

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nice

Fallout 4 is like 85% of my ideal game

11:25 pm

It has that creative building element, but it's not just YOUR ONLY LIMIT IS YOUR IMAGINATION

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Like, yeah, great, I should just go back to novel writing in that case

11:26 pm

I want that building aspect working in parallel to a linear story.

11:27 pm

Maybe we have to wait until the minecraft generation starts getting into game dev, but I hope to see a lot more of that in the future

I’m curious what the percent breakdown is of players who prefer linear stories to wildly open stories or somewhere in between

Doing important cd-i research

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Interesting. This Super System was imported and used in Belgium back in the day. (edited)

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You're doing God's (aka Bubsy's) work.

The guy who owns that dev unit also has a giant Odyssey2/Videopac collection. Exchanged contact info, need to pick his brain. And he has some more contacts from inside philips from back in the day.

I still find the CD-i to be really interesting.

3D0 and CDi are two moments of interest for me as well.

I played with the 3DO for the first time today. Another World looks nice on it. There’s an annoying bit of loading time...so you know that you are hit by those worms when the system starts loading

1:15 pm

Micro Machines is pretty horrible on cd-i. Screen scrolls at such a low refresh. (edited)

Twisted, Braindead 13, and that one stupid fighting game were my last year of High School.

when i think of 3DO i think of Twisted, Putt Putt Goes to the Moon, and Theme Park

1:59 pm

my grandpa bought a 3DO at launch for $700 or whatever insane price it was because he thought it was the future

1:59 pm

a year later he gave it to me for christmas cause it was worthless lol

The most important election of our lifetimes http://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/players-choice-ballot

Player’s Choice Ballot | World Video Game Hall of Fame

March 27–April 4 Which video game do you think is most worthy of joining icons such as Pac-Man, Pong, Super Mario Bros., and Tetris in the World Video Game Hall of Fame? Vote below for the one you think best meets the criteria of icon-status, l...

I did my part

I went DDR

Spacewar (edited)

Glad everyone is having fun with it

FFVII

The second shirt on theYetee today is totally @Frank Cifaldi https://theyetee.com/

The Yetee

Awesome tees for your torso!

Oh my god I might buy it

I...may need that too

2:45 pm

I might just have bought that..

i got the kirby shirt....i've been playing kirby dream course with my mom recently so it seems timely lol

I like both, but no money currently

yeah, I'm getting that

3:57 pm

shooting a video in ten days about it, will wear this if it's here by then

1

They don't ship all that quickly, not sure if this is one that has an express option. They are pretty much made to order based on how many they get that day, so it can take a bit

dang

It'll be close

I only had one shipping option, nothing to choose. Could be different because I’m not in the US

Some of those daily shirt places have an express, I dont think theyetee does though

there was no express option on this

5:00 pm

oh sorry you already said that

The last shirt I ordered from them was January 22, didnt get in until the 12th of february though. But this was right around AGDQ, so Im not sure if that delayed things

What’s the quality on the shirts?

I like them, they seem to hold up pretty well.

I stopped ordering things from threadless because the print quality got really terrible (edited)

good quality stuff. I don't know if they use the same hanes shirts still that they used when we had #IDARB shirts made but they're a bit smaller than I'm used to

The ones I order are pretty simple in design, not a ton of printing so they hold up better I think than some might otherwise

[cigarette in mouth meme] threadless. I haven't heard that name in years.

An order in december took 6 days to ship, cant tell how long past that until it arrived

The one shirt I would love to have again, was a shirt from a life well wasted with this print on it. Sadly shirt has died long ago.

5:08 pm

On occasion, yetee gets totally overwhelmed and just stops shipping. Is weird.

Oh dang I love both of those shirts.

Bought the wright

(edited)

In other t shirt related events, I love it when someone marks a t-shirt Kickstarter reward package containing just a shirt as having a 50 dollar value.

6:07 pm

25 euros of customs charges..

RIP Isao Takahata

Now we'll never get that Bubsy-Grave of the Fireflies mashup we all dreamed of.

Crusader Kings II is free on Steam. Add it to your library and never play it like the rest of us or else you aren't cool.

Damn finally got my computer back up after 2 days. Don't ever install MagicISO

noted

Problem with fast PC's and SSD drives is that it's hard as hell to get to the F8 menu

We got an interesting box in the mail today. Accolade development kit stuff that looks to have been used to make our favorite game. And apparently, these were kits used in Sega v Accolade, so a lot of history. Not putting this out to the generally Twitterverse yet, but I thought you guys would appreciate it

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Very interesting! Definitely want to hear more about it when they're willign to share.

I played Crusader King’s 2. Worked on getting the Fatima Calliphate to take over the Vatican/Rome. Got thwarted because I had to murder all of my family and most of the people around me. Had no real leadership structure left...

Right, "had to" murder them all, uh-huh

10:46 pm

That's what most serial killers say too

I nearly did it!

Whoaaaa what is that game

so i guess that's Old Donk?

Yetee Sim City shirt shipped

Spotted on Facebook. Why. Why.

8:04 am

Ps1 or ps2 memory card (edited)

My latest masterpiece:

9:28 am

https://www.facebook.com/Same-Question-Which-Version-Of-Aladdin-Is-Better-Every-Day-1660112300731983/

Wright in the house

5:58 pm

1

3

I really wish I would have had that for the recording on Saturday

What I want that shirt! Where'd you get it!

It was a one day shirt on theyetee

Dang!

The doctor is in

1

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/987054451482542080

https://soundcloud.com/luigiblood/sim-city-nes-village-snes-remake

Crash Bandicoot Cable Guy up for preorder on Amazon XL (can hold a Switch) https://t.co/fEX6ijdYDw Standard https://t.co/Emw97y7fty

8:05 pm

can you imagine this but with bubsy

8:06 pm

a foot tall bubsy

I would rather not

8:06 pm

but now you've put it inside my head

you're welcome

8:07 pm

tbh i'd pay the big bucks for a gex

I know Battle City isn't Namco's most beloved game but they shouldn't let stuff like this be on Google Play.

Possibly

Finally got yakuza 0..and the first boss is kicking my ass

Didn't anyone ever tell you crime doesn't pay?

I had to switch to easy..

Yeah, I have not played, but I watched a stream where the player was getting very, very angry

Ooooh space harrier

3:12 pm

The game is definitely grabbing me except for the boss so far.

3:12 pm

Haven’t found outrun yet

3:14 pm

You can definitely tell this game has PS3 origins

IMO Yakuza is best without any challenge, you just have fun beating people up with your superpowers and solve social dilemmas

3:41 pm

I put it on easy and never thought about it

"I know Battle City isn't Namco's most beloved game" i think china and taiwan say otherwise

9:01 pm

and probably russia

6:24 pm

The unholiest thing was traded in today

4

Two cats that should never have met.

1

Unholy? That's my shrine.

Oh, that game. That should have been the end of it. But no. Black Forest Games had to Frankenstein Bubsy back to life.

Alas, no footage of the Jaguar/Bubsy killer combo in the tour of @kelslewin ‘s store

4:37 pm

Your store looks superb btw.

Footage was shot a week ago, unfortunately. That would have been fun to include.

4:38 pm

Thanks so much!!

Oooh tempting, I may have to go visit and wander for a while pretending I'm not going to buy it.

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I own the game

8:07 pm

...with a disk that doesn't work

Doh!

1

8:15 pm

I'll just put this

8:15 pm

again

8:15 pm

What if there was bubsy body wash? https://twitter.com/luulubuu/status/989104778226683906

🏳️‍🌈Lulu🏳️‍🌈 🍔beesechurger (@luulubuu)

The west has Old Spice, Japan has an official Hokuto no Ken Bodywash. https://t.co/S81LVCi7zS

Retweets

5456

Likes

10725

No. Just no.

Sudsy

Okay I've got some mic drop content here

12:52 am

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I cant

are.. they supposed to be... waves? Because all I am seeing is cyclops Sonic. (I mean I get they are flip-flops) (edited)

wow

oh man

1:26 am

i'm clearing my calendar

Who gave you these? We must praise him as a new saint of the Church of Bubsy

I'm at Martin Alessi's house

Details about Bubsy's Beach Bash from an issue of QuestBusters. It sounds lit https://archive.org/stream/questbusters-v10n08/qbusters_v10_n08#page/n5/mode/2up/

3:36 am

3:37 am

Bubsy's party had a velcro wall

3:39 am

That whole article sounds like a fever dream. They went to a Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill party

CURSED

Oooooh lordy

Why Lord? Why has you cursed this world with Bubsy. Wasn't locusts and that stuff enough?

I have a proposal for a new discord emoji

6:29 pm

actually.png

6:35 pm

From the Japanese game boy box for TMNT

6:35 pm

I vote yes.

Oh sure

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I'm sorry. But I have to show you the most horrendous title screen I have seen. Again, I am sorry.

9:04 pm

Well, puma is a related species to bubsy so I’m not surprised.

You can't even see the Puma text in the logo. What happened here?

9:07 pm

You can but not very clear.

It does look like it was designed by someone who had just discovered the filter section and stroke option in photoshop

Yes, but not even then would you make that. That's too much embossing.

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Finaly.

http://myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/173551535010/7-bubsys-of-the-world

my friend pokey

7 bubsys of the world

[[MORE]]1. museum bubsy: i love bubsy bobcat’s ghastly, staring eyes, which look past everything around him, as if he were the dead theologian mentioned in swedenborg - who upon death simply moves...

7:22 pm

but it’s still curious that [Bubsy] was chosen, rather than, say, zool or cool spot, mascots who were “worse” on an objective moral level in that they were literally marketing contrivances to sell snack food to children. the videogames audience is traditionally able to accept any level of ghoulishness of this kind as long as it is presented in an appropriately humble,relateable way - the only sin really punished is that of pride, of getting above your station. so here we have a sort of martyr-bubsy, whose only real crime was not exemplifying videogame industry hubris and cynicism so much as making insufficient effort to cover for it…

(edited)

Please tell me this a very early Bubsy prototype

it's socks the cat

10:38 pm

which is Worse Than Bubsy

You’re going to make me try it

I don't think the ROM is generally out there yet and I don't want to ruin their fun

Ah

Ross Perot just murdered me

10:43 pm

Looks like the rom is out there btw

oh good, where are you seeing it?

Google search made it turn up, maxconsole.com. Never heard of it.

10:51 pm

Music sounds very MD/Genesis like

hey now, what's up with that article hating on Cool Spot?

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lol wow

Perot didn’t take me down

11:04 pm

@Frank Cifaldi it gets better

11:04 pm

11:07 pm

Managed to kill Nixon, but then got killled by a protestor outside of the capitol

nice

11:41 pm

if you're on an emulator I've got a RAM cheat for infinite lives

11:41 pm

how long did it take you to figure out the ropes?

Playing on supernt

11:41 pm

Pretty quickly

11:41 pm

It is not clear yeah

11:41 pm

I've been tweeting animated GIFs

Yeah I just saw when checking twitter

11:42 pm

Surprised you managed to get that far into the level without knowing the rope thing

I've mastered the awful run-jump

There’s a jump really early in the level that I couldn’t do without rope jumping, but you have seemed to gotten past that point

11:43 pm

Ooh, there is one?

that gives you like 3 extra pixels

I’ve clipped through parts of the floor as well at points. Seen enemies do it too

everything's so simple when you just read the manual

apparently that happens all the time in the real prototype

11:46 pm

like a level starts with you falling through the floor

So they fixed things up?

I remember I mentioned the release of this to a Kaneko guy. Surprisingly he actually remembered it

Cold

1:34 am

This is like if Capitol Steps made a game

i have been enjoying all the socks gifs

what a weird ass video game

it's way better than it needs to be

I am proud of the ending of my twitter thread from yesterday https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/992240231163183110

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_IGP-pvFfw

It's even better with the audio https://t.co/G6idsC1xKb

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6:56 pm

audio is mandatory

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Jesus Christ

7:05 pm

It's so great because you can tell exactly the type of thing it's trying and failing to be.

the humor of the game you mean?

I'll take the Animaniacs version of this scene.

Yeah

7:06 pm

Going for this very particular semi-adult 90s cartoon thing.

I'm at digital eclipse today and every time I adjust the audio on my screen it shows the spotify thumbnail for Careless Whisper

7:07 pm

I've explained twice today that I was listening to it ironically

were you informed both times that there is no such thing as liking something ironically?

no actually both times the person said "it's a good song"

you are in good company

it is a good song

7:09 pm

but also I can't hear it and not laugh

George Michael is great, and also very cheesy

it always makes me think of my friend Ian

7:17 pm

one night he left work kinda late, his office was in downtown Seattle. it was quiet and dark, and he's just walking along, and as soon as he turns a corner a street musician out of nowhere starts playing the song on a sax

How long is the game?

8:30 pm

And @Frank Cifaldi, you will have to make an MSU-1 version of the game where that track plays for real on hardware

Machine Gaming

George Michael - Careless Whisper (SNES Version)

8:37 pm

(do not play this video)

too late

((I only feel justified in posting this because we are in the bubsy zone)) (edited)

If you ever need a Lolo 2 code to get to that next level..please use this resource me and my sister put together back in the day

7:27 pm

Nice! I probably have a few game notes floating around somewhere mysel

I do need a code for Lolo 2 actually.

Lolo <3

I recall lots of shouting at the tv while we tried to figure out hard rooms

Also, I can't think of a better place for this link than a litter box, but I have a challenge.

10:58 pm

https://twitter.com/winterion/status/992827291712540672

Daniel Greenberg (@winterion)

Let's play a game. I call it... PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION OR ESPORTS ATHLETE

Things got passionately

Yeah, those puzzle games are taxing sometimes.

Was part of what made them engaging. Great to play with others

11:05 pm

this...is a tough challenge @Daniel Greenberg (Winterion)

Thanks! We were dying laughing on the couch after the idea hit me.

Here's your daily dosage of Kirby:

11:14 pm

11:15 pm

From the Dutch NES manual I just scanned

11:15 pm

Kirbys_Adventure_-_NES-KR-HOL_-_manual.pdf

7.29 MB

i love kirby and i love seeing kirby but he deserves better than the litterbox

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From Frank's Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/992946949438373889

Home_Alone_2_-_NES-HM-FRA_-_manual.pdf

Poor Yoshi

That's some proper litterbox content

Looks like he’s been punched in the head a few too many times

Mario looking totally emotionless, any feelings of empathy towards Yoshi’s predicament totally absent. That’s what years of drug abuse do to you.

This Scrooge from Swedish Nintendo-magasinet is awesome?

He's seeing blue

9:31 am

Okay okay, I have something more worthy of the litter box than Kirby's Adventure manual..

9:31 am

9:32 am

4.06 MB

Best subtitle ever?

My life's mantra

I am sorting my Sunsoft images. 1042 to go. I should have done this from the beginning. But then again it wasn

7:48 pm

wasnt meant to become a monster research job at first.

7:51 pm

reminder I have a giant ass scanner

"Games with personality" (edited)

lost opportunity there

7:54 pm

purrsonality

Totally

but also your typo was really amazing

What size does that thing have?

PRsonality

haha

7:54 pm

Yeah

it's a little bigger than 11x17

Oscar goes to...Accolade's marketing team for making every media outlet imaginable think this is a game on the level of a Super Mario..

7:56 pm

You wonder what kind of status Socks would've gotten if it had been released in the 90's.

kaneko's PR was nowhere near as good

Another bit from that Kaneko guy, they pursued Michael Jordan even though he was signed with EA. Japan lies to say that they had him to get the pres to try again and wound up flying out for nothing.

Important Footage of Tiger Woods doing Video Game Things here: https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/game-tapes-raw-tiger-woods-pga-tour-golf-b-roll/2300-13046/

Game Tapes RAW: Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf B-Roll

Waaaazzzzzuuuuuuup?!

...are they doing the voiceover recording at the public library?

It sure seems that way. Maybe a school?

I guess they had to fit it into wherever he was gonna be that day

lol i skipped around and saw Tiger Woods (real-life version) T-posing for mocap

this video is priceless and you're all heroes

Why the hell were they recording voice lines in the middle of an office? Did they not have a booth?

I think shadsy's guess is a good one

A school seems right, like maybe he was giving an inspirational talk to kids and that was the only day they could do it

Reminds me of the story of Bill Murray's voice work for the ghostbusters video game being recorded via telephone while he was golfing.

Wow really?

9:34 pm

So he was REALLY phoning it on?

9:34 pm

It sure sounds like it

9:34 pm

As far as I know Murray showed up the studio for two days, didn't get through all his lines thought

1:25 am

Then the others picked up the slack

https://twitter.com/NomComms/status/994003805934096384

Jon Cartwright (@NomComms)

Little known story: When Microsoft were forming the Xbox department they were eyeing up development studios to produce first party software. Rare was one of the targeted studios and Microsoft were after one very particular IP. "So that's it? ...

I've heard that some Microsoft employee somehow thought they got Donkey Kong. I don't read too much into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwvz3p-t-vc

Ambassador Foxx

hey it's tiptup

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I would love to see the late 90's deck that someone built at MS that convinced green lighting getting into this console video game business.

2:42 am

I wonder if Newell was at all involved in anyway in the very early days, considering how Doom convinced him to leave MS and form Valve.

2:43 am

Valve was founded in 1996

2:43 am

Maybe too early, hard to say

2:47 am

In 1998, four engineers from Microsoft's DirectX team, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase and DirectX team leader Otto Berkes, disassembled some Dell laptop computers to construct a prototype Microsoft Windows-based video game console.

2:47 am

Yeah

2:48 am

Not likely

the rusel demaria book has a LOT of stuff on that, SoH

4:15 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076KLVKC8/

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ASMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCFTBiSIugM

Ramon Gamez

Bubsy just won't stop

4:15 pm

(Not sure why that showed up on a Tumblr that posts game corruption videos, but that's looking a gift horse in the mouth)

“I eat hedgehogs”

As if we really didn't know who defeated the Nazis.

Bubsy in Operation Oh Fur Lord

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5:55 pm

Submitting info to mobygames as we speak

oh yes that's very good

I imagine this was pretty much the amount of time they put into designing the covers for those imagine games

Not sure how the ESRB got away with rating it E though, are they not aware of Bubsy's furrocious attitude?

E for Effuryone

ROFL

ducks for bad joke tomatoes (edited)

No you had too duck for the humor level lowering so fast!

limbo dances straight to the bottom

https://twitter.com/Champentime/status/994600291826831365

C. Champenstein (@Champentime)

I seriously can't and won't ever get over this image.

Trying Socks the Cat again..did not run into this quiz part on the first level before

6:59 pm

7:00 pm

It seems to be random too, different presidents every time you encounter it

I ONLY ran into that on the first level

That’s where I encountered it too

and I had infinite lives on and was doing a reasonable attempt at exploration

I need to make an infinite lives cheat code to use on the super nt...

I only know how to do RAM values so I'm no good at game genie

It’s been a long time since I’ve done it but I think Zane’s will convert it to a PAR codes

if you want to try, 7E183A is lives, you can freeze it at 09 for 9 lives

C284-6DDD

Too bad I ran into the screen wrapping bug..

8:01 pm

8:06 pm

Wonder why it’s still possible for the lives value to change

8:06 pm

Sometimes it does still change

8:06 pm

Could be a big with the super nt’s implementation. It should not change

with the ram frozen you mean?

8:13 pm

ram doesn't usually convert cleanly to rom for these things

Well

8:14 pm

The code does work

8:14 pm

Sometimes the value doesn’t change when you get hit

8:14 pm

Sometimes it does

but it goes back to 9?

Sometimes it starts working again when you get to the next level

8:15 pm

No

Why is there an elephant in the sewer?

8:37 pm

It’s also surprisingly annoying that you cannot jump when are faced against a wall (edited)

8:44 pm

Okay. I wonder if there are any hidden things further on in the game. The game is pretty bland. The ending was more disappointing than I was led to believe

I think it's a B or maybe C-tier platformer on a system crammed with Ds

I would rate it below Boogerman

huh.

http://deathgenerator.com/

Sierra Death Generator

10:43 pm

Someone get bubsy on here.

"Revive Dead Memory" https://twitter.com/MikeJMika/status/996760575744000002 (edited)

Mike Mika (@MikeJMika)

As far as I can tell, this River Raid clone has dozens of entries in the App Store - the only difference is the marketing text. This is my favorite: “Revive Dead Memory!

Hell ya.

I've got the sticker on my laptop

Fixed

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"No. Bubsy?? No future..."

Haha!

7:26 pm

yeah it's hard to explain but there's a whole Days of Future Past thing that would have happened if we didn't form

Do I get to be Beast?

Yessss!

Some Swedish SML2 mod. Adds color and playable Luigi.

Based on that hack that came out earlier this year?

I guess so.

1:28 pm

A friend posted this picture.

This cd-I video is just

5:08 am

Wow

5:08 am

Wooooooow

5:08 am

https://youtu.be/f5s5fUsIGes

databits

CDI Game System with Creepy Guy 1990s Console

I had a good laugh seeing this box today

1:27 pm

1:28 pm

Bonus:

1:28 pm

I love this picture

1:32 pm

As if everything wasn't already wrong with the picture in its original state.

Amazing job on this one too (edited)

1:33 pm

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Fantastic! Bravisimo!

I love my consoles with cut cables

https://twitter.com/johnandersen21/status/998308496809570306?s=21

John Andersen (@JohnAndersen21)

RT Please: Know of any video game books on game history and game production staff that could be translated and published in English? Reply with title and author, I will pass them along to a U.S. publisher that's interested in learning more a...

Wish I knew of any Dutch ones to pass along...

There is only one correct answer to this one: It Started With Pong by Masumi Akagi

5:23 pm

Its the best overview of the Japanese video game industry ever written

5:25 pm

Once that one gets translated, then we can start having a conversation about the many other no doubt worthy books that should also be translated

(edited)

The author has expressed interest in getting it translated, but I imagine never really had the means to do so.

@Ethan Johnson (Play History) owns it and has been doing a hacky Google Translate rendition. Even when only half understood some of the revelations on game and company origins are incredible

I have seven Japanese game books that I have scanned and OCRd.

Its actually a history of the whole industry, but his US stuff is available in English sources already

Though many of those sources are quite rare themselves.

True

5:30 pm

Its basically Steven Kent's book if Steven Kent had done better research (and without the block quotes)

Well also Bueschel's work.

Frank's birthday inspired me to look up Bubsy's birthday. Can't find a firm street date, but some time in May 1993

Probably the best you will get, street dates were not really a thing back then

Guess the remainder of the month has to be Bubsy's 25th anniversary celebration

Can we make this a holiday

"Has to" is such strong language (edited)

whole month of May off

I hope everyone got out their Bubsy advent calendars

On the first day of Bubsy my...

8:16 pm

So, we're living in 25 AB

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Sim Bubsy

1

Just used this to dump a GB game: (edited)

5:21 pm

https://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=akfap30rvu3ookimisgbtaq3i7&topic=1548.0

[lib] libgbpak - a Transfer Pak beta library and dumping-tool v0.63.2

5:22 pm

Had to do a little contact cleaning on the cart, the N64 controller connector where the transfer pak plugs in because it didn't dump correctly first time. But it did dump it fine after that.

5:23 pm

Alas..md5 version of HK/CHN Blaster Master Jr is definitively the same ROM as the European version.

5:23 pm

The most minor of quibbles, so take it as nothing more, but the possibility of collision on MD5 (which is incredibly low percentage-wise, but can happen) that I would not 100% trust it as a 1:1 identical comparison.

7:03 pm

To be fair it is more like 99.99% so as mentioned it is minor. But if I had to be absolutely sure that 0.01% would nag at me a bit and I'd use SHA-1 instead.

7:04 pm

I ran into it on my ipod though more than once with its content id generation so my anecdotal probability is higher than what the internet quotes. (edited)

shasum Blaster\ Master\ Jr.\ (Europe).gb 6a6deae1942e7cf048ce35d18e9540363c226727 Blaster Master Jr. (Europe).gb

7:05 pm

shasum BLASTERMAS.gb 6a6deae1942e7cf048ce35d18e9540363c226727 BLASTERMAS.gb

bingo

7:07 pm

Speaking of... details.. I read something crazy the other day. Moment, let me track it back down.

7:09 pm

In 2007, two technicians for DigitalFusion, working with New York City publishers W. W. Norton & Company, scanned the manuscript with a 10,200-pixel scanner.

7:10 pm

Is.. that common? Especially 11 years ago.

7:11 pm

Even a hand written manuscript surely there is a plateau of meaningful detail?

7:12 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html

By SARA CORBETT

Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious

What the unearthing of Carl Jung’s Red book is doing to the Jungs and the Jungians (and maybe your dreams).

Oh, there defnitely is, but people will argue about that on a philosophical level, just like bitrates

I suppose I can see the argument that if the ceiling is such and such detail, no reason not to use it.

Well the reason is time and expense of holding something of that size. Would have been a problem that long ago if it's still that way now

Very fair

yeah I mean, even my 600ppi TIFFs of 8.5x11" pages are PRETTY substantial

7:20 pm

it's about 50-100mb a page for a raw scan, and you can double or even triple that if you're maintaining a PSD that has its own descreening and color correction layers for publishing that scan

7:22 pm

so at that rate if you had a "perfect" backup of a 400+ page issue of EGM you're looking at like 80GB

Considering magazines were produced on large run printers it makes more sense to capture at a similar, or maybe slightly better, rate they were produced.

this is all theoretical but if you're trying to restore the dot patterns back to something resembling the original (for the sake of reproduction) then 600 is minimum IMO

I know @Gus Lanzetta was having some discussions with people about the numbers.

I always say do whatever 600 or above your scanner does natively

8:41 pm

my epson perfection v550 does 400 and 800 natively, so I do 800

8:41 pm

the 10000xl does 300 and 600 natively so I do 600 (edited)

8:42 pm

if you tell your scanning software to scan at something that isn't in the default dropdown then it's going to scan at the next highest up and resize after the fact, so if I told my perfection to do 800 it would scan I think 1200 and then size it down

It depends on the printing quality, so the 800dpi rule for us at the Game Preservation Society is for everything printed in Japan during the golden age. 800dpi is required to edit and then remaster the original. If no heavy retouch is done at low level, then 800dpi is overkill. Most important part when scanning is color. Use a calibrated scanner and always use color guides (we made our own one to match colors used by the printing industry during golden age in Japan, but a Kodak one is fine if you know how to use color correction and calibration with your favorite software). For the remaster part, in the end you want the printed master to match the original, for this you’ll need a well calibrated monitor, a pure white light and good knowledge in digital retouch. So again if you just want to scan for sharing on the web, 800dpi might be too much (using a too high resolution can also be counterproductive).

Joseph has put WAY more thought and work into this than me so I'd trust this as good advice

Any piece of video game related media you can think of that would justify a 10,200-pixel scanner?

4:14 am

(Open question)

Good to know. I've been considering getting a scanner and I'm probably leaning towards a Perfection, so I'd do 800 in that case

4:17 am

Hmmmmm

I used the exact terminology from the article as I am not entirely clear, though I assume, they are talking dpi.

4:19 am

Above the book a 10,200-pixel scanner suspended on a dolly clicked and whirred, capturing the book one-tenth of a millimeter at a time and uploading the images into a computer.

Epson says the GT-20000 scanner captures "7,020 × 10,200 pixels at 600 dpi", so it probably means something like that

4:26 am

10,000 sounds big

The Kodak color sheets are funny. I have a bunch of Smithsonian pictures which have the coding attached

The flatbed scanner bed is 8.5 inches wide, so a 1200 dpi CCD sensor is an array of (1200 dpi x 8.5 inches) = 10200 pixels in one horizontal line.

4:27 am

Seems it might be a per line rating?

4:28 am

Which is much more sensible than what I was imagining. Makes more sense now.

4:31 am

I suppose if it was capturing at one-tenth a millimeter at 10,200 pixels per line all you'd need is the height of the page to work out the final number.

4:32 am

You know.. Bubsy shit.

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4:32 am

It’s important to note the final remastered version has a lower resolution. So the extra is needed for digital retouch.

8:53 am

If all you do is just cropping and changing color balance, you don’t need so many pixels.

https://twitter.com/johanvinet/status/635814153601597441

Very cool. 8x8 is really tough. I am curious what people would identify of these designs sans-pop culture context.

4:06 pm

Rayman would probably be real difficult if you didn't understand his design at a larger scale.

Why is there a live action sonic the hedgehog movie being made?

Well, what would be the alternative?

8:03 pm

They made a cartoon, they made an ice cream treat, they probably made a video game in the 90s

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8:03 pm

this is the next step

Sonic Go, the AR experience.

honestly seems kind of messed up that Garfield Go exists but not Bubsy Go

what do you mean, people tell bubsy to go all the time

it took 25 previous iterations before they got to...Bub-Z

Now there's two properties crying out for a crossover

Wow it actually happened, huh?

I dunno what to think of this "lets make sequels on bad games" trend

In 1995, if someone told me that Night Trap and Shaq Fu were going to get new releases over 20 years later, I would have probably laughed at them.

1:41 pm

I guess 90s nostalgia is becoming a powerful thing

Well, at least night trap wasn't a sequel (edited)

Not yet...

I really don't like Bubsy. I can't state that enough.

Can you repeat that?

Ok I can state it enough.

Bub-see, Bub-do

If you only knew swedish and could understand the videos where a friend makes me play bad games. Anger is a international language I guess.

VGHF/Frank came up in another Discord, and I quote:

2:39 am

until he scans the issue of psxtreme where they give bubsy a gold x hes off my radar

We have a pretty good set of those

5:00 am

So I might have that

battle

11:52 pm

toads

2

True

We might finaly get a good Battletoads game.

they'll decide it needs to be super hard because they think that's what people want

At this stage I think a Pit Fighter sequel to be announced at E3 is not out of the question

8:42 pm

Or Home Alone 2 sequel

8:43 pm

Or another ClayFighter

They're all too afraid to announce a new No One Can Stop Mr. Domino

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Mr Domino Doh It Again

Limited Run Games announced a Double Switch 25th Anniversary Edition and i feel like that's as weird as it's gonna get this year

10:02 pm

(for PS4 only, no Switch release) bubsy

Then it'd be Triple Switch.

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https://twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1006342287201169408

kelsey lewin @ E3 (@kelslewin)

Banjo on stage...phalanx remaster? #SonyE3

huh: https://www.amazon.com/Missile-Command-Story-Behind-Classic/dp/1468316443/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1519857533&sr=8-1&keywords=alex+rubens&linkCode=sl1&tag=streamsetups-20&linkId=b237400bd2a5bfe3350911aee1d76187

Why the hell did he interview Nolan he wasn't even there for that game.

oops wrong channel but yeh

Hot Bubsy content on the last Giant Bomb segment.

What did I miss

https://youtu.be/4IXkcQjvpj8?t=1292

Giant Bomb

Nite Two at E3 2018: Chris Dwyer, Ben Esposito, and More!

9:31 pm

Bubsy time

important https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/1007466291681267712

eric 'grappleite' neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

apparently Gex is a buck fifty on GOG rn https://t.co/8810Ep4B6M

gex3d dot com when

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lol i'm just now realizing that i always considered Arcane Kids to be the ideal pick for a Gex reboot but frequently forget they did Bubsy3D.com

2:42 pm

so like, obviously it would be them

http://twitch.tv/museumofplay 15 minutes give or take until I stream Steel Battalion. Its going to be terribly amazing.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ItsTheShadsy/status/1008084156725723136

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12:18 am

(I kind of wonder how the rights for Dr. Wright even works)

I think it’s entirely a Nintendo IP. Maybe not always but I don’t think EA has any say in his use

I agree, I don't see any reason EA would have a piece, and if they did I can't see Nintendo negotiating to use him as an assist trophy. Instant way to know for sure is to look at the legal info for whatever Smash game(s) he's in

I got excited for a second

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5:53 pm

I need a better picture

http://www.tommynelson.com/hermie/

Tommy Nelson

Is Silas Volkmire Battletoads canon?

4:14 pm

4:15 pm

That look

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steal that look

Shenmue 3 surveys starting to go out mario

get on the bus that's gonna take you back to beelzebubsy

1:12 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXEQtU-VX8

BowieIsMySensei

Soul Coughing - Bus To Beelzebub

sailors

haha I like that shenmue is somehow a bubsy_litterbox topic

4:48 pm

it feels right

You can't define Bubsy content, you can only trust your feelings.

3

I'm kinda shocked there isn't a bio ape force emote here

Hmmm..i like your way of thinking

as the ceo of discord can't you force one?

http://retrocgads.tumblr.com/post/175349133745/usa-1994

OLD VIDEO GAME ADVERTISEMENTS

retrocgads

USA 1994

8:46 pm

I love how uncool "totally authorized" is

8:47 pm

Bubsy Bobcat is one cool cat! He publishes within the licensing agreement granted by Accolade, Inc.! (edited)

And politely asks residents of NC, NJ, and NY to add the appropriate tax!

I know I downloaded a scan of this but I can't find it

https://twitter.com/YoNoid2/status/1012281061747843077

Yo! Noid (@YoNoid2)

It's true... Yo! Noid 2: Enter the Void "Game of a Year Edition" is available NOW! Visit https://t.co/g4i7kTaGZ6 today for a free download on Windows! More information to come regarding platforms and updates in the future. Many thanks to Noid fans everywhere!

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this is the dumbest timeline

Always Bubsy everywhere.

i finally took the time to actually play that noid game and wow it's very good

NES Noid game?

8:47 pm

yeah

8:48 pm

I miss the NOID....but I guess I miss my 80s childhood in general.

no, the unofficial sequel lol. i'm not sure i've ever actually played the NES game but i do remember playing a PC noid game when i was a kid

Oh man, where is it?

12:01 am

Oh i forgot about this

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F142226839199

SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE 12" VHTF PROMO nes ertl nintendo promotiona...

SUPER MARIO BROS PROMOTIONAL 12" PLUNGER. IF YOUR VIEWING THIS ITEM YOU NEED TO KNOW. ITS SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER RARE! THESE WERE GIVEN OUT TO PROMOTE THE FILM BACK IN 1993. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE THAT HAD ALL OF THIS INFO ON THE STICKER. | eBay!

ah yes

12:48 am

that's been up for a while, it's caught by a couple of my ebay saved searches

12:49 am

saved search for unused plunger

One day I hope we can see "Frank Cifaldi's Saved Ebay Searches" as an article for VGHF

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1014229401712590848

Twisted: The Game Show 3DO Complete Playthrough - NintendoComplete

The Japanese Gex cover is neat. From the @museumofplay's huge collection of Japanese games.

Gotta love it.

I think the 3D bird thing on 3DO Magazine in Japan is very "Bubsy Litterbox"

7:48 pm

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7:48 pm

No please don't see me

There was a Japanese 3DO Magazine?

yeah, there sure was

7:51 pm

any experts on 3DO hidden gems in here? i installed the usb mod in mine months ago and never took the time to play much of anything on it lol

7:55 pm

does 3DO magazine bird have a game and is it any good

my answer to any 3DO question is a shrug

this is the best 3DO game imo (that's exclusive, at least...) but i can only force my friends to play it with me so many times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-40q-WCkm4

NintendoComplete

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/04/first-details-on-the-intellivision-reboot-console-controller-and-games

First Details on The Intellivision Reboot Console, Controller, and...

The 1970s console wars are back as Intellivision returns with a rebooted system. Here are the first details.

why

Yes, why?

9:44 pm

It doesn't sound like he has a realistic idea of what people want and what will sell. Yeah, a remake of Shark Shark will be great. No Tommy. No it won't.

I understand the product he's trying to market, I don't understand why anyone would make a game for this

Why doesn't someone make a pretty, long-lasting battery, version of something like PICO-8... (edited)

I legitimately want one of those, yes

Eeeh

7:15 pm

I can just see the pitch now: "So I've got this great plan to make video games for everyone! I am going to take a system that only 15% of the market cared about and do remakes of a bunch of simple action games that were considered inferior to the competition in their own time and package it with a variation on a controller that history has proven to be an evolutionary dead end. How can this not have mass market appeal!?!"

Dark Stalker deserves a modern release in the same vein as Robotron 64

7:21 pm

Also, the Intellivision Controller was a masterpiece of wtfness

7:21 pm

I loved that damn thing

7:21 pm

and have so...so many overlays

If the buttons underneath the overlays had been more..mechanical it could’ve been nicer.

sure

I haven’t played one in years. Mine started smoking. Literally

but how ya gonna rage if the buttons were easy?!

7:23 pm

I used to have a weekly Intellivision baseball tournament

7:23 pm

i miss that so much

Is this poster a reverse trend of the Kirby cover art? https://twitter.com/ARCADE_LAB/status/1016172076170817536

ARCADE LAB公式 (@ARCADE_LAB)

「ジョイフル・ロード（SNK / 1983」です。レバー2本操作による、強制スクロールドライブゲーム。左レバーで車を移動し、右レバーを使用することで車から腕が伸び、ゲーム内のアイテムをキャッチする...

The car has mean eyes on the U.S. sell sheet too (Munch Mobile)

Is this Bubsy Litterbox territory or not? Picked it up for cheap

11:25 am

The cutscenes in Aero the Acro-bat for GBA

Wow

This is cute https://youtu.be/oiFgaatXuRc

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic Mania Plus Infomercial

shudders

I want to start a serialized podcast in search of Coleco Clyde

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I'm more concerned about the guy in the foreground. (edited)

Looks a bit like Norm Macdonald

https://twitter.com/snickelsox/status/1019263080570769409

Snickelsox (@snickelsox)

The path to reviving Chex Quest starts with a single tweet. ❤️ https://t.co/6NhxwWGqX3

finally

The Chex Warrior was not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed (edited)

https://youtu.be/NHjJPAkPzYU

videogamedunkey

Bubsy 3D

9:15 pm

Finally his majesty has reached the influencers

you guys have all seen this, right? http://bubsy3d.com/

Bubsy's Back

Bubsy3d: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective

yes, that is my canonical bubsy 3

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Oh my. I just played Toki for the first time and it’s baaaaad

@Wietse van Bruggen And now you are heading for therapy?

did you go ape-spit

Even if the Bubsy games are really bad. There are worse games. Have anyone played Cosmic Race on PlayStation?

My favorite soft... serve ice cream https://mobile.twitter.com/Shino4know/status/1020605888896282624/photo/1

I don’t think square Enix thought this one through

Ooof

haha

pfft

Wow

Was trying to run my SNES/NES classic to my tv through a converter from HDMI to component

6:29 pm

realized my converter was from component to hdmi

6:29 pm

Took an hour for me to read the converter...

When VGHF finally sorts through the Game Informer archives, everyone has to keep their eyes peeled for Big Yoshi https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1022535881113186309 (edited)

Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog)

The extremely rare Big Yoshi artwork, previously believed to have only been used in Japanese media, has been found on the cover of Games Unlimited, a 1997 British amateur print publication. The search for the original high-resolution render of Big Yoshi continues.

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7:09 pm

(There are hi-rez renders floating around for all the other Mario RPG characters, but not Big Yoshi)

I hope Big Yoshi isn't as tragic as fat chocobo

hmmmmmmmmmmm

10:00 pm

hmm hmm. it's possible.

10:00 pm

I would have seen it if it were there since I went through all the slides and film, but I wasn't exactly on the lookout for big yoshi

The shape reminds me a bit of the smaller yoshi’s in SMW that you had to feed fruit to grow.

I feel like on a list of character art to prioritize sending to press, Big Yoshi is at the absolute bottom

don't be rude to Big Yoshi

he can't help his condition

Big-boneitis is a real thing for dinosaurs like him.

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I love him and want to rescue him

2:27 am

the only mario rpg direct assets I have in the vghf pile are a couple tiny screenshots afaik

2:28 am

they didn't really send digital renders out yet

Unfortunate thing I realized with SCART to Component. It breaks light gun games

oh that's interesting

3:44 pm

I wonder why? also wrong channel but that's okay

And yet somehow SCART feels exactly like the bubsy of video cables.

3:50 pm

Or maybe it's s-video.

BNC for sure

Game idea: a sim where you run a RadioShack that's on the verge of going out of business. Played completely straight, except the manager is Bubsy

The Last Blockbuster Video

10:49 pm

maybe the radioshack has so many esoteric spare parts in the back that you can start doing side businesses to keep things going

10:50 pm

develop strong AI out of breadboards and chips from the 1970s

10:51 pm

(I bought a new old stock atari vcs tv adapter from a radioshack in 2006 and I am sad no future generation will be able to experience that)

One day I won’t resist buying one a machine from these guys.

11:53 pm

https://www.facebook.com/86670587374/posts/10156581885087375/

Coinopwarehouse

Original Atari Gauntlet. The black needs touched up but otherwise a nice machine. $1550

I still want a Samba de Amigo cabinet

Oh man.

1:42 am

All I really want is a Burgertime cocktail cabinet. Though I’d prolly settle for one of the multi games with a stick and a button

Id love a simple Ms Pacman cocktail

https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/152599598559531008

Jeff Gerstmann (@jeffgerstmann)

OK last one for tonight. Plush Bubsy.

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Beautiful

We're just all going to sit and ignore Rowlf hanging out upside done? Ok. Cool. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTzw4VEenU

Grandayy

BLESS THIS GAMECUBE INTRO MEME

Give me the plush Bubsy

sending a letter to the past to prevent bubsy from ever happening

5:53 pm

Only to discover that without Bubsy, something even worse is created

Bubsy is the ultimate bad. The only thing more bad than making Bubsy in the first place would be to make a fifth game in 2.5D. But that will never happ... Oh... Right

https://twitter.com/TaosukeFox/status/1023995863050473472

「INARIFOX🦊 Living in the GeoCities」 (@TaosukeFox)

Anyone want a Flintstones themed PC?

I never knew that I wanted to mouse all over Fred Flintstones chest and belly until today

i would love a flintstones reboot where they have modern day internet/computers/phones/etc but it's all still made of rocks and animals

What would Fred Flintstones job be in the reboot (edited)

Twitter administrator.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Vintage-1995-BRAINWORKS-FLINTSTONES-Computer-Keyboard-Box-NOS-Fred/312169741619?hash=item48aec43d33%3Ag%3AwbAAAOSwTi5bLTHN&_sacat=0&_nkw=flintstones+keyboard&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313&LH_TitleDesc=0

RARE Vintage 1995 BRAINWORKS FLINTSTONES Computer Keyboard + Box -...

RARE Vintage 1995 BRAINWORKS FLINTSTONES Computer Keyboard Box - NOS New old stock with original box and paperwork. Keyboard is new and unused. Box shows some wear from storage. Very cool and rare item to find. Enjoy. | eBay!

"IT'S A KEYBOARD" actually

(edited)

Vintage is the magic word

By the way, that System Shock thread provided more great posts at the end of last month: https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=10112.0

System Shock 1 prototype and level editor discovered

Aiiii...just noticed the garbage packs of cd’s and laserdiscs in Back to the Future 2.

6:17 pm

"If I were Night Dive, I'd be contacting the place he works at next, since he appears to have gone into hiding."

6:38 pm

Yeah @Borman , why didn't you respond within an hour of their query? You must be hiding!

"it's not like he can disappear now, with his full name and occupation being public. maybe they should make him aware that in this case, asking for the files nicely is an optional thing." That's a nice archive you've got there @Borman . Be a shame if something were to...happen...to it...

Uh oh, I think he's gone into hiding again.

Quickly, grab the torches and pitchforks, tonight we march on Rochester! (edited)

Forget the pitchforks, Rochester as a town needs to become a hole in the ground.

We can't allow the situation that generated this @Borman character to occur again.

7:10 pm

regular expressions are the pits.

and of course he cannot even be bothered to show up here to answer for his crimes, typical

elitist archivist

7:12 pm

must be nice to fly so high as to be unable to hear the chaff on the ground.

I've been jailed

The System Shock people have jailed me and taken me away.

If you had only listened...

8:33 pm

that's what you get for not returning it to the proper authorities. just as bad as the dr. who hoarders

The Yetee's virtua boy shirt is neat.

3:42 pm

https://theyetee.com/

The Yetee

Awesome tees for your torso!

I thought "Virtua" was on purpose and it was gonna be a Virtua Fighter/Virtual Boy hybrid

Wouldn't that be something

https://twitter.com/outstarwalker/status/1024628162318282757?s=19

Outstar (@outstarwalker)

"Discover the novel that inspired Fortnite Battle Royale" I'm physically suffering

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imagine being upset that a video game might inspire someone to try reading a book

Yeah, I can't be mad.

Tracing influences has always been a great way for people to discover new things

This is a better outcome than protracted legal battles over owning ideas, in my book

10:28 pm

At least I assume there must be some sort of agreement here since it is using the logo and all

"my book" I see what you did there

I almost said no pun, damn you

Dang that’s good

The real comedy here is the double snub of PUBG

“Play pac-man, the game that influenced KC Munchkin”

https://twitter.com/VGArtAndTidbits/status/1025408128299528192?s=19

VideoGameArt&Tidbits (@VGArtAndTidbits)

From the instruction booklet ~ Bubsy (SNES).

It starts off clever and then Bubsy starts talking

That is basically Bubsy in a nutshell

Moving future Bubsy Sun ad discussion to the litterbox

6:57 pm

heh

6:58 pm

there is an archive of the sun

Bubsy in Papurr Pusher

https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/old-newspapers/the-sun/

The Sun Newspapers

Find The Sun archive newspapers from any date. Search the world's largest original newspaper archive for old The Sun back issues for perfect gifts.

7:07 pm

3

same

:videofrank:

6:25 pm

2

thats..thats good

My hope is Video Frank is in Electronic Games too and that I can get a better image

Excellent

5:07 pm

3

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Coinopwarehouse

Working Congorilla “video entertainer” Donkey Kong clone. Game plays well with a nice monitor. $365

That game is in the lobby at the Bubsy Litterbox clubhouse

Except it's called Bobsy?

9:41 pm

Maybe Bibsy

The marquee reads TERRIBLE GORRILLA BOBSY

If you ever needed a big cutout version of Mr Mosquito / Mr Moskeeto

2:43 pm

Well

2:43 pm

Here it is

2:43 pm

Mr Yamauchi would like to speak with you https://mobile.twitter.com/game_tanteidan/status/1027907641090035712/photo/1

... The Super Mariko Sisters brought to you by Kintendo?... This creates more questions than answers...

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1028471874878164993?s=21

Anatoly Shashkin💾 (@dosnostalgic)

And now for something completely different https://t.co/WK4UuOmPxZ

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@PuttyKnife what was the virtual boy shirt? I missed it, but I did find this one. It’s pretty fun. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2401550-virtualcom-ver-2

It might have been that one. I cannot remember

Yeah it was

3:19 pm

I bought the Xbox one that day, because of course

this is cute, from the same person who did the virtual boy shirt

1:49 pm

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/817535-disk-kun-switch-style?store_id=24186

(as long as the japanese is correct :P)

2:04 pm

lol

Paging Hubz on that one (edited)

oh man i need that shirt

"We won't give away the good stuff"

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OK, now that I see it in print

1:24 am

I like the Virgil Reality joke

10:23 am

Why is her ponytail also her tail?

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Coinopwarehouse

And the last in the series is the hardest one to find. Noah’s Ark. $1900

https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1031134586997301251

Cool Box Art (@CoolBoxArt)

SegaSonic: Hedgehog Ecology (Notebook) / Promotional material / Sega / 1996

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I love the moppet logo

Ah yes, the Moppet games. What a weird little slice of history.

I played a fair bit of Noah's at Chuck E Cheese as a kid

6:47 pm

but I think thats the only moppet I ever played in the wild

oh no that dixie

A friend sent me a thing

8:51 pm

VIRTUA BUBSY

Oh shittttttt

Oh wow, cleaned all the battery pack contacts and it works fine. Oh that familiar virtual boy headache.

I mean "works fine" is relative with the VB

functions as intended

looks legit

2:14 pm

a dream come true

I dunno if I should let myself get annoyed by companies like this but..they do

3:01 pm

Zero effort.

3:01 pm

Zero contributing anything back to what even makes their "business" possible

3:01 pm

Maximum infringement

Yeah can't say I'm a fan either.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13571/dr-busby

Dr. Busby

Dr. Busby is the first game to sell so many copies, that it is considered as having started the game craze in the United States. HISTORY: According to the March 7, 1843 Salem Gazette newspaper, The Improved and Illustrated Game Of Dr. Busby was first published by W. & S. B. ...

wow i can't believe busby got his medical license before mairo (edited)

You're wrong.

“...started the game craze in the US”

8:28 pm

Maybe if Bubsy had been a doc like Busby, he would’ve actually changed the gaming landscape

I bet Dr. Busby is public domain...we could bring it back asa printable card deck rebranded as dr. Bubsy

5:49 am

WELP

5:49 am

I KINDA EXPECTED THAT, HONESTLY

Did Watermelons used to look like Pumpkins?

I mean I want to say no but apparently brussel sprouts literally taste better today than they did 30 years ago, so I have no freaking clue.

6:06 am

history is clouded in fog (edited)

Oh, it gets worse...I dug a little too deep and have seen the seedy underbelly of early board game history

2:36 pm

The biggest board game maker of the late 1800s was Mcloughlin Brothers...they were a book publisher, but also used their high end artists and printing presses to make card and board games

2:36 pm

I’m confident now that they invented the spinner, which they called an Indicator

2:37 pm

But most of us have never heard of them because Milton Bradley bought them in 1920

2:39 pm

Among Mcloughlin’s hit children books was Ten Little N*, which was successful enough that they followed it with a sequel, Nine N* More

I suppose that's based on the old ditty that formed the basis for And Then There Were None.

In the mid 1800s board games were about morals and virtues, and dice was still associated with gambling so they had a spinning top with numbers called a teetotum

2:43 pm

50 years later, you had Monopoly, which was about crushing your opponents to become rich instead of leading a virtuous life (though originally it was meant to teach about why Monopolies are bad)

2:44 pm

Reading about the shift is kind of interesting...decades before Monopoly, there was a fad of rags to riches games for kids, starring boys who start in a low position and work their way up

2:44 pm

The fad was sparked in part by a popular series of books about the same subject, called Ragged Dick

2:44 pm

Ha ha funny title, Ragged Dick, they were so innocent back then, right?

2:45 pm

Before the author had this hit series, he was thrown out of ministry for molesting boys

2:46 pm

The books apparently contain some uncomfortable moments that relate to that

The most surprising part of that statement is that they used to throw people out of the ministry for child molestation (that's right, I went there)

Right?

2:52 pm

More recently, in the new renaissance of board games, there’s one called Puerto Rico that ranks pretty high on lists at BoardGameGeeks, though not as high as it used to

2:53 pm

It’s about running a plantation...gradually more and more people realized that a particular game piece type are actually slaves

2:53 pm

In a later add on you can even trade them in place of money

2:55 pm

But other than that it’s a pretty popular game

2:55 pm

I was taking with a friend who is huge into the new wave of board games, and I was like “wow, I never expected board games to have their own Birth Of A Nation”

Yeah...

That's maybe the tamest of the board games like that.

3:20 pm

And a whole lot of current board games are colonialist in their origination. Whether or not we'll all suddenly realize that it was a bad time for most remains to be seen but ignorance is a very powerful tool at the moment.

The funniest thing to me about board game history is how many times people independently came up with the idea of a board game that uses colors instead of numbers to move (so very young kids can play), and thought they did it first

3:28 pm

Confusing to me, because I’d encounter, say, a box saying “a new type of game!” And I’d be like “well, this must be the first”...only to find an earlier one

Keep in mind that the existence of the internet makes it seem like this is a silly thing.

3:30 pm

Also the lack of guidelines and legal protections for marketing

3:31 pm

is why alot of us just start with ole Avalon Hill or just mention Little Wars or the Landlords game. So many ridiculous claims by every game. Makes it well beyond a murky oral history that no one can be asked about.

One of the biggest jokes in Playing at the World is how many people claim to have invented the wargame with no prior influence - they are very clear they did it themselves!!

ya

Minecraft is an inherently colonialist narrative, and it's Great For Kids

no doubt someone will emerge from the desert one day with a game none of us have ever seen before and Hobby Lobby will claim to have found the first game

3:36 pm

The loss of the politics behind zombies is (at least in my mind) the greatest of all game-related evils.

Yeah, that’s fair re: pre internet...and board games never had industry magazines or history the way other entertainment mediums have, so things have always been forgotten much more quickly

3:56 pm

I was pretty shocked while digging around how many pre-Tactics board games there were in the UK that were even called Tactics

3:56 pm

Tho the rules and scenarios are a bit different

Its the same in old EM arcade games. A lot of "firsts" are based on what an American company did, but there was often something in the UK first

They had magazines. I forget what they're called but I think they go back to the earl 1900s.

Drive-Mobile is usually called the first arcade driving game, but the Brits had been doing the same kind of games for a decade

@PuttyKnife what comes before Landlord’s Game?

4:04 pm

Everyone know America is the only country that really matters

@Ethan Johnson (Play History) do you mean trade mags? I meant more like consumer mags, since almost every iconic board game post-1800 was designed by someone outside the industry

4:26 pm

There’s a quote in Donovan’s book where someone says people in the industry always stifle innovation, because they know all the “rules” and the rules are always wrong

Well after Little Wars you had a fanzine community spring up around war games. I don't know if there was the same for regularly board games.

If there was, none of them went on to design an enduring board game...until the Internet age and internet communities anyways

It’s kind of interesting to me how the story is always kind of the same with the big hits

4:46 pm

Someone outside the industry has an innovative idea...it might be kind of similar to something they were unaware of that came before, but they have a unique twist on it...they sell it to a company or use it to start a new company, but either never make another game or just go on making variations of that first game...there’s never another unique game that changes everything

4:46 pm

Like, there’s no Miyamoto of board games

What about Steve Jackson?

I’m thinking more in terms of games that are big enough to hit mainstream, like where you could say the name to just about any random person and they’ve heard of it

But that's not the state video games are in either.

Everyone knows who Mario is

4:55 pm

Everyone knows who Donkey Kong is

But tyou said creators.

4:56 pm

Relatively few people know who Miyamoto is on the whole

That’s not what I said

4:57 pm

“there’s never another unique game that changes everything”

4:57 pm

I’m talking about people who change the world with a game more than once

4:59 pm

“A game” is still a bad way of phrasing it...someone who creates more than one game in their career that becomes a mass hit

5:02 pm

But that’s pretty rare in video games too, I suppose

5:03 pm

But what’s interesting about board games is how many of the old standards were designed by people who had no intention of even having a career in designing board games

5:04 pm

They just decided on a whim to try designing a game for their friends, family, or students, and thought they’d try selling it

5:07 pm

And when it hit, most of them never tried following it up, because they didn’t view it as a career

5:08 pm

It’s not the story every time, but it was interesting to me how often it is

Huizinga talks about this in waning of the Middle Ages and especially in Homo Ludens

8:05 pm

In the age of reproduction everything changed. Professional play ruins pretty much everything

8:05 pm

Stagnated and creates a waning of the spirit of play

8:05 pm

Through which only professional matters

8:06 pm

Even in indie video games the level of polish is stupid high.

8:07 pm

For games before the landlords game I can prolly get you in touch with folks who know way more than I do (since what i know comes from them). One is an old narrative designer (if I recall) from Volition and the other is a teach associate professor here at the iSchool.

So you didn’t have a particular one in mind?

8:30 pm

I know there are earlier economic games, but none that I’ve seen have involved going around in a circle bankrupting your opponents

8:32 pm

The infographic has to be pretty surface level, so the only pre Tactics war game I’m going to mention, for instance, is Kriegsspiel

8:33 pm

Can’t really make it an in depth catalog...but outside of that, I was just curious if there’d been a Monopoly-alike earlier than Landlord

Going to try streaming ALTTP Randomizer on http://twitch.tv/borman18. Note: I've only completed it twice.

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

https://twitter.com/officialpacman/status/1033788173783056384

PAC-MAN Official (@officialpacman)

You scream! I scream! We all scream because hang gliding is kind of scary! Happy anniversary to PAC-MAN 2: The New Adventures!

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3

give me an ipad port you cowards

McDonalds toys from 1976. Note Officer Big Mac apparently getting ready for some light bondage action

No kink shame here Alex.

I'm guessing he was the police officer who inspired a certain segment of Pulp Fiction...

Did nintendo ever make a tingle and tott game? Because if any game needs to be made it's Tingle'n Tott

2:03 pm

Maybe Tott'n Tingle is better.

2:03 pm

who knows

2:04 pm

Could even go one step further and call it Tottingle

http://retrocgads.tumblr.com/post/177732622240/usa-1981 (edited)

3:16 pm

Mr. Snoggle is the patron saint of copyright infringement

This is amazing.

3:18 pm

What a champion of not even trying to make the idea their own.

I was going through old toy mags last week at the Strong Museum and there was an article on toy counterfeiting that presented a picture of everyone's favorite non-gender conformist handheld, the "Game Child."

Do we have any other NESmaker tinkerers here?

alas no. I almost backed it. decided I wanted to make the switch to genesis coding at some point rather than doubling down on NES. I know a good bit of the assembly programming for NES, but I don't know if that's any help in NESmaker.

@jquestionmark When ever there is coding in NESmaker it is in ASM. I have no grasp of it at all so I guess I need to since I feel I need to modify and add to the code to do what I want.

I started with this: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=7155

NA » NES Programming

NintendoAge.com is dedicated to Nintendo collecting, gaming, homebrews and and peer-to-peer collaboration.

4:49 am

it's a really good intro to NES programming. Dives into a lot of the gritty bits and gets you understanding the ASM and ins and outs of NES chips and processing quickly.

4:49 am

this is a great site of helpful people: https://forums.nesdev.com/

4:50 am

they've definitely been a massive assist on all sorts of questions/code issues.

Thanks I will take a look at those.

4:56 am

I have something moving at least https://youtu.be/hsTVGLAXt7k

Gazimaluke

Bionic Girl Test #5

very nice. you do not want to know what kind of time it would take to get that going in pure ASM.

4:58 am

I'm really excited about what NESmaker is going to do for getting people learning the details of the weird insides of the NES.

I really enjoy working with the limitations of the graphics. And it makes you appreciate what the developers did in those days. Often with far worse ways of drawing graphics.

the graphics limitations are a lot of fun. you've probably already seen it, but: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023586/8-Bit-8-Bitish-Graphics

8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

Mark Ferrari will discuss and demonstrate some of his techniques for drawing 8 bit game graphics, including his celebrated methods for use of color cycling and pallet shifting to create complex and realistic background animation effects without...

No but I should ^^

it's so good. It will drive you to seriously push your 8 bit art to the furthest limits.

https://twitter.com/toejamandearl/status/1021849915679330304?s=19

ToeJam & Earl (@toejamandearl)

he's banned from funkotron https://t.co/p83kvoM1wH

ToeJam & Earl! Bringing back Flash animation in 2018!

Bubsy PS4 race is up on Big Bad Game-A-Thon https://www.twitch.tv/bigbadgameathon (edited)

8:23 pm

They're putting the Verbosity setting at 100%

I don't want to play that game. I know I eventually will.

9:05 pm

This is my game if anyone want to try my not very polished prototype. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AltAvMlSv2JgsRkfm5XnUAIeHs_M

BionicGirl_v0.0.13.nes

NES File

Threw it on my card for the nt mini, will check out a little later

It's not much. You can shoot and jump and kill some enemies that doesn't do much.

I get a blank screen on nt mini. Maybe something funky with the header? What mapper does it use?

9:48 pm

Mesen loads it but "Unsupported or malformed mapper!" in Nestopia

It made in NESmaker so it uses Mapper 30. After googling I thought it might work on Nt mini.

4:02 am

Fceux 2.2.3 works and I can start it in RetroArch on my phone.

@Borman shitposting https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1042806916550983681

Shh

If you want the Switch NES controllers in Sweden you have to buy them from Nintendo UK. With shipping it ends up around $88.

oof

ah, apparently you cant use the vouchers for the UK store (edited)

http://oldgamemags.tumblr.com/post/178329688482/sega-megazone-44-oct-94-preview

Old Game Mags

oldgamemags

Sega Megazone #44, Oct 94 - Preview of ‘@BubsyThe_Bobcat 2′, including a very different title screen @Unseen64 @CuttingRoomWiki

1:31 am

Alternate Bubsy 2 title screen

Are those bubsy children?

1:33 am

DID BUBSY BREED

Bubsdren

Bubsy 2: Descendants

Those are his nephews learn the lore or gtfo

1

O shit

There's an idea for a Bubsy game

4:35 pm

Bubsy has burned out from his hot-shot video game fame and has grown resentful of his brother, who has worked a quiet but steady and successful career in accounting for the last 25 years

4:36 pm

They meet again for the first time in a decade over a tense dinner at a fancy restaurant

4:36 pm

A visual novel

1

Someone hack Bubsy into this game

7:27 pm

I love that game and I'm mad at myself that it didn't occur to me how hilarious that would be before you posted it.

I've scanned it but not yet played it...but judging from the manual and the box

I had it on gen when I was younger. It's an experience.

Whoa that cover art is more intense than I would have expected

you might even say its brutal?

Brutal Bubsy isn't something I was prepared for.

i know there was a bootleg kung fu panda hack of it

this ...oh geez.

9:21 pm

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3127/age-empires-ii

Age of Empires II

The Age of Empires Expandable Card Game is a CCG based on the Microsoft computer game Age of Empires II: Age of Kings. There was one Expansion printed, Nautical, which added 4 new civilizations and sea units/buildings/upgrades, along with some additional events.

Meant to share this: I wore the No Metadata No Future shirt to Small Press Expo and got a lot of really weird looks, and it wasn't until someone mentioned it to me that I realized that people thought it was like a pro-surveillance state shirt (edited)

Eh, they'll learn.

I get it though, metadata is a loaded term, and a comic expo with a lot of politically conscious artists was a pretty different context to wear it in (edited)

5:35 pm

Was just kinda funny

Oh dang, I didn't realize you were at SPX phil

Oh crap, yeah! I was there Saturday for a bit

7:38 pm

prototyping "museum on the cheap"

7:39 pm

these are little square shelves you can clip together however you want

7:39 pm

also this is just stuff that happens to be around in the house

7:44 pm

in the background: an auto-clicker grinds on the dragon quest xi slot machine

The side-shelf is great (edited)

7:48 pm

I wonder how much weight can go on it (ie., if like the Zeebo would be stable there)

on a side shelf not much, I wouldn't go more than like, that empty game box

7:49 pm

also we have another set of squares coming in the mail that's actual wire, these are the flimsy black ones we just wanted to use for sides

Makes sense

https://www.gameinformer.com/exclusive-video/2018/09/26/how-ralph-baer-introduced-the-military-to-video-games-revealing-gamings

How Ralph Baer Introduced The Military To Video Games - Revealing ...

Learn how "the father of video games" modified an anti-tank weapon during the Cold War with the help of an Apple II.

He also had a huge collection of rifles.

@Gus Lanzetta is, right now, on a mission at the "Bubsy Games" shop in Sao Paulo

He’s on a mission from god

"Destroy the Bubsy" (edited)

It's simple. We kill the Bubsy.

https://twitter.com/MegaDriveShock/status/1045404611077722114

Mega Drive Shock (@MegaDriveShock)

The secret to Sonic's power! Fan art from the 8/1991 issue of Mega Drive Fan. #sega #sonic #genesis #megadrive #retrogaming ＃ソニック＃セガ

holy ground

9:01 pm

did they have stickers like they have in the auction photos?

9:05 pm

hell yeah

But did they have any Bubsy games?

This is our church

5:34 am

Spot the wright

5:34 am

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https://twitter.com/WeboftheDead/status/1045870760743628800

Website of the Dead (@WeboftheDead)

Peter Moore, former president of SEGA of America and former HotD game producer Rikiya Nakagawa on the set of House of the Dead directed by Uwe Boll. #houseofthedead #sega #ハウスオブザデッド

They are speaking poorly of our lord.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1047870249276649472?s=19

https://www.deviantart.com/sqrlyjack/art/Bubsette-765435095

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back - Purrfect Edition (PS4) is $13.88 on Amazon https://t.co/NvHZFzqn7B @BubsyThe_Bobcat

I will pay that much to never have to play this.

4:51 pm

Goth bubsy?

Bubsette

Frank. You're gonna need to give me ban powers.

4:55 pm

Need.

sqrlyjack

Bubsette

This is kinda venty, killing two birds with one stone here. Hope you all enjoy it anyway though.

man I am not signing up to deviantart to look at Bubsette

you don't have to sign up.

5:17 pm

but you're still better off not seeing it.

oh

5:18 pm

well I guess I'm looking at it now

You're welcome.

gets the eye bleach

You were so bubsy

you never pawsed to ask

2

You never pawsed to ask what could possibly go wrong.

okay I'm going to stop typing and deleting now

God creates Bubsy. God destroys Bubsy. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates Bubsy.

The Bubsy effect

I sy what you did there, bub

I felt this official Italian sticker for SMB3 was Bubsy Litterbox material

Wow, I would have thought that was a bootlef

from the unpublished 1992 Wacky Packages set http://www.lostwackys.com/images/lostwackys/1990s/pglove.jpg

11:16 pm

A patent for a John Lennon describing how to turn a home video game into an arcade game https://patents.google.com/patent/US5078399A/

US5078399A - System for converting a home video game to a coin-ope...

A conversion system is described for adapting a home-play electronic game to coin-operated play. The electronic game has at least one access port for communicating with a remote controller, the access port including DC level connections and a plurality of signal line connecti...

I believe you mean the ghost of John Lennon

I knew it wasn't him

that's a very good super mario

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Adventures-of-Sonic-the-Hedgehog-FAT-SONIC-Cel-Hand-Painted-Background-DiC/123395713205?hash=item1cbaf528b5:g:IKoAAOSwinlbgIIy

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog FAT SONIC Cel Hand Painted Backgr...

Show :Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Type: Hand Painted Cel by the Studio & Hand Painted Background. | eBay!

5:40 am

This can be your's today for $22

My copy of Night Trap Switch came today

Mine came the other day, I keep forgetting about it

I Keep Forgetting About It: The Night Trap Story

So not only did someone buy that Sonic animation cell

1:52 am

But a friend in the Sonic community tells me that there's apparently one guy going around buying every Sonic animation cell on eBay (edited)

question is

2:28 am

is it to remove sonic from existence

2:29 am

or is it to remake sonic in their image

2:29 am

It seems like every community has The One Guy

2:29 am

like the fox/falco mpreg guy

2:30 am

who has so much money they are singlehandedly the cause of an ongoing event that everyone in the community is aware of

oh there it is, the bubsy litterbox

4

What does it actually play? A famiclone?

It's almost worth it to see what it is.

Anyone happen to recognize this? The video title was Gorm, but its clearly not the 1994 game. Random video file with no context. Maybe a Syrox game?

11:19 pm

Well? Is he?

feeling super guilty today because I was so busy museum planning I didn't show up to a retronauts recording (edited)

10:48 pm

oh I meant for this to be in general but I guess litterbox is the right spot

Litterbox of guilt.

10:49 pm

That's a bummer. Hopefully some very productive planning, at least?

extremely

10:50 pm

been a full time job for a while now, we're doing way more than we should be for a collector show museum

Gotta top last year

I think we absolutely will

That's cool if that's becoming a part of what VGHF does

For sale. Empty case. No Bubsy. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Please-Read-Only-Empty-Case-for-Bubsy-3D-Sony-PlayStation-1/362329790531

Please Read Only Empty Case for Bubsy 3D (Sony PlayStation 1)

Only empty case with authentic case art. | eBay!

it's more valuable this way

1

They've already done the hard work for you

i've been putting together a youtube thumbnail template for the channel i'm setting up...anyone wanna see some experiments?

4:27 am

4:28 am

i can't believe i put the time into adjusting that Electronic Games cover to fit a horizontal format, but i really wanted to use that image

I love them both, but I should warn you that I think part of the reason I love them is that they don't look like traditional youtube thumbnails

I certainly see a lot of stuff that looks like that in the gaming sphere.

okay good

nah its cool...i browsed almost 100 channels trying to figure out what makes a thumbnail jump out or not

4:31 am

things i noticed:

I'm gonna have a hell of a time with that. I just barely have a decent logo.

1) BRANDING: narrators who are on-camera put their face in the thumbnail so you know its on of their vids...off-camera narrators have to do something else to establish it, like a logo placed in a corner or some sort of rigid format

4:33 am

2) TITLES: it seems to me that people are more likely to read a title in the thumbnail than in the live text below it...but the title has to be short, because it also needs to be huge enough to be read at very small size

4:34 am

3) IMAGES: its really easy to grab an image that's too busy...like originally i was trying to lay text over the Double Dragon box, but i realized i really needed to just grab their heads and focus on those

4:34 am

i really like Game Maker's Toolkit's thumbs, and based these on that...except his corner logo is too tiny

4:35 am

i based my corner logo on Game Informer and Playstation

4:36 am

i also have a variation:

4:36 am

I wonder if successful titles in youtube thumbnails are more direct though

4:36 am

like "Where did the word 'gamer' come from?"

that's too many words, the text would have to be smaller

"Why 'Gamer'?"

that's a very different essay lol

thumbnail #1, etymology of gamer

4:37 am

oh

4:37 am

duh

4:37 am

I thought you were asking me lol

4:38 am

my brain is sleepy because we are also doing layouts

of course next to a photo of the host looking like they just discovered that actually every answer to every jeopardy question in history has been wrong.

does "etymology" seem to complicated? should it be like "history of the term Gamer"?

"History of calling Gamers Gamers"

my essay does that, plus the centuries where it predated video games

What we're trying to say is that viewers are stupid

lol

4:41 am

i'm trying to get the kind of audience that watches Folding Ideas channel

4:41 am

whose thumbnails suck, btw

The goal isn't to attract people who are interested in what you have to say, it's about attracting the people who otherwise wouldn't have clicked.

but seriously, a lot of these thumbnails are so good https://www.youtube.com/user/McBacon1337/videos?view=0&shelf_id=7&sort=p

Mark Brown

How does Half Life teach without tutorials? Why didn't Capcom tell you that it was manipulating Resident Evil 4's difficulty? How are Nintendo's level design...

4:42 am

GIANT TEXT

great contrast

i'm more interested in Patreon donators than casual views...i'm not going after ad revenue

But how do you get new Patreons? But catering lower.

4:46 am

Personally I don't think it's that big of a deal. The main thing that I feel tends to matter in youtube is just consistency.

yeah, i just mean that the people who are most susceptible to thumbnail tricks probably aren't going to stick around

5:00 am

for example, if your thumbnail has an image of a person making an open-mouthed shocked/surprised face, it increases hits

5:00 am

but that's not my audience

I actively avoid videos with thumbnails like that.

5:33 am

I just don't understand the appeal.

There's a lot of things I avoid on Youtube.

5:46 am

Bubsy is not one of them.

haha

I don’t currently have a Bubsy video planned tho, sorry

6:14 am

Yet.

Save it for April.

They're strong and distinctive without being, yeah, a confused person yelling

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/579408980306313217

Patent filings reveal new details about Microsoft’s vision for a...

Spotted at the Computer History Museum, WHERE IT BELONGS

6:09 pm

from 2015, saw it when looking for something else

This is the object that placed the hex on you (edited)

6:43 pm

To be free it must be destroyed

For good thumbnails, I learned that people expect mostly naked people to sell everything

6:44 pm

thanks, vine compilations.

So a shirtless Bubsy? Got it.

L.... Lewd/

Welp, not getting that out of my head.

Bubsy thanks you.

how do we know he doesn't have it has just a natural chest marking?

2

4:36 pm

That Mega Man is certainly in contention for a new emote, I would think.

What does he emote?

I certainly have some emotions about that horrifying mega man...

what if MS's answer to the Switch is actually a DS? https://www.geekwire.com/2018/patent-filings-reveal-new-details-microsofts-vision-foldable-dual-screen-surface-device/

A patent application published today adds more fuel to the fire about the possibility of a new hybrid dual-screen Microsoft Surface device that blurs the lines between phone and tablet.

I mean, it worked really well for nintendo, right? Surely it'll work again.

Just like motion controls.

Flip phone

7:04 pm

Getting back in style

you asked for it, and its back!

7:08 pm

Nakia razor mini

7:09 pm

half the size, breaks its tiny little hinges just as quickly (edited)

#garbageplatenight You guys are missing out, probably. Assuming my food arrives soon.

I'm still so sad I didn't get to try one

Next time @Phil Salvador

Has there ever been a Thomas the Tank Engine / Mega Man crossover?

I have to alert everyone here about this Famicom pirate cart pin https://gumroad.com/l/cgIJp (edited)

Famiclone Enamel Pin

Somari! Street Fighter 6: The 12 Peoples! Babie! Celebrate your favorite Famicom pirate carts with this fun enamel pin! Katakana readsファミクローン "Famiclone"! Put it on your cool denim jacket, your hat or backpack! • Hard Enamel Pin (Gold-Plated Finish). • 1 Rub...

2:32 pm

Of course Nintendo will see the real crime: Trademark infringement!

Okay @Teddy. You have made me upload 2.5gb of raw scans of a 1991 toy store brochure.

3:20 pm

raw scans are best scans

https://archive.org/details/IntertoysFolder1991-1992-raw-images

Intertoys Folder - Nintendo, Sega, Atari - 1991 / 1992 - raw image...

A booklet from the toy store chain Intertoys in the Netherlands covering Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles, accessoires and games.Circa 1991/1992.Een folder...

4:36 pm

Pdf for easy viewing:

4:36 pm

https://archive.org/details/IntertoysFolder1991-1992

Intertoys Folder - Nintendo, Sega, Atari - 1991 / 1992 : Free Down...

A booklet from the toy store chain Intertoys in the Netherlands covering Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles, accessoires and games.Circa 1991/1992.Een folder...

4:38 pm

Also for some reason archive.org decides not to start at the first page...I still don’t get the logic

https://twitter.com/mopinks/status/1050811013858131969

lycanthropinks (@mopinks)

Bubsy's here and he wants to date your mom

So I was trying to find some super cheap GBA bootlegs, and this came up. Obviously not cheap, but it is something. https://www.ebay.com/itm/X-Man-Armour-of-Might-Rare-Bootleg-Unlicensed-GBA-Tested-Working/282989461255?hash=item41e37c7f07:g:Ze8AAOSw1m5bECEf:sc:USPSFirstClass!14607!US!-1:rk:2:pf:0

X-Man: Armour of Might Rare Bootleg Unlicensed GBA Tested Working

Tested and working. Hard to find. | eBay!

oh if you get x-man you have to get the box too

10:04 pm

Hahaha great

there he is

https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/1044113516293087234

Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion)

Early art for Nintendo Power's first issue.

Likes

529

Oh yeah I love that, it's the ad in the last issue of Fun Club News

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Captain-N-The-Game-Master-Original-Animation-Art-Cel-DIC-ENT-SEAL/372450987089?hash=item56b7cf0c51:g:XvAAAOSwX8dblx-k:rk:23:pf:0

Captain N The Game Master Original Animation Art Cel DIC ENT SEAL

Original animation art cel. This is a hand painted one of a kind original production animation art. This is presented. | eBay!

1:37 am

"Great to frame and hang on your wall. "

I would totally be tempted to buy a Samus cel if she’d ever appeared in the cartoon, but she never did..weird that they had her arch nemesis but not her

huh. there were no first-party heroes, were there? just the three villains

2:24 am

unless zelda crossed over or something

2:24 am

or if you want to count "game boy" or "tetris pieces"

Samus was in the comic book version, though...not sure who else

there's a probably-not-that-interesting licensing story here

Licensing stories are always weird and interesting

2:43 am

I only worked on licensed product for 3-4 years and I have so many weird stories

my kingdom for the complete list of guidelines for the Disney Princess line

I’d kinda love to know that too

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4:42 am

Good morning.

o.O I've seen some nightmare fule mega man picks...but...Dang. Is the face felt?

looks like he got shot in the face with the ugly cannon.

Sometimes Cabbage Patch kids have dreams, ok.

current mood: i have this video playing, on mute, while "In the Air Tonight" plays in the background https://youtu.be/SUF4dfZkx68

Kitten Academy

T

Was the level design particularly bad? I seem to recall it being pretty inoffensive for the time, but maybe not being a cheap movie tie-in makes it stand out more in that way.

I didn't feel like it was very well designed. Sonic had big maps but had paths that intersected with each other in fun ways, Bubsy levels just feel sprawling for no reason

And fall damage.

bubsy levels feel procedurally generated

I admit I haven't played in some time. Maybe it is time I remember the darkness.

Cats always land on their feet, and platformers never have fall damage. This pairing is too obvious to be a mere accident, and indicates Bubsy is clearly a brilliant subversion of the platforming genre.

4:55 pm

from my upcoming essay

I just got a brand new phone and I went to type books in to see if the books app is installed and got as far as b. Just b.

7:17 pm

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7:18 pm

What have you people done

7:18 pm

I want answers.

oh my god that's amazing

You have the answers but you can't face them

Google totally gets you

I'm sure it is because during our discussion this morning I typed simply 'bubsy' into google to look at screenshots of the levels and even then I am upset Google has made this strong of an assumption of our relationship. (edited)

Thats google for ya

Like I have a list of B name contacts, Google

7:28 pm

But straight to the Bubsy.

Google understands your inner workings even if you don't

Someone should give him a run and gun installment and call it Bub-C

B-usb-c

Would you believe that the Strong does NOT have a copy of Bubsy 3D?

Why do they even exist then

I hate when archives try to editorialize history like this instead of actually documenting the parts that are culturally relevant

But we do have Accolade development kits

I think they're called "Bubsy forges"

I havent gotten them down for photos yet so they dont show up in online collections, but the story told to me is that these were the ones from the Accolade v Sega case

8:25 pm

Or at least, two from then.

If it was, it'd have a sticker on it.

8:25 pm

I guess they could have cleaned it off.

Thats the story from the researcher, who initially got it from the developer, who I only briefly spoke to. Files in the software that the dev sent along with it relate to Bubsy, so it's fitting.

8:30 pm

of course Bubsy didnt come out until 1993, and the court case was in 1992, but assuming they got them back or the software was used with other kits as well they had.

8:30 pm

I dont remember what the Bubsy file is, Ill have to look

8:31 pm

The hardware is more for sound development, which gives it away partially.

8:31 pm

If there is ever a listing of evidence found for the case, I could probably cross reference it

Evidence listing is weird. They only do it sometimes.

Yeah

Like in my Magnavox v Bally cases, they have a neat list of everything at the front of depositions and trial transcripts. Then in like Bally v Williams, thye just suddenly pull out "AND NOW I WILL REFERENCE EVIDENCE 139-A-D PAGE 137"

8:35 pm

One of those depositions has had me suspicious about something for a very long time. It's from a guy who was speaking for the people who did Spacewar. He had a number of documents which not only showed the timeline of the computing at MIT, but several Spacewar printouts and letters pertaining to it. Presumably these were re-stored at MIT, but I haven't heard about such a thing being discovered/preserved.

I'm sure I've said this before but a friend was at Accolade at the very end and he said he raided "the Bubsy closet"

I hope he got the scripts for the 13 episode season that I assume were already written because the only reason you're going to pay for a pilot is because you're already crazy enough to be writing a script for it.

9:32 pm

they couldn't contain the Bubsy

9:32 pm

they had to get it on paper

https://twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1055614694319243264

kelsey lewin (@kelslewin)

@frankcifaldi Now in inspirational wall-art form

12:26 am

@Frank Cifaldi Are you okay? (edited)

He'll be okay tomorrow morning

hey I didn't make that that was kelsey

You did make the Pac-man thing though.

true

Spritesheet rip

beautiful

It's like Rubin's vase

We do valuable work here. Necessary work. The work others are too afraid to do. (edited)

not everyone can live in the litterbox

(Since I am not in a good spot to photoshop: ~~glitched pokemon 151~~ MissingNo seems like a natural progression here) (edited)

Twitter was a mistake tonight. Well, every night. But especially tonight.

Jesus

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-sprites-on-nes-black-box-games-were-made-of-cardboard.77053/

the sprites on nes black box games were made of cardboard

source on this revelation is frank cifaldi's twitter [MEDIA] [MEDIA] but holy shit how did i never notice this? it makes sense now, cuz obviously...

1:14 am

I'm sorry, I had to do it: https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-sprites-on-nes-black-box-games-were-made-of-cardboard.77053/#post-14214821

thank you

I didnt put the two and two together for who made the thread

I wonder if those early NES games put fascimiles of in-game graphics on the box to show how advanced they were over older hardware

1:32 am

The "Yes, this is a real screenshot" of the 80s

the way gail described it to me was that it was more of a direct response to packaging from the atari days not looking like the actual game, and that nintendo identified that as one of the crash's problems

Which is what Activision did as well. @smith5031 Levy came up with that right?

Explain.

Halo 5 has an extremely detailed map editor / Donkey Kong nipple expression engine

2:13 am

And the Xbox Live language filter wouldn't let me call a map "Donkey Kong's nipple" (edited)

You took that too far

But only because you didn’t figure out a way to tie Bubsy in

Exactly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9VnKhSnmbA

Multimedios Houston

Dr Amigo Family Clinic

why is :dknipple: not a thing yet?

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Scanning Dragon Warrior IV manual and saw this and thought... yep bubsy litterbox

8:50 pm

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Don't you be dissin' my boy Healie

That face tho....

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2XOLoeBPEk

Neil Cicierega

Guide to the Races of Star Trek

"Director for the International Center for the History of Electronic calls for Bubsy 3D donations" https://twitter.com/jpdysonplay/status/1057263843959848961 (edited)

Jon-Paul Dyson (@jpdysonplay)

@GameResearch_E @museumofplay @Borman18 we really should be stepping up our game! Of course if anyone wants to correct this severe problem and donate a copy they'd be taking a very tangible step to benefiting The Strong .. :)

Next year at PRGE: Bubsy - the Exhibition

2:14 pm

The Cultural Phenomenon That Took On Sonic & Mario

100 years from now, intellectual historians will be reading this discord and writing dissertations and journal articles on the "Bubsy movement" in early game preservation circles.

2:44 pm

and if I were still alive, I would die a little on the inside

Im just waiting for the discussion when I go in today "So, Bubsy?"

"So, Bubsy?" is going to be my go to ice breaker.

Only people that matter will get it.

Dating apps need to incorporate this important question

3:16 pm

"What's your position on bubsy?"

Bubsr

Dating with Bubsr

2

3:17 pm

Tagline: what could pawsibly go wrong

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How was I not following @Ethan Johnson (Play History) on Twitter

You have corrected your mistake and now you will forever regret it.

I doubt it. I follow some pretty obnoxious folks. You’ll have to have a volume greater than theirs for me to even notice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3wjgvoaOA

Accolade Game

Bubsy™: Paws on Fire - Teaser Trailer

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this can't keep happening

1

what is going on

The future, Simon.

2:52 am

The future.

Fixed it

No

Nyooo

What the hell is going on? Is this Armageddon?

https://twitter.com/topherflorence/status/1057469376297865216?s=21

D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence)

In 2019's Bubsy™: Paws on Fire, Bubsy's niece and nephew Terry and Terri are, for the first time in a game, portrayed in their color scheme from the comics and cartoon as opposed to their Bubsy 2 designs. I have never played a Bubsy game my brain is a beehive filled wit...

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so what is the licensing deal with bubsy now?

1:21 pm

the trailer has accolade in it, is this an atari licensed game?

bubsette?

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Is Bubsy 2 non-canon now?

so bubsy gets to wear different t-shirts...but does he get karate and/or sumo powers from them like Dogs Bower does

3:00 pm

whose T-shirt powers are the strongest

3:00 pm

tune in this week to find out

This is gonna tear apart the Bubsy community

3:03 pm

The ❗ shirt was the only thing they had

I woke up angry about this

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It's just one of those days Where you don't want to wake up Everything is fucked Everybody's Bubs (edited)

i didn't realize this came out on halloween last year but it makes perfect sense https://twitter.com/Gameiversary/status/1057711452113526784

Gameiversary (@Gameiversary)

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back celebrates its 1st anniversary today! @BubsyThe_Bobcat Get the game here: https://t.co/S6eqMztp7p (UK) https://t.co/Tsmlz7D71A (US) https://t.co/C4laCjstgt

7:15 pm

lol

Wait, that tweet earlier...there was a comic and cartoon?

no comic I know of

That's from the instruction manual iirc

9:10 pm

Several pages of merciless puns bubsy

The one potentially good thing about that Bubsy game is that it's by the Bit Trip Runner people

new bubsy game announced this week....nintendo direct today....next character will be the 69th on the roster....

1:46 pm

bubsy for smash?

By now why the hell not. Just bring on Armageddon.

they did announce a cat pokemon so like, close enough

I can't believe these are not emojis yet in this fine discord

9:01 am

I am happy to share that in the Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin 2018 awards, Retro Pals received the award for Best Bubsy-Centric Retro Video Game Rating System https://www.austinchronicle.com/best-of-austin/year:2018/poll:critics/category:politics-and-media/2282667/

Best Bubsy-Centric Retro Video Game Rating System: Retro Pals

Best of Austin 2018 as chosen by the Chronicle staff

amazing

I wonder if my friend's store finally beat out dragon's lair'

7:27 pm

Nope. Robbed.

is there a term for the type of mini-game that involves mashing a single button as fast as you can to get a result?

1:21 am

i was about to say QTE, but that's more of a timing thing

Most folks I know would still call that a QTE

1:29 am

Going by how Resident Evil 6 was received, anyway.

but for example, the blow-up-the-balloon mini-game in The Simpsons arcade...would that be a QTE?

Seems like the division between what's a qte and what's a minigame is...how long it lasts?

or how its initiated...without warning or not

I'm trying to remember what game actually warned you about qtes with a countdown timer

1:43 am

Might have been Fahrenheit

1:43 am

Dynamite Cop/Die Hard Arcade also flashed warnings but those only lasted for a single button anyway

Oh my god

They were just called mini games

i just realized in Japan, Bonk's Adventure for Turbographfx-16 was instead PC Genjin for PC Engine

4:08 pm

and now i'm disappointed they didn't attempt something similar here

4:08 pm

i mean, at the very least name him Turbo

that'd make more sense with Air Zonk (PC Denjin)

5:09 pm

my favorite bit of that though is that they came up with different things for "PC" to stand for in both cases

5:10 pm

"Pithecanthropus Computerurus" for Bonk, and "Punkic Cyborg" for Zonk

@Frank Cifaldi Uploaded my ICM file for the Epson if you want to mess around with it. https://archive.org/details/Epson10000XLICMFile

Epson 10000XL ICC/ICM Color Calibrated Profiles : Hubz : Free Down...

IT8 Color Calibrated profile from my Epson 10000XL Scanner. It was created with Rough Profiler. Take note the Rough Profiler file is an ICM not ICC so when...

nice

Just make sure your scans are done in the RAW mode in Vuescan or it won't look right.

http://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/179737142145/unlicensed-mario-themed-bouncy-castle-featuring

Supper Mario Broth

suppermariobroth

Unlicensed Mario-themed bouncy castle featuring artwork of various Mario series characters. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: see bottom of image

Enter the gaping maw of Mario

4:37 am

The Mawrio

https://twitter.com/gifs_bot/status/1059087887537446913 hey was someone looking for a new scanner in here?

GIFS GALORE (@gifs_bot)

https://t.co/CSOIokppLH

YouTube recommended this video to me

8:28 pm

https://youtu.be/mRwV-pCIvDc

Console Wars

Console Wars - Bubsy - Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis

Don’t like that channel personally

All consoles that has a Bubsy game has the worst Bubsy game. There is no scale to it. It's just all 100% bad.

bubsy 1 is a competent mess that tried its best, bubsy 2 was made by people who hate video games and hate you

i find it interesting that most of the internet seems to agree that bubsy 2 is worse than 1, i had largely the opposite feeling

12:39 am

though going back to either of them now, i think the one thing 2 has over 1 is that the jump physics are less baffling

12:40 am

bubsy 1's jump inertia is just plain...weird to me

12:40 am

jump forward and bubsy will do everything in his power to keep flying forward even if you've pressed back long enough to go the opposite direction for a moment

The grotesque beast's teeth fused into a singular structure. Its right eyelid long past functioning.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/bubsy-ii/promo/promoImageId,450796/

Bubsy II (1994) promotional art - MobyGames

Concept art, wallpaper, official screenshots, and other promotional art for Bubsy II.

1:56 am

'he's way too cool to just run and jump'

It's funny that Bubsy 3D is the best of the games.

https://twitter.com/toejamandearl/status/1059843802490265601

ToeJam & Earl (@toejamandearl)

You are all our homies except for that one guy, those two ladies, the 1996 Montreal Expos and Bubsy https://t.co/LIdiBFvosN

https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1060264390656704515

Benj Edwards (@benjedwards)

After months of research, I have created the ultimate one-button arcade controller: the BX-3000 Cyclops

So that could actually work for a game like BUTTON

2:20 pm

Which would be amazing

Finally I can move my Canabalt play into the professional leagues.

At the C2E2 I went to, they did have a custom Divekick controller. I played it and it was awesome

Mount that controller in the bathroom stalls of all airports and we'll see an incredible experience arise from the worst places

real upset that youtube for switch dropped 10 months after my n-gage tony hawk goof thread https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/1060651758882619392 (edited)

eric “post-halloween” neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

wow just realized i never posted a gameplay vid, just thought of it today for no particular reason. had a great year playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater on my #NintendoSwitch! https://t.co/F7xRpnQxtL

https://twitter.com/StarBomber/status/1060360139834867713

Camden (@StarBomber)

alright I wanna do it before someone else pick your favorite game from the year you were born

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as you already saw mine was easily Choplifter

RoadBlasters.

No contest for me either, Galaga

These threads are always painful

10:07 pm

That’s easy, Super Mario 64

10:07 pm

"yeah, OK, 1996 was awhile ago now"

10:07 pm

DS!

10:07 pm

"goddamnit"

lol

They'd be just old enough to not be subject to COPPA

Spot the vampires by anyone who says weiqi

I do kinda wish there was a definitive way to play roadblasters

10:09 pm

I forget if any of those Midway Arcade Treasures discs had it

10:10 pm

MAME treats the steering wheel as a spinner dial (which I guess it is) so there's no auto centering

Secret of Mana

If i was a true OG I'd say something like Ultima 4 or A Mind Forever Voyaging

10:14 pm

but I'm not

10:14 pm

so It's Space Harrier

Inevitably, it's SimCity (edited)

Ms. Pac-Man! Easy.

same year as me!

I feel obligated to say Sonic the Hedgehog since it came out on my birthday...

we can't all have the same taste now. you prefer Ms. Pac-Man, which is cool, but see some of us like games that have variety

⁽ᴾᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ ᶜᵃⁿ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵍˢ ᶠᵒʳ ᵈᶦᶠᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᵗ ʳᵉᵃˢᵒⁿˢ ᶠʳᵃⁿᵏ⁾

nah.

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not in the litterbox they can't

If we're going by litterbox rules, then my favorite game from 1989 is, regrettably, Avoid the Noid

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Cosmic Conflict for me

I regrettably have never played Avoid the Noid.

A travesty.

In fairness, he did exactly as the game asked

Hah!

the only winning move is not to play

Cool spot is a better game anyway

3:09 am

Though I'm gonna be contrarian and say I always preferred "Spot", the Infection game

3:10 am

Though Cool Spot has nicer (I.e. Present) level design

3:11 am

I love that there was an Ataxx machine at PRGE this year

3:11 am

Could barely hear it and the monitor was a bit degraded, and it was the joystick version, but hey it's Ataxx

3:12 am

The world's most deliberately ugly two player strategy game

3:14 am

4yo Me would have had the same reaction to that in 1991 as I did to arcade Block Out, that being "run away screaming"

https://twitter.com/vg_dialogue/status/1060877494444793857

vg_dialogue_bot (@vg_dialogue)

https://t.co/YzAwnq2Ldq

Objection!!!

Bubsy found guilty

...of being the best game ever!!!

KC Munchkin for me because who in here doesn’t love lawsuits, clones, and rip-offs

Any excuse to link the fruits of my labor https://archive.org/details/videogamelawsuits?&and[]=subject%3A%22atari%20v%20philips%22

https://twitter.com/nostalnerd/status/1061315608334266369

Nostalgia Nerd (@nostalnerd)

The bundled items sound compelling.

Re: birthyear game, I’m gonna go ultra hipster and say Portopia Serial Murder Case

oh shit.

2:19 am

Campaign for North Africa premiered in 1978

2:20 am

According to SPI, a complete game can run over 1,500 hours.

2:20 am

I'll change my answer to that.

should submit that to HowLongToBeat.

It was champion of that site before it was even created

2:25 am

everyone else is just fighting for second.

apologies for just being random and nonsensical a lot tonight but my grandma sent home a bunch of VHSes to digitize and I gotta do something while they're (re)recording

2:26 am

i've got a six hour one loaded right now that's John Tesh at the Avalon, and Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance

2:27 am

i don't fall completely within the targeted audience for these, i don't dislike them but i'm not the type that can just sit and watch things, y'know

I'm creating bald eagle memes for my wife's wildlife team

though it's kind of amazing that 21-year-old PBS footage is still capable of inducing sticker shock

2:27 am

because i mean, geez, $120 to order this concert on compact disc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvMSGMTTao&t=14s&fbclid=IwAR1eJ8AkWz1xii2A9qbY_R1ZTW3HgLxpG9lFiRFJ-ZuJoeZAXNg7f-ZFLUM (edited)

Ethan Gilsdorf

A Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Game in the 1980s: A Super 8 Movie by E...

whoa. that is some real vintage there

2:30 am

...i wonder if my Dreamgear MyArcade, awful as it is, has anything resembling a golf game in its 220 games

2:31 am

i saw a new one of those at target btw, i dunno how new, but it resembles a game boy (with 4 face buttons, for turbo fire i guess) and has officially licensed capcom and konami games on it

2:32 am

alongside the existing dreamgear library

2:34 am

https://www.target.com/p/go-retro-portable-game-player/-/A-53728760 it's this one

Go Retro! Portable Game Player

ha ha of course it has burgertime

2:38 am

15 years from now everyone is going to think that the most popular arcade game was burgertime

2:38 am

because its the one they keep rereleasing

220 games in one machine and somehow there is no golf

2:42 am

there's no baseball or football either

2:42 am

one soccer game, one individual game for every single olympic event, at least 3 different swimming games for different strokes

gotta gets those kids pumped up for swimming

2:43 am

for when everything floods

several card games, amazingly

Really though, licensing/re-releases can affect our perspective on what was culturally significant

oh, yes

2:55 am

i often wonder how big of a cultural impact stuff like Atari Warlords really had

2:56 am

it comes up a lot in the pre-Time Warner Atari compilations, but was it that big a thing at the time, or are they scraping the bottom because they can't access the post-84 Atari Games stuff

2:57 am

I have heard almost nobody actually talk about it

how many people here ever played SMB1 in two player mode (beyond just trying it out once to see what it does)?

i think we always preferred to let one person use all their lives in 1 player mode, then switch off...but curious if that was just me

3:19 am

arcade games that do that seem super weird to me...did anyone ever really put in a second quarter so they could stand there and switch off?

bro and i tended to never bother with 2 player games with alternating setups

3:19 am

because if one player does well, it takes forever for the other player to ever get a chance to play

fake 2 player

Haha, I think that's actually why my brother wanted to play alternating two player games

it was even worse in super mario world because you could do the thing where you could trade lives with the other player...in practice, the other player could just walk up to you, take all your lives, and leave, and your controller couldn't do anything so you were helpless without punching them

i didn't know one player could steal lives...

3:35 am

it wasn't something the opposite player had to initiate?

yeah in SMW I think if the active player goes to where the other player is on the map and hits Start, a window pops up where you can give or take lives from them (but you can't take their last one)

3:37 am

if one of the players has game overed, it's the only way to let them play again

3:37 am

many a fist was thrown over this feature back in the day

my experience in SMB3 playing round robin was getting my turn, dying to that slope in 1-2, and then having to wait another five minutes before dying to the same slope again

I made a SimCity theme for my blog a while ago, and I forgot that I made this the description

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a friend on twitter alerted me to this amazing music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgIuO71I818

TieTuesday Stream Archives

Club Drive (Jaguar) OST Title Screen on an Emulator

8:19 pm

it turns out this isn't at all how it's supposed to sound but i think i like this version better

8:20 pm

appropriately enough, this was brought to my attention while discussing Bubsy

8:21 pm

specifically in regards to this screenshot of my rom folder structure https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrvY2-sVsAAJ808.jpg:large

yeah we discovered that beautiful rendition of the club drive title screen a few years ago when smight streamed random jaguar games on an emulator

9:23 pm

i have no idea how the broken sound emulation produced that of all things

9:24 pm

we've been using it as the main theme for Arcade Pit ever since, it's great

9:30 pm

if you want more interesting music broken by bad audio emulation, there's a handful of videos of Smight playing SNES games on an extremely old version of ZSNES

9:31 pm

eg. https://youtu.be/tMYaWXd1VvA?t=2587

Smight Stream Archive

Donkey Kong Country 2 on DOS

i remember some pretty awful things zsnes produced back in the day haha

10:00 pm

like the wind noise in chrono trigger sounding like air raid sirens

10:01 pm

it's a fun exercise trying to run games in old emulators that are newer than the emulators are, though

10:01 pm

like trying to load most Game Boy Color games in a 1996-vintage copy of VGB-DOS

10:02 pm

for example Tetris DX

10:03 pm

which somehow doesn't even sound that bad despite the sound basically redirecting the sound chip calls to the FM chip

on that note, does anybody have a copy of Genecyst lying around? The links off Zophar's Domain go toward the hosted "shrine" page, and the links from the shrine all go back to Zophar's Domain.

10:21 pm

oh, huh, it's still in my backup backups, fresh from 1998

aaaaaaagggghhhhh my random trawling through this ancient cd-r full of emulation crap just helped me figure out what this one atari game was that i never, ever knew the name of

11:16 pm

Armor Ambush

11:16 pm

it's like combat but you get two tanks instead of one, that you can switch between

Backing up CD-Rs?

i've had the contents of these archived on a few hard disks for a long while, this folder in particular is a CD full of emulator stuff from around 96/97 that my uncle mailed to us

11:22 pm

it is a treasure trove of pre-"boom" emulation goodies, largely atari, coleco, and master system stuff, but also small handfuls of game boy, snes, nes, and atari vector arcade games, with bad or no emulators to go with them

Gotcha

11:27 pm

Yay bad emulators!

a lot of folks hold fond memories of nesticle's "thanks, shitman!" about box. i hold fond memories for MEKA's "Mario is not a fat plumber" checkbox

11:30 pm

for the hell of it though here's nesticle running golf

A significant part of my NES experiences were mediated through NESticle

yeah me too

11:32 pm

this disc is old enough that nesticle isn't even on it - the emulators available for nes games are an unregistered (expired) shareware version of iNES, and an unknown version of Pasofami

11:38 pm

the copy of iNES still works on windows 10

11:38 pm

there is no way to cap the framerate

i am suddenly reminded that, for a long time, my NES emulator of choice was called "Famicommunist"

okay, there's a small folder of pictures on here...a couple of old pinouts of i'm guessing an 8K atari rom cartridge, a map denoting i'm not sure what, a couple of not-bad-quality flyer scans and a screenshot of fMSX for Unix (edited)

12:00 am

12:01 am

some, uh, Atari Portfolio software

I think this belongs here https://twitter.com/SNKPofficial/status/1062226133557465088

SNK GLOBAL (@SNKPofficial)

NEOGEO mini Christmas Limited Edition Coming Soon! ・Hardware and peripherals all in one set! ・New titles bring the list of included games up to 48! NEOGEO mini for spending time with your friends and family this winter! https://t.co/WrOj3aHAT1 #SNK #NEOGEOmini

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So, about the loveroms case.

7:38 pm

As we know: emulators have not been found illegal in court.

7:38 pm

This bit puzzles me:

7:38 pm

3. In addition, Defendants must within 30 days of this Order: a. Provide to Nintendo every Nintendo video game, Nintendo video game file, and video game system emulator in Defendants’ custody, possession or control, and ship or otherwise deliver all such materials to Nintendo for destruction, at Nintendo’s expense; and

7:39 pm

Why include emulators in that?

Since it was a settlement rather than going to trial maybe it was a point not worth the fight?

8:02 pm

I am always curious about stuff like this though

Yeah

Is the assumption that it doesn't matter if they truly provide 100% of the materials (as in do not make any backups you keep) because if it ever surfaced again in any linkable way they would nail them on it?

Lot of people seem to not understand that is a settlement.

8:04 pm

There's probably not something to physically turn over besides a server.

8:04 pm

They also had to hand over the domain name.

8:05 pm

Interestingly this is what you see when you go to the loveroms domain

8:05 pm

"Apology to Nintendo Our website, LoveROMS.com/LoveRetro.co, previously offered and performed unauthorized copies of Nintendo games, in violation of Nintendo’s copyrights and trademarks. LoveROMS.com/LoveRetro.co acknowledges that it caused harm to Nintendo, its partners, and customers by offering infringing copies of Nintendo games and has agreed to cease all such activities. To access legitimate Nintendo games online, please visit www.nintendo.com for information about the Nintendo Game Store."

Nintendo announces next valentines day: LoveROMS.com

8:05 pm

A nintendo dating site.

Going back to their love tester roots

Wonder what that 12 million figure is based on. I'm assuming it was a good source of income for them.

Gotta be Bubsy related damages.

8:44 pm

$1000 for each Bubsy rom downloaded due to grief caused.

We all should be awarded Bubsy related damages

Purrsuant to the agreement

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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back on sale on PS4 for 5.99.

If that's not a deal I don't know what is.

Exactly one hundredth of the launch price of the PlayStation 3.

This crystalis playthrough on this SNK collection is breaking my immersion

11:32 pm

Got rabbit boots, isn’t jumping

11:32 pm

How do you stop jumping with these boots on? The button is there, you press it always

I mostly just jump through the thick grass to speed it up, but sometimes I jump-slash for no reason

The one sequence in the pyramid is still one of my favorite game moments

11:53 pm

All those faces

11:53 pm

Wait is it the pyramid?

11:54 pm

I think it is. Big ole faces on the walls blowing fire

11:56 pm

Really I’m amazed you aren’t jumping. That’s some control. lol. My brother still hates this game because of that sound.

I mean I'm playing the game at like 15% speed so the whole thing is control

I always wondered why the key to the prison with no doors is hidden behind an ice wall

I found myself getting a new intellivision to play some baseball. But then I wondered if there was a Bubsy intellivision remake

ugh, found a sub-bubsy ad: https://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/rocky-rodent/promo/promoImageId,454606/

Rocky Rodent (1993) promotional art - MobyGames

Concept art, wallpaper, official screenshots, and other promotional art for Rocky Rodent.

All the hair puns aren't fun, they're just kinda gross?

The world just didn't know how to react to Bart Simpson

But apparently gross sold at that time

3:33 am

I wanna know what research report led to that string of gross out kids toys and games in the first half of the 90s

3:33 am

And the Earthbound ad campaign

It was through the whole of the 90s, at least from my perspectives. I think people assumed that the appeal of cartoons like Ren & Stimpy was the gross out factor rather than just the creativity. Spongebob kind of went down that route in the past couple years.

It's weird because it's not like, Boogerman gross. It's trying to be cool

mysteriously Johnny Bravo remains popular to this day based on the joke of "he wants to have sex! gross!"

I have a giant Rocky Rodent poster from CES

I had to think for a bit if that game got released on SNES or if it got delayed into the PlayStation generation, but then I realized I'm thinking of Punky Skunk

It's finally shipping.

11:38 pm

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/76763

Masters of the Universe Club Grayskull Prince Adam (Laughing)

11:38 pm

I need to make a bubsy outfit for Prince Adam.

https://twitter.com/SEGAbits/status/1063911352325079045

SEGAbits (@SEGAbits)

Spotted outside Houston. Don’t think it’s official.

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[Space Harrier theme]

Don't quite know if this is litterbox material, but I just went to a concert by a local orchestra that plays game music

3:15 am

They played an arrangement of the music from Mappy (?!?)

Hah nice

12:35 pm

(On the Mappy thing, not the sluts!!)

mappy absolutely belongs in the litterbox

4:24 pm

happy?

4:24 pm

holidays?

4:25 pm

What kind of name is Mappy anyways? He doesn’t even make maps

If a recording ever goes up, ragtime Mappy totally whips

I guess it must be me who buys and scans this. Who else would. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.it%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F112457389143

1997# SUNSOFT Syyrah: The Warp Hunter (DOS) ITA MULTI#SEALED SIGIL...

1997# SUNSOFT Syyrah: The Warp Hunter (DOS) ITA MULTI#SEALED SIGILLATO | Videogiochi e console, Console | eBay!

Do iiiit

https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/1066051326189203458

eric “Let’s Go Vulpix” neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

hell yes

@Phil Salvador it doesn't look good but it's obscure

6:38 pm

It's a 3D Puzzle Bubble inspired game.

Love it. With that look, I would've assumed it was a shooter or something, which makes it even better

https://twitter.com/cabicade/status/1066665070246141952

cabicade (@cabicade)

@toejamandearl The inane mumbling of Bubsy in The Woolies Strike Back, sound like Popeye to me

yeah gex tell me all about the 64dd

6:53 am

when does ura gex 64 come out

gasp https://twitter.com/ChappellTracker/status/1067597047518437378

Chappell Ellison ٩( ᐛ )و✎ (@ChappellTracker)

jfc tumblr https://t.co/Jt8ASjZZcn

2:26 am

naturally, Frank already has a comment in there

2:27 am

(you need to click the link to see the alternate image)

2:28 am

or i can try this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtDd2YJVsAAthaZ.jpg

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1067857476731711489

Jason Scott (@textfiles)

A shame, it was a space-themed suit I was going to wear to see the creators of Spacewar! So oh well. Don't sell suits you can't, you know, actually sell.

Bubsy game idea: Bubsy and Gex go back to MooseNuckles 15 years later and catch up in their lives, their lost fame, and life outside the Media Dimension. A visual novel https://twitter.com/BubsyThe_Bobcat/status/1067522047704584192

Bubsy (@BubsyThe_Bobcat)

GEX GEX GEX!!! My old Buddy!!! Wow that night at MooseNuckles in 2003 - remember that? https://t.co/hOwwXay0pt

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Well anything in mind?

Just show them this collection of fmv's and afterward state, "This is the past we need to remember. It's important."

3:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgcR5aLVMU

VGSuite

Warhawk PS1- Cinematics_HQ

or the FMVs from Gamera 2000.

3:52 pm

https://youtu.be/R0UQOCx7L1c?t=366

grommbert

GAMERA 2000

https://i.imgur.com/vRmlzIY.gifv

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Finally. Italy delivers.

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What's wrong with this picture.

America claimed Game Boy as its own.

Gunpei Yokoi, great American or greatest American?

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Stealing my joke!

It's not verbatim. Riffing on a theme

YESSSS Syyrah!

I have yet to find anyone who has played Syyrah back when it was new. Or ever for that matter. @Phil Salvador

I love Retroarch but it does take some getting used to

4:30 pm

Are you going to be using a frontend with it?

iirc the default retroarch install has that already set up

4:47 pm

the trouble is you have to use that menu to access the online updater in order to download the individual emulator cores and such

4:48 pm

they also encourage you to use the scanner to set up a library but you don't really have to do that and it takes forever to do anyway

I really struggled with trying to set up it once. Also had that cross media bar look then.

Sorry I stepped away

5:04 pm

If your PC can handle it Higan-Accuracy or BSNES-Accuracy are best SNES

5:05 pm

Genesis as Genesis Plus GX

5:05 pm

which also handles every other system for Sega except Sega 32X, Picodrive is recommended for that.

5:05 pm

Well and not Saturn of course.

5:05 pm

Snes9x is fine for SNES as well

5:06 pm

if your machine can't handle BSNES, there's a performance version of it you can try too.

5:06 pm

Mesen for NES

5:06 pm

Gambette for Gameboy

5:07 pm

Stella for Atari 2600

5:07 pm

I got frustrated getting MAME to work with Retroarch and gave up and just use standalone mame

5:08 pm

Playstation I'd use Beetle PSX

5:08 pm

What kind of controller are you going to be using?

5:10 pm

I don't have those so I'm not sure if you'll have to manually map them or not.

5:10 pm

But that's not difficult to do honestly.

5:10 pm

ah nice!

5:10 pm

that's a good sign

5:11 pm

I had to manually map my Wii U Pro Controller, and I also remapped the A and B Buttons to Y and B on the controller as I find that more comfortable

5:11 pm

that's the nice thing with Retroarch, it's very customizable once you get past the learning curve

5:11 pm

That being said I don't launch my games from within it, I use Launchbox.

5:12 pm

But I think it's not had to add a rom directory and tell it what system. Then you can even scraped artwork if you like.

5:13 pm

One thing to keep in mind is when you load a ROM up in a Core you'll have a "Core Options" selection pop up on the main retroarch menu.

5:14 pm

from there you can do lots of handy stuff and even enable specific things per system.

5:14 pm

yeah the shaders! I love them. CRT-Royale is my go to

5:15 pm

if you have a 4k screen it looks fantastic, if not it still looks nice but i'd try others as they're not nearly as intensive on resources. like crt-easymode

5:16 pm

The kinda confusing (but useful to learn!) thing is hotkeys.

5:16 pm

and then once you have those setup like you want, I turn off "Save config on exit" so I don't accidently mess up my config later.

5:17 pm

for example on my setup I map the "Home" button on my controller as my hotkey enable button.

5:17 pm

I've used select though as well on controls that don't have that.

5:18 pm

then i'll set start as quit retroarch, so if i want to exit out I just tag home then start.

5:18 pm

there's a menu option too somewhere to set what button press you want to pull up the menu, I like L3 + R3

5:18 pm

but there's various options

5:18 pm

other hotkeys you can do that I find handy are saving and loading save states, and fast forward

5:19 pm

and under saving on the configuration menu make sure to turn on SRAM saving interval under Saving to something

5:20 pm

or else your games won't save! you can still use save states without that though. But if you nerd out on retroachievements like me you'll want SRAM enabled

5:20 pm

ETA Prime has lot of good videos on this stuff as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcmKgjQTtnE

ETA PRIME

Easy RetroArch SetUp Guide 2018 Windows Also Works On MAC And Linux

No problem, feel free to PM me and i'll try to help if you have questions.

NSFW

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I appreciate the pants

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https://vrvblog.co/merrittk/4550/which-failed-videogame-mascot-would-make-the-best-boyfriend/

merritt k

Which Failed Videogame Mascot Would Make the Best Boyfriend?

Their next starring appearance? Your dreams

Most of them would make a good boyfriend, but only one would make the purr-fect boyfriend

Look

8:59 pm

Jazz Jackrabbit is not a failed mascot!

8:59 pm

List of the hare's accomplishments

9:02 pm

go

beat level 1
beat level 2

9:07 pm

we own this fyi

We sure know who that cat would date

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My vote for best boyfriend mascot: https://r.mprd.se/media/images/52622-Pandemonium!_(E)-2.png

Does he look any less terrifying in Japanese

i disagree with Battletoads being "failed," but also being "mascots"

Yeah, zitz was obviously the best.

how is there no Alex Kidd?

too human

Y'know, maybe Too Human would have been better if it was an Alex Kidd game bubsy

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This totally ignores the possibility of having a polyamorous relationship with all three of the Battletoads

That feels like a secret code to launch missiles because nobody would possibly construct said sentence otherwise

Sometimes you want pimple, sometimes you want zitz, sometimes you want rash. Sometimes all 3, sometimes only 2. (edited)

I think that would make you a Battlemaniac

I guess we all got a bit of Zach in us somewhere, the _Maniac

The real failed mascot is earthworm jim

9:20 pm

hides

"ow-wich!"

I'm shocked it's not booger man

I have a fondness in my heart for booger man

WCES 90

8:45 am

WCES 93 was a not better

Hog person is about right.

8:46 am

First one is in the middle of a life-changing realisation

https://66.media.tumblr.com/211c280579cfd8451542e115df7f9b8d/tumblr_p8ne8kibBM1roqda3o1_640.png Today, on Baffling Page Ad Copy

6:01 pm

"Isometric action game involving a cute bunny? Pee joke."

https://twitter.com/donkeyspaceman/status/1071543137753919488?s=21

eric “ready to Smash” neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)

you can't keep him from us, nintendo

It’s the gift that keeps on giving

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11:49 pm

Honestly.../

Can't wait to see how the saga ends.

SoujlaFines

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HONESTLY

SouljaBoy magfest panel confirmed

We call SouljaBoy to the witness stand

8:33 pm

SouljaBoy tell em

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"Honestly, its all 100% legit"

Soulja Boy up in this coooooourt

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SouljaBoy sell ‘em

I hated that song so much...I worked at an office for years where they wouldn’t let you listen to your own music, so they’d switch between like three Top 40 stations

8:20 pm

So once or twice a week it’d be the station that song, always at the same time of the day because the Top 40 apparently never changed

8:21 pm

It was one non changing Top 40, and two stations that did switch things up just a little more

8:22 pm

At one point I got so fed up, I got them to stop playing the Top 40 station by going to HR and saying “do you know what Superman Dat Hoe means? Google it”

I wished I could do that when I used to work in a kitchen at a rest home

9:26 pm

Literally the only station that'd get reception was the local country music station, that I'm convinced was DJed by an algorithm and not a human

9:27 pm

Songs about generic love, songs about 9/11, songs about how the singer has no idea how to understand Spanish but thinks it's sexy anyway

9:28 pm

The same playlist every day

the same daily playlist can ruin just about anything

Never mind that I'm not really a country fan to begin with, but this was the most focus group driven, bland nonsense I'd ever heard

yeah, i can't do country stations

Every song had the same tempo, beat, chord progression

there were a few country fans at the office, but whenever they'd try to put it into rotation, there were too many complaints i think lol

It felt like only the lyrics were changing

9:30 pm

I started bringing mix CDs to break monotony

9:31 pm

Nobody really cared

my first retail job did a '50s muzak station that only played one or two actually good songs a day (like Chuck Berry)...it took me a long time before i hear '50s music without wanting to dart

I have a strange fascination with that era of muzak

the worst was during December, when theyd play only '50s Christmas pop...and there isn't a lot of Christmas pop, so it was like a Top 20 on repeat

Ugh

and there was one song in particular that was worse than any other song i'd ever heard, and every time it came on i wanted to die

Yeah that was Christmas 2007 for me

imagine hearing this song twice a day for a month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqPWnQ3vTd4

Lord Douglas Byron - Topic

Surfin' Santa

Small town grocer, only has access to years out of date background music

i can laugh about it now at least

I got real, real sick of Santa Baby

nods

The fast food joints I frequent all have Christmas stations going...it's still the same songs as ever but at least they're new cover versions I guess

i heard a new cover of Wonderful Christmastime, which was weird...like why would you do that

Even Trans Siberian is getting played out and that's kind of sad

if you want to have a really good time with needless covers that don't add anything, I discovered Wilson Phillips did a Christmas album and every track is just hilariously soulless

I haven't heard Wizards in Winter in a while though

9:36 pm

Or their prog rock Beethoven album I guess

i want to walk into a restaurant and hear them playing only Christopher Lee Christmas albums

9:37 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzOve8T39w

Charlemagne Productions

Christopher Lee. A Heavy Metal Christmas

Christopher Lee, you absolute legend

I have a Johnny Cash Christmas album where he tells Christmas stories in-between songs, and he just sounds so tired

9:56 pm

Like you can picture him smoking in the recording studio

enjoying this immensely https://supervgchristmasparty.bandcamp.com/album/super-vg-christmas-party

Super VG Christmas Party, by Patient Corgi

42 track album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfnTs0RZLs

WaterTower Music

Ocean To Ocean - Pitbull feat. Rhea - Aquaman Soundtrack [Official...

9:49 pm

Pitbull's take on "Africa" belongs in the Bubsy Litterbox

Made it 6 seconds

9:51 pm

The video game ice music is an antidote

you have to at least get to the chorus

Nononononononono

I love that it's not even Africa, it's Ocean to Ocean, which just randomly has the chorus from Africa dropped in the middle

it makes sense if you watch aquaman

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It seems the SouljaBoy emulator box is also sold filled with playable ROMs too

12:01 am

Probably not a shocking revelation

12:01 am

But still

12:01 am

Well he's facing charges for it

Is he? I don't see any articles about him actually being sued.

There's a few articles but I don't know how reliable these sites are

9:22 am

https://mtonews.com/soulja-boy-faces-10-yr-fed-prison-for-fake-game-console

Soulja Boy Faces 10 Yrs In Prison For Fake Game Console!!

Soulja Boy's has reportedly been contacted by Nintendo, who is threatening to press criminal charges against the Crank That rapper, MTO News has confirmed.

No, yeah, that's an extremely fake news source

Even assuming that the article is correct, Nintendo has only sent him a weird sort of Cease and Desist letter. But the site seems quite.... Sketchy.

Yeah, I haven't seen any other source

4:21 pm

It wouldn't surprise me if he got in trouble for it though

It would very much surprise me considering that nobody has the unit yet to verify its contents afaik

I mean, if what we know about them is true and they indeed contain ROMs. That said, the company is still selling them so who knows. Maybe nothing happened yet but Nintendo could go after them any time.

I just enjoy watching the cognitive dissonance on display

There have already been a couple of reviews on the "generic" version of the console SouljaBoy is hawking and considering that the description on his webpage is exactly the same as it is on AliBaba...

Oh I'm sure it's the exact same thing but what lawyer is going to write a c & d without anyone seeing the actual shipped product?

Last year, I joked about registering gamehistory.horse if the need would ever arise (edited)

3:44 pm

The time may have finally come https://twitter.com/SpindleyQ/status/1074479696748806144

Jeremy Penner 👉🏻 @SpindleyQ@mastodon.social (@SpindleyQ)

Meet Chuck is now playable in-browser on the Internet Archive: https://t.co/Uz5I4I3yXx Not for TREND, not for CORPORATE ATTITUDE, not for STONER, only true DOOM-HORSELOVERS, both experienced and nonexperienced

3:44 pm

This is amazing. A totally undocumented game about horse facts, developed/published by a company that does video duplication (edited)

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3:45 pm

Horses, Horses, Horses for People Who Love Horses

https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentSeductiveKeyboardHassaanChop

Well I'm Pac-man I guess

You're not Chrom, and that's what counts

I miss the category “desktop littered with 10.000 screenshot files”

I love how esoteric these smash memes are getting

Remote is wired and has a really short cord

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I hope they are SECAM rips

Halfway through a movie the image starts distorting and switches to another program, because someone put a piece of tape that disables overwrite protection and recorded something over it (edited)

It will randomly eat parts of files inexplicably but there’s some screws you can use to get to the inside where there’s a puzzle you can do to restore them

Someone on the internet yells at you that this isn’t authentic and only original VHS tapes and player hardware are worth it.

12:59 pm

Someone tells you that you could just use Netflix or download movie rips and use a raspberry pi as a media player. (edited)

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It randomly posts on your facebook account about how much you miss vhs quality.

People hack it to put their own movies on it.

1:03 pm

Built-in THX intro loudness filter.

That image went around when the PlayStation was announced and I've seen it twice again today on my feed uncredited to whoever made it

It was made by Bubsy

Every time I see that image I feel compelled to post "but where's Jerry Mcguire" as if this were both a real thing and as is my indignation could somehow fix this feature list

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264093534719

Nintendo Power 3 Ring Binder Trapper Keeper 3 Highlighters & 1989 TMNT

Nintendo Power 3 Ring Binder Trapper Keeper 3 Highlighters & 1989 TMNT. It's brand new never been used. The magazine inside has never been opened. 3 Highlighters have never been opened or used. | eBay!

11:21 pm

It could be yours

11:21 pm

For all your Captain N cosplay needs

10:37 pm

(now deleted)

Amazing.

I have an odd feeling that those tweets won't age well.

https://youtu.be/kyoT2h4xECg?t=222 - the following is not a commercial for earthworm jim

80sCommercialVault

90's Commercials Vol. 256

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https://twitter.com/CorwinB87/status/1076734314748858369

weasel (@CorwinB87)

I couldn't contain myself. (And what else is new?)

7:16 am

happy holidays, my desk is on fire

hahaha

3:51 pm

there's a really good homebrew NES fireplace if you want to add a CRT in here

No more room on the desk haha

Please tell me there’s a VR fireplace

Well there seem to be 7 fireplace videos for sale on steam, hovering between 4 and 5 bucks...

4:02 pm

setting "VR supported" only gets me these two

4:02 pm

but i would bet you anything there's something on the market in which a fireplace is an auxiliary feature

Is perfect life vr a cat sim

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You can relax in this perfect house. Customize your car. Customize your friend. Fire the fireplace.
Just put your HMD on your head and relax. Roam in the house. Enjoy stunning visuals and relaxing sound.
This game gives you a relaxing virtual house with a car and a friend.

- Stunning visuals
- Relaxing environment
- Customizable car
- Customizable friend
- Fireplace

4:03 pm

the screenshots show a gaudy chrome plated sports car and an asset-store female model

4:04 pm

https://store.steampowered.com/app/968380/Perfect_Life_VR/ - i'm reasonably sure i've seen this exact house in something else

Perfect Life VR

Price

$1.99

Is there a fireplace on both 3DS screens?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DTt8vk7hYw

222SWORD222

ナイト・オブ・ファイヤー [ ニコ ] / NIGHT OF FIRE (F...

spending christmas morning staring at the slowest internet archive upload bar I've ever seen

3:11 pm

was meant for general but in retrospect this is bubsy litterbox material

3:12 pm

I still don’t know if it’s my imagination or not that the upload bar goes faster when I have the tab active

ShadsyYesterday at 9:49 PM
Is there a fireplace on both 3DS screens?

Sorry I missed this message yesterday but no, the fireplace video's only playing on the top screen; the bottom screen is just showing the video thumbnail because that's how the 3DS youtube app works

4:42 pm

(though there's one other machine in that photo that isn't playing video; I had to cheat with the iBook because it's not powerful enough to run youtube

)

Found this in with some other assorted stuff from GDC 2004. Despite the lack of Bubsy, I still immediately thought of the litterbox.

Wow.

5:32 pm

I tried to form a more coherent response but cannot find the words

Yeah, I think that's about all I could muster when I dug it out yesterday.

oh ew

This is really early 80s in style, like the old stuff in UK computer magazines

Bubsy is the perfect mascot for game history and preservation because nobody would bother to preserve his memory for generations to come purely out of love. It takes effort.

BEE YOO BEE ESS WHY

So if I were to turn Bubsy into an adjective it would be something you keep out of obligation rather than affection.

12:39 am

(Which it turn would be a pretty cold thing to say to a person, so yes)

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BS: Bubsy Story was good

4:38 am

But I think I preferred the Satellaview version, BS BS

For @Corwin "weasel" Brence

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this proves that olivia jaimes is in this discord

Or I'm just very presciently Nancy-like.

no she's here

4:48 pm

we directly inspired the new nancy

Lol thought the same thing when I saw that this morning

https://twitter.com/partytimeHXLNT/status/1078805137571938305

💌 PRミTTY RAミ 🔜 magfest (@partytimeHXLNT)

Making Love (Unl)[!].nes https://t.co/cS11VDoBxo

oh of course it's a battle city hack

Just had the bubster show up in a super stressful dream. When trying to get out of a labyrinthine police department I found myself in their vertical parkinglot, which had, among other stores, a Bubsy branded interior design store.

7:24 pm

It looked like the store had no entrance, so i suspected the reason it was still around was because no one had figured out how to get inside and close the place down.

7:25 pm

Bubsy was also hawking a new game system too. Its tagline was "The pixels are so small they'll hurt your eyes!" (edited)

Holy shit

Hahaha

Bubsy is the Kafka of video games

"Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning and discovers that he's turned into a bobcat with attitude! What could possibly go wrong?"

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11:11 pm

I'd definitely drunk buy that game on Steam.

Ralphie wants Bubsy for Christmas. “The pixels are too small. You’ll hurt your eyes out.”

That Bubsy question is really good

4:12 am

Based on what I can tell, at minimum, 2088. It depends on whether it's considered a work for hire for Accolade or if Bubsy has a specific author (edited)

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4:12 am

If it has a specific "author," 70 years after the author of Bubsy dies (edited)

if i had to guess at a single author, most likely this guy https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,1373/

Ken Macklin Video Game Credits and Biography - MobyGames

Ken Macklin has been credited on games developed by the following companies: LucasArts, Accolade, Inc., Legend Entertainment Company and ATI Technologies, Inc.. This does not imply employment by these companies. Ken Macklin was credited on a game as early as 1985 and as rec...

4:19 am

he's not just credited as a "designer" on the bubsy games, he's specifically credited as "bubsy design" and "bubsy animation"

4:22 am

i have however learned that he not only designed bubsy himself, but also drew this https://www.mobygames.com/game/maniac-mansion/cover-art/gameCoverId,996/

Maniac Mansion (1989) Amiga box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Maniac Mansion (Amiga) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

Bubsy is absolutely the cast of Maniac Mansion's shared fursona

brb, commissioning a painting of Bernard in his Bubsy suit

Damn... I'll be dead before my plans of creating Bubsy Fouuuuurrrr can come to fruition.

Or you could make Sonic Mania for Bubsy and get paid

Maybe i'll freeze myself to pull it off. It's worth it.

4:21 pm

Could make it a golf game, even though that's fore and not four but who cares in Bubsy's world.

There's already a Bubsy 4 in production! Gaijin Games is doing it

implying Bubsy 3D wasn't Bubsy 3?

Oh right

i'd think in the grand scheme of bubsy releases we're technically on Bubsy 6

Woolies was 4, this is 5?

Bubsy 6: The Undiscovered Country

A REAL Busy 4, Frank.

Bubsy: 6 Seasons and a Movie

We've gotta start doing it like popes and have Anti-Bubsys that contradict the Bubsy canon

Church of Bubsy-Satan

It's not quite like the opposite of Bubsy

5:46 pm

More like a Bubsy in exile

5:46 pm

Who challenges the legitimacy of the current Bubsy

or it's like that one time that two countries both had Popes and then both Popes excommunicated each other

Discord Reformed Church of Bubsy

The Bubture

Bubspocalypse

What will be the first video game whose copyright lapses into public domain under "natural" circumstances?

Bubsy 3 was only for the Jaguar, so literally no one played it.

6:44 pm

Then I think Bubsy 4 was Bubsy 3D, then there was a new game released last year and now one coming in 2019. (edited)

6:44 pm

Thus Bubsy 6.

I thought the jaguar version was just a remake of 1?

It's essentially its own game, though it's very heavily built on the first game's engine

...holy shit

complete with its wacky (broken) jump physics

well, to be fair to me, why would I ever look at a jaguar game

true

6:46 pm

somehow all these years later and jaguar emulation is still really slow and buggy

To fulfill your destiny Frank (edited)

I only played one game on Jaguar

6:47 pm

...it was the Jaguar port of Flashback

6:47 pm

Not even Tempest 2000

6:48 pm

Probably the only decent port of the game by Tiertex

@Frank Cifaldi From what I understand, Bubsy for the Jaguar was supposed to be a remake and then for whatever reason, they decided to just turn it into a new game using the same engine. A friend of mine is a hardcore Bubsy fan and until I told him, didn't even know it existed.

6:48 pm

Aren't the three games everyone has at least heard of for the Jaguar are Flasback, Tempest 2000, and Alien vs. Predator or whatever?

I keep forgetting Flashback was on Jaguar

6:49 pm

Tempest, AvP, and the id Software ports were the ones I mainly knew of

6:49 pm

Jag Wolf3D is weird

Sure there is a story behind the whole Bubsy for the Jaguar.

6:50 pm

Oh? How was it weird?

It's arguably a tech demo, for one - id Software ported it themselves because Carmack wanted to see if the Jaguar could handle a Doom-like game. In the process, they borrowed a lot of Doom code and a few assets, resulting in things like a very familiar looking pistol, chaingun, and rocket launcher.

6:52 pm

It has the SNES game's level set and sound effects, the Mac version's high-res sprites and textures, it's the only console version that has quick-save, and they removed the extra lives system and made treasure give you bonus health instead...totally thwarting the game balance in your favor

(Tiertex is really bad at porting Flashback)

Wasn't it ported to essentially everything?

Also the weapons fire, like, twice as fast as in every other version, making the bullet weapons the most overpowered stuff in the game despite there being rockets and flamethrowers available that are supposed to be better

Flashback?

7:01 pm

It was ported to a lot of systems

oh, yeah, it even got a CD-i version IIRC

Most ports were done by Tiertex

7:02 pm

The only in-house versions were on Sega CD, PC, Amiga, and originally on Genesis

7:02 pm

It's also a weird case of a game because a port was actually released first

the litterbox has taken an edifying turn

The Amiga version is actually a port and it was released first solely because of the time it takes to Sega to approve the game

simcity's like that too, since c64 is the original but went unreleased while they ported it to amiga and mac

7:04 pm

they put out the c64 version after the fact, and it's pretty different (i.e. you build water paths)

and then the source code was lost

7:04 pm

because the last official port of the game

7:05 pm

is actually from a rewritten version by a ScummVM dev

7:05 pm

http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

7:05 pm

Still updated today, too

Oooh right

7:06 pm

I love this build because you can combine the data files from a bunch of different versions and put together a "best of" version

yup

7:06 pm

also dpoly_js page

7:06 pm

contains a cutscene from the unreleased Flashback 2

the PC cutscenes, the CD version voice acting and the Amiga music

Also with the latest version of REminiscence

7:07 pm

You can actually enable disabled cutscenes

7:07 pm

and have Amiga-only cutscenes and also a few that were simply unused

7:08 pm

and also, you can have a cutscene for when you pick up the stone !

7:08 pm

lol

7:09 pm

The guy is working on Fade To Black rewrite and Heart of Darkness rewrite as well

7:09 pm

And I really hope the Heart of Darkness rewrite comes to fruition because it's just a really good game

ooh Fade to Black, I wonder if an improved camera system is in the cards for that one

7:10 pm

that's the one thing that stuck out to me, in my few attempts at playing it, was the camera stuff

To be honest the camera never bothered me

7:13 pm

If anything what bothered me is the apparent fact that it was rushed

7:13 pm

especially at the end

7:14 pm

and it's actually shorter than I thought

7:14 pm

The creator of the game wanted to have Tomb Raider style gameplay before it was a thing

7:15 pm

but he was making Shaq Fu at the time

7:15 pm

And the core team that stayed for Fade To Black used DOOM style gameplay

7:15 pm

and it was too late to change it

Out-of-context snap from another discord.

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This inspired me to search for "Rule 34" iterations of Bubsy and... I was a little disappointed. While I'd like to share the CHOICE examples I found with all of you, I also don't want to be "that guy," so I won't. (edited)

For that, you have to join my Facebook chat.

i have seen some of that, tbh

5:26 am

it is pretty disappointing

I kind of wish we could set a baseline for Rule 34, like Wikihow drawings. So you can see that people are doing this for the quotas.

https://gizmodo.com/rip-soulja-boys-knock-off-nintendo-gameboy-advance-neo-1831398657#qw9ba8hmrkph1bhat1lrqnyfb.il91wvmz6zbq

RIP Soulja Boy's Knock-Off Nintendo GameBoy Advance/Neo Geo/PS Vit...

When rapper Soulja Boy dropped his line of game emulator consoles, the internet arched a collective eyebrow. This, we knew, probably would not end well and lo, less than a month after launch, both the SouljaGame Handheld and SouljaGame console have been pulled from the rapper...

6:56 pm

The dream is over

There we go

Watch him yank that SouljaGame

Had people already paid for it?

So..apparantly..

2:12 pm

SouljaGame.com

2:12 pm

if you go to there..it links to nintendo's site.

I don't think Soulja ever owned that domain, I think it's someone having fun

domain is registered by some private registration company

He can do anything

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1080012270724235267

foone (@Foone)

It's the first generator of the new year, and possibly the first one that's an unreleased game: SimCity NES! https://t.co/axdRVjFvmO

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7:33 pm

Look what we've done

7:33 pm

The VGHF made this possible

You altered foone history

holy ground

Bubsy mentioned at the Smithsonian panel

Thank you

#purrfectpanel

We made it

Anyone exhausted at Magfest yet?

Prolly mags

Bub-zine

1:55 am

@Wietse van Bruggen You were right!

I'll let Michael explain the context (edited)

Got MonsterDunk to consider if the amiga is the Bubsy of computers live on air so considering it a good night.

it's gotta be something that wowed the media and had a lot of excitement around it and then came out and completely underwhelmed everyone without being an outright failure

That sounds about right for the Amiga

really? I thought the amiga was king of the hill for a minute there

It took quite a while for it to catch on, it kinda just hovered in place for a few years sales-wise

2:32 am

By the time it was nearly achieving some popularity, Doom happened, driving interest away from it for good

https://youtu.be/7ja9QEc1dtQ

SoH

bubsy amiga

2:36 am

It was a dumb joke, but I feel like the demoscene and technical graphical prowess is what made it stand out

2:36 am

And to steal from a friend who was heavily in that scene

2:36 am

"The game design prowess on the other hand? Not so much"

2:39 am

You'd have this incredible sprite with 47 frames of beautiful animation that would make tank controls look absolutely elegant in comparison when played

2:40 am

So amiga is the RDR2 of computers

2:40 am

2:41 am

(I haven't even played it, don't @ me)

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I'd almost argue that the Amiga is where the "animations above all else" design mentality comes from

2:54 am

Or maybe I should call it "no canceling"

2:55 am

The idea of character animation blocking controls until the animation is finished, or otherwise restricting movements just so the animation never ever looks wrong

2:56 am

Seems like a very European construct

2:57 am

Or at least, more games that suffer that problem seem to be made in Europe than anywhere else

Disney was happy to release plenty of SNES games in the states with that mentality too

3:19 am

but, then again, SNES Lion King does kinda feel like an Amiga game

straight outta magfest, representing the litterbox

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3:42 am

attn: @Gus Lanzetta

that was fun

this is excerpted from a fanzine called Access Time, published in Austin, TX (1993)

I didn't get a chance to ask, do you have all of arnie's zine columns as it moved around? I don't remember the strong's holdings but I've got all of EGM 2 and all of the second run of Electronic Games and then the very beginning of Fusion, where I think it ultimately stopped

I think I've got everything, thanks in no small part to Jeff Bogumil, aka RetroDefense at Retromags. He's been hunting them down for years.

3:47 am

I managed to fill what gaps he had with Beth Lathrop's help.

3:47 am

Oh, and Chris Bieniek did some scanning for me.

the post-egm2 stuff is so hard to get. fusion, intelligent gamer's fusion, intelligent gamer

3:48 am

I don't know 100% that the column kept going there, but I know it went to electronic games at the very least (which was such a weird magazine!)

I can't believe Bubsy showed up in multiple panels, one of which wasn't ours (edited)

anyway there are people outside my hotel room saying "charizard is pretty cool." "yeah charizard is badass!" "yeah I like charizard."

I was walking back to my room as an entire room of drunk Mega Man 2 cosplayers stumbled out of a room screaming

3:49 am

The person in the giant Heat Man box was having a bad time

they're no charizard

i feel like heat man and charizard would get along pretty well

Until gutsman and machop showed up

Yasssssss I was right

MAGFest is wild https://twitter.com/EmptyheadGamer/status/1080977492037591040

Emptyhead Gamer (@EmptyheadGamer)

of all the panels to hit max capicity this was not one i expected #MAGFest

lol

Shit is bananas

Also it's not the game, it's the CG cartoon serious

Something about "A panel" just kills me

couldn't find room for this in my MAGFest panel. enjoy! https://youtu.be/iutcs7voM1M

Michael Hughes

Contorno's Computer Cut-ups

6:56 pm

From a one-hour special hosted by Anthony Contorno in December 1984 on the Cable Television Network of New Jersey (edited)

6:59 pm

Contorno was invited to demonstrate and discuss video games for the network's V-Channel after creating and distributing an amateur newsletter, "Joystick Jolter," which is attested in some ads of the time (e.g., https://books.google.com/books?id=tWYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=%22joystick+jolter%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY9puPrdzfAhUP0awKHXiSBj0Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22joystick%20jolter%22&f=false) (edited)

Boys' Life

Alas!

I’m using this tweet as a source on Wikipedia as we speak

7:39 pm

“According to historian Gus Lanzetta Ayrton Senna Da Silva was never known as the Brazilian Bubsy.” (edited)

7:41 pm

Family of former professional rodeo rider Cody Lambert

7:41 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Lambert

Cody Lambert

Cody Lambert (born December 2, 1961) from Merkel, Texas is an American former professional bareback bronc, saddle bronc and bull rider. He was a Champion Bull Riding Cowboy and Vice President of the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR). He created the protective vest that mo...

Brazbubs

"You know how Bubsy wants to be Sonic? Awesome Possum really wants to be Bubsy." -Lizstar on why Awesome Possum is too awful to speed run even in the Awful Games Block, AGDQ 2019 (edited)

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The PC versions of Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire (real title, very different from the Dreamcast version) is unaccounted for right now, so I went to check eBay

3:21 am

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Who-Wants-to-Beat-Up-a-Millionaire-95-98-Me-XP-Hit-TV-Show-Parody-lot-of-520/163054165338

Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? 95/98/Me/XP *Hit TV Show Paro...

The box says 600, but we decided to check. Our count for one stack was 130. The opened stack has been resealed in plastic wrap. We also added cardboard between the stacks to protect them. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?. | eBay!

3:21 am

520 copies

3:22 am

It must've just been excess units that didn't sell, but still such a weird thing

Buy it, give them out as freebies for VGHF donors

3:31 am

Or hot glue googly eyes and sad eyebrows to the shrink wrap and market them as adoptable to a good home

A friend just suggested that I do a panel about the game and give everyone in attendance a copy

3:35 am

To be clear, I am absolutely not spending $198 on 520 copies of Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire

But that's like 30 cents a copy, what a bargain!

You can always make an offer

Apparently that game features one "ronald hump"

3:48 pm

very creative

3:51 pm

"The objective of the game is to answer multiple-choice questions correctly, by using a buzzer to answer. Following this, the player assaults another player's character. The objective of the game is to assault another player sufficiently so that they drop off the game's ladder, a parody of the real show's question ladder. The last player is the winner. "

My vague memory of playing it back in 2001-ish was that it was also pretty racist and sexist (if I noticed it back then in sixth grade, it must've been bad), which also tamps down on my enthusiasm for it

it seems.... bad

3:51 pm

there's also a character named "Sheik Abdul Chickpea"

That sounds right unfortunately

3:52 pm

As a bit of cultural ephemera from 2000, it probably speaks volumes, but it's tough to be excited about

wasn't that game from the same devs as Deer Avenger

looks that way

4:55 pm

also the fine folks that brought us "Outlaw Golf" and "Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity"

4:56 pm

I can't even tell what that second title is going for. Is there a pun somewhere I can't find?

4:56 pm

Infinity? Seems like a stretch

Eternity maybe? the ‘50s romantic movie? Because there’d be a huge overlap between the audiences of that film and their products.

Ah, that's probably it. Still seems like something someone at the company should have looked at and asked "...really?"

I own outlaw golf...And its expansion pack, still sealed

5:17 pm

I figure if I'm going to play it, I'll have set up my streaming rig again so I can at least not be alone in my potential embarrassment

You need to use your charm and your credit card to get as much underwear as you can to save the planet

6:57 pm

huh

https://twitter.com/toejamandearl/status/1082270066102673408

ToeJam & Earl (Out March 1!) (@toejamandearl)

You are all our homies (cept Bubsy) https://t.co/tzbH1yAJDS

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I watched that miner game @Gus Lanzetta

9:13 pm

It's quite something

9:13 pm

I also really appreciated the Green Day midi music

I have not

I'm not sure if those words have an extra layer of meaning or not

I'm going to use the word oscillate more in my everyday sentences

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Tangentially related URL and headline https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change

Great tits are killing birds and eating their brains. Climate chan...

Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This typically goes off without a hitch, and the birds return to Africa a few months late...

5:25 am

https://souljawatch.com/collections/games/products/souljagame-handheld-1?preview=true&preview=true

5:25 am

blink blink blink

so

6:50 pm

basically the same thing except this time it doesn't explicitly stated it comes loaded with roms

6:50 pm

?

6:52 pm

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/X1-Handheld-Game-Players-4-3-Inch-HD-Portable-MP5-4GB-8GB-Support-For-Camera-Video/32957092683.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.84.483b17a94nSeMr&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10068_10130_10890_10547_319_10546_317_10548_10545_10696_453_10084_454_10083_10618_431_10307_537_536_10059_10884_10887_100031_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_51,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=f54f67c9-f7e1-465e-855e-11155e714611-11&algo_pvid=f54f67c9-f7e1-465e-855e-11155e714611

US $27.69 29% OFF|X1 Handheld Game Players 4.3 Inch HD Portable M...

Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com

6:52 pm

>HD screen
>480*272

7:26 pm

those two things are mutually exclusive

7:27 pm

that only barely breaks out of SDTV/QVGA

I remember thinking 480x272 screens were super high res... In 2006.

7:39 pm

I bought one of these and thought it was rad. It even supported video capture through a dock, I used to capture game footage on it. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/archos-604-review/

Archos 604 review: Archos 604

The do-everything Archos 604 WiFi is completely stacked with awesome video playback, Web surfing, and other useful features, but the sluggish processor keeps the experience from being totally satisfying.

there are a bunch of PS Vita ports of games that have 'HD' in the name, I fell like that term lost its meaning a long time ago

Sadly they can't call every rerelease Remarstered.

1:36 pm

because not every game is set on Mars

HD on a handheld is still impressive today, not all switch games are HD in handheld mode

Yeah, but some fancy titles cant do 720 in handheld, rare though

https://archive.org/details/BubsySNESHiResScans

Bubsy (SNES) 48-Bit 1200dpi Box Scan : Accolade : Free Download, B...

1200dpi 48-bit RAW scans of Bubsy scans for the SNES. ICC File is applied but only viewable in image editing program that supports them. Otherwise images will...

3:07 am

My greatest work

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https://twitter.com/decafjedi/status/1085167260086554626

Jess Morrissette (@decafjedi)

This editorial from the January 2005 issue of Computer Gaming World dares to ask, "What would a Mario game be like if Mario had a pierced nipple?"

I wondered that for a long time

https://nintendosoup.com/official-kirby-artbook-reveals-kirby-has-a-skeleton/

Iggy

Official Kirby Artbook Reveals Kirby Has A Skeleton (UPDATE)

UPDATE: Apparently the artbook is Dream Science Laboratory 16 published by Kadokawa/Media Factory, which also publishes some official Nintendo artbooks. The drawing in the book is the artist's imagina

It's not official though

9:35 pm

But nice nightmare fuel

I’m pretty sure Kirby is just an adorable ghost....he’s like a chibi Slimer

2:37 am

Except he can’t go through walls, hm

2:37 am

He’s like a ghost made of flesh

A possessed vacuum from the future

i still want to buy one of those very badly

wow.

8:07 pm

do want.

looks like the ultimate evolution of the ostrich pillow https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/RW4BcJsp_2TiLlr2fTMdfLTWTvw=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/2013%2F12%2F13%2F1c%2FOSTRICHPILL.9e7b5.jpg

8:12 pm

maybe kirby just inhaled an ostrich pillow.

Guy I know from the doom community just made a Max Payne mod that replaces Max with Gary Busey

https://vectrex28.itch.io/saturn-smash

Saturn Smash by Vectrex28

A new game for the NES

The Donkey Kong Buddhism panel is also up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJx5HhshKE

MAGFest

MAGFest 2019: Buddhist Themes in the Animated Donkey Kong Televisi...

I've been waiting for this one! Thanks.

https://twitter.com/nbajambook/status/1087074920163667968

NBA Jam (the book) (@nbajambook)

Former Bond girl Grace Jones plays GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 at the game's launch party and can't believe her eyes

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But which character did she pick?!

3:59 pm

Oddjob

https://twitter.com/feelingoldbot/status/1087712744109998080

Feeling Old? (@feelingoldbot)

Sonic the Hedgehog came out as close to the JFK assassination as to now.

There's an etsy shop that paints bricks like video game characters.

9:33 pm

They take commissions

9:35 pm

I mean look at that Pikachu

9:35 pm

https://www.etsy.com/listing/612800573/pikachu-pokemon-brick-a-brax-brick?ref=shop_home_active_3

Pikachu Pokemon Brick-a-Brax Brick Statue

Pika pika! You dont need a pokeball to catch this Pikachu brick statue! Pikachu himself would tell you pika!!! which, of course, means catch me and bring me home! Stay one step ahead of Gary and buy today

i'm upset that my first thought was "we can make bubsy" before i even realized this was the litterbox

yeah, well

9:45 pm

I'm not about to go throwing stones on that one myself

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1984-DUNE-LJN-TOYS-AFA-80-SANDWORM-MONSTER-FIGURE-SEALED-BOX-MISB/222661663754?hash=item33d7ab5c0a:g:58YAAOxyYSdTCsp3:rk:30:pf:0

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4:00 am

I'm sort of depressed that I thought about getting it for a few minutes.

What's the cat's name Frank? We know it's not Bubsy, but should it be? https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1090333849295380480

John Andersen (@JohnAndersen21)

Extremely accurate photo of me

sorry his name is Tony

So it should be.

Please help https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/status/1090433826134900736

Densha De WHOA!!!!!! https://t.co/Hdv1R0HV6Y

Brilliant title for the link.

Frank as soon as I saw that retweet I knew it was a shitpost, but that's just mean.

it's so good

I always heard Lennon was a lyricist, but I never really stopped and listened to the words, you know?

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Wiiii shop

12:54 am

E3 1996 preview shots of our good boy

12:54 am

12:55 am

Does anyone know enough about Bubsy 3D to know if there's anything that changed from those screenshots

probably just Ulillillia

Looks like either the atomic particle UI element is smaller, or the numbers got bigger

1:05 am

also why is Bubsy collecting atomic particles

the answer is in the secret ending of braid

Ah, with the famous quote from J Robert Oppenheimer: "What could possibly go wrong?"

exactly

It appears to be running in high res mode

wikipedia says the actual game does

What's really weird is I remember all the in game text being half as wide...

1:48 am

More indicative of a last minute switch to medium res (512x224, or probably 640x240 - I forget what the PlayStation used more often) (edited)

1:48 am

I don't have a way to verify any of that though

https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1091184693444112385

Jeff Gerstmann (@jeffgerstmann)

let's have a bubsy game jam in dreams when it comes out, what could possibly go wrong

I feel like we have to promote or ban him. There is no middle ground here.

it's one of the most important pieces of pro-bubsy propaganda in some time

4:11 am

'In June 2017, Hong Kongese holding company Billionsoft announced that they had acquired the "Accolade" label, and announced Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, in cooperation with developer Black Forest Games and publisher Tommo, to be the first game released under it.'

4:11 am

talking of this

4:11 am

what the heck happened with the accolade comeback?

4:12 am

oh i guess this is still happening and i forgot, lol: https://www.accoladegame.com/bubsy-paw-s-on-fire

Home I Accolade Game

From 1985 to 2000, there was only one name for action, adventure, heart pounding thrills and fast paced games on your favorite computer or gaming system.

4:12 am

it's so weird tho, they just keep doing low budget reskins of the dev's previous game

4:13 am

(giana sisters for black forest, runner 3 for choice provisions)

They are just keeping the brand hot until Digital Eclipse is free to drop the Bubsy Criterion Collection

must be (edited)

More seriously, has there been any sort of Bubsy... package.. collection.. anything?

4:18 am

I know a lot of Bubsy things were released in the last few years and I would be a very big liar if I claimed I paid it enough attention

4:18 am

Or maybe I paid it exactly the right amount of attention

4:25 am

Before I go to bed I usually throw on Mario no Picross and do a few puzzles but tonight

4:25 am

I am going to play the first level of Bubsy

4:25 am

I will no longer be a Bubsy poser

4:25 am

I will face my fear

First thoughts: initially I thought this title music isn't half bad. Then the title came up and I realized I loaded Brutal - Paws of Fury by mistake.

4:36 am

they put the SNES game on steam

4:36 am

of all the SNES games to put on steam, and it was Bubsy

Wait

4:41 am

You can just hold y down and half infinite slow fall

4:41 am

And hold the right shoulder and keep the camera panned all the way

4:41 am

This is objectively the correct way to play Bubsy (edited)

4:42 am

omg

4:42 am

And hold up on the dpad to keep it panned up

4:43 am

You can literally

4:43 am

LITERALLY

4:43 am

Put Bubsy in a corner

I tried everything I could to break the camera and keep it panned but unfortunately you cannot play with bubsy in the corner

4:56 am

I didn't realize how much it was chasing Sonic. Much more than Mario, at least

5:01 am

I think I would personally rank Bubsy above that Tom & Jerry platformer, but below the Speedy Gonzalez platformer

what about Road Runner in Death Valley Rally

Not familiar but I am going to say all below the treasure tiny toons game

5:11 am

Also below those Bugs Bunny puzzle platformers

5:12 am

Bugs Bunny (tiny included) has a dramatically under recognized decent set of games

5:13 am

In conclusion

5:13 am

Bugs Bunny? Better video game character than Bubsy.

I love how all of the above also qualifies, at least 80% of the way, to not just Bugs Bunny, but also Mickey Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Garfield, Peter Venkman, and Hugo the TV troll

5:37 am

(oh wait. The one that was Ghostbusters and Garfield was never a Bugs Bunny game, but it was a Mickey Mouse game.)

5:37 am

(this series is confusing)

5:37 am

And then there's this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Klown_in_Night_Mayor_World

Kid Klown in Night Mayor World

Kid Klown in Night Mayor World, known in Japan as Mickey Mouse III: Yume Fuusen (ミッキーマウスIII 夢ふうせん, "Mickey Mouse III: Balloon Dreams"), is a platform video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released on April 1, 1993. It was developed and publi...

5:37 am

that is also part of the series

5:38 am

seriously what in the heck, kemco

that has led to some seriously confusing mobygames entries

7:59 pm

due to the regional reskins

Hell yeah, look what arrived (edited)

3

1

4:50 am

Dead tired but will dive into it tomorrow

pizza pizza!

Apparently this is the first time the Little Caesars character was licensed

5:15 am

"We've been a little protective of our Little Caesar character," said Linda Jaworski, the firm's vpsales promotion and local store marketing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OM1pV4v1KGU&t=2s

Alex Bale

PIZZA TIME PIZZA

Extremely happy to report that Little Caesars Fractions Pizza is a musical

9:44 pm

I knew one level had a song, but every level has a song

yikes

When you quit, the Little Caesars mascot says "See ya see ya"

Oh my god amazing

12:54 am

Bring this next time you’re over

Whenever the house is ready, the pizza cometh

Oh man that is good.

https://babylonbee.com/news/youth-pastor-questioned-for-rendering-half-his-budget-unto-little-caesars

Youth Pastor Questioned For Rendering Half His Budget Unto Little ...

ST JOSEPH, MI—After a semi-annual budget audit was run by the elder board at Lake Michigan Bible Fellowship Monday, youth pastor Troy “Turnt” Hatley was called in for questioning over the fact that he had rendered half his budget unto Little Caesars.“Let’s see here,...

If anyone wants to give it a whirl! https://archive.org/details/LittleCaesarsFractionsPizza_1998_Conexus

Little Caesars Fractions Pizza (1998) (Conexus) : Conexus : Free D...

An educational math game for Windows 98 and Macintosh by Conexus, published by Panasonic Interactive Media's PanaKids brand, featuring Little Caesars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvwcp4FdOA

Accolade Game

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! Kickstarter Trailer

12:07 am

Frank. Take all the patreon money and put it here. You know it is the wisest financially video game related thing you can do. Objectively.

I didn't know "preview trailer for a kickstarter campaign" was a thing

12:07 am

it's very fitting for bubsy though

12:12 am

I'm not ready for a rated M Bubsy.

12:12 am

Nobody is.

wtf

Bubsy's finally gonna swear

What do you think his shirt has implied all this time?

we're finally going to find out what possibly could go wrong

I thought the exclamation point was because he spotted Snake.

Well, if they're gonna give Bubsy the Conker treatment, might as well give them the benefit of the doubt for now

I expect tonal whiplash

1:53 am

Then again I sort of think like, Bubsy's M rated jokes might only be as bad as Gex's T rated ones

1:54 am

Unless this winds up being a total spoof of MGSV complete with a full recreation of the hospital escape

1:54 am

(Nah that's entirely too cool for Bubsy

)

2:01 am

Tweet from @Wario64: https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1092602517370822656

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! launches in April, DLC Kickstarter campaign l...

they put the Bubsy video back up. it was reuploaded to fix the Rated M packshot https://t.co/5EpcEExhuk

2:01 am

(/snaps fingers)

That is infinitely disappointing...

Okay people, in just under one half hour its time for you to finally put your money where your mouth is, the Church of Bubsy needs YOU. https://gematsu.com/2019/02/bubsy-paws-on-fire-launches-in-april-dlc-kickstarter-campaign-launches-february-5

Sal Romano

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! will launch for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam in April, publisher Accolade and developer Choice Provisions announced. Additionally, Accolade will launch a Kickstarter campaign for the game on February 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET seeking $2...

I can't in good conscience do that. bubsy

If they wanted people to donate in good conscience, then they would not make a Bubsy game.

fwiw, this looks like the best bubsy game by far. counter: who cares

That is not a high bar

There's your box quote

7:02 pm

Wait, this isn't even for the game, it's for DLC

7:02 pm

Specifically "Even more Bubsy sound bites"

yeah and we get to pay them to make their character Dave playable

7:05 pm

or maybe Runner? idk

When Bubsy needs you, you don't stop to think, you answer the call

With a sarcastic laugh?

goddammit

7:42 pm

I said Little Caesars too many times

9:43 pm

"'The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us' ~Tim Cook" ~Michael Scott

INCLUDES:
Bubsy: Paws on Fire! - Digital (Switch)
Thank you email from Bubsy, special announcements about my game.

9:49 pm

I love that you just paid to be put on a marketing list

Excuse me? Marketing emails in the voice of Bubsy

It needs to be preserved

i'd pay for alfred chicken-esque marketing phone calls from bubsy, but nothing less

You just enrolled in a Majestic-esque ARG where Bubsy is going to call you once a week for the rest of your life

my dream

9:52 pm

bubsy sending me faxes

(And real talk, 25k is dramatically too little of a payment for the work being done. That would keep a studio, even a small team, running what? A month, maybe two tops? But also I know they could not ask for a penny more and this is just seed money)

for us that's about two people for a month

9:54 pm

(that's not salary obviously, that's our overhead that takes things like risk/dry spells into account)

Oh, there are stretch goals. I didn't even notice. Let's see here

actually yeah

9:57 pm

$25k is two new costumes and some more recorded lines for Bubsy

so

9:58 pm

yeah we're still at shirt textures and voices for $40k here

40k for NINE more lines

$40,000

9:58 pm

nine new bubsy lines

9:58 pm

now THAT'S value

so I think this is priced right

9:58 pm

well I mean

I think 25k is all this..

9:59 pm

The content that we are planning to add includes: 

New costumes for the in-game shop!*
Even more Bubsy sound bites
A digital OST*
A new playable character (ssshhhh!)*
A brand new Impossible World and New Boss!*
A limited edition PlayStation 4 physical version with a CD OST  inside the box!
* This content may be sold as premium DLC in the future.

it's priced in the "don't worry about them" range

Oh, no it isn't. You are right

no that's if all stretch goals are met

I hate kickstarter sometimes

it's $25k for t-shirts and some extra voice lines

I'm going to be real honest here, Bubsy Kickstarter

10:01 pm

I'll be surprised if your funding goal is even met. But I respect your tenacity. (edited)

so next stretch goal

10:02 pm

is "enable the existing character that already works in this engine"

Is it the Mario Bros? It is the mario bros isn't it?

finally, the sonic and bubsy crossover we've all been craving

I shouldn't be mean I like the dev a lot and understand their struggle

I backed it because I like the idea of someone making Bubsy video games? I think is the justification I am going with? Probably?

this might be the only time you can publicly pledge money to the bubster

10:04 pm

there's a plaque waiting for you in heaven now

Frank, you should get in contact with them and pitch a SNK 40th style Bubsy museum section as a stretch goal. (edited)

you'd have to pay me so much

10:04 pm

actually that's not true we'll do it for the $25k

All I have to say is that I hate Bubsy. How the hell is this even happening? Who's next on the bring back list? James Pond?

Stretch goals: $200,000 – Bubsy Museum $200,001 – Game is canceled

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10:06 pm

I can be part of the Bubsy 26th Anniversary Collection

for real though I would be FASCINATED by an in-depth examination of the original Bubsy PR

10:06 pm

like, I think you could make a good documentary out of it

You could pay someone to dig up those ads from The Sun!

the magazines were all about this game for some reason, it made the cover of EGM somehow?

10:07 pm

also why is bubsy so fun to hate on? I don't know, the whole thing intrigues me

And the Bubsy's Beach Bash party

!!!

It sounds like it was just an afterparty with Bubsy's name on it, but I'm curious if they like went all out on the Bubsy theme

oh my god this album is perfect

The Bubsy museum would be amazing

Stretch goal: $250,000: Original soundtrack by Lil Elmo & The Cosmos, the official Bubsy band (edited)

it's the exact kind of soulless fake nostalgia that bubsy is

10:12 pm

I only got about halfway through track 2 before I had to give up

10:12 pm

just like bubsy!!

btw the invites to that Bubsy party were printed on flip-flops

10:20 pm

and I know where a pair of those live

Was this a party from back in the day, or one for the revival

back in the day

10:25 pm

for the first game

bubsy 3d 2: bubsy visits the bubsy retrospective museum (edited)

whoa

https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/anm8s3/oh_god_i_regret_buying_bubsy_for_my_mum_for

r/snes - oh god i regret buying bubsy for my mum for nostalgia pur...

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4:59 am

Someone's parent has nostalgia for Bubsy. (edited)

4:59 am

I guess I'm going to bed with this haunting me. Good night.

https://twitter.com/ClydeMandelin/status/1093226097016135680?s=19

Mato (@ClydeMandelin)

"I love the... whatever this is. It's so bad."

Oh man a pachinko controller

7:45 pm

I didn't think those existed for Famicom

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbw-9C0fGE

Sharkie's Gaming Controllers

Pachinko Controller (Famicom) Review - with Gameplay

Oh my god

1:45 am

The Financial Times archive has a Share button, where you can share an article to another platform (edited)

1:46 am

But it has over 100 options, many of which are either bizarre or long discontinued (edited)

1:47 am

1:48 am

My absolute favorite is a Russian social bookmarking site called Bobrdobr

1:48 am

EndNote is out. Bobrdobr is in (edited)

I'm not convinced most of those even exist

1:55 am

"Exchangle"?

Ohhhh okay, they're just using AddThis, but with every single option turned on

1:58 am

These don't make any sense

God I love those giant nonsense grids

Bubsy is only on Bobrdobr

Bubsy: a Bordobr exclusive provided to you by Diary.ru through a partnership with FAVable and Douban!

Surprised there's no FARK option

8:55 am

(oh my god fark is still up)

Apparently ebaum's World is too.

Bobrdobr means something like beaver goodfella

it sounds like something Ned Flanders might say in another language

So here’s a downer

wow, just went to fark, there it is. still farking.

Apparently Bubsy is voiced by Vic Mignogna

in the new game?

Yeah

good god

8:15 pm

I didn't know that was confirmed

My ANN editor mentioned it

we're finding out what could go wrong at an alarming rate

Friend on another server is like, let's fire him from all his roles except Bubsy

Didn't the Genesis and SNES versions of Bubsy give him a few voice clips? If so, do we know who the original voice actors were?

sure

I can also see them being simple sound effects, but I can't remember.

I think it was brian silva?

http://bubsy.wikia.com/wiki/Brian_Silva

Brian Silva

Brian Silva is an actor, known for Freaky Flyers (2003), Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (2000) and Haven: Call of the King (2002). He voiced Bubsy Bobcat in Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred...

8:40 pm

Haha... There is a wiki!

yeah, he's an artist at blizzard now

8:41 pm

or was when I last talked to him, idk

"[The first Bubsy game] was originally intended to star Chester Cheetah, but since Micheal Berlyn did not want to pay to use Chester, he made his own character 'Bubsy Bobcat' to replace him. "

Kemco’s Chester game was already out I thought

Bubsy: NA: May 1993 Chester: NA: December 1992 (edited)

8:43 pm

Apparently it was.

8:43 pm

Release was so close to together, maybe Bubsy started development first?

8:44 pm

And thank you, @Frank Cifaldi

https://twitter.com/nbajambook/status/1093680607119503360?s=19

NBA Jam (the book) (@nbajambook)

Inside the making of Street Fighter: The Movie (the game)

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You're welcome.

ah yes my only ship

9:37 pm

whoa, it's a ship on a ship

Who's on the helicopter

1

they're sailing in bungeling bay, that's the helicopter from the game

Will they be found out? Or is it a third person, just as hard to track?

10:22 pm

Maybe the G man from Half-Life is on board

https://twitter.com/tetris99game/status/1095833694449868805

Tetris®99 (@tetris99game)

#Tetris and #Playstation fans unite! #Tetris99 will be ariving on the #PlaystationPortable for action-packed, 99 player rumbles on the go!

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heh

https://twitter.com/tetris99game/status/1095846926002606080

Tetris®99 (@tetris99game)

@FourScore64 We currently have no plans to release #Tetris99 for CD-i... but I will gladly pass on your message to our development team, though!

Man, that game is brutal

how much did that jpg cost you?

10:17 pm

based on the kickstarter price range I'm guessing $35

The value of some things have no price tag, Lainer

10:20 pm

($20)

4:30 pm

courtesy of the HG101 server, where at least six of our emoji slots are taken by various bubsy faces

Admitting you have a problem is an important first step. Proud of ya.

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i've been trying to get them to agree to remove at least one

4:43 pm

we lost this one in one such discussion

4:44 pm

as long as they do not ever make me get rid of my "Golgo 13's tired face" emoji, though

4:46 pm

incidentally if this server wants that one, here is the raw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gaMmwaEM0

Щепыч

Rinoa Angelo Cannon

https://twitter.com/retrohistories/status/1098710272502579200

Chris Chapman (@retrohistories)

Can’t wait for Reggie to be free from the shackles of Nintendo PR and able to admit that the last game he played was Quake 3 Arena.

lol

I am still playing Quake 3 Arena, am I bad?

You're the only one that has it figured out!

11:05 pm

If Rocket League had private servers, it could easily be the next Q3A.

Well, very rarely, and I wasn't there to play it back in the day. We play oldschool shooters with my friends at my museum/archive project. Mainly Doom 2 and Unreal Tournament '99, both of which I think I am not too shabby at.

11:06 pm

Still getting used to Goldeneye controls, but everybody is, so it's fair.

11:07 pm

And the only bad experience I have is Quake 2 on Playstation, that thing is barely playable with moder sensibilities on user friendliness (don't have a PS mouse though)

11:11 pm

Not over here, seen a few guncons and multitaps, although I don't have either

11:12 pm

But it's all on the list of things to get (it's a pretty big list)

I played Q3A and UT on Dreamcast dial-up back in the day, but I have the mouse and keyboard, which was a much-needed advantage.

11:29 pm

I have played some of the modern iterations of Q3, like Nexiuz, but admittedly not in a while since I don't have any acquaintances that play.

About the rumors and keynotes at DICE that are implying some level of unification across the industry - what are the implications of such endeavors? Could we see the fulfillment of Trip Hawkins' vision for 3DO, where hardware is commodotized and unified? If it does occur, who benefits, and who loses?

1:49 pm

Best Chun-Li art

That looks like it was by the same Capcom artist that did Mega Man.

Cover of ST Action magazine

1:50 pm

http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/atari_st_action_58.pdf

Mom??

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Some in the fashion world say nobody can pull off bangs, but I think this shuts them right up.

https://twitter.com/vecchitto/status/1099748313862234114 okay can anybody verify this

vecchitto (@vecchitto)

I found the original instruction booklet for #Tetris and... did anyone know that these pieces had names??

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10:18 pm

this is apparently the NES version manual

except it's not https://www.retrogames.cz/manualy/NES/Tetris_(Nintendo)_-_NES_-_Manual.pdf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0MXOPPW0AA64g-.jpg:large ?

yeah those pages are in the real one

10:21 pm

the page with the names is fake

10:21 pm

Disappointing but understandable. Wonder how they made such a convincing fake though

Plain white background so not too extreme of a photoshop job, though if they wanted to make it more convincing they should have made them with dark outlines to match the other illustrations rather than just flat grey shapes.

The only thing more obviously fake than "Smashboy" would be "Smashboi"

Almost seems like they just printed up a replica page, but that's nice glossy paper that's somewhat tricky to find/purchase in a size like that

yeah smashboy is what gave me pause too

...it took me until this moment in my life to realize that Kazooie is named after a kazoo and that he and banjo are instrument names

Kazooie is also a female!

whatever nerd

yeah she lays eggs and has lipstick

...I didn't play it, I'm a fake gamer boy

That just makes me think about poor Roll

When you said Roll I thought of VectrexRoli, have you guys watched his videos?

4:26 pm

(Some of them are pretty funny/weird)

He does nice reviews of a lot of homebrew and fan hardware expansions, also he is kinda wacky

4:28 pm

Not something I would watch for fun, but if I am interested in the topic, he is proven to be a good choice

I’m super amused that he films himself pretending to hide his collecting habits from his wife at least

4:33 pm

(It’s super juvenile but his wife is a willing participant)

Yeah, that's a wholesome running joke

4:36 pm

I think there was even some homebrew game he made or got made about hiding new packages from his wife

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hyper-Fighting-Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Game-Brand-NEW-Rare-MINT-/163475188534

Hyper Fighting Nintendo Virtual Boy Game Brand NEW Rare MINT

This is a rare release. Never opened or played. In a clear plastic box protector. Very rare! Unloading my entire collection. | eBay!

4:43 pm

$899.... Really?

"This is a rare release" - it's a homebrew game that only came out ~~last year~~ around 2015 IIRC (edited)

Yeah but I think they only made a tiny amount, and it's for a system with a rabid following and a small library

Also undumped, so no possibility to play it otherwise

according to a forum thread, the full version rom is too large to work on the Flashboy

Yep, but there have been some more modern solutions in the works

4:47 pm

And you still have probably the majority of people who try VB games doing so on an emulator

It's really fun, played it two player last year with the Homebrew link cable

I want to be a Vidiot of the month!

11:26 pm

(I'm providing an important service here.)

Is that something you got as a backer?

From the latest update assuring that the game is coming regardless of the outcome of the kickstarter.

11:38 pm

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bubsy/bubsy-paws-on-fire-spicy-extras/posts/2428909

Accolade

Update 3: Bubsy Update Number 3 · Bubsy: Paws on Fire! SPICY EXTRAS!

Hey Gang! Only about a week left. It's go time if we want some of these great extras to see the light of day, I know I do. Here are three of the most commonly asked questions when I'm stopped on the streets of Hollywood U.S.A. 1. If the KS campaign fails, will the game come o...

i don't like the way that bobcat is looking at me

I kind of do

Me ow

http://i.imgur.com/9qq7Ocp.gif

https://twitter.com/Kirby_2711/status/1100760034030559233

ᴷⁱʳᵇʸ (@Kirby_2711)

New games look amazing!#PokemonDirect

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oh noooo

https://twitter.com/sebmal/status/1100849468704845824 i did a dumb

The Secret World of Alex Yiik (@sebmal)

https://t.co/yL0kwBSt26

That's how pawfia works

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How many Bubsy submissions has the World Video Game Hall of Fame gotten?

Not enough.

I dont know hah

5:41 pm

I was surprised that I didn't hear about a billion of them

I did put in a few non-Bubsys (edited)

A Mr Gimmick prototype has shown up on a swedish auction site. The price is a fit for the litterbox. (edited)

Someone else I'm in contact with has one

2:04 pm

Don't know if it's the same

I had one with that label, I don't remember if it's final but it's dumped and distributed

Yeah seems like there's a few of them, I spotted 3 different carts with the same label (edited)

Bubsy on top of the mountain confirmed

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1102705144456593408

https://twitter.com/toejamandearl/status/1104070686526431233

cursed image of apparently the Sonic the Hedgehog design for the live action movie https://t.co/KfLxHLW6xI

it seems fine imo

How many discussions do you reckon there were over whether to have literal gloves or just white fur hands?

11:14 pm

1? 7?

11:14 pm

0?

looking forward to the third act where sonic has to fight a giant mechanical spider

@PuttyKnife amazing how much Austin downtown has been changing in just the last two years. So many high rise buildings going up so fast

yuppppp

9:38 pm

I used to live with a friend on Rainey street.

9:38 pm

It's a bar now

Rainey street has so many new buildings now

yeah.

9:39 pm

One of those highrises nearby displaced one of the houses my friend was living in. He moved down the street only to be displaced again by the owners selling out to a bar

Google has a building too now downtown

9:41 pm

ah man, was just near there about 3 or 4 months ago for Derby

Streets littered with pay-as-you-go kick scooters

9:43 pm

They

9:43 pm

Are

9:43 pm

Everywhere

lol

At least it’s not freezing cold anymore like the last two days

Scooters here too

9:45 pm

New fad

we also have rental bike stations everywhere but they're always pristine and unused while there are piles of scooters everywhere

9:46 pm

the bikes never stood a chance, they never knew the scooters were coming

DC luckily has a long-standing bikesharing program that gets a lot of use, so the scooters aren't much of a threat (edited)

9:48 pm

Some new startup comes along every few months and dumps a new brand of scooter on the streets, and then they're all gone in a few weeks

I counted at least four different scooter companies

(Hate to interrupt scooter talk but an important communication has come across the wire...)

I am pals with bubsy ❤ F O R E V E R

Alas, no bubsy in education on the schedule for this conference. Missed opportunity

9:52 pm

Bubs by Bubswest

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There was a Carmen Sandiego panel yesterday, but I missed it

I can't wait to see how much the city paid for those ford bike share stations

1:49 am

I bet it all came out of library funds

sigh. yeah.

I guess I need to start being more careful about what I say on the internet, lest more things like this get willed into existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvc3LzD_tnc

Jeremy Medina

The Bubsy Rap

1

In the cosmic balance of the universe, I think this undid something good (edited)

5:10 am

Like in terms of global karma, this canceled out a month of someone volunteering to clean a river

1

Bubsy got Nolan

What :D

Bubsy K Bushnell

Bubsnell

1

Poor man, Bubsyfying in his age

ToeJam N Earl (@toejamandearl)

RT if this would look swack, like if only cruzz and comment if it totally makes u feel BUBSY https://t.co/BOSn5YAa2N

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DECtalk_DCT01_and_Tink.jpg

File:DECtalk DCT01 and Tink.jpg

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/thq-nordic-byob - if anybody remains upset (rightfully) about THQ Nordic's recent 8chan gaffe, but still wants to get their games, here is your chance to give them absolutely no money for them

THQ Nordic BYOB | Humble Store

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hahaha

wow, i didn't realise alone in the dark illumination's servers were still on

12:43 am

I wonder if that game follows on from the ending of AITD5, where Satan is your ex-wife, and you are powerless to stop her reign of terror across the midwest.

You weren't kidding about AITD5...

I wish I was the greatest shitposter https://twitter.com/TetraBitGaming/status/1104897172514889728

TetraBitGaming (@TetraBitGaming)

The definitive controller tier list

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Someone clearly doesn't like Playstation controllers. I'd think at least one of them ranks higher than the joy cons

Poor Duke

just drop those dual shocks down into G tier (edited)

i'm confused, why is the playstation controller in tehre three times :V

Different generations of dual shocks

Original Playstation controller, Dual Shock 2, Dual Shock 3 and Dual Shock 4.

maybe i should have used a

instead

2:41 pm

or added more typos

lol Poe's law strikes again

That was the worst list ever. The Xbox One controller is superior to the 360 controller.

yeah the 360 pad used to be my PC go-to but it's really hard to go back to it now

And the GC controller is not that good (god damn Smash bros people)

because now i've experienced both the DS4 and the XB1 pads, I love the triggers and d-pad on the XB1 pad but the DS4 fits better in my hands

The One controller is like the 360 controller but upgraded in most aspects.

the thing i like the most is how, when the XB1 triggers bottom-out, they don't make clacking noises, the impact is softened

2:44 pm

it's great for me because i'm pretty rough on triggers

The new D-pad is great to. The first gen of it had this annoying clicky noise but the newer model does not make that sound..

the d-pad is almost, almost perfect

2:45 pm

i can actually play things with it, as opposed to it being a glorified menu selector

2:47 pm

The only thing i would do with it, is replace it with the NGPC's thumbstick

I want the Xbox One Duke. But it's too expensive. (edited)

Everyone's favorite Megaman

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https://twitter.com/CanYouPetTheDog/status/1105511499152441344

Can You Pet the Dog? (@CanYouPetTheDog)

You can pet the dog in Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures https://t.co/ncJH3xbb7H

https://twitter.com/sheepytina/status/1105311960667611136?s=19

tinasaurus rex 🐑✨ (@sheepytina)

I want to shake the hand of whoever came up with these achievement titles for the Steam Console Classics release of Mobile Light Force.

5:36 pm

You guys are calling out how the Gamecube controller is at S tier, but let's not sleep on the fact the N64 controller is somehow at A tier

5:36 pm

And I have a lot of nostalgia for both of those controllers, but they're both too damn high

a shitpost worthy of webster's

excuse me YOU don't pet the dog in Pac-Man 2, Pac-Man pets the dog in Pac-Man 2

i get to hit pac-man with a slingshot if he doesn't pet the dog, which is some form of agency in petting the dog

The second he sees the dog he wants to pet it and I can entirely relate

i find myself agreeing with most of that list

12:32 am

except for NES getting in purely as an apology nomination

Hadn't looked in a while, I guess Bubs didn't get his funding https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bubsy/bubsy-paws-on-fire-spicy-extras

Accolade

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! SPICY EXTRAS!

Bubsy wants to make a ton of extras for his already GINORMOUS game coming out in April

30 years from now someone's gonna ask "Remember the lost Bubsy content?"

2:29 am

When the oceans are boiling and the only thing left on the west coast is a Bartertown-like colony of children obsessed with "lost media," they will have a pilgrimage to find the Lost Bubsy

It would be kinda fun to get all the concept material for the level they never did and publish something about it like it's a lost relic of an ancient time

2:30 am

Especially if, like the Kickstarter, it's before the actual game comes out

It could be like the level design analysis version of that 10,000 year nuclear waste warning

I had a slightly harrowing thought earlier wondering if a game that will exist in constant development beyond a generation has already started. Like will World of Warcraft outlast someone growing into old age who was born after 2004. (edited)

2:41 am

You know, #BubsyThoughts

2:43 am

Does a Bubsy exist planting trees that it knows full well it will not stand in its shade

Dwarf Fortress?

You think Tarn will hand it off some day?

Yeah that's the tricky part, anything I can think of that's long-running like that is one author doing (like book series)

2:48 am

It's difficult to imagine a group working on something that long with continuity

2:49 am

(Unless it was very profitable and then there's other factors)

Nethack, maybe?

2:50 am

Or does open source (and procedural) arguably not count

That counts!

I wouldn't say it doesn't count, though I do imagine a delineation between say how Doom is ported to everything, compared to something being regularly worked on (mods aside for this example)

I wonder what their organizational structure is like in terms of who gets to contribute to the project, who's technically in charge, what if the lead developer dies suddenly, etc. Like if there's any official or legally recognized group that controls NetHack (edited)

I brought up Nethack and not doom because it is at least a wholly contained game in its source release

2:55 am

Where doom is open source but its data is not, and the game can't be played with the executable alone

There should be meaningfully direct continuity, I think, but good luck defining what that actually means.

Though this does still open the can of worms of how one considers forks

Like Half-Life being technically the Quake engine is still a meaningful break between the two, not a direct line for this purpose. (edited)

Nethack for example has SLASH'EM which leads into further projects like Falcon's Eye and Vulture's Claw

I don't believe this belongs in the litterbox, however since we were just discussing.. https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/

Dwarf Fortress

Prepare for the deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that has ever been created. Not just generated geometry -- a whole simulated world. Generated rise and fall of civilizations, personalities, creatures, cultures, etc. Infinite hours of gameplay. Now with graphics!...

Release Date

time is subjective

3:15 pm

I believe that is a new tileset. Doesn't look familiar, at least.

Available: time is subjective

3:18 pm

wow

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25343688

Dwarf Fortress coming to Steam and itch.io, free version always up...

Official Post from Bay 12 Games: Hey everybody! We mentioned a big announcement on the development log, and here it is: Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam and itch with a new tile set, and generally enhanced graphics and audio. We'll continue updating and releasing the f...

It's been fascinating to see Dwarf Fortress and watch people attempt to distill it's essence into more accessible games.

My game students

3:48 pm

I used to give them a test so i'd know how they'd prolly do in classes. (edited)

3:48 pm

"Play Dwarf Fortress for a week and tell me about it."

3:48 pm

1 week later

3:49 pm

If folks answered something like: "I tried to play but the graphics sucked. It is an old game so it doesn't matter." (edited)

3:49 pm

Almost always when the course finished, their Course Grade would probably be an F (edited)

3:50 pm

Currently 3 folks are teaching a course I made for PICO-8. Knowing about the Dwarf Fortress thing, I tried to anticipate it for folks who'd teach after me (edited)

3:51 pm

the first 3 weeks are folks getting a ball bouncing off walls and making paddles move. The folks who would say, "Dwarf Fortress sucks bcuz graphics" also fail basic, hyper-intro programming for games. They almost always cannot get an if statement right. (edited)

In my experience people can adapt to the graphics well enough if interested, it is the interface that is usually the breaking point.

4:39 pm

I think improving mouse input to being pretty much interactive with all menus would probably be enough and not an extreme effort

4:40 pm

People will learn shortcuts for things they want to do quickly, like any program.

It is the secret of UX

But being forced as the only avenue for input can be tough

folks will figure things out regardless of how well a design meets current thoughts about design

ah the hall of legends

I love this stupid ad I just scanned from Vending Times.

11:23 pm

Shoutout to @Frank Cifaldi for schooling me on levels. Now i'm even more OCD

11:27 pm

this ad belongs here

WHY ARE BIRDS?

11:28 pm

Such a good ad.

11:29 pm

I'm going as Vending Machine Tough Guy for next Halloween BTW

excellent levels on snackcenter tho

11:30 pm

try not to ever go down the rabbit hole I have where I sometimes convert these black and white images to actual black and white so they're ready to be printed again

I swear Vending Machine Man is somebody, like a wrestler or something

11:33 pm

I was gonna jokingly suggest he was Macho Man Randy Savage

@Frank Cifaldi I'm going to pretend I didn't read that so I don't.

11:34 pm

@Corwin "weasel" Brence There's a little bit of Vending Machine Man inside of us all I think.

11:35 pm

God the struggle of getting something out there OCR'd for research purposes versus delaying it by making it look nice are very real.

11:35 pm

i mean who really gives a shit if Vending Times looks nice

are you doing the whole magazine?

Yeah like a psychopath

you can batch level all of the pages that are printed on the same paper stock (sometimes magazines switch to newsprint etc., don't know if vending times is like that)

I might try that... they should be pretty close.

just find a page that has a pure black and a pure white, be conservative with the levels, and apply those values to all pages printed on that same paper

I guess I could run a test run on em

11:37 pm

descreening is of course taking all my time mainly.

you can batch that too

i'm trying to avoid descreening the whole page if i don't have to in order to keep the text nice and sharp.

oh you're going too far if you're descreening VENDING TIMES

So true, so true.

11:38 pm

Nintendo Power is worth the effort.... Dunno about this

11:39 pm

I regret nothing.

oh, there's a thing I'd do to this that you didn't

11:40 pm

I'd highlight all the areas of black text on white background and completely desaturate them

11:40 pm

see you can do this forever

11:40 pm

I would also unsharp mask all of these

down the rabbit hole I go

oh and if you're touching it up for reproduction or whatever, I'd also do a separate levels layer just on the black text

11:49 pm

look at that minor difference!

I can't unsee it!

11:49 pm

That hearty beef stew.

so much clearer now!

hey the batch levels thing worked out pretty well...

I have not often heard a less appetizing name for a food product than "lunch bucket"

You're welcome @Corwin "weasel" Brence

yeah it should, the theory is that all of these pages were printed at the same time on the same printer on the same paper, so levels should be the same on all

close enough for Vending Times

automation in photoshop is the greatest

it's a big sanity saver

true story: i was a newish employee at a place, and the manager was like "all hands on deck! we need to whole dept to drop everything to resize and crop hundreds of product images! if we all work together, it'll only take a few weeks!"

11:54 pm

me: "y'know, we could automate this"

11:54 pm

manager: "we could what now?"

11:54 pm

we finished them in a day

Sounds about right

11:56 pm

Gotta love workplaces?

I miss but also don't miss being the young person in the office who knows how to work the computers

except when your manager starts to feel insecure because you're coming up with so many time savers and then starts taking it out on you passive aggressively...not that i'm saying that's ever happened to me...

I had another department call asking me how to do their job today. That was fun.

11:57 pm

Our CFO is a moron and every department under him a shit show

nice

we're probably bankrupt and don't even know it I always joke

damn

12:02 am

i used to joke that all the homeless people around uptown Minneapolis are probably former MCAD students (the expensive art school i went to)

Hahaha

12:12 am

@Frank Cifaldi Nice thing is i'll upload the RAWS too so if somebody wants to clean them up better they always can.

12:25 am

One of life's greatest questions.

oh yeah @Frank Cifaldi I scanned a bunch of VT Music & Games issues at the Library of Congress a couple weeks ago if you want to check em out. They're not archival quality but they're readable

SnackCenter man is a treasure

How do we get full time jobs with health benefits doing this again?

They're very nice

@Hubz live someplace with universal health care and a guaranteed income :p

Come on AI

2:03 am

(also please don't kill us)

Heads up the SnackCenter man's name is canonically "Big Mike"

2:13 am

600DPI JPEG version is up! - https://www.gamingalexandria.com/magazines/Vending%20Times/Vending%20Times%20-%20VOL.%2029%20NO.%2012%20October%201989.pdf

2:14 am

Uploading the much smaller Clearscan version to the archive currently.

So. Bubsy, huh?

Nope.

That's what Bubsy would say.

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1107706711178137602

Andrew Borman 🔜 GDC (@Borman18)

Check out this clip of Atari's Gamebusters, a parody using the Ghostbusters theme, from the U-Matic digitization project at @museumofplay! https://t.co/DsbNPRsTOs

We ain’t playin no dud

It's sooooooo cringy, I love it (edited)

https://twitter.com/nvmusa/status/1105535073305137152

National Videogame Museum (@nvmusa)

We unearthed these concepts for a canceled Alien vs Predator Football game for the Sega Genesis...and you have to see it to believe it. In “Cosmic Hard Bowl” the Aliens and Predators would settle their conflict through, yes, AMERICAN FOOTBALL. #nvmusa

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What is the best smash controller?

12:34 pm

What game could that ever have been a good controller for?

Whack'a'mole

?

Tanking in WoW.

TFFF: The First Funky Fighter

2:37 pm

(Which is...pretty much whack-a-mole anyway)

finally, the perfect controller for the shooting sequences in snatcher

So uh was anyone else pondering why these particular objects? https://twitter.com/Wunkolo/status/1108177476000202752?s=20

ＯＮＬＹＴＨＥＢＥＳＴＴＷＥＥＴＳ (@Wunkolo)

Google casually juxtapositioning itself with some of the largest video game industry failures of all time https://t.co/ZRWChLr7aJ

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12:43 am

Tho I would’ve replaced the glove with a Virtual Boy

Frank curated this right?

Oh, did he choose the objects?

12:44 am

I thought they chose from a list or something

I’m not sure haha

12:44 am

They may have

I curated two separate concepts that actually made sense but instead of going with either they mushed them together into nonsense and added two things of their own

It paid for Game Informer though

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2:38 am

And my name isn't on it

lol

Did you hear? bubsy

attacked @Frank Cifaldi

Claim it's some sort of preservation-related injury.

5:26 pm

You were bravely trying to block CDRs from going into a shredder with your head.

I was recovering data from a hard drive when the plate cracked and sent shards everywhere

The Nintendo police tried to break down the door and you caught a few splinters.

ouch

Just ask GDC to limit the YouTube upload to 360p (edited)

"Chris Crawford is still running around out there with a sword, why has nobody stopped him yet"

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those hard drive shards gave you mysterious abilities to store information, as well as a crippling weakness to magnets

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Oh, so Frank is becoming Johnny Mnemonic.

fmv game johnny mnemonic, specifically

what if a superhero with the power to copy the essence of a person and then duplicate them if the original has died, similar to Bioshock's in-universe explanation for extra lives

7:26 pm

and their superhero name would be: Life Preserver

"Lifeline" seems a bit catchier though I'm sure someone already has that one

But that would sound too much like a real superhero and not a bad parody

https://twitter.com/WrestlesGaming/status/1109848295306862595

Wrestling With Gaming (@WrestlesGaming)

@historicalnerd @TopHatGamingMan Gentlemen, PBG doesn’t own a CDI. I suspect that the CD-I is using our life force to harness its processing power. I embrace this sacrifice.

https://twitter.com/panasonynet/status/1109199768918450177

パナソニー (@panasonynet)

鼻セレブ

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Guile's Theme, where the lead instrument is nose honking

10:50 pm

matter of fact, gimme five minutes

you composing?

(edited)

more like loading a midi into modplug tracker

10:52 pm

i'm not much of a musician but i can do Stupid Things if given the time

Tis is gunna be gud

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10:59 pm

I have committed musical heresy and must be executed at once.

VGHF anthem

Oh god the part where it sounds like a tone deaf orchestra of all men comes in

any problems with the pitch bend are probably not the fault of the original midi file i used, modplug tracker just treats them weirdly and i think that just makes it better here

11:15 pm

i like to say that i don't know enough about music to compose anything, but i do know enough to be dangerous

11:16 pm

i might as well share the other Horrible Things I've created then

Keep it coming ^^

https://soundcloud.com/wildweasel486/huuuuuuttttt-part-1 This is a conversion from an SNES game. Cookies if you can guess which one. (Also cookies if you can identify at least two of my samples.

)

Oh, oh no..... my ears

i just realized i hope you aren't listening on headphones, the stereo separation on the "RAD MOBIIIILE" part is at near-maximum

It's fine, I am at a dorm past midnight with my audio on max, I am sure my neighbours are enjoying too

https://soundcloud.com/wildweasel486/huuuuuttttt-part-2 I will however recommend you do use headphones on this one, it will be quite unpleasant to anybody else nearby that hasn't specifically volunteered for it

11:20 pm

With my absolute deepest apologies to Soyo Oka.

I feel like this would be an efficient alarm clock tune, better get out of bed fast

For real though I seem to derive unusual amounts of enjoyment from just coming up with stupid things to use as samples

11:34 pm

Football players, Windows' "TADA" sound, Duke Nukem screaming, air horns, pinball flippers

https://twitter.com/QuestForTori/status/1110022487394250765

~ ＭＡＣＩＮＴＯＳＨＭＩＮＵＳ ~ (@QuestForTori)

SMH that none of you ever talk about this Nintendo classic

i saw somebody with a bubsy t-shirt at gdc

And it wasn't Frank?

Did you approach your new soulmate?

did you kick them out of gdc?

i THINK it was offsite, i wonder if it was one of the devs

9:26 pm

of the kickstarter

I didnt wear mine!

fwiw I did run into the entire gaijin games team twice and didn't see a bubsy shirt

https://twitter.com/bwest/status/1110349296774213632

Brandon West (@bwest)

Apple's new credit card should've been called Hypercard and anyone that disagrees is wrong

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https://twitter.com/GamingHistorian/status/1110593654677270528

Norman Caruso (@GamingHistorian)

Got my Mega Sg from @analogue! Bubsy looks and plays great!

5:33 pm

serious channel bait here

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(For a given value of Bubsy)

6:08 pm

You summoned him with your dark magicks, you fools

6:09 pm

(I am adding #NOTGameGear to everything.)

okay the delicious irony here is that omar cornut is, as of this morning, trying to recover the source code for the unreleased bubsy 2 on game gear

maybe bubsy paid 10 bucks a month too

Bubsy+

"Friends of Bubsy" - hey that's us!

when i was leaving the GDC post-awards party i yelled 'WARREN SPECTOR' at omar cornut cos he got into a secret GDC party a couple of years ago by pretending to be warren spector and i noticed and have owned him about it ever since.

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p.s. the official vghf stance is that bubsy 2 is the most cynical and empty platform game of that era and it is not canon

6:10 pm

haha I called him warren this year too

(and then someone in the elevator with me on the way down was actually an employee of warren spector and was really confused)

he told me he snuck into the party again this year

6:11 pm

I didn't see him though

This was the Secret Bubsy Cult yearly gathering?

imo he should never actually be invited but be totally welcomed if he makes it in somehow

haha yes

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1110628297623298048

https://www.mobygames.com/game/gravity-badgers

Bubsy: Paws On Fire! (Switch) is up for preorder on Amazon ($29.99) https://t.co/Mn02Eb0O5m sadly not rated M for Mature

7:44 pm

7:45 pm

(i'm actually not sure this is new, i just wanted an excuse to keep this channel bubsy-esque)

I am trying but failing to figure out a "what could possibly go wrong?" alternative that is somehow a blanket european stereotype

What could possibly go wroung?

we can keep workshopping that

8:25 pm

Wut could possibly go wroung?

was könnte möglicherweise falsch laufen?

8:26 pm

Qu'est ce qui pourrait aller mal?

8:26 pm

hva kan muligens gå galt?

8:27 pm

Or my native Dutch:

8:27 pm

wat zou er mis kunnen gaan?

8:28 pm

The blanket European stereotype would be

Hugo asking this question re: brexit

“What could possibly go wrong? I mean, we have good accessible universal healthcare?”

The Hugo reboot is about Hugo raising his kids thanks to paid paternity leave

European Bubsy is on Amiga

surely there's an amiga hugo game

8:32 pm

at least three

8:32 pm

he's definitely hurting inside

Wouldnt the European blanket stereotype be a duvet?

Nobby the Aardvark is European Bubsy

8:33 pm

Nobby the Aardvark is the European Aero the Acrobat

oh yeah he even has the phallic joke name

8:33 pm

that's v. euro

I hope right after that is a really graphic cutscene

Nope

Doesn’t get more euro than this

I think Alfred Chicken is a little more Euro but Nobby's a little more Bubsy

#nobby_anthill

Bubsy: Paws of Fury Nobby: Nobby by Nature

whoa

Make it happen, rights holders

8:39 pm

(To clarify, that isn't a game that already exists)

Need nobby emotes now

8:40 pm

“Nobby is the diminutive form of the name Norbert. It is also a nickname most commonly used in English for those with the surname Clark or Clarke.”

8:41 pm

“Nobby Clark is also cockney rhyming slang for a shark.”

i can't divorce alfred chicken from this phone call so he's permanently american for me despite his origins https://soundcloud.com/cringe-audio/alfred-chicken-nintendo-phone

my wife laughed to the point of tears the first time she heard of this character, which was browsing a used game store and seeing a game called "Super Alfred Chicken" (edited)

8:42 pm

she was laughing so hard I had to help her outside

that's a great way and place to learn about alfred chicken

8:43 pm

did you play this call for her as soon as you got home because you should have

That was one of those games I first learned about from ROM sites

8:45 pm

Confused 13-year-old Phil playing Alfred Chicken at 2am

so nothing else about Alfred Chicken really gets to her, she doesn't think Alfred Chicken as a concept is funny or anything, but the exact combination of the words "Super Alfred Chicken" made her lose her mind

it is a good string of words to be fair

Is it supposed to be a pun on Chicken Alfredo...?

oh god I hope not

8:47 pm

Oh my god @Kate Willært

and i guess i'm kind of the same way except about this audio file? The Man Himself i could care less about but i love that phone call so much

8:49 pm

help me find my girlfriend. help me find the watering cans

it's a really bad chicken voice

8:50 pm

anyone in this channel could do a better chicken voice I'll bet you

"If you don't have me, you aren't cool, so get me now"

yessss tweeting about this debate got us another discord-tier patron

gotta get in on this hot discussion

they're going to come in here screaming about quick the thunder rabbit

Quik the Thunder Rabbit is the European Socks the Cat

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Ok that graphic of the aardvark and the ant is giving me serious flashbacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Aardvark

The Ant and the Aardvark

The Ant and the Aardvark is a series of 17 theatrical short cartoons produced at DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released by United Artists from 1969 to 1971.

According to wikipedia nobby is inspired by that...

8:54 pm

So nobby has a cartoon as well

8:55 pm

The Bubsy similarities are growing..

8:56 pm

this is way more recent but i'm looking for dumb animal-based games on mobygames and

8:56 pm

Gravity Badgers for Android (2013) - MobyGames

Gravity Badgers is a physics based puzzle game set in space. The player controls Captain T Bayback, the leader of a group of space badgers who are at war with the honey badgers. You need to guide him through different levels, solving puzzles to help him save his friends, fami...

this isn't in an animal mascots group!

yeah i think our animal groups got messed up

8:57 pm

there's a squirrel one

oh actually there isn't a catch-all animal mascot group?

8:57 pm

there's one for cats

https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/animals-squirrels

Animals: Squirrels

Can this be a tree mascot group? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree

Stanford Tree

The Stanford Tree is the Stanford Band's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Cardinal", referring to the vivid red color (not the common songbird as at several other schools), and the university does not have an official mascot. T...

@simonc is there a view to see all groups?

https://www.mobygames.com/browse/game-groups

https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/jack-the-nipper-series

Jack the Nipper series

here's the start of animals https://www.mobygames.com/browse/game-groups/offset,600/so,0a/

that's not a bubsy, because he seems to have a personality trait ("angry")

glad they got the nipper out of there

9:01 pm

too much nipping

oh, this is good

9:01 pm

https://twitter.com/Stupacabra/status/1110646777001197569

Stuart Gipp (@Stupacabra)

@frankcifaldi @GameHistoryOrg It's Oscar.

aw man he has his own bobblehead

That's it

haha, i just love it that the mere mention of the bubsy channel gets people interested in the VGHF discord

9:04 pm

Dang, Oscar is a good candidate yeah

he seems angry instead of smug, but also, he has a bobblehead of himself

The premise of the game is extremely Bubsy-like

oh wait

9:21 pm

'The star of the game is Colin Curly, a dog, who loves Quavers (snack). '

9:21 pm

this is a potato chip snack mascot

9:21 pm

with some kind of ska angle

9:22 pm

hmm...the Skunny suggestion is quite good as well

9:25 pm

https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/skunny-series

Skunny series

yep

some other good ones from twitter:

9:42 pm

https://twitter.com/necrosofty/status/1110650350447398912

brandon sheffield (@necrosofty)

@frankcifaldi @GameHistoryOrg I'd put my bid in for zool. Attitude, ported to tons of platforms, bizarre lollipop license, not particularly beloved but occupies a weird space in time, and has an almost totally failed sequel (with an unfinished jaguar version)

9:43 pm

https://twitter.com/IgnisHB/status/1110651622097481728

I wish they all could be California burrs (@IgnisHB)

@frankcifaldi @GameHistoryOrg How about Mr. Nutz?

9:43 pm

what the heck is this

9:43 pm

https://twitter.com/Catel69/status/1110657325264764930

Catel (@Catel69)

@frankcifaldi @GameHistoryOrg There is a French Bubsy. You won't believe where it comes from. And the game Titus the Fox was actually an international reskin of this one.

9:43 pm

https://twitter.com/epiktistes/status/1110643735820419073

Andrew Ferguson (@epiktistes)

@frankcifaldi @GameHistoryOrg Is British ruled out or is there just a general prejudice against Puggsy

Was this talked about already?

10:05 pm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PWZTFWV/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=sec2002-20&linkId=0510e7c769ab4a94ae60984245248841

not the limited edition, just the regular version

You know, they really missed an opportunity to rebrand Dig Dug for the movie Rubber but also Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

"Take it or leave it." Times, 4 Oct. 1997, p. 11[S5]. The Times Digital Archive,

9:53 pm

was lured into looking for bubsy stuff in archives again

9:53 pm

4 stars for bubsy 3d

that description is golden

"Latest software." Times, 18 Oct. 1997, p. 31[S]. The Times Digital Archive

9:58 pm

"Bubsy is a nauseating name"

11:36 pm

"the little blighter"

Has anybody found the magazine review responsible for Bubsy 3D having the Gold X award on its cover (edited)

11:39 pm

Or is that one of those mysteries of the ages, like which Maxim issue called Stacked "Halo with chips"

I forget when, but I think we did. The Gold X was just something they gave to any game above a certain rating (like getting a star or something)

11:47 pm

There we go: http://retrovolve.com/those-faked-bubsy-3d-pull-quotes-were-actually-real/

https://twitter.com/BetterThanOoT/status/1061426042416611329

Better Than OoT (@BetterThanOoT)

Bubsy II is better than The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Truth

although that water temple comes close...if only more of the game had been like that

@Wietse van Bruggen ruins everything https://mobile.twitter.com/gamegeschied/status/1111708535497338882

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It’s what i do

haha, this summary caption http://prntscr.com/n55hpk

lol

that's good stuff

@Chris Kohler i think you're going to like this video i'm trying to finish up

8:39 pm

yes!

8:54 pm

yes i will!

i’m less interested in the fact there was a hugo game in 2005 and more curious as to why namco published a hugo game in north america in 2005

amazing if true https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1112533294782926848

GAIL SIMONE Thinks the Punisher Should Smile More (@GailSimone)

Folks, I discovered an old PONG manual in a forgotten cabinet. Did you know the two rectangles have names and rich emotion-packed backstories? Right Rectangle was named Devin and wanted to be a poet!

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https://i.imgur.com/Y16CzVu.jpg

I’m not sure I could hate anything more than this image

who's the bottom left?

Johnny Test. Didn’t think he was that hated

i would've done Poochy

I just saw that swedish public radios video game show's latest episode is about Hugo. They interview the creator. This will be a great listen today.

johnny test is one of those things that most folks probably haven't heard of, but if you have ever idled around a television tuned to cartoon network within the last eight years or so and heard a lot of whip-cracking sound effects, that show is why

5:18 am

(honestly, the ed, edd & eddy sound library is a lot more fun, even memetically)

5:19 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCSUHGFv8Qs on that note, this video is a year old now!

KaiserBeats

The Raid Redemption but with ed edd n eddy sound effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRvw04OA1i0

Digital Foundry

DF Retro: Bubsy - The Ultimate Mascot Platformer?!

The big joke is that he makes you think bubsy 1 is okay

2:40 pm

Saw this on twitter in reply to the video:

2:40 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVQW5adpQs

Channel Kbit

Bubsy -- A*MAZING-LY, the Original Esport

https://soundcloud.com/wildweasel486/guile-runny-nose i uploaded that guile's theme thing to my soundcloud so now it can be spread

https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status/1112740866827923458

Kate Willært 🤘🏻 pronounced will art (@katewillaert)

First they announced a new Streets Of Rage, then a new Battletoads, now this?!

dammit...

A Facebook friend rebranded his Sonic blog for the day https://hedgehogscantswim.blogspot.com/2019/04/bubsy-whats-worst-that-could-happen-1993.html

BUBSY: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (1993)

Anybody who was there at the time will remember that, in the early nineties, every video game company wanted their own hip, cool, cartoon a...

8:15 pm

Apparently he's getting quadrupled traffic today

12:53 am

I saw this in Rochester

This worries me.

Nice.

Both CD-i Zelda games AND Bubsy II got shout outs on today's Nintendo Direct!

Truly a cursed day

I think my favorite thing about that video was the way that the English translator stayed at the same cadence regardless of how crazy the Japanese presenter got

The low resolution just makes it creepier

Yeah was browsing through some Famitsus that had been digitized and saw that

5:28 pm

The actual resolution isnt much better

Hugo sold 10 million copies in Germany back in the day.

The TV show was in 40 countries. I really had no idea how big Hugo was back then.

7:52 pm

Oh. Oh no.

7:53 pm

It may not be another Atari game, but it sure is fun, has a lot more depth, and is closer to reality.

7:53 pm

Certainly is not

Oh lol I just got this too

Not to get political, but the idea of a "tax receipt" to be given to everyone who pays taxes, showing how much of their money goes where, is much more a Democratic-leaning notion than Republican-leaning

8:17 pm

Because so little of it goes to the things people think we waste money on

it's amazing to me that the idea of a tax receipt is interpreted as bipartisan in the first place

8:18 pm

hm, maybe bipartisan isn't the word

If it didn't cost anything to implement, it would be much more bipartisan

8:18 pm

Congress doesn't want to spend the money, though they like the idea

"Cost" is just a cover so there isn't a widely available (or easy to reference) accounting of where your money actually goes: they used this to their advantage in 2009 when they started to bitch about how much money was going to foreign aid (a miniscule percentage they blew up and lied about.)

8:21 pm

What is even more frustrating, is that the UK includes this data on every "tax return" they mail out and it's publicly accessible: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary

How public spending was calculated in your tax summary

if people knew how little of their money went to the social programs conservatives decry as sucking up all our budgets, it would be harder to claim they're sucking up all our budgets

i should think it'd be hard to argue how much this cost to implement without having the data in front of you

8:30 pm

(hmm, if only we had a public data sheet that declares how much tax money went into it)

The CBO literally does this every year for Congress.

8:32 pm

The amount of money would trivial.

my train of thought: somebody might say "well what about the cost of paper" - to which i'd say, "why not email it" - to which someone might argue, "what about the cost of e-paper" - and then i got to realizing, somebody might have actually seriously argued that, perhaps some Senator Ted Stevens-like figure

Was he the "internet is made of tubes," "they'd marry marry ducks," or "the body will shut it down" one?

he's the "series of tubes" guy

tbh, I can understand the argument that this would be espcially tough to implement for people in rural areas who don't have good internet access

8:38 pm

Emailing isn't a question of cost so much as access

aye, access is an understandable problem

8:39 pm

i just had the inkling in my head that some politician, perhaps in the mid-90s when it wasn't widely understood yet, would have assumed that email "medium" cost money to produce and send

8:41 pm

then again, back at that point, email would have taken up a non-trivial amount of disk space and bandwidth

"insert bitching about Ajait Pai cutting subsidies for rural broadband deployment"

i had to remind myself that Ajit Pai isn't Anish Kapoor

8:44 pm

arguably they're both jerks, just one is in political office, and the other had The Bean built and bought exclusivity to vantablack paint

It can't be the cost of paper, because if there's anything that this man has taught me it is that the government has unlimited mailing resources:

11:12 pm

We had his book in the house when I was a kid for whatever awful reason.

so no joke, my co-worker norm thinks he might have a prototype on a hard drive somewhere of a sequel to bubsy 3d. I've been bugging him to find it for years.

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yeah, I guess that figures, seeing as how we're in the worst timeline and all

Oh my god

2:31 am

Truly this is the holy grail of prototypes. Not your silly earthbound 64s and return of donkey kongs

This feels like someone asking the US Government after the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to pull the Ark out of storage. Just generally a bad idea.

lol i used to work with norm, he's cool

1:12 pm

(i actually used to work at the accolade offices after they changed their name to infogrames but I was never Bubsy-adjacent sadly)

they left their most valuable property on the floor.

never heard of that

Hell yeah 7th Level

Wow, that is so 90s it hurts

Publishers of all sorts of weird stuff

6:29 pm

How have I not written a post about something by 7th Level yet?! (edited)

That's a huge oddity as a spinoff of a spinoff

6:44 pm

I recall it's based on the TV cartoon

Hey, I'm gonna be in the area of Lisbon, Ohio during the last week of April. Anybody know if there's anything cool to do around there?

2:09 pm

Not expecting much, place is pretty small according to what I've looked up, but even something like a goodwill store would be of interest to me

Unfortunately my familiarity with Ohio is more around Columbus

going by maps, it looks like the most interesting things about the place are that it's about 10 miles away from any other place

3:29 pm

...i never would have guessed

3:30 pm

"We've got lumber!"

3:32 pm

i suspect it says a lot about a town when, among the only six or so things Google Maps shows as point of interest, one of them is a funeral home

top marks to Carter Lumber for bringing the Eurostile Bold Extended, but deduction for running out of space and having to drop down to regular bold

3:35 pm

WOOD would've fit

i think i need to get my mind out of the gutter because somehow this elicits a chuckle

3:37 pm

"What do they do there?" "I'm told it's open to interpretation."

3:43 pm

whoops, suddenly the street view camera broke

3:45 pm

like, for this one little stretch of road, the camera is canted over backwards, the picture quality goes way down, and there's this one specific house that for some reason is blurred as if it's somebody's face

3:45 pm

toggle to another road next to it and it's all fine

super secret house. Now I want to know what the house is.

we're screening this at the next VGHF Expo

The original creator of Hugo wants to buy the rights back. I'm starting to understand why.

I thought Europe had sort of a uniform public domain thing going on? Aligned with what the US had prior to the sonny bono act

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1116518550884114433?s=20

https://16colo.rs/pack/ice9703a/US-666.ICE

Ah, have got to the ‘90s video game pastiche section of this Garbage Pail Kids sticker box. #gpk90s

1:54 am

This seems like low quality content so i’ll put it in here

1:54 am

(This is a brand new 2019 GPK trading card set btw.)

Yeah that whole set is Bubsy Litterbox

3

6:36 am

This is an #ad but I still felt it needed to be... preserved... somewhere?

hey, who's into ANSI artwork?

16colo.rs

16colo.rs is an online ANSI and ASCII Art Gallery collecting all of the artpacks released since the early 1990s

one thing i'm finding unintentionally fascinating, going through old magazines, is the stuff that appears in the back page marketplace section...especially the adult stuff. this was a thing?

9:28 pm

there's also this thing that i've never seen anybody talk about: the very last page of PCG (US) almost always had a very short bit of mini-fiction, tucked away in the bottom corner under the contact information

9:29 pm

like, these are tiny, it takes up maybe a couple of square inches on the page at most

9:30 pm

no idea who wrote them, and it's likely they're only there to take up the space

What's in the baggie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxJY1Whc-4

My Life in Gaming

Bubsy World Champion Expert Playthough :: 4.14.2019 LiveStream / M...

1:34 am

The thumbnail is bad, it's actually a Bubsy livestream going on now!

It's honestly weird to watch video of bubsy being played and to feel to by bones, that for a platformer of this era this is pretty good

1:39 am

this is definitely better than Lion King

1:39 am

and every single person I knew with a SNES owned Lion King

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1117623618563788801

Matthew Gatland stopped making tiny games | Anti-Patreon

Amazingly dystopian 1996 magazine ad for Quake: https://t.co/JYWQAKi1hh

This is my favorite because somebody had to make that big fake Quake pie

lol

Reverse Patreon https://www.matthewgatland.com/anti-patreon/

Join Matthew Gatland's anti-patreon today! When he misses a deadline, he gives you money!

So good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J048XcU-zcY

SiIvaGunner

Gnat Attack Level 1 - Mario Paint

12:14 am

it's so good

https://twitter.com/vidyofgemes/status/1118635245849341953

VIDY OF GEMES (@vidyofgemes)

Pi-In-'Ere #VidyOfGemes #ZXSpectrum #QBert #FuckinHell #EverythingAboutThisIsSoGood #WhereDoIEvenBegin

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is that a qbert knockoff?

2:44 am

terrifying

1

https://twitter.com/archivistmemes/status/1119036523171676160

archivistmemes (@archivistmemes)

[quiet sobbing]

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Here is one for the litterbox. In the end part of Blaster Master Zero II you can go back to a part your not supposed to go to and get stuck.

lol

Just another 10 hour or so to replay the whole game I guess. I must be able to trim down the 13 I have played now for my next run. Yes, I am really bitter.

I remember when Other M was revealed to have a bug like that

10:02 pm

Thankfully I heard about it before I got to that point

Twilight Princess had a fun gamebreaking bug

you folks prob know about this game already but i hadn't seen this particular ad

2:01 pm

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1120532301904056320

Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen Box Shot for NES - GameFAQs

1991's The Berlinwall for Game Gear is one of the oddest confections of real-life cultural change & cute Japanese game characters ever: https://t.co/weAHb0gFiv (via @OldGameMags.)

what the

what a bizarre subgenre, japanese games about non-japanese current events. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/570554-gorby-no-pipeline-daisakusen/images/19906

For Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen on the NES, a box shot for the JP - 1991-04-12 release on GameFAQs.

3:40 pm

lol

oh yeah I love Fami Gorby

5:14 pm

he looks like a professor. he teaches pipe theory

Speaking of "current" events, there was a Dave Barry column in the Miami Herald back in the 80s that directly joked about Contra

5:49 pm

I cannot find it archived atm but I think it was a Year In Review one. The line was something like, "A new video game called Contra is released to video arcades. How it works is you insert one quarter, and it never reaches the men inside."

Hey I just posted some hi res scans of that

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/04/20/gorby-no-pipeline-daisakusen/

Hubz

Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen

hah i found the article i mentioned yesterday https://www.radford.edu/~ibarland/Public/Humor/DaveBarry/1987

2:59 pm

Dave Barry's 1987 Year in Review

2:59 pm

6 -- As "Ollie-mania" continues to sweep the country, one of the most
popular video-arcade games in the country is a new one called -- this is
true -- "Contra."  The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on
the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them.

2:59 pm

One of the very few times I've ever seen Dave mention video games, at all

finally, some Crisp Gorby

Got some new magazines in to scan

5:22 pm

5:23 pm

5:24 pm

oh god why would you put a game boy in a jeans back pocket

5:26 pm

The coolest person I have ever seen

man, selling SGI Donkey Kong on a shirt might actually be cool again.

@Phil Salvador This guy is cooler... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a7nwhoFmfVE/SodGwyle88I/AAAAAAAAALo/mSJqSUdHO-c/s320/powerglove1.jpg

Soul Blazer never asked for this

So wrong. so so wrong

https://twitter.com/PutGameOnSwitch/status/1121851719326085120

Put Everything On Switch (@PutGameOnSwitch)

Bubsy Two-Fur not being on Switch yet is a crime. A bad crime.

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This is my friend Dan's cat named Bubsy 3D

Wait really

His girlfriend insists that his name is just Bubsy or Bubs

2:10 am

But Dan says his full name is Bubsy 3D

2:10 am

Short for Bubsy 3D Only for Sony PlayStation

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3

Either way though, named after Bubsy

Please enjoy the only ever deep dive into SNES/SFC F1 games you will ever see that I just made

7:24 pm

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jvyDKokGoQHdlXGdU2el5OR3HA8U6XSa3wUZpVGakn8/edit#gid=0

F1 Games on SFC/SNES

Sheet1 Name,Developer,Published,Licensed?,Viewpoint F1 ROC: Race of Champions / Exhaust heat,Seta,February 21. 1992,Unlicensed,Behind the car F-1 Grand Prix,Video System,April 28, 1992,Licensed,Top down Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving,Genki,July 14. 1992,Licensed,Behind the c...

Lol, I love the full name of the cat.

What we should find horrifying, is that if they have kittens, we could potentially have not just a Bubsy 3D 2, but a Bubsy 3D 3, 4, 5, etc. I don't think the world is prepared.

You know, this sonic business has allowed me to rewatch this amazing gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywZt6igT5Dw

FilmCow

Sargnarg the Hardge Harg

That looks pretty close to the movie version of Sonic, except it doesn't have two distinct eyes

12:39 pm

I clearly haven't watched the trailer enough times

It's not socks. It's part of the cool shoes.

in case someone needs this. You never know

2:18 pm

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https://www.mobygames.com/game/klax/promo/promoImageId,496465/

Klax (1990) promotional art - MobyGames

Concept art, wallpaper, official screenshots, and other promotional art for Klax.

A classic from Vidya Romance

The rare ad where the woman is ignoring her partner to play games

No! BOBBY.

It was the 90s, and there was only time for Klax

3:53 pm

That's an amazing ad

A Lynx ad...in Japanese. It's like seeing Bigfoot.

As Kelsey mentioned today: https://twitter.com/TanookiKuribo/status/1125829826970042369

Tanooki Joe™️ (@TanookiKuribo)

Holy shit. Someone just put up promo art for The Super Mario Bros Power Hour on eBay! These were concepts for other video game based cartoons to run along side Super Mario Bros 3. None of these ever got past the concept phase.

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Is this take on samus worse or about equal to the one in other m, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKTEbzV6cU&app=desktop

TheRealHotelMario

Hotel Mario 2012 Cutscene 1

Don't know if this is a bit too literal. It appears this same cart (or one like it) has been kicking around for quite awhile. I took a chance knowing it was likely retail, and was not disappointed

is it possible to not be disappointed with something bubsy?

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*Just to clarify, retrode says it is in fact retail

https://twitter.com/gifs_bot/status/1128681452189700098 insert colossus roar here

GIFS GALORE (@gifs_bot)

https://t.co/bOjpn8WRk6

https://twitter.com/sega_city/status/1129112901011136512

Sega City (@sega_city)

The British commercial for ‘Bubsy’ on the Sega Megadrive. @BubsyThe_Bobcat https://t.co/fdH6PTFOpI

I hate the 90s

I hate that seemingly 95% of all video game commercials that were digitized were done in 2006

3:18 pm

I'm going to have to play Bubsy now and give live commentary (edited)

Wait, a new bubsy game came out yesterday? Where have I been

There's a lot of bad 90s ads, but I saw this one day, and it might be one of the most weirdest

4:07 pm

Play hard. Play lard.

‍♂️ I have several questions (edited)

4:09 pm

huh, that sure is an interesting way for discord to choose to render that emoji.

Discord isn't quite up to date on Unicode so stuff like skin tones and gender markup aren't working yet

5:07 pm

Yet they've cherry picked the water gun.

i'd buy one of these if it was bubsy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Garfield-Kids-Leather-Jacket-From-the-Showroom-at-Paws/192908840659?hash=item2cea434ed3:g:lDMAAOSwUS1b2x2g

Garfield Kids Leather Jacket From the Showroom at Paws

From the Showroom of Paws Inc.

I too, would buy this if it were bubsy https://twitter.com/lo_lifer/status/1129067094555987968?s=21

Лиля (@lo_lifer)

Is this eBay shirt extremely grim or is it just me

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oh, i guess bubsy: paws on fire is actually OUT (from the Bit Trip Runner crew)

1:48 pm

https://www.dualshockers.com/bubsy-paws-on-fire-review/

Tomas Franzese

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! Review — Eat Your Heart Out, Sonic Mania

Finally, a decent Bubsy game. What could possibly go wrong from here?

1:49 pm

it actually sounds like it's decent, it's really just a Runner 3 total conversion with extra stuff?

1:49 pm

but uh 10 reviews on Steam in 2 days = nooot goooood

The people know it’s not a real bubsy game

1:51 pm

They’re still waiting for Bubsy 3D 2

it's weird cos Choice Provisions is not a CHEAP studio so presumably they were thinking they would make, like a million or two million dollars on this game at least?

2:04 pm

whoever the weird Accolade owners are

I'm pretty sure Choice is also banking on royalties

2:13 pm

I don't think this was work for hire

i still wonder who owns https://www.billionsoftware.com/

Billionsoft

Billionsoft is an investor and intellectual property management company in the games and entertainment industry.

Whois leads me to: Registrant Organization: Billion Soft (Hong Kong) Limited Registrant Street: 15/F 100 QRC Registrant Street: 100 Queens Road Central Registrant City: Hong Kong

6:15 pm

doesn't seem to be much of a "company" though.

6:16 pm

I didn't realize they had also purchased the humongous name

6:17 pm

but I guess that came with infogrames

6:18 pm

they have a couple linkedin folks: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%2215082404%22%5D

i def think it's someone rich who doesn't know what they are doing

The pain.

Hee heeheeheeehee hee hee

>Sub-Terrania poster

3:36 pm

Didn't that come with the game?

I never managed to own it brand new sadly so I dunno

4:29 pm

Rented it many times back in the day, finally came to own it a decade ago in its case but with nothing else but the cartridge

https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1131680395383197696

Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog)

Photo from a 1990 Nintendo advertising brochure from Sweden.

9:58 pm

jesus

++

Ah dang beaten to the paste.

Through Google Translate (with some correction): (edited)

1:48 pm

Don't be afraid, Bubsy doesn't bite. Bubsy speaks and [some expression like "hits the camera"?]

He flies, whirls and fights.
With giant ears and giant feet
Bubsy is having a lot of fun. And no cat poop

Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy

Yes, readers, there are so many funky levels.

(edited)

https://twitter.com/BubsyThe_Bobcat/status/1088877910394515457

Bubsy (@BubsyThe_Bobcat)

I usually go casual on Friday, but I will make an exception. #FursuitFriday

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It’s like they know we’re here

3:42 am

i assume this is also now the place where we place off-model marios

It's-a me! Minionario!

2:50 am

important research and development going on at #project_game_informer

We went so long without poisoning that apartment

You guys are OUT OF CONTROL

Yeah, man. All we did was watch Star Trek for six hours each night.

https://www.pcgamer.com/from-bubsy-to-system-shock-how-indie-devs-bring-old-videogames-back-to-life/

From Bubsy to System Shock, how indie devs bring old videogames ba...

The trials and tribulations of tracking down the rights to dead games and giving them another shot.

1:56 pm

almost no detail, Choice Provisions say they signed the game 'over a single Twitter DM' lol

I remember when GoG users were trying to track down System Shock and I was hearing the crazy stories of the rights being divided between like three different companies.

When SS2 first hit GoG, all the wallpapers had these big superimposed "© 1999 Star Insurance Company" watermarks, which (though, presumably, legally correct) was one of the most egregiously misleading copyright messages I've ever seen

3:39 pm

fortunately the Star Insurance Company sold their rights to System Shock to Night Dive outright

3:39 pm

and are now hard at work on their next game

They did default on the remake though which doesn't give me confidence.

They rebooted it.

They've been pretty honest and open about what's going on with the remake, especially lately, it's all been posted as kickstarter updates

When I was flying back from GDC 2017 I actually met one of the guys behind the voice acting sessions for SS3.

Why are we here? Just to suffer?

Lynn Bubsy

uhhhh

1:46 pm

https://tedium.co/2019/05/30/bubsy-history-video-games/

Bubsy History: The Story of the World’s Greatest Video Game Mascot

The story of Bubsy T. Bobcat, the world’s greatest video game mascot, as it’s never been told before!

1:46 pm

the tedium folks PANDERING to our demographic

1:48 pm

(it's also written by bubsy)

I have said it before, but I think project Game Informer has created a tipping point in the collective consciousness. I knew nothing about any of this, and yet I was drawn. Next Bubsy will be contributing political pieces and financial news

Bubsy, bub do

*Just to be clear, I didn't know about Project Game Informer or this discord. Think what you want, but I rented Bubsy II for SNES at Blockbuster many times as a kid. No regrets, either!

:p

I liked Home Alone 2 on the NES as a kid, we all have our faults

i owned the genesis bubsy 2 (edited)

5:23 pm

legitimately thought it was better than the first

5:24 pm

in retrospect it's only really playable if you're playing the First Floor, because they ratchet up enemy hitpoints on anything higher (unless you're spending all your cards on Nerf ammo)

i'm really feeling like i should buy the new bubsy game

Ooh, Frank posted the source code to Home Alone 2 on Twitter almost 3 years ago to the day. I was looking for random source code and ran into that- beautiful, beautiful thing (not necessarily the source code itself, but the fact that it survived and he was able to share it. I think it has remnants of an old Simpsons game's code in it that they repurposed, too

5:50 pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/738136827161255938?lang=en

5:50 pm

I have actually never played the first Bubsy.. YET :)

5:53 pm

Simon- please buy it and let us know how it goes

6:00 pm

Me remembering Frank posting that Home Alone code was a big factor in me joining the VGHF patreon. Also couldn't (still can't) wait to see what's in the GI secret N64 prototype stash

i dunno how long that stuff is gonna be dark for, but it at least has been saved

Yeah, just need to send Frank 3 or 4 emails a day asking about it until I learn more (so far I will have to say that strategy has not been very effective, though)

Not Bubsy but I think this belongs here https://twitter.com/ItsTheShadsy/status/1134830581907410946

Phil Salvador (@ItsTheShadsy)

...why is there a Gizmondo on this park sign?

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A ~~Pandora~~ OLPC, Gizmondo, and iPaq walk into the forest... (edited)

Just needs a Game.Com

that kinda looks like the OLPC on there

That sign looks like if it was designed by me

If it were, it'd have more flip phones.

Dat true

Saw this screenshot in a random arcade manual online, blast from the past nearly knocked me into the other room

service games service

Ask Dave!

12:27 am

Arcade board someone from the MAME team was able to successfully preserve.

wonder what game

Spanish Space Invaders clone

huh, looks like a regular SI boardset, too

https://twitter.com/VGArtAndTidbits/status/1138123950234492928

VideoGameArt&Tidbits (@VGArtAndTidbits)

Electronic Games (March 1993) cover artwork.

Bubsy's getting outscored by Blanka

Sonic clearly cheating by having his buddy back there helping out

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BEAVIS-and-BUTTHEAD-AFTER-SHAVE-Cool-Scent-1996-5-oz-MTV-RARE/283466045957?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dd8faab400ac24c23b202d23d36078a5f%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D283466045957%26itm%3D283466045957&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A6ef93167-8d6c-11e9-b820-74dbd18075bb%7Cparentrq%3A4e16d20216b0abc229a46176ffde5d3f%7Ciid%3A1

BEAVIS and BUTTHEAD AFTER SHAVE Cool Scent 1996 5 oz MTV RARE

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for BEAVIS and BUTTHEAD AFTER SHAVE Cool Scent 1996 5 oz MTV RARE at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

I am open to potatoes

11:55 pm

That sounds like a good combo

Oof, the big tomato chunks I could pass on

Oooo.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqH52-0h0Ak

PowerStunna

3DO Rap by Power Stunna

9:03 pm

9:05 pm

marios been outta the carpentry game for so long, but he looks excited to be back

I love old E3 Mario suits and animatronics.

9:46 pm

For a second, I thought that was a picture of Mario helping like law enforcement break into an abandoned building

Mario has got to have been a cop at some point right?

As part of the VHS preservation project at work, I came across this copyright warning

proper Litterbox material, thank you

Seems legit

Relevant?

wow

Absolutely

i constantly have to double-take when i see stuff like this because a pack of cigarettes is almost exactly the size of a deck of playing cards

5:11 am

like "are we sure those are cigarettes"

5:11 am

"uhhhh yes, they're charcoal filtered"

5:11 am

now i sorta wonder if there's any nice decks of Marlboro or Camel playing cards, to further that confusion

5:12 am

.... the answer is yes btw

Yup! I was given two days detention for bringing a pack of Marlboro trading cards to school - one because they were prohibited iconology or whatever, and the second because cards were banned since they were trying to discourage gambling among middle schoolers. (edited)

We gambled in 3rd grade. It was fun.

Man I should've played the grade school game a lot harder if I could've started gambling out there

5:34 am

I tried to sell hand drawn/photo copied comics ala captain underpants

have just pulled the trigger on this deck for historical interest

5:35 am

turns out this had a major trademark lawsuit tied to it

5:35 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_(cigarette)#Newport,_Nike,_and_plagiarism

Newport (cigarette)

Newport is an American brand of menthol cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The brand was originally named for the seaport of Newport, Rhode Island. It is the best-selling brand of menthols in the United States.

Wow that whole subsection of the shoes thing is just wild

once i get it (and a deck of Camels) i'll be combining them into the "boozemahol" category and changing the whole lot to "vice"

5:42 am

also in this order is a deck of Intel branded playing cards, presumably printed as promo items for a trade show, they have the Bunny People on them alongside the Pentium MMX branding

5:43 am

like, I'm not much for brand loyalty sometimes but Intel memorabilia is one of those things that's just part of my growing up

5:43 am

I should see if Dad still has all his posters from when he used to work for them, there's a lot that the internet just doesn't have any good pics of

After Intel's Bunny People / Hopping MMX advertising craziness, everyone suddenly cared about CPUs.

oh hell I should see if they made Blue Man Group cards

5:44 am

aaaaand the answer's no

i just love products for promotional use that are completely unrelated to the product at hand. like, in a room full of dev kits and crazy hardware and boxed systems, the coolest part of game informer's hardware locker was this dreamcast branded microcassette player that i've still never seen since

5:45 am

i would absolutely kill to get one of those now

5:46 am

but i can't find anyone who's even taken a picture of it

i'm still reeling over having found what i'm assuming was an E3 tchotchky (sp?), a deck of cards promoting Neversoft's GUN where one of the Jokers has a 6-character password on it that I've never figured out what it goes to

(luckily ive got a few of my own so it's safe with me

)

I found it at Goodwill.

whaat

It cost me 99 cents.

was this in the US? what region?

The US, found it in a store in the Portland area of Oregon.

ah ok. makes sense

Might still have the photos I took. Hang on.

god

5:47 am

if it weren't for the housing prices i'd be out on the west coast hunting up and down for weird shit at goodwills

5:48 am

seems like it's the only place to even have a chance

5:48 am

come to think of it I might have enlisted the help of this server back when I found the deck (uh, near last Christmas, going by the date stamps)

5:49 am

The game has no mechanism to enter codes or passwords, at least, not the PC version, and there are no web links on the deck anywhere

5:49 am

uh, oh. yes there are

5:49 am

seem to recall i'd tried Waybacking that site and found nowhere to enter text

@caseytube Most if not all the "weird shit" is quickly snapped up, their prices are on par with eBay, or people know better than to give such away since they can so quickly reference what it is and it's value.

fair enough. i just wanna at least have a chance tho lol

Yeah from experience a lot of times Goodwill knows full well what they've got, I've still gotten monumentally lucky at times though

but i get what you're saying. it's a tough life out there to be into weird stuff

Once Macklemore released "Thrift Shop," no one had a chance anymore.

god damn you, macklemore

5:51 am

on the bright side, we still have quality thrift and surplus stores out here

one of the "outlet" stores around here recently had a display case full of big box PC games at 10 bucks a piece, so I walked out of there with Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear Platinum, Red Baron on CDROM, and the Macintosh CD version of Might & Magic: World of Xeen

5:52 am

and another store across town had a complete-in-box SimCity Classic Graphics pack

5:52 am

that was a neat find

5:52 am

Turns out this stuff's already pretty common online, though I did image the floppies of the SimCity stuff for Shadsy

5:53 am

It looks cool on my shelf and it all still functions nicely so I ain't complaining

kinda related, but i saw this go up on shopgoodwill recently. had the poster with it too

5:54 am

i mean for parts, yeah. but still, i remember the boxes awhile back with the inserts going for at least $100

i bought a used NES Cleaning Kit at a goodwill, the box was pretty beat up but it still had the poster in it

ooh

that was the day I learned "To The Earth" was a game that existed

i dont even know why i look at shopgoodwill because it just depresses me but there are occasionally some things i'm on the lookout for and you at least get some bucks off market value. like instead of paying $400 for a certain walkman on ebay, you can get it for like, $250 (with the off chance it's busted as hell)

that site strikes me as like, less-good ebay sometimes

5:56 am

then again all i've ever looked up on there to date has been old electronics, like PDAs

yeah. its the biggest crap shoot of em all and the shipping prices are rediculous.

i think the only times i've bought from them have been the times their stock is listed on amazon as a Marketplace seller

5:59 am

at least i haven't had problems with them but i tend to prefer buying used stuff from sellers taht actually bother to write details about itemcondition instead of the boilerplate disclaimer

5:59 am

it's awful discouraging to be seeing a $20 game with the only remark being "used - good condition - item may be missing small parts, inserts, original artwork"

6:00 am

screw that nonsense, show me photos

oh yeah definately. i only go on shopgoodwill at this point or take risks like that if i'm specifically looking for either a project or a display piece

JFC! Read the description of this auction.

10:31 am

http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=133090236994&category=38583&pm=1&ds=0&t=1561112697561&cspheader=1

How much were they selling it for?

A grand

11:18 am

Heres the actual auction. I dont know why the first link was weird

11:18 am

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-Rare-Nintendo-World-Championships-1990-News-Paper-NWC-Collector-OKC/133090236994?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908131621%26meid%3D8c6bf6b292084b4986ce7cae2a324180%26pid%3D100678%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D14%26sd%3D133090236994%26itm%3D133090236994&_trksid=p2481888.c100678.m3607&_trkparms=pageci%3Ac049b6ed-940e-11e9-b302-74dbd1807780%7Cparentrq%3A7990ea4b16b0a4d0c4fb94d4ffbd3b14%7Ciid%3A1

Ultra Rare Nintendo World Championships 1990 News Paper NWC Collec...

Its from the Oklahoma city area. It was held at the OKC state fair grounds. This particular newspaper has been through a lot. To at one point being found in the garage 13 years later still in tact.

Here is a free version

11:43 am

I'm not paying you $1,000 for it, Densy.

Dammit

"Meet your kids' closest friends"? Oof.

oh hey i went to that one

Did you meet your closest friends

No I did not, i did a dance video with my brother and Luigi to the "Real fruit snacks!" thing though.

I so want to see this

Sadly i think the tape might be gone, what's really sad is it was around probably 5 years ago. My parents tossed all their vcr stuff and i didn't grab any of it.

12:36 pm

No dabbing for you i'm afraid.

Never enough dabbing

So true

I think this is @Hubz convoluted way of saying he destroyed the evidence. (edited)

LOL I actually did want to when I was younger. Now i have no pride

12:42 pm

i texted my mom just now to confirm, i don't want to break Densy's heart.

12:45 pm

the plot thickens... she thinks my brother has it

Dun dun duuuuunnn

12:46 pm

You must get it, for game history’s sake

I feel like this is BASICALLY bubsy-related content:

11:21 pm

https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/6/17/the-website-for-the-canadian-garfield-pizzeria-is-a-fascinating-shit-show

The Website for the Canadian Garfield Pizzeria Is a Fascinating Sh...

There is a restaurant in Canada that sells pizzas shaped like Garfield’s head and it’s even more fascinatingly confused than you could possibly imagine.

11:21 pm

different animal but same general vibe

I read this earlier, this is an amazing article

The author in this one interviewed the person who founded it and went to the physical restaurant. Its's such a weird situation. It's like an entrepreneur/self-help author who wanted to be in show business who's also a big Garfield fan https://www.foodandwine.com/travel/garfield-eats-Toronto-restaurant (edited)

I Ate Lasagna and Garfuccinos at the New Garfield-Themed Restauran...

One writer's months-long investigation of the first Garfield-licensed (and Jim Davis-sanctioned) restaurant in North America.

I have been at ALA less than an hour and already have a plush Socks the Cat

1

Did he rock the hill?

He rocked my world

who was selling that?

It was a freebie from the White House Historical Society!

1

7:24 pm

(Also got some swag from our friends at UW)

man now I'm remembering how excited my wife got at the prospect of a Socks the Cat game where he fights political figures. At least until she learned that one boss was her beloved Jimothy Carter

They had to be fair to both sides or whatever

I suppose that was 90s political discourse

10:12 pm

Ironic Jimmy Carter hate was a big thing in the 90s apparently

11:01 pm

Imgoingin dot jpg

The end is nigh

It’s super duper a runner 3 reskin, but he does make a joke in the intro about being the happiest he’s been since bubsy 1 or something

12:02 am

So franchise injokes a go go

Not sure I approve of giving money to that thing, but seems worth it for science

now i tweeted about bubsy i have some interesting folks fave-ing it

2:00 am

https://twitter.com/Connor266338825/status/1136980123104751616

Connor'sPawsAreOnFire❗ (@Connor266338825)

"Old Town Bobcat" I've got the yarn in the bag, the woolies might attack.........That's all I got. ~B @BubsyThe_Bobcat

I saw this and wondered if it was a Bubsy bot

in case anyone didn't see, i created the official* shirt for poolhall thrills https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5138318-poolhall-thrills-neon?store_id=225153

Poolhall Thrills Neon by nonemoreblack

My favorite band, are you familiar with them?

the sticker is fantastic

@Kate Willært are you taking requests?

you can certainly throw requests at me and maybe they'll happen

Your Nostalgia Is So Boring in a very eighties neon font

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its funny you say that, one i was going to put up today is Nostalgia themed

6:57 pm

but its the word Nostalgia in the Nintendo logo style

haha the polar opposite of my shirt

kinda heh

Eagerly awaiting the Bubsy related design @Kate Willært (edited)

but i can get behind that message, because i'm currently pretty tired of 80s nostalgia...need some more 90s nostalgia so i can appreciate 80s nostalgia again

6:58 pm

the weird thing is how much i like doing 70s nostalgia designs yet i wasn't born until the 80s

7:00 pm

or is the message implied by the shirt that anything but 80s nostalgia is boring?

the meaning I'm attaching to it personally is that unexamined nostalgia is itself boring and makes me cranky

ah ok

I might even do an 80s 90s hybrid, like neon + the boomerang swooshes or whatever

7:01 pm

it's just a t-shirt that's been in the back of my head for a long time. I have another one:

7:01 pm

it just says: Per my last email,

what's the joke there? just so i understand from your perspective

it's something a lot of people share, where we all get frustrated about people asking questions that were already in the email chain. this would not be a big seller, don't actually do it

7:03 pm

but I've known several people who all sort of share that same inside joke

7:03 pm

who don't know each other, so it's a thing

i've definitely experienced that a ton but totally never thought to include a per my last email

7:05 pm

i just tried to adjust how i wrote emails

it's a passive aggressive power move

7:05 pm

I usually type it and delete it and then do the real response

I use it all the god damn time in tech support

"oh, most office people only read the first sentence in a paragraph, and stop reading after the third paragraph...i guess i will try to make emails three sentences long, and make them numbered lists if i have more than two questions"

well rather I want to

maybe I should just make the nostalgia shirt

7:06 pm

make it as an individual but donate all proceeds to the foundation

possibly

it would be a nice complement for those of us who have the "be critical of the media you love" shirt

like me, I have that one!

if you do it, i suggest using Teespring, which is better for people who already have a giant following who might buy a lot of a shirt

7:10 pm

they print them up in a lot or something, and you get much more of the profits

7:10 pm

the print on demand ones like i'm doing are good if you think sales will trickle over years and years, but the profit margin i make is almost nothing

yeah I'd invest in it if I did it, that's good advice

i'm doing the shirt store more just to give people fun designs to wear, while also kind of promoting that "hey, i'm a designer too, if any of you want to commission me to do a logo or cover"

7:12 pm

its been awhile since i've done any type heavy designs, and all the shirts i designed for FUN went down years ago when they killed Shirts.com

for some reason I'm giggling at how your revenue streams come from the most straightforward domains possible. halloween.com, shirts.com

7:13 pm

well, came

that was their strategy...at the time, website names were the ultimate SEO term

oh it actually was the same company?

if someone googled halloween costumes, they got HalloweenCostumes.com, etc.

7:14 pm

but then google changed that so it was less effective

7:14 pm

yeah, its all the same company

7:14 pm

FUN does HC and used to do Shirts

yeah. before we launched I was in talks to get videogames.org, but I basically came to the same conclusion, that it didn't help SEO all that much

they used to have like 50 very specific URLs...some of them still exist

7:15 pm

like Wizard Of Oz Costumes is still a site i think

7:16 pm

the most important thing with URLs is having a URL that matches the name of the company so people can remember it in terms of branding...so if your site's logo was Game History (Presented By The Video Game History Foundation), that might be more effective to get people to remember the URL

7:16 pm

or alternately VGHF.org

yeah I know, I agree, it's a mistake I have to live with

i've made the same mistake in the past

do you guys want to help me take down the Vocal Group Hall of Fame?

heh

I’m game

I think we have to create a vocal group that makes every vocal group that came before us historically irrelevant

i think it'd work to do a GameHistory.org logo that has in smaller text underneath, "the official blog of the video game history foundation"

7:20 pm

when i first started A Critical Hit (as a game review site), i registered crit-hit.net because it was the only variation i could think of that wasn't being squated

7:21 pm

but people kept calling the site crit-hit.net, and i realized what i'd done

we started at least incorporating the URL into the logo on new things we print (so far just business cards) but it's just a band-aid

then one day i was like "wait, if i put an "a" in front of it, acriticalhit.com is up for grabs!"

7:21 pm

because originally it was a site called Critical Hit

You can start Very Good Hatris Fans

now there's a game review site that bought CriticalHit.net, totally riding my coattails, right?

7:23 pm

for my old site almost no one has heard of, that was linked to once or twice on wikipedia

obviously

7:24 pm

your branding was so good that...hopefully you take this the right way, but I thought it was "a real site"

that was totally the idea...and how i got so many review codes (though no physical copies)

7:25 pm

i was totally an amateur at review blogging,but the branding looked like a big site

7:25 pm

other than that URL

9:31 pm

9:33 pm

i tried digging around for an Electronic Games logo font, and realized the two history books that use that type for their title just invented their own additional letters

9:34 pm

the maddening thing is once i started staring at the logo to figure out the system, i realized how little sense it makes

9:35 pm

not just the diagonal angles, but weird half-pixels where the designer figured no one would notice

9:35 pm

and then there's weird things like the offset pixels at the bottom of the M that looks like the logo is glitching

ok, bubsy: paws on fire is kinda trash

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5:55 pm

you have to play the first level 3 times with 3 different characters to unlock the second level, for starters

5:55 pm

tho the loading screen do have funny slogans

it's longer now!

:surprisedgasp:

'we tried to make bubsy wear pants once. it didn't go well'

5:55 pm

you have to play with bubsy, virgil and woolie.

Tripling the pain

oh i guess woolie's level are autoscrolling shooter levels

5:57 pm

but you can still see all the platforms from the other characters at the bottom of the levels

5:57 pm

weird

5:58 pm

also it's single hit kills

5:58 pm

with fidldy controls

it still sounds like the best bubsy game though

heh

5:59 pm

so basically everything that was wrong with runner 3 vs the prequels but slightly worse than that

5:59 pm

it does have a MASSIVE amount of content tho

6:01 pm

like, random example of the sadism at work, all of the jump pads are also TNT boxes

6:01 pm

so if you hit the side of them you immediately die

6:01 pm

was that REALLY necessary?

6:01 pm

lol, bubsy did just yell 'who designed this level?!' tho

But does it have a verbosity slider?

6:43 pm

And if so, are you playing at the required 100% verbosity?

you know what does, which I discovered recently? Beavis and Butthead on the Game Gear

6:45 pm

you can adjust how often the game pauses to show you them saying stuff

frankly if they don’t call it a furbosity slider what’s even the point

https://twitter.com/uncannyjcj/status/1143554769396482049?s=19

Jordan's Summer Vacation (@uncannyjcj)

The other day a man walked into taco bell with a damn Bubsy t-shirt and when he left I saw he had a bubsy vanity tag on his car. I’m still recovering from the thought of someone being a big enough bubsy fan to rock the damn cat’s merch

All right, which one of you is it

Didnt go to Taco Bell wearing mine today (and dont have anything on my car, kind of jealous)

when you go to taco bell do you just go downstairs to the one at the strong

I just realized that it goes even deeper, because bubsy was sponsored by taco bell

11:15 pm

this man is a sleeper agent

Is it possible he is unstuck in 1993?

11:31 pm

Does he need to be re-merged into the timestream?

Maybe it’s the guy who owns the Hong Kong holding company that bought the Bubsy rights

...yes. I like being able to get red pepper flakes with my taco.

When you're sitting in a production meeting g and you get this notification with no context.

Nice.

1:31 pm

Boogerman on GDQ now

TRAG

What a wreck that game is

a sad boogerman story involving me, in two parts:

4:41 pm

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/224202041315180544

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/390621557388619776

"Is that a Boogerman shirt?" "Yeah, I made the game." "Cool, let's hang out." "OK."

4:41 pm

https://twitter.com/decafjedi/status/1144618441808068608

Oh my god that's MY shoulder on the Boogerman Kickstarter! I'm famous!

4:43 pm

sometimes I worry that it was my recognizing boogerman when this guy was walking around comic-con that made him go "the fans are demanding a remake"

If someone’s market research is “one person approached me about my game once” and that makes them do a kickstarter, I think it’s fair to say that you are not to blame for their decision

but I also completely believe that someone who trusts that level of "market research" is also the guy who made boogerman

What's wrong with Boogerman? Next you guys will tell me you don't like Shaq Fu

@Frank Cifaldi do you have scans of one of these "Intro Paks" ?

9:27 pm

Whoops. Wrong channel. Oh well. Yolo

they kept revising these lists, I think I have three or four of them

Ita got some other stuff with it

9:28 pm

the letter's new to me, the timeline was always in the CES press kits so we have a few examples of those scanned

This reminds me. I found an old letter response I got from Nintendo as a kid - I think I was asking about some Zelda related game snags I had. Is there someplace people have compiled scans of such things?

Reminds ME! I have these glossy returns checklists that I bought off eBay for no concieveable reason.

@Frank Cifaldi k I'll scan whats here, I just didnt want to go through the troublecif you already had it

@Art of Nintendo Power What kind of scanner are you working with? I am sure this is fabricated in my mind, but to me "scanning something for Frank" seems akin to painting something for DaVinci

don't scan anything for me, just push it on the internet archive

10:24 pm

I'm just not dedicated enough to sorting and storing digital goods to do it effectively right now

I would actually really like to see all of that kind of stuff archived. I would have no idea where to even begin cataloguing it, but I am about that obscure Nintendo life. Including Nintendo OSHA desk sitting guidelines. lol

Jess Morrissette (@decafjedi)

That's right, folks. Homey D. Clown, once ranked #5 on Computer Gaming World's "worst computer games of all time," is now in a museum.

2:52 pm

Specifically, the Strong Museum of Play now hosts selections from the Video Game Soda Machine Project..

Oh I just met Tony recently, how weird

he's based in Australia still?

I actually mixed up names, I did not meet Tony lol, I met Tom who worked on Aladdin

5:16 pm

this Instagram is great

yeah retrogamer retweeted it

Action-packed evening with @Kevin "ubersaurus" Bunch playing Dog Patch for the Astrocade

Best game

BFFs.

We nearly played Bubsy but ended up with Mohawk and Headphone Jack, which was something of a lateral move

https://twitter.com/gamespite/status/1145329322988855296

Jeremy Parish, Special Vehicles 2nd Section, Div 2 (@gamespite)

Let’s hear it for the all-time greatest Sanrio mascot, Poop Wearing A Diaper

Dogpatch in the arcade is legitimately amazing

Sounds marginally better than my night of playing DOS edutainment games

I’ve never seen an arcade dog patch

That's where it started I'm pretty sure, they had it at California Extreme once and I got hooked

Yeah the Bally is a home conversion. Looks similar from what I can see online. I really like it a lot, that and Kunio basketball are basically mainstays whenever I do this sort of thing

https://youtu.be/GwiFlOfyAQw

Frank Cifaldi

Dog Patch is the eSport of 2014 (and 1978)

We did make a lot of “move over fortnite” jokes last night so I am glad to know it’s not just us

@stegosaurus That sounds amazing though too

Dog Patch was really hype though

So I decided to be real lazy and finish off the main storyline of the new FFXIV package. I ordered groceries from Shipt. I felt so judged when the person came with the groceries and had to walk around my car....from a grocery store about 2 miles away.

https://twitter.com/bitculture/status/1145729971849183232

Jason (@bitculture)

I am 100% certain this is what @textfiles does all day. I may or may not be turning this into a game called "Archive It!," a combo tower defense/platformer in which you have to collect analog and digital data to counter act oncoming waves of entropy. #Unity3d #indiedev #pi...

It's funny, I've been tossing around a library-themed game for a few years now

Going back: I'm watching the AGDQ block for Mohawk & Headphone Jack: "I am the only runner of this game, so shoutout to me."

Maybe they know how the hell one progresses

There is a map apparently!

@Borman ! https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1146427914231144449

https://twitter.com/usgamernet/status/1147207038436438016?s=21

@ubersaurus We have Dog Patch too, but I don't want to be the one to open it since it's sealed.

the strong could be hosting the world's first dog patch tournament in decades

Call me when Pog is happening!

5:04 pm

office is coming together

I am growing more and more convinced the Egyptians just thought cats were a joke.

BUBSYYYYY

This image looks familiar to me, somehow.....

7:49 pm

USG (@USgamernet)

MAD Magazine Published the Ultimate Video Game Parody in its January 1990 Issue https://t.co/AoIKU7m2Ik

7:49 pm

He’s just missing, I don’t know...a large vehicle or something

3

I bought that issue and framed it the other day

11:54 am

I honestly never like the Mad Magazine content. Just not my type of humor

that's fair...i remember i only liked the art, i never really understood the humor

Wow, let's see here. Looks like it says, "When you dress as the lizard bug man, you can direct a symphony, kill a guy, do your taxes and then juggernaut trod upon anyone who interferes with your very cool business success"

1:08 pm

Also, I don't know Japanese. That's just what it looks like it says

https://twitter.com/sega_city/status/1149454254010241026?s=21

Sega City (@sega_city)

Some of the official artwork of ‘@BubsyThe_Bobcat’ from the manual! https://t.co/jDZmZaPJjF

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So I bought the Poolhall Thrills shirt along with this one https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/127225-global-thermonuclear-solitaire

Global Thermonuclear Solitaire by robotrobotrobot

War Games...kind of.

4:26 pm

Because it turns out, my shirt drawer is just going to be an increasingly bizarre series of inside jokes

4:28 pm

I say while wearing a shirt that depicts Garfield as a Star Fox boss, and having successfully confused my entire family with a shirt that reads "GALF"

GALF?

10:15 pm

Dare I ask?

It's a Golf Story item from fangamer

12:00 am

Apparently there's a minigame somewhere in that game that mimics NES Golf in a hilariously off brand way

12:01 am

And...there's an actual NES cart of it.

12:01 am

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yh442fw7ubq40b5/2018-10-21%2013.03.52.jpg?dl=0

2018-10-21 13.03.52.jpg

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12:02 am

Photo from last year's PRGE VGHF exhibit ;)

Oh hey that looks familiar ^

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If you were the person in charge of arranging that particular display case, know that your efforts did not go unnoticed.

What was last year's exhibit? I'm seeing aftermarket games in there.

35 years of the NES, there's a video Kelsey did on her channel

Yup, this photo is from towards the end of the timeline, where all the reproduction and homebrew carts were

8:03 pm

And of course POWER COLORING

8:04 pm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6lns6awpomuouo/2018-10-21%2013.04.00.jpg?dl=0

2018-10-21 13.04.00.jpg

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https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1151938303081402368

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5342141-steamroller-mario?store_id=225153

I am a serious animation collector. I purchase original cels from history's most iconic scenes.

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Oh oops I posted this in general

that is fantastic

My friend Ian Furgeson bought the frame that comes next, and then it turns out Craig Harris had the one after that

Fate

4k remaster when

@Chris Kohler is your Japanese curry ranking article on kotaku still valid or are there new contenders? Heading there in September, need food tips

(edited)

Still valid!

11:34 pm

Have a great time!

well I got the shirts in today

5:17 am

i will be wearing Poolhall Thrills tomorrow

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5:19 am

and Global Thermonuclear Solitaire, on Sunday

I've got Odyssey on the way

Not steamroller Mario?

2:36 pm

Steamroller Mario by nonemoreblack

Official mascot of steamrollers everywhere.

https://twitter.com/win_icons/status/1152594013918130177

Windows 3.1 icons (@win_icons)

3000 icons - 2940

Totally ordering the Studio II one when I get paid

5:34 pm

Guest starring Alf, and my prized copies of...Pinball World and the Sim City graphic pack

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5:35 pm

And a box of Ultima 9 that contains everything except for Ultima 9.

Nice nice

That Llahloop Sllirht shirt is awfully similar to a shirt I designed...I should sue

The F in VGHF now stands for Fortnite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkm7zi-MbqE

rogbonealt

fortnite dance isabelle

Fortnite bringing back print magazines

3:31 am

Who actually buys these?

You do with your donations to The Video Game History Foundation

Touché

Wait we're ignoring the important question (edited)

4:24 am

"The Fortnite mag that's also a game" ???

I’m flipping through and don’t really understand what’s a game about it

I like that two of the magazines have this exact same thing on the front

4:27 am

Oh wait I found it

4:27 am

cries

Finally a magazine with achievements!

“We have to use gamification because kids”

Did Nintendo Power have a challenges corner or something?

Gamification is just a fancy new word for edutainment

4:30 am

How different is the content between issues?

4:30 am

I imagine it just being mostly the same content, just with different words

I have zero desire to carefully examine these magazines I just spent $50 on (edited)

You can be the first Fortnite Historian

4:32 am

Total rebrand

You know it might have been interesting if magazines like this (I'm sure there were WoW magazines and whatnot) functioned like the old wargaming magazines. I.E describing play experiences, clan wars, stuff like that.

The island changes so much each season, it’d be cool if the mags tracked that

There’s a section on hackers in one of these and I think in one of the ones @Frank Cifaldi bought there’s something about how to stop online bullies?

4:33 am

@Kate Willært they do! Many of these have a season attached to them

4:34 am

This one has a section on reporting people

4:35 am

Dammit you guys got me actually interested

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I have played exactly one hour of Fortnite ever..it made me want to punch things. But it’s just one of those games you just kinda have to know what it’s about

This makes me want to make a zine called How To Lose At Fortnite

That’s a super weird definition of harassment

I once won a round of Fortnite without shooting a single shot...I wish I’d been recording

@Wietse van Bruggen Maybe they're trying to communicate like a simpler idea of bullying for a younger audience. Definitely weird but I wonder what the intent was

To me it sounds like they’re trying to say stream sniping without saying stream sniping

googles stream sniping to act like he knows what that is :P

4:40 am

Oh, the equivalent of looking at someone else’s part of the screen in Goldeneye

Yes precisely, I typed up like three sentences but that’s way better

The big British one for kids is 110% Gaming and it's... something. Just very very basic and I think aimed at maybe 10 and under

4:41 am

I think that was the one with the bullying tips

4:42 am

Guys that paragraph is going to be absolute gibberish in 25 years

Oh and about 1/3 of 110% Gaming is about YouTubers

4:44 am

Like their put photos of their heads on cartoon bodies and put them in wacky situations with speech bubbles

Actually really excited by the idea of YouTuber historians — as in historians covering youtube fame

I'm really surprised people haven't been doing that. I thought about it for a while, but I really would have thought someone would have been trying to do that in a serious manner already.

YouTube drama sells better

I love that paragraph because there's zero context to what any of that means

4:56 am

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Bizzle stealing first place in Cizzorz's demonic Deathrun 3.0 Challenge (edited)

Well I do like Through the Rabbit Hole - which is less sensationalist but is totally a drama channel - but the fact that no one I know of actually examines the evolution of Youtube creators' content is really baffling to me. Imagine an aesthetic breakdown of Bill Wurtz.

The closest thing I’ve seen is Dan Olson’s semi-surreal vid on Vsauce

5:26 am

https://youtu.be/fKmkI0xzvHc

Folding Ideas

What Is Vsauce?

i do remember nintendo power having a challenge corner thing

5:45 am

there were some reader submitted self-imposed challenges, i remember one of them being something like, finish the Facility on Goldeneye on 00 agent using only your slapper

5:46 am

i like the whole "honorary achievement" thing though, i actually implemented it in two of my doom mods

5:46 am

you can even access them from the menu system, though the game makes no effort to keep track of them otherwise because, like, are you kidding

5:47 am

and the list of challenges for "Weasel Presents: Terrorists!" includes a big ol' pile of 80s action film references, like "See You At The Party, Richter!" for knocking any enemy off an elevator going up

5:48 am

or the duo of "Rated PG" (clear the map having rescued all hostages and killed zero terrorists) and "Rated NC17" (clear the map having killed all terrorists and hostages)

5:51 am

It's beautiful. @Wietse van Bruggen t-shirt royalty.

Do I need this t-shirt as well? Leaning towards yes

Now you just need to purchase a steamroller and you can ride in style!

first page in the first gamepro I opened in a pile of magazines

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De-fur-mation of character!

https://mobile.twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1154801840736763904

kelsey's mother is too pure

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1155464672193081345

NEW CyberRace CD-Rom PC Game Plus 10 CD Jewel Cases

Bubsy: Paws On Fire! Limited Edition (PS4) is $29.99 on Amazon https://t.co/oPbwmBAWEY GameStop https://t.co/JIfjj1ubB3

1:26 pm

(i haven't played paws on fire much after that first time, oh dear.)

1:26 pm

(i really think runner 3 was better)

Perhaps the worst bundle deal ever: one game plus 10 blank jewel cases https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CyberRace-CD-Rom-PC-Game-Plus-10-CD-Jewel-Cases/123792514751?hash=item1cd29bdebf:g:8eYAAOSwQmRc6JcP

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for NEW CyberRace CD-Rom PC Game Plus 10 CD Jewel Cases at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

Wow it's actually that, huh

5:47 pm

Not like the old floppy disk bundles where you'd buy ten disks and they'd bundle a game with them

5:48 pm

I think dad might still have the Special Maxell Edition of 688 Attack Sub

I am reasonably sure Ryu lives in this van

absolutely

talking of living in a van down by the river

7:54 pm

7:55 pm

these hyper realistic masks are cray zee

Wow

oh, goody.

Kelsey you were not kidding, eastern Washington sucks

isn't eastern washington just idaho

Eastern Washington: the Bubsy state

move over ohio, mediocrity has a new name

i think that's unfair to Iowa

Washington is Seattle, ignore everything else

The mountains and the Twin Peaks town were lovely though!

Was there damn good coffee?

Damn good

4:34 am

It was actually called "damn fine cup of coffee" on the menu

I wasn't sure if you literally meant the shooting location or just a place called Twin Peaks. (edited)

Literally the shooting location!

Yeah I think they kept it that way after shooting the recent show? Cool @Phil Salvador ! (edited)

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1157410327698403329

https://twitter.com/Video_Game_King/status/1157342546890149888

Took apart a plug & play system to document and uh

10:08 pm

3

4

Vincent Kinian (@Video_Game_King)

Spec Ops loading screens, but the quotes have been replaced with Bubsy one-liners.

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https://twitter.com/ItsTheShadsy/status/1157759003541168128

Phil Salvador 📖 Mysterium (@ItsTheShadsy)

.@randemtweets makes a major announcement at #Mysterium: he likes to eat watermelon with a fork and knife

https://t.co/wfzv5l70e1

We're excommunicating him.

i do that if its very cold because i have sensitive front teeth

5:49 am

same with pizza if it's very hot

i do that to restaurant hamburgers (edited)

6:11 am

simply because it's a pain to actually pick them up, i always get my hands messy and they always fall apart somehow

yes, between this and not liking bubly, i'm sure i've committed several acts of culinary heresy in presence of this server

Eating hamburgers with a fork is Bubsy Litterbox

6:39 pm

But it's also current canon that Batman does that

So one of the funniest thing about Cyan Worlds is that in 1995, they released a CD-ROM version of The Manhole, but they significantly overestimated how many copies they would sell

5:25 pm

So every time Mysterium visits Cyan, they hand out armloads of mint condition, shrink-wrapped, boxed copies of The Manhole (edited)

5:26 pm

Photos from a previous Mysterium via the Mysterium Discord:

5:26 pm

5:27 pm

They even gave away the boxes from when Broderbund sent them all the unsold copies

I want that box

Only if you can fill it with 12 copies of The Manhole: Masterpiece CD-ROM Edition

maybe we should talk to them if we ever do charity streams with giveaways

Cyan has so much stuff

5:36 pm

They had a temporary "Cyan Store" where they were just selling old posters and unsold games because they've run out of space

can you help make intros if needed?

Oh yeah sure! I can talk to the Mysterium committee people at least

5:38 pm

Actually I'm vaguely in touch with the community relationship person there too, that's good (edited)

5:38 pm

My relationship with Rand Miller was promising him I'd check out the North Cascades, then disappointing him when I didn't go to the North Cascades

cyan is in the totally weird 'has been functioning game company with money and same offices since '90s' space

6:20 pm

(and not a publisher)

6:20 pm

which is basically nobody

They built their own headquarters with their Myst money and expanded it during the production of Uru, which ended up being a huge asset for them

6:22 pm

The south building on their campus is leased out to the Grace Christian Fellowship church of Spokane, and the grounds are so picturesque that they rent it out on weekends for events and weddings (edited)

huh

(Just wrote a post about it actually!) https://obscuritory.com/essay/hot-dogs-and-history-at-cyan-worlds/

Phil "Shadsy" Salvador

Hot dogs and history at Cyan Worlds | The Obscuritory

Cyan Worlds hosted an open house for the Mysterium fan convention in 2019, and a look inside their building was a look at a company embracing and enduring their history.

'game dev rents out its wholly owned property'

6:23 pm

oh great!

Oh yeah, Cyan is like a landlord that makes games. The building was such a good investment

i dunno why we are in bubsy-litterbox but HERE Is some prime bubsy-esque content

6:24 pm

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1158803693627682819

Nibel (@Nibellion)

If you thought Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox was huge, well.. buckle up: Garfield has been acquired by Viacom (Nickelodeon) https://t.co/YFqUpEr2bS

this makes me sad in the sense that I loved how weird paws inc. was

6:28 pm

but also that dude is super old and it's good he's cashing out

lol i tweeted about the Cyan thing and got hella corrected

6:28 pm

https://twitter.com/misterpedantic/status/1158806503735869440

John Henderson (@misterpedantic)

@simoncarless Pfft, ask @RichardGarriott how many people got married on his property.

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oh nice

6:28 pm

but did garriott do dev work at his house primarily ever? I don't think it counts

6:28 pm

it's a person's property, right? not a studio locale

yeah i know but then i realized i was arguing with 'misterpedantic'

6:29 pm

so i just congratulated him for his screen name

haha

oh i guess i know him? woops

6:32 pm

i guess i said 'game devs' which could be read as 'actual developer individuals' and not 'studios' so fair enough

A bit pedantic, but well, it is in the name...

Oh wow, here's the page for Cyan's event space service http://www.bluwoods.com/

BluWoods | BluWoods – rural atmosphere / urban attitude

6:45 pm

(It's as spectacular as it looks in the pictures)

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I love Cyan's office, I have fond memories of hanging out talking shop with some of their artists back in the Uru development days.

1

Everyone was having such a good time

10:18 pm

Our international boy

he’s making waves

BUBSY star wars see page 47

Wow, I was just reading the Mysterium wrap-up articles and found out there was a music panel with Tim Larkin, Marty O'Donnell, and Jack Wall....

2:44 pm

a) impressed they managed to get all three of them to Spokane for such a tiny convention, and b) awesome that they apparently discussed a lot of their experience on other projects like Halo and Video Games Live, not just the Myst games

It was a pretty great panel! And almost everyone hung around all weekend. Jack Wall was just chilling out with everyone, which was a lot of fun

2:51 pm

What articles did you read? I don't know where to look for any (edited)

2:54 pm

Remembering about the panel now: O'Donnell said he learned about Bungie because someone was talking in the old CyanChat about how disappointed they were that there weren't many developers in Chicago except Bungie (edited)

2:54 pm

He thought "There's a game developer in Chicago?!", and it went from there (edited)

9:14 pm

AaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaa

9:14 pm

At the last minute

:[

so i indulged in some retail therapy instead and hit "buy it now" on a bunch of lots

10:46 pm

one of my sub-collections happens to be "the cola wars" and these almost all contain either coke or pepsi decks

I also just indulged in retail therapy

6:32 pm

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Great filename choice

Going through some games and finally found something to share.

our boy

Had me alot of Claws Encounters as a younger man.

Let's hear it for the Bubs

Mmmmmbubs

It must have been Bubs

1:19 am

But it's over noooow

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https://www.limitedrungames.com/collections/distributed-releases/products/bubsy-paws-on-fire-limited-edition-switch

Bubsy: Paws on Fire Limited Edition (Switch)

This item has not been released. It will be available on Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 at 12 PM Eastern Time. Time Until Available: PLEASE NOTE: This item will be ready to ship within one or two weeks of the sale date. It will only ship when all items in your order are availa...

How many did you order

i got all 1,000 just in case

Or will this be the first limited run release that’ll never sell out

https://twitter.com/MetalJesusRocks/status/1163155798052098048

Metal Jesus Rocks (@MetalJesusRocks)

The crazy folks over at @NumskullDesigns immortalized me in their Tubbz line of duck cosplay figures. Definitely nailed my hair & khaki shorts!! LOL

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8:11 pm

i guess we're at the 'retro game collecting personality duck' stage of video game history?

well I mean we already have Ninja merchandise

the duck looks a bit Rasputin-y actually

maybe if we all buy one they'll expand the line and make a kelsey duck

VGHF Discord duck set

she should hold out for a "wonder" swan

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There have been minecraft youtuber toys for at least 4 years now

8:38 pm

not that it makes it any less crazy

8:41 pm

ill take a duck of my likeness though, thats the best fan art i can ask for

GDC could do ducks instead of playing cards next time!

52 ducks in a carrying case

And I would still attempt to play Klondike with them

Where do I get my Kevtris duck?

.....

both Kevtris Duck and Kelsey Duck have the same amount of syllables as Darkwing Duck and now the song is stuck in my head

Bubsy Duck

So does wonderswan, which could absolutely be a super hero sidekick to Darkwing Duck

Or a hero in a neighboring city

4:22 am

Now I want to see that

I mean to be fair, Youtube fame aside, MJ does have a pretty iconic face.

https://twitter.com/sonicyoda/status/1163758552508456960

Myst of the North Star (@sonicyoda)

The cheapo Mega Drive I ordered to mod has turned up. Those stickers are not getting removed. This is art.

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3:49 pm

Gotta rep that Bubsy 2.

No, 2 is not canon

In Bubsy-adjacent news: owners of Bubsy & Humongous Entertainment halted the Humongous music Kickstarter

9:18 pm

They put out a bizarre and apparently untrue statement on Twitter about it. They have mismanaged that brand so hard

https://twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1164574583535497216

kelsey lewin (@kelslewin)

I literally can’t stop showing people the box art for Snake Roy

Snake Roy Cougar Boy

Video toy Fall of Troy

Cunning ploy Ode to Joy

You have fallen For my ploy

Please enjoy Snake Roy

when will vghf start selling posters of that box art

After the VGHF fighting game

5:01 pm

Video Frank vs Snake Roy

Super Preservationist Fighter II Turbo The Remix

Steamroller Mario Kart

5:15 pm

Extremely slow Mario Kart

Isn't that Mario Kart 64?

5:18 pm

(my hatred for mario kart 64 will never die)

I played so much mario kart 64

i hate the versus mode with the stupid yellow bombs i always somehow manage to hit

5:20 pm

though i have the same issue with 8 and bananas. i must be attracted to yellow?

You could possibly blame the really blurry mess with 4 player Mario kart 64 on a small CRT

I would exceptttt i kept losing at it in the arcade league on 1v1 face_08

Okay you’re just bad then

That's it, give me your switch code so i can smoke you at 8

5:22 pm

i already stalk your ps4 trophies, might as well stalk you on switch

Stalking my Yakuza progress

i stalked your lack of bloodstained progress

True true

@Phil Salvador I would pay an unholy amount of money for a painting of Snake Roy fighting Video Frank

9:05 pm

And hang it in the office

There's gotta be someone willing to take on that commission

10:13 pm

Da Vinci was commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa, and so too would a future great artist be commissioned to paint Snake Roy

There is a console called the Cougar Boy? That used to be my nickname in highschool. And now I am going to name my first born son Snake Roy

Cougar Boy aka Mega Duck

11:47 pm

Both are great names

That feels like some sort of spiritual spectrum that all our souls are on

11:58 pm

We're all somewhere between Cougar Boy and Mega Duck

I read through that lovely rhyming exchange between @Phil Salvador and @Ethan Johnson (Play History) again but to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire and it works really well You’re welcome

That is literally what I was thinking

thunderous applause

Vidja games Torrent flames Frank Cifaldi Girabaldi Kelsey Lewin Metal Jesus Bubsy the Bobcat (edited)

Yeah I’m going to need an entire song now

We’re here for preservation~ It may be emulation, but please consider donation

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I would absolutely paint that image if it would make me wealthy

I was just thinking like beat poetry! It does fit the rhythm

We're here for preservation We do emulation and we take donations We're here for preservation Bringing to the nation digitalization (edited)

Just have to make a list of every notable even involving games being lost, historical documents, preservation, and ROMs

Nice. I will accept more lyrics

Something in there about deleting ROMs in 24 hours

Bubsy in the Gorilla Store, I can't take it anymore

Pink Gorilla, Cult of Kefka Drac in Reebok Pumps (edited)

Play us a rom preservation maaaann

8:32 pm

Play us some roms tonight

8:34 pm

Well we’re all in the mood for a memory

8:35 pm

Even if Bubsy is such a blight

Far out man

i found some bubsy litterbox quality content

3:40 pm

https://twitter.com/ColinMcInerror/status/1164909624379740160

Colin McInerney (@ColinMcInerror)

i got a new tattoo - tim stafford at violet crown tattoo

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That's the second Mario-Yoshi swap here in the past week. What is happening?

a revolution

Quack Quack

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Meow!

oh

Oh my god, the mystery of Geedis has been solved https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/08/23/what-is-geedis

Geedis: An Internet Mystery For The Ages... Gets Solved!

What is Geedis? This is the question that thousands of internet sleuths have been trying to answer for more than two years. The strange, furry character and his buddies in The Land of Ta have remained a mystery of 80’s fantastical proportions. We go down the rabbit hole...a...

OH MY GOD

Nobody knows where the pins came from, but Geedis was drawn in 1979 by Sam Petrucci, the original artist behind GI Joe

oh my god the original pencils have been found

Definitely these will probably be utilized in some way now. They won't be hiding in this pile as just the weird ones at the bottom.

6:52 pm

Cross fingers for official Geedis stickers!

I'm making NES homebrew starring Geedis

Geedis: The Official Game

6:54 pm

You'd have the whole range of Land of Ta characters to work with

Only on the official plug and play Geedis system

Let's be real, the Geedis game should be on the Cougar Boy

I'm pretty sure Geedis and Snake Roy are from the same expanded universe, yes

move over, snk shared universe

God damn that was a great read

wow

10:39 pm

but now i want to know who made the pins...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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The Geedis researchers did a Reddit Q&A thing, and apparently they're following some loose threads still

11:42 pm

There was supposedly someone with a Geedis tattoo from back in the day (who has died), and they're trying to figure out what it meant to him to see if that leads to anything about the pins

The pins will become a collectors item, and that guy who bought them all can say it was really about the Geedis made along the way

Geedis Rules Everything Around Me

11:52 pm

GREAM

https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/status/1166816397709778944

John Andersen (@JohnAndersen21)

Marion?

Picture via the Lodi News Sentinel, June 16th, 1993

I'm also curious about the caption, do they think that the game boy is not a Nintendo product, or by "Nintendo" do they mean the Super Nintendo?

Depends on when this was taken. It could be the Super Game Boy, and they're just confused about software vs hardware

9:33 pm

Hmm. June 1993, but sgb was June 1994 if Wikipedia's source is right

Hmmm

9:44 pm

Is it possible that he's holding the box upside down and that this is the super game boy?

9:46 pm

It's hard as hell to identify that with how blurry the photo is though... Is there any chance the Sentinel or somebody had the original photos?

Usually AP is the one giving them the photos and news so it would be in their records.

10:01 pm

It says though that they are promoting the Game Boy Player, not that they're selling it yet.

https://twitter.com/Natalan/status/1167076913053089794

Natalie Alana Ashton (@Natalan)

are you even an academic if you've never pieced together an entire book chapter from google book previews of two different editions and the 'look inside' feature on amazon?

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ah the @Kate Willært Special

heh (oh no)

I have a big stack of Good Housekeeping I bought for you and I don't remember why

7:58 pm

probably like one ad in the stack?

IIRC it was two ads

8:01 pm

tho i don't recall it being a big stack?

8:01 pm

well it's like, six

8:01 pm

it just kinda sticks out in a shelf full of video game magazines

there's also these that you've already scanned, i believe:

8:02 pm

9:56 pm

everyone

9:56 pm

there was a captain novolin mascot costume

Doesn't get much more Bubsy than that.

I mooch off a friend’s newspapers.com account does that count

if it gets us a photograph of the real captain novolin it counts

I will have to do a search this eve then

I have to assume it's a guy in a cape and not like a full mario

mascot costume (edited)

well I found a preview blurb for the event but no images so far

10:43 pm

if there's a local walnut creek paper that existed at the time they might have taken photos but it doesn't appear that the outlets on that or newspaperarchive did

10:44 pm

Maybe the Contra Costa Times?

I have one, remind me later though when I’m not building a booth

Oh noooo good luck this weekend!

if you meant a newspapers.com account kevin's got us covered

Yeah doesn’t look like Contra Costa is covered by newspapers or newspaperarchive. And I don’t see any additional event coverage in the (mostly SF and Oakland) papers they have

i live in walnut creek right now

10:56 pm

have i been in captain novolin's hometown this whole time

what I didn't know that

10:57 pm

our storage is near there, I'm going to make you lift a bunch of boxes

yeah i've been here like a little over a year?

10:57 pm

and hell yeah i'm down to lift boxes

11:00 pm

i walk by the library damn near every day maybe i should actually go in for once and see if they have like a local newspaper archive or something

worldcat doesn't show any contra costa times holdings in walnut creek but that's no guarantee

11:04 pm

Master negatives are available for duplication from the California Newspaper Microfilm Archive; positive copies may be purchased by the reel; consult the CNMA at: http://cbsr.ucr.edu.

Check any local historical society too. And he’ll the east bay times might have the archive, they bought the paper back in the 90s I guess

Ah, walnut creek, the (former?) home of cdrom dot com, one of the biggest dang archives of downloads in the early days of the Internet

That's the first thing I think of whenever I hear Walnut Creek

I think I actually own one of their products? It's a volume of downloadable models and things for LightWave 5

11:30 pm

Like this Chun-Li

11:30 pm

She's supposed to have a face texture but I couldn't figure out the program enough to know how to load it

@Borman That's also

the only reason I know the music from Advent Rising

I make that joke when I played a VGL suite, wouldn't be in there if Tommy hadn't created it hah

Why else was Myst in there too, haha

2:25 pm

(As much as I love the Myst soundtrack, that was a Jack Wall thing) (edited)

Riven is still my favorite, but Myst 3 has some damn good music

bubsy klaxon

4:38 am

https://egmnow.com/bubsy-cannot-be-stopped/

Dan Solberg

Bubsy Cannot Be Stopped | EGM

Holy hairballs, he’s in a feature on EGM!

someone has to stop him

At some point someone I going to reveal that this was all accidentally our doing somehow

Reading more about Maxis in their post-IPO days (edited)

2:24 am

https://www.wired.com/1997/06/maxis-dream-job-gaming-engineer/ (edited)

2:24 am

Take, for example, Heather Mace, a software engineer. She recently put her boyfriend on the company health plan, which lets "significant others" receive benefits too. She's been salting away stock from the beginning and investing in her 401(k). And while we were talking, someone handed Heather a congratulatory letter with US$50 just for being there for three years. "Maxis is doing well by me," says the engineer, who usually relaxes during her lunch hour over a game of Magic in the cafeteria.

2:25 am

This article was published the day after Maxis announced their sale to EA (edited)

2:25 am

Unbelievable

(Looked into it: Maxis announced their sale around 8pm on June 4, 1997. Wasn't picked up by the press until the next day) (edited)

Crazy, look at them going wild giving employees such basic niceties as basic benefits

4:08 pm

Sadly this is why I kept to game dev as a hobby

Oh yeah, health care, retirement, and a lunch break should be mandatory. It's good that they were taking care of their people! This was immediately before they had big layoffs though (edited)

5:19 pm

Their last couple years independent were a pivot from being a weird boutique software company to being a tech startup

5:19 pm

I think this was also right after they announced something like a 13% revenue drop year-over-year

ouch

That's a good point though, I wasn't thinking about it from the perspective of the employees doing well

https://twitter.com/70sscifiart/status/1168962365704069122

70s Sci-Fi Art (@70sscifiart)

70sscifiart: Fun fact: Atari illustrator Jim Kelly served as the model for the covers to both Othello and Night Driver. That’s right, by established visual cannon, Iago spends his spare time street racing. https://t.co/cs3fqgl9PD

Sounds legit

9:42 pm

All the numbers in all these pictures are inflated

1

It didn't even come with a resin statue of Bubsy and a collectible steelbook case

I feel like this confusingly decorated cupcake belongs here

A person can like mario AND cats, @kelslewin . Geez!

When you can't afford the Cat Mario topper

8:33 pm

pre-fusion

Lol

deepest mario lore

I thought Miyamoto denied the cupcake origin theory

ever heard of a little thing called death of the author

8:42 pm

that means nothing the author says matters

oh whew I thought he died

I think I'll move your daily dose of DK drama here until something substantial occurs, but apparently Billy provided proof of the girder finger on DK hardware using an inverted jumper

9:48 pm

https://youtu.be/pHlZufYmuWI?t=33

9:48 pm

you have to use ,. to advance frames on the second jump if you want to catch it, but the video quality is awful

9:49 pm

9:50 pm

The finger, the single line of the girder towards the bottom, is the smoking gun for it being emulation (edited)

Well i'm convinced

The level of insanity around this is incredible.

wait so in his evidence he provided more evidence that he used an emulator?

This is supposedly real hardware

also wait, I know that's direct feed but to my eye anyways, that looks like it could be an artifact caused by mismatched framerates

It was buried in the document as an screenshotted link to an unlisted video

10:08 pm

Yeah no idea if it holds up to scrutiny

10:11 pm

The argument is that it is possible for the finger girder to show up on real hardware

10:12 pm

Worth noting the girder showed up on every girder transition in Billy's video over and over

10:13 pm

And they tested hardware extensively and could never get it to happen

10:13 pm

They being TG

And the best smoking gun Billy could find was an unlisted YouTube video showing video of donkey Kong that could literally be from anything without any verifiable proof, which also says it's running using the wrong jumper configuration

10:16 pm

jeez

10:18 pm

let's just say this doesn't prove him guilty or anything, the judge is still out on that but man, this is a thin rope he's hanging onto

FWIW Carlos Pineiro apparently knows his stuff and participated in the original dispute

10:31 pm

Although apparently he is now upset at Mitchell for misleading him into a statement in his document

10:31 pm

So this is all perfectly at home in the litterbox imo until substantiated. (edited)

https://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_details.php/875

Twin Galaxies Explores Capturing Equipment used in Billy Mitchell ...

The dispute of Billy Mitchell's 1,062,800 score on Donkey Kong arcade has gotten further development as Twin Galaxies officials continue testing the method Mitchell supposedly used to capture his gameplay.

11:19 pm

Relevant article with Carlos. You'll notice his linked video is not inverted.

11:20 pm

Since apparently that is key to make it happen.

The thing that always gets me is Mitchell can actually play well.

Oh absolutely

Definitely

Id like to say that this is all for the rumored King of Kong 2, but it seems a bit much at this point

That’s how it goes. That one guy with all the 2600 records also is a great player but also was proven to be cheating

Yeah

And just to but a bell on all that here is Carlos being informed Billy is using a signed document from him in his evidence packet

11:27 pm

Jace from TG posted their entire exchange but that gives you the idea of the tone

11:28 pm

So I wouldn't be surprised if that video is marked private. I'll make a gif real quick out of bored fascination.

11:29 pm

I'm sure he'll comment more on it.

11:30 pm

Wouldn't be surprised if the end result is it is being taken out of context.

wonder why the scanlines on the top of the beam don’t necessarily line up with the rest of it as it moves

11:33 pm

I’m not an expert on the subject, so take my speculation with a heavy grain of salt

that feels like an artifact of encoding to me?

that’s what I’m feeling, but I feel like it’s some sort of analog problem with the Capture device, where it’s essentially trying to make sense of a frame rate that’s higher than the target captured media

right, one of those two things imo

Like for instance, the game runs at 75 Hz but the Capture runs at 60?

11:37 pm

That is the statement in the evidence package he was saying what the fuck to

11:39 pm

oh sorry, missed that screen..

11:39 pm

11:40 pm

Anyway, obviously not happy and talking to his lawyer before saying anything more so who knows when we will hear more context to that video. (edited)

Yeah this story really is developing and speculation won't mean much till then

https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong-Points-Hammer-Allowed-Player-Billy-L-Mitchell-Score-1-062-800?p=1053072&viewfull=1#post1053072

11:43 pm

Link to the post but unfortunately their forum doesn't link directly properly. Have to scroll down to #3267

I honestly never expected this server to be down this particular hole

I fully admit I am rubbernecking haha

oh I'm here for it

Since it took a while to track down here is where FBX got involved in reviewing mame versions: https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong-Points-Hammer-Allowed-Player-Billy-L-Mitchell-Score-1-062-800/page192

12:25 am

This is right up my alley. I've downloaded every version of MAME from 2001 all the way to 2007. I'll make sure these params are set, and then I will use OBS Studio to record the live feed, then VLC player to frame advance. Then I'll title each image and zip them all together. This is going to take me a couple days to knock this out with how many versions there are over those 6 years, but I'm on it.

12:27 am

Wes Copeland gets involved on the following page

Please tell me this is all being filmed by that crew again

Wait

12:55 am

How does someone sign a document like that and not know what he signed, how did he get fooled into doing it?

I think it was more that he signed it in confidence that it would not be used for legal battles, and I’m assuming that the unusually short turnaround time from the signing of that document to the release of that lawsuit affected it as well

That’s naive

Probably, I mean it’s not A very good legal document to begin with, it’s so short and vague that there’s no wonder it’s being used and abused by the legal team

12:58 am

there was probably not a lot of forethought put into the signing of that document, I’m assuming a lot here, but it sounds to me like he was looking at this as a way to absolve Billy Mitchell on a moral stance, rather than a legal one. Otherwise, if Carlos was smart, he would’ve gotten a lawyer involved before he signed anything

If he wants to do that he can write a blog post. The wording of this document makes it feel like a legal document.

It looks like a permission slip I signed in the fourth grade, I wouldn’t necessarily call it a legal document. This whole thing reeks of irresponsible legality, I mean did you see that front cover?

It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread

Most legal documents have to set precedence, at least from my understanding, for what Billy Mitchell would’ve been charged for and to what end he is being absolved of.

1:02 am

This is like, Saul Goodman levels of incompetence. Regardless about whether or not the presented evidence is true, this case will probably get thrown out of court if Billy doesn’t find a better lawyer

Now imagine this going to court and a jury having to come with a ruling

1:02 am

Nobody understands this

I would love to see this actually go to court, there is so much minutia in this entire case and it would make for the best worst documentary

Retropals has begun the Bubsy https://www.twitch.tv/retropals

Oh boy

1:17 am

I also played vs super mario bros on a sega branded cabinet yesterday.

1:18 am

That would have been insane during the SNES vs. Genesis days.

1:38 am

@SoH Apologies for being a little out of the loop, but what is Billy suing them over? Slander? Pretty sure private businesses can choose who and what is represented... (edited)

As to Twin Galaxies, its investigation did not provide Billy Mitchell fair opportunity to provide evidence to prove his innocence. Throughout the investigation, Twin Galaxies had a double standard. Specific evidence against Mitchell was accepted, while evidence of equal stature was rejected. Further, Twin Galaxies selected a biased third party investigator with close ties to Donkey Kong Forum, another group defaming Billy Mitchell. This investigator was openly inflammatory throughout the investigation, and expressed his support of score removal on the very first day of the dispute; there was nothing unbiased about him. This, along with other examples, displays a substantial level of constitutional malice.
This letter demands that both Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records retract their claims against Billy Mitchell, and immediately restore his achievements and good name. Attached to this letter via link is the full evidence package, which proves that the claims of Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records are false.4 This evidence includes witness affidavits, historical documentation, scientific evidence, gameplay analysis, expert witnesses, and Walter Day's letter with sworn affidavit. Due to the overwhelming evidence, neither Twin Galaxies nor Guinness World Records can possibly refuse this retraction request and claim to be acting without constitutional malice.

1:40 am

That is the most concise legal statement I can find.

1:42 am

Each corporation has a 14-day deadline to review the information and issue the retraction, or we will resort to legal recourse, our final option.

1:43 am

So they gave them 14 days before actually seeking legal action. Which TG did say they are working to comply.

1:44 am

They should send the lawyers a bottle of Billy's hot sauce with the word NEVER scrawled in an angry hand

1:50 am

I've been going through the code revisions for mame during this time period, particularly v0116 since it is a large and important rewrite of the dkong video driver and why "the finger" becomes prevalent during this version..

1:50 am

1:51 am

And I'd say I disagree with this assessment. First there is nothing in the changelog about setting the vsync to that, or in the code

1:52 am

Unfortunately the sourceforge history only goes back to v0122 so maybe it came from a check in message, not sure

1:52 am

But anyway, I'd say the more accurate reason is the way the video driver works between v115 and v116 was completely, and I mean completely rewritten

1:52 am

To get an idea..

1:53 am

Green is new lines, red is deleted lines and the tiny handful of grey are unchanged lines

1:54 am

So the finger shows up because it is practically all new code. The refresh rate is set to a flat 60 and the way vsync works is... complicated.

1:57 am

This is the actual changelog from the mamedev source archives..

1:57 am

Major Donkey Kong driver update: [couriersud]
 - Implemented discrete sound from schematics: dkong, radarscp
 - Implemented discrete background from schematics for radarscp and
    various effects:
    - blue to black to blue background
    - exact priorities
    - Grid will flip open and close, vertical flipping on hit.
 - Changed inputs for radarscp
 - Color generation from schematics (resistor mixer) for
    radarscp, dkong, dkongjr and dkong3

1:57 am

Doesn't change anything, just team mame research didn't really do their due diligence here and just took some random pasted post at face value.

2:03 am

https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.116 https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.116u1 https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.116u2 https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.116u3 https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.116u4

2:03 am

None of the minor updates mentioned it either. It is odd.

Source is from mameinfo, unfortunately they only host back to v0.210, if anyone knows where I can get my hands on really old mameinfo.dat files you'd be my hero (edited)

2:26 am

http://mameinfo.mameworld.info/

0.115

3:21 am

0.116

3:21 am

Yeah, I went through the whole process in a bunch of different versions.

3:22 am

It is so stupid simple, and exactly what you would do if you are trying to make an exact 1:1 replica

3:38 am

This, and everything else he says in the mame section, is complete bullshit.

3:39 am

(From Billy's evidence document)

3:39 am

Pull mamedev into the courtroom, I double dog dare him.

3:41 am

Its not. And it doesn't.

3:42 am

He just didn't know the shortcut key to make it go in smaller increments

3:43 am

"I was getting tripped up by the shift button. Turns out it was the CTRL button."

you should turn this into an article

I would read the hell out of that article

2

Honestly it is mostly saying ditto to what they found, haha, but if nobody puts anything concise together once it is said and done I can throw something together

Thank you for your service

The mame section interested me the most simply because I don't have a DK PCB or means to do any of that testing but I can download the hell out of an emulator.

3:47 am

And the results are incredibly easy to replicate and understand

3:47 am

3:52 am

Trying to understand Billy's arguments, on the other hand, feels more like

3:52 am

demanding that they “restore his good name”? Doesn’t want much, does he? Just the impossible.

So apparently Carlos signed the paper because he wanted to be left out of the lawsuit

4:15 am

https://youtu.be/WI6Zf_XPFdA around 7:50

Apollo Legend

Disgraced Gaming Legend Threatens Lawsuit!

Was foolish to sign before the edits you want were made.

4:27 am

This is the single most damning evidence. It is him, in the flesh, first hand, presenting his tape, showing emulator transition artifacts. Nothing in his document disputes it. No mustache twirling tape swapping explains it away.

4:27 am

https://i.imgur.com/jgEy8NJ.gif

This was a good Saturday morning read!

Waking up I realized why that clip is damning may not be obvious

1:37 pm

Even with a handy cam you would think you would catch a tiny bit of the rolling screen refresh and not look exactly like the instant pop of mame (edited)

1:37 pm

https://imgur.com/1b12EgZ.png

1:41 pm

Original video: https://youtu.be/7y15Y6xrpXY

1:44 pm

Billy Mitchell is a cheat.

Yessss this was good stuff to read while drinking coffee, thanks @SoH

A meme for the crowd https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/565456472813731841/622463637982019606/3ajyp8.png

Time for your daily dose of DK drama. If you were curious if the new guard is as petty and awkward as the King of Kong days, as I was digging through what the scene is like now the answer is yeah, pretty much.

You know, most folks just release a sequel or let the documentary characterization die but these guys all really leaned in.

Having been involved in the high score world for Splatterhouse on tg16 I can say that tracks

When John McCurdy took the world record from Robbie Lakeman earlier this year, after verifying he gave this speech.. (edited)

9:24 pm

https://youtu.be/M-KS_Lvot8A?t=13126

9:24 pm

Where's Lakeman? Is Lakeman here? He has to be here. Why is he hiding?

Anyway. I have someone I want to thank.

Impersonating Lakeman: "I want to thank Tom Brady who has always inspired me to be the best I can be. Thanks Tom! [whiny crying]"

Hey Lakeman, enjoy second place for the rest of your life you loser. Ahaha. Peace!

(edited)

9:26 pm

Lakeman apparently still loudly supports Mitchell and there is still a lot of animosity.

9:26 pm

Then a few months later when McCurdy posted an even better score. Lakeman showed up ranting about free speech and liberals. (edited)

9:27 pm

I mean if he's a patriots fan, he has to hate liberals. I've played metal gear

9:29 pm

https://youtu.be/shVwtAU528g?t=9190

9:29 pm

So that is the current state of the DK leaderboard.

9:31 pm

In other news I learned there is a laserdisc section of Twin Galaxies so you can see I have been spending my time very productively watching highscore runs of laserdisc games. (edited)

9:35 pm

Also the most competitive mode of Galaga is a marathon mode where the current world record is a 11 hour behemoth. I... did not make it through 11 hours of Galaga. (edited)

9:35 pm

https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/194641

And if you needed triple confirmation on the whole Billy tape thing an MTV interview, by none other than Stephen Totilo, once thought lost was found

10:11 pm

https://web.archive.org/web/20060412014125/http://www.mtv.com/games/video_games/news/story.jhtml?id=1524620

10:11 pm

http://www.mtv.com/video-clips/k4dw8f/smashing-apart-the-donkey-kong-world-record?fbclid=IwAR0r7QQ1AJ1W0JKZ56HwFNaPAQV890zoo-g_0hzO4xBoWyiXWFi16k5F0dI

10:12 pm

You'll never guess what is on the tape from 2006 (edited)

10:12 pm

I was reading the thread over the weekend, it's good stuff

It is kind of bonkers how complete the points of evidence are at this point.

10:21 pm

I wonder if his whole thing about the tape being "for entertainment purposes only" is the original idea was to make a fake tape for the drama of it for a documentary, wrestling promo style. (edited)

10:21 pm

And then when realized it would pass just kept going.

10:22 pm

So he wants to admit where this all started but can't outright admit to it.

I thought both DK and DKJR monitors he's standing between also showed MAME

10:36 pm

Also there's good testimony here that it was submitted for a score

10:38 pm

Their argument is that Mruczek maybe stole a tape never meant to be a score, the actual one seen in King of Kong, but he says Billy later submitted the master tape of the same run, and I think someone demonstrated that this master tape is what's on the MTV video and that it's cleaner than the copy he allegedly stole

Yeah, I believe I saw a wayback link that the score was on TG's page for longer than Billy was making it sound in his document too.

10:41 pm

Nobody knows motive except the man in the tie, I guess.

10:42 pm

But the evidence against him only continues to stack and the evidence for takes some leaps.

10:44 pm

You pretty much have to subscribe to a conspiracy of many actors for any of it to make sense.

10:45 pm

Who waited over a decade to unleash their diabolical plan.

10:46 pm

Or... Jeremy Young just noticed some things and then put together what was already there.

The story you also have to believe is that someone perfectly edited his VHS video to show those MAME artifacts while maintaining his exact play and score

10:47 pm

And also other MAME artifacts like the "stacking" on the girder stage

Yeah, it is all nuts. Although considering some of the TAS people I know the challenge of rebuilding a 3 hour run seems exactly like their crazy wheelhouse.

10:48 pm

But it is still an insane amount of work.

10:49 pm

Although considerably less work if a person who knows what they were doing were to just record and play with save states.

10:49 pm

10:50 pm

At some point Mitchell is going to just post the inp file with a 2 hour ramble about how it isn't what it is but was what you believe you think it is.

10:56 pm

Here is the recap thread from earlier in the year. It is thorough.

10:56 pm

http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2529.0

10:59 pm

It should also be pointed out that, unsurprisingly, the game play used was significantly different than in Billy's MAME submissions, relying now on proven strategies rather than the hope of getting absurd luck and never dying in live arcade play.  But more to the point, as with all advancements in video game play, scoring one million in the modern era of 1.2 million scores says nothing about one's ability to score one million back when that would have been a world record, back when the game and its strategies were less understood.

11:00 pm

With this right here. Getting a million points today is a very different and more attainable with all the new strategies.

11:01 pm

So even his "redemption arc" of getting the same scores isn't the same thing really.

David Race, one of Billy's big supporters, gave a statement apologizing to Dwayne Richard (the guy Billy accuses of making the fake tape/s) because the MTV interview

11:26 pm

My understanding, based on what I have found online, is that Dwayne and others didn’t have access to copies of the 1,047,200 tape until after the MTV interview referenced above. This means that the disputed “3 girder” with “finger” was on the original tape sent to Robert Mruczek, presumably from Billy Mitchell.

It should be kept in mind, based on the actions and statements of Dwayne Richard that digital frame alteration remained a real possibility in my mind until I came across this latest piece of evidence. Changing a little over 600 frames of a 2.5 hour video(270,000 frames) is nothing if you have the right software and/or video editing suite.

Based on this information I would like to offer my apologies to Dwayne with respect to the idea he may have been responsible for perpetrating a hoax by altering frames of the 1,047,200 and 1,050,200 games. Dwayne, I'm sorry.

11:27 pm

http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2614.0

11:29 pm

And urges Billy to test everything

11:29 pm

This is why Billy Mitchell and company NEED to have an expert test every piece of an original DK boardset and see if any change to frequency, CPU emulation, clock speed, VRAM, will affect video output. Tests could also be conducted on any other converters to see if the video signal is altered in the process of conversion to either NTSC or digital capture. I do not have the resources or expertise to conduct such an extensive line of tests.

Re: modern speedrun drama, in some ways I feel like this pales in comparison to the speedrunner who was banned from GDC for being a Nazi

I dunno, in this climate it's only a matter of time before somebody lets something really nasty slip and runs afoul of the internet

11:43 pm

The only question is who it'll be

I don't want to trivialize what people care about. Though I do agree part of what makes this more entertaining than depressing is that ultimately it isn't a very big deal.

12:00 am

I am an advocate that personal bests are more meaningful than world records. I realize that makes me a bit of an odd ball.

12:01 am

Personal growth is usually more interesting.

I'm way more interested in how communities like these keep breaking impossible boundaries and changing the game. Like how 1M used to be impossible on DK but is now consistently achievable with developed strategies

Very true. Same with speedrunning. The level of incredibly deep research into a single game is very fascinating.

2:09 am

Ideally conveniently presented by summoningsalt, haha (edited)

Speaking of, I feel like I saw a video breaking down newer DK scoring methods, the stuff that pushed scores into 1.2 mil, in a SummoningSalt style but all my searching has turned up empty including history searches.

2:18 am

SEO around DK and score is completely poisoned

Post if you find it!

TAS research has actually inspired some techniques in things I've made

3:14 am

There was this submission note on tasvideos for A Sonic the Hedgehog game, where they explained in detail how sub pixels worked and how they enabled the game to handle much smoother speed changes when Sonic starts or stops moving

3:14 am

I sort of borrowed the concept and used it as a way to adjust the weapon timing in a Doom mod of mine

3:16 am

Because all of Doom's inner workings run at 35 Hz, there's a few things you can't quite do as precisely, especially in regards to the fire rate of an automatic weapon

3:16 am

Rather than go on about it in here I'll just go grab a link to the tutorial I wrote about it

3:17 am

http://gunlabs.blogspot.com/2013/04/tutorial-explanation-of-half-tic-trick.html

TUTORIAL: An Explanation of the "Half-Tic" Trick

In my recent ZDoom-based mod, Police Brutality: Weasel Presents Terrorists!, I experimented with some subtle effects on weapons. I'm not tal...

Did the guns get rebalanced in skulltag or was the tic rate increased?

I don't think they are changed at all outside of them adding new ones

6:08 pm

The minigun is a separate weapon present in a bunch of the included death match levels

ah, missed the gun switch

Its successor, Zandronum, separated out the new weapons for sake of compatibility. Thank goodness, because it broke a lot of mods that used the same actor names once support for them got added

6:10 pm

Lord help you if you added anything called "minigun" to your ZDoom mod

The DK dispute thread has reached the personal insults, semantical arguments, and quoting definitions for things like gaslighting, segment of the show.

took longer than I expected

stages_of_grief.jpg

At what point does someone invoke "free speech"

Lakeman will

6:21 pm

it's such a weird thing

6:23 pm

like, the dude was clearly fucking around on an emulator and sent in a tape from it

6:23 pm

without stating the origin

His arguments are kind of telling too.. it goes something like

6:24 pm

Those weren't my tapes

6:25 pm

And if they were then we can't say for sure an arcade can't do it

6:25 pm

And if we can then those aren't my tapes

right, and yet for some reason people other than mitchell are taking this personally?

If it was found that arcade could produce the draw issue then he would immediately take ownership of the tapes

6:29 pm

Tribalism and grudges, I guess

I guess

6:32 pm

and egos

6:32 pm

bet rudy feretti would be in on that if he hadn't already gotten banned

FWIW, to not speak completely ill of that community, Copeland seems like a pretty chill dude from everything I've gone over.

6:37 pm

I understand making character study based on a person's public persona is foolhardy, though. But it doesn't seem like all weirdly petty folks top to bottom.

sure, there's some cool folks in that realm. I just also feel like it's not a scene that convinces them to stick around

Salient point

All of David Race's test footage trying to make arcade hardware produce the emulator artifacts which was marked private when things started up again has been made available again

3:18 pm

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9phvGHENRhZIY6zteeuOcCihEt69ZJ_2

Donkey Kong testing Arcade/MAME - YouTube

3:19 pm

After he wrote his apology letter

I think he made a vaporwave video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90X_TkvDCc

proveall

DK DR direct feed flipped VHS to desktop via Vidbox

3:32 pm

http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/5d824e07bb893-dkwave-dsjklfsdfsdfjkjkljkljk.php

Mix of 2 videos from youtube : DKWave dsjklfsdfsdfjkjkljkljk

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https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1174483961634074624

https://twitter.com/billypacman

I need you to know that this is a real Nintendo ad that ran in Australia

Any friends from down under confirm if this is a uhh.. common idiom?

trouser snake, sure

1:10 am

(i'm british not australian)

I mean I've heard of ferret legging (yes, via the Simpsons, but I have heard it's an actual pastime in some places)

Billy Mitchell (@BillyPacman)

Official Twitter of Billy Mitchell, Video Game Player of the Century | @Twitch Partner | Inquires: Billy.PacMan.Player@gmail.com

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8:17 pm

Billy Mitchell has protected his Twitter account

I have also just learned, in 2019, that Donkey Kong has a wall jump.

9:36 pm

https://i.imgur.com/43R228o.gif

I think an underestimated damning factor in this whole thing, because it's not hard evidence, is that his submission videos clearly show someone TASing to get good luck

9:39 pm

taking crazy risks that make no sense in a high score run etc., constantly

Lakeman claims he was able to replicate it. I'm not sure if he has put up any evidence besides his signed document.

9:41 pm

9:42 pm

I don't think he is lying necessarily but seeing is believing.

9:43 pm

(But also this kind of backhand confirms it is his footage/tapes, but shhh, don't let him know that)

9:44 pm

Otherwise.. uh.. what games was Lakeman watching?

9:44 pm

I thought the tapes were fakes he never submitted

9:46 pm

pg. 95 in the evidence package extravaganza

Oh yeah the wall jump is handy

9:47 pm

Also jumping next to DK to scum some points

I'm pretty sure the dk jumping doesn't really get you anything since you earn more points just triggering stage complete, since your bonus is counting down

9:59 pm

I think points per second is higher on that than jumping over dk

From the various high score runs I watched the biggest commonality I noticed there is people would be hanging around DK for easy points until the fireballs bunch up well enough to go for the hammer

10:07 pm

I'm sure I am dramatically simplifying what has a lot of factors to consider, but that seemed to be the basic strategy

oh sure, that makes sense

10:15 pm

a way to get some more points going if you're waiting anyway

I've been glancing at this when I am curious about certain things. Lots of information but last updated 2018 so seems relatively fresh.

10:22 pm

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPdtKh8KFqWSmL-YTZ2qpHD9HkQbjLQw-Km0VvBNbBA/edit?usp=sharing

So my understanding from playing a lot of DK is that point jumping next to him gets you a net gain on the first three loops

11:54 pm

After that the timer counts too fast

ah, got it, that makes sense

That said setting up for it generally involves smashing a bunch of fireballs so that’s always a plus for points

https://twitter.com/Mulboyne/status/1166873888690589698

Mulboyne (@Mulboyne)

Nikkei notes how some factory lines are still reliant on obsolete hardware and software. (You can still find the NEC PC-9800 series, which stopped production in 2003). https://t.co/JcEsRF4iKE

2:21 am

not quite video game related but yeep, i would expect japanese stores to have ancient computers in them and it looks like that's true, haha

2:23 am

oh i guess maybe more factories than stores

kind of reminds me of the 8-bit guy's nasty vic-20 that he theorized was used to operate machinery for a good couple decades https://youtu.be/A_vpfBJZ7JI

The 8-Bit Guy

Restoration - The Worst VIC-20 I've ever seen - Part 1

2:24 am

i’m just imagining operating some sort of elaborate machine using an 8-bit keyboard

2:25 am

Or how, one person in a discord server I am a part of found a model M being sold out of a Sears during their closing sales

I am shocked there are no Bubsy Pogs

2:29 am

I mean this got one: https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/jdIAAOSwhDVbPA3A/s-l225.jpg

well, not officially yet, but I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who can bootleg some pogs (edited)

SEGA was there to make sure they captured the wave

Highest quality bootleg pogs in the tri-state area (edited)

I mean look at them

2:31 am

I just recently discovered that Pog Stickers were a thing

2:31 am

now you're telling me there are bootleg pogs?

2:31 am

my whole worldview is crashing

2:35 am

I wonder if this got released: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pogs-the-mobile-game#/

POGs: The Mobile Game

The 90s phenomenon is back, and this time we're going mobile! Coming to a screen near you in 2018. | Check out 'POGs: The Mobile Game' on Indiegogo.

I feel like pots were a weird misstep in what eventually became collectible card games

2:41 am

Like “let’s make a game where the game pieces are cards!”

They came around at the same time, Magic and Pogs

It ended up working better to make a game where the cards were game pieces

Both got banned quickly because POGS was straight up gambling and magic the gathering at its earliest required an ante to play for

2:42 am

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqy8eCFUc8osXJ-1A13TmIg/featured

POGs Battle

Hyper-addictive, mega-exciting and ultimate two-player rush! STACK, SLAM & FLIP the caps all while winning the shiny coins to COLLECT the Amazingly Unique sl...

honestly though, it’s a shame that pogs were based off of gambling, because honestly, I could see them lasting much longer than they did. Since they were so cheap to produce and easy to collect, they could really fill the gap in the 90s and early 2000s that other collections, like beanie babies, didn’t fill. The gap meaning "a very cheap collectible that you can get from almost anywhere"

They really quickly slid into the sticker book territory

2:45 am

those never recoveredf

They are sort of like Funko pops at a molecular level, so I suppose take from that as you will

2:46 am

Sidenote, has there been a Funko bubsy yet

Bubsko?

Funsby?

2:48 am

Side side note: Bubko/Bubsko/Bubco is a great name for a toy company from the 90s

2:48 am

Reminds me of like, galoob or blammo

excuse me you should have posted this in bubs...wait you did, thanks

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Who needs Mario world

Makes me think of the Bob Ross mario hack that uses his paintings downsampled as backgrounds (edited)

2:28 am

fyi, Where in Hell is Carmen Santiago is up next on https://www.twitch.tv/bigbadgameathon

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mario-bros-vga/cover-art/gameCoverId,592961/

Mario Bros VGA (1990) DOS box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Mario Bros VGA (DOS) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

Oh wow that's rad

Huh didn't realize that had enough of a physical release to get box art

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mega-man/cover-art/gameCoverId,481603/

Mega Man (1990) DOS box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Mega Man (DOS) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

4:22 am

There are so many aspects of both the Mario and the Megaman DOS box art that really bubsy me.... (edited)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/mega-man-dr-wilys-revenge/cover-art/gameCoverId,15222/ i find it interesting that the first game boy game used the same art... just without Rush.

Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (1991) Game Boy box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (Game Boy) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

5:09 am

and they're both a redraw of this https://www.mobygames.com/game/mega-man-3/cover-art/gameCoverId,71706/

Mega Man 3 (2017) Android box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Mega Man 3 (Android) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

5:10 am

in which Mega looks somewhat angrier

Prescient political commentary

there's quite a lot of bubsy in this documentary:

10:44 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-79yOZ13qg

Atrocity Guide

The Story of Ulillillia

So how do people feel about Bandersnatch being the first video game to win an Emmy?

I have no strong emotions one way or the other.

Everyone knows true art is never appreciated in its time

11:52 pm

Night Trap

11:52 pm

Phantasmagoria

11:52 pm

They will have their day

Is it a video game or just real life following that futurama all my circuits movie joke

https://namcomuseum.tumblr.com/post/187913992368/namcomuseum-back-before-the-beginning-of-time

NAMCO MUSEUM ONLINE

namcomuseum

namcomuseum: Back before the beginning of time (early 1980s), there was once a bustling Pac-Man playground at Six Flags Over Texas (located in Arlington, Texas). Called “Pac-Man Land,” it was featured from 1983 (a year before the release of the actual Pac-Land arcade...

4:29 am

Incoming Defunctland episode.

The urge was strong to follow this up with an image of Marty McFly screaming.

@Corwin "weasel" Brence Do you know the order of release of those Megaman games (and thus the use of the box art) off the top of your head? It's weird they couldn't spend a little extra money to commission a new label.... (edited)

I vaguely recall the first PC Mega Man game getting released in 1990? I had to look it up once for "ammo" when discussing whether or not the original Duke Nukem ripped tile art from it

4:52 am

Okay, Mobygames' information: NES Mega Man 3: November 1990. DOS Mega Man: "1990" (no month/day specified) GB Mega Man: Dec 1991

Faster to the draw than me!

and version 1.0 of Duke Nukem: July 1, 1991

Moby is saying Sep 28, 1990 for NES Megaman 3?

Japanese version, yes. But the Japanese release uses different artwork

Ah.. True.

4:54 am

Welp.. Sounds like there is a story behind how all of this happened.

As for why I was investigating it in connection with Duke Nukem: here is a cropped screenshot from the first level...

4:54 am

4:55 am

And here is Mega Man.

Hahahaha

It is clear there has been some editing on Duke's part, but that's still very much the same crate

"No one will notice!" -Thirty Years Later- (edited)

Far from the only thing they sneakily copied though, there's a page from years ago that was comparing graphics in the first two Dukes with graphics from the Turrican games

4:56 am

http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/ ah here we are!

Duke Nukem stole graphics from Turrican!

Turrican Bonus downloads- Turrican Wallpaper, Turrican Soundtrack, Sprite Rips and more

Maybe we should call on Billy Mitchel to bring justice to this case?

naaaah the statute of limitations is probably past

Even if it gets us hard numbers in regards to how much Apogee made off the shareware versions of Duke Nukem 1 & 2?

4:59 am

Haha

it's one of those things like how basically every 80s run-and-gun game had either Arnold or Stallone in it

Ya... I remember the mild controversy over Duke 3D and the Evil Dead lines.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm

Interesting Gauntlet wasn't noted.

Oh it does get mentioned in the Frank Frazetta section

Who needs a California Raisins costume to go with the canned game?

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I do not need that

perfect costume for giving trick or treaters nightmares

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xblayo9atpsshem/2016-02-06%2021.53.07.jpg?dl=0

2016-02-06 21.53.07.jpg

Shared with Dropbox

I want this costume

3:59 pm

This Atari celebration was quite different than that first one I shared, they seem to be wearing trash bags with ties over them

Do you think they made them so hilarious intentionally? https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1177596637339947008

Gamegeschiedenis.nl (@gamegeschied)

I went to four game shops trying to find Pegasus (Polish knockoff NES) carts but nobody sells them. One place found a few in a dusty bag in the back and sold them to me though! They're great!

I love the vertical cartridge

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFew6QrWkAIxtfn.jpg @MonsterDunk

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I heard the second Official Bubsy Fanclub meeting took place and yet neither @smith5031 nor @Kevin "ubersaurus" Bunch took any pictures??

You just broke rule one of Bubsy Club

The secret is out!

Like this so he will have to respond https://twitter.com/gamegeschied/status/1177974408134238208

Paging @MCHammer https://t.co/tk4Al5AmQa

Can’t like my own tweet

lol

https://twitter.com/RyanSilberman/status/1177638509508747265

Ryan Silberman (@RyanSilberman)

I still can't get over the ending to Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

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As a wee Atari dork when this game came out I was entirely too happy to discover this when I beat it

In preparation for PRGE and the Great Bubly Delivery Gambit, I reinforced my Trolley Dolly with some solid armor, to hopefully reduce the strain and increase stability while under load by a pack of Bublys

12:50 am

i.e. i shoved a few layers of cardboard into it and duct taped it together

https://kotaku.com/someone-is-making-a-game-based-on-the-super-mario-bros-1838498850

Someone Is Making A Game Based On the Super Mario Bros Super Show

Many fans have recreated old Mario games in different engines or in different styles. But one fan and his young kids are doing something different. They’re creating a totally original Mario game based on the animated segments from the popular Super Mario Bros. Super Show an...

Paizanos

It’s about time

This is going to be sad when Nintendo takes it down

Twin Galaxies has responded to Billy Mitchell

9:18 pm

https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong-Points-Hammer-Allowed-Player-Billy-L-Mitchell-Score-1-062-800/page377

9:18 pm

looking forward to BILLY MITCHELL EVIDENCE PACKAGE #2

It’ll just be a picture of his thumb diagramed like an old mega man picture

For our scanning friends: an analysis of the Trump-Ukraine transcript, entirely from the perspective of the quality of the PDF, as written by the executive director of the PDF Association https://www.pdfa.org/trumps-call-with-zelensky-the-pdf/

duff.johnson@pdfa.org

Trump's call with Zelensky: the PDF | PDF Association

Earlier this year we covered the release of the Mueller Report covering the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. We highlighted how, in the digital age, the choices made in releasing that document made it rather a sad addition t...

Not a perspective I expected to weigh in but interesting all the same.

having a good time with this EGM feature about mitchell

8:02 pm

8:03 pm

https://egmnow.com/the-split-screen-man/

Josh Harmon

The Split-Screen Man | EGM

Billy Mitchell isn’t done playing games.

Yeah all right, that checks out

the idea of an arcade having 1000 cabinets is mind blowing. Galloping Ghost has like 700+ and that place is already packed like a sardine can

Yeahh, thats one of the issues we have, there is only so much space even if we could get them all working at the same time

7:15 pm

I know we're over 300 in the collection, but I couldnt tell you how much higher

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF0J98tVUAEWC9h.png

oh my god

...

yeah it was a tough choice for me between that and the bag of spiders

I'm gonna give it to the guy with white dude dreads saying it's so easy to set high scores women can do it

yes, another golden moment

The gift that keeps on giving

Merry christmas

@Phil Salvador I think at this point, @Hubz and I have the reputation that we'd personally release any report as a multiple page TIFF...

1200 dpi of bust

8:41 pm

48bit color black and white page scans

8:41 pm

Won’t settle for less

16-bit grey scale bud.

8:42 pm

NO MORE NO LESS

8:43 pm

no raw scans? no icm profile? GARBAGE

And wipe off the scanner first

Yeah!

And the object..always wipe the object too

8:44 pm

I’m talking to myself here because I forget..

meee too, or i wipe it and miss a spot

8:44 pm

and don't realize that until i'm uploading it (edited)

a lot of my hairs and eyelashes have been digitally preserved

Fingerprints

8:45 pm

So many fingerprints

8:45 pm

Scientists 10 million years from now will be able to reconstruct my dna just from scans I’ve made

Same, have fun photo shopping those out suckers!

Ours will at least be able to be properly color corrected....

It's not a fingerprint, it's a "biometric watermark"

"personal identifier biometric signature."

Just gotta modify your fingerprints to say "Retromags"

You laugh, but our conservator gets to clean paper hah

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Just put them on the floor and give them a good run with the vacuum cleaner right? mario

Dishwasher of course

Makes sense

Best to set them flat in there, better surface area than standing up

8:51 pm

But if your toaster is big enough, that can help you rapidly dry them after. Bonus points if you combine the two

I debind via toaster

I use garden shears

Just heat the paper to 2500°F to melt the staples out

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Should have done that with the game informer Staples, melt them into a paper weight

Are we back to first principles in regards to game preservation already? (edited)

9:19 pm

Thought we had more time...

i was surprised to discover that Dizzy is starring in The Masked Singer on US TV: https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2019/08/masked-singer-season-2-costumes-season-3-premiere/

Andy Dehnart

Masked Singer’s new costumes: even crazier

Take a look at some of the new costumes for The Masked Singer season 2—and find out when The Masked Singer season 3 will premiere.

The Fresh Prince of Yolkfolk.

based on a tweet kelsey made I am convinced that it is dizzy canon that there's an angry baby snake inside of dizzy

Is it Snake Roy

oh wow, maybe

heh

https://vgprintads.tumblr.com/post/188099222740/retrogamingblog-in-order-to-promote-the-super

Video Game Print Ads

‘Super Mario Bros. - ‘Plunger’‘ [MISC] [USA] [PHOTO SET, PRESS KIT] [1993]

5:18 am

In order to promote the Super Mario Bros Movie in 1993, these customized Super Mario plungers were sent out as part of Hollywood Pictures’ press kit

welp, now ive got a new unicorn

also this, complete with tumblr reply/hashtag jokes

Frank don’t play by the rules https://mobile.twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1180950683333214208

Bouncer is considered lost?

12:18 am

Oh i'm thinking of The Bouncer on ps1.

https://twitter.com/JulianoZuca/status/1181251112810303489

Juliano Zucareli [ozuka music] (@JulianoZuca)

Oof, this Famiclone knocks it out of the park #MondayMotivation

4:54 pm

https://twitter.com/retrohistories/status/1181666748036243458

Chris Chapman (@retrohistories)

Found the clip. This is just embarrassing. @kelslewin @frankcifaldi @GamingHistorian @scully1888 https://t.co/svHTcTwWrT

I'm pretty glad that this made up meme has become canon

Prolly around February of this year, someone started posting: https://i.imgur.com/bGVuhGn.png

1:34 am

And it spread like hot cakes.

1:35 am

https://imgur.com/gallery/AOgY2a4 (edited)

1:35 am

It was pretty well done

1:38 am

https://twitter.com/LordStreetGuru/status/1181722859682451456

Street Guru (@LordStreetGuru)

SHOCKING IMAGES FROM LODEREON! .@Blizzard_Ent @Warcraft @PlayHearthstone #HongKong #HongKongProtest #Blizzard #Blizzardboycott #Hearthstone #HearthstoneGrandmasters

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https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/the-history-of-gaming-magazines-a-gallery

THE HISTORY OF GAMING MAGAZINES: A GALLERY

From the early days of computing, to the modern era of retro gaming, Digitiser charts the history of games through magazine covers...

Cracked up at Small Words Only

Amiga Delusion was fantastic. Kept me using my A500 until Apple integrated NeXTSTEP into their operating system. The blank disk did save time re-formatting it for another purpose**, which was going to happen anyway. *\which I then left again when they turned NeXTSTEP back into MacOS* \*pirated full game version of the coverdisk, instead of just the demo* (edited)

https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1181987991952097280

Kevin Savetz (@KevinSavetz)

mood

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Pretty playable imo if you disable smart steering, have manual drift on and gyro handling enabled

7:45 pm

I feel pretty much in control

I don’t do the gyro, but I do use an Apple Pencil......

Ooh, that works huh

7:07 am

tries

https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1182446631301472256?s=21

https://twitter.com/TheMysteryofGF/status/1183084489733488641

Sonic Mask for Adult (Full Head) Blue is $44.10 on Amazon after listed coupon (3rd party) https://t.co/bSafq5wRa5

it's amazing how people inherently understand bubsy litterbox without there being pinned rules

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I mean, the inherent poop joke in the title says it all

Computer tip from Dom DeLuise #lifehacks

tired: free cup holder with your new computer wired: free juicer with your new computer

W H A T https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1183756640803274752

Jason Scott (@textfiles)

Just pre-ordered (comes out October 29th) https://t.co/cEICBuxjar

Oh man, that does not deserve to be in the litterbox

Did @Kate Willært write this

Seen that before. Funny thing is, Mike Moon became president of Atari's consumer division.

he was totally right

Oh ha I guess I pre-ordered the typography book back in March

GravityFallsCipher (@TheMysteryofGF)

The day just became better

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2:47 pm

Is Pac-Man 2 still the official game of the Video Game History Foundation?

Permanently yes

Cool, making sure

i really need to find some more terrible ZX Spectrum mascot characters to paste in here

5:01 pm

oh, i found racist Tintin picture ripoffs instead

5:01 pm

https://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/mr-wongs-loopy-laundry/cover-art/gameCoverId,515018/

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry (1984) ZX Spectrum box cover art - MobyGames

Cover art for Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry (ZX Spectrum) database containing game description & game shots, credits, groups, press, forums, reviews, release dates and more.

5:01 pm

still bubsy level trash tho

PRGE folks, what flavor bubly do you prefer

I'll be on the way shortly

@Frank Cifaldi Apologies for pinging you right now, but are you on site? Need to know if it's OK to swing by real quick and drop these off

8:34 pm

Did Frank prefer the raspberry? I liked the lemon lime, though it was much better cold. /me bubly snob. (edited)

It's a trick- he put bath salts in them!

I'm standing in hall D, got my Poolhall Thrills shirt today.

9:52 pm

Trying my best not to seem like a stalker, heh. (but in all seriousness please don't hesitate to shoo me away if I'm too creepy)

oh we're trapped in the museum setting up, sorry

Oh fwiw the bubly was safely delivered, for those keeping track that aren't at the show

whew, the tension!

I wasn’t gonna sleep tonight but now it’s okay

This is true, I had an orange one

I'm meeting a Japanese preservationist tomorrow and he has informed me of his baggage.

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Found this in my apartment complex

Share the best jokes

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1185592600478310400?s=19

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1109150777665183744

Found this gem in my apartment complex.

Why

Courtesy @Wietse van Bruggen

My finest work

Wow

I made more:

7:50 am

7:51 am

Explosions make everything better

Is this the "Fake Weekly World News covers" of the new Millennium

2:58 pm

Because I'm absolutely all in for it

2:59 pm

(please track down a copy of The Tabloid History of the World, its great)

We need to have a Bad Mario bracket

Are there collectors of PC game manuals here? I'm in search of an obscure one: David Leadbetter's Greens

Got nothing, sorry

Either that or I wonder if there's any version of NeverLock that'll work on it

Will Wright's Powerpoints are about as indecipherable as I would've hoped

4:22 pm

There's one slide that's just a picture of him on an ATV

best 'person in slides' gags on PPT recently were in the Valve talk at the last GDC

5:57 pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/pxlsicle/status/1186343552227270656

There are multiple good Gabe gag slides in this otherwise serious Ambinder talk. (He recognizes that direct access to your brain may not be a socially acceptable interface!) #GDC19

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5:59 pm

You’re too good at this @Wietse van Bruggen

big bubsy litterbox vibes here:

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1:17 pm

https://twitter.com/QQBert/status/1187319496043716609

Al Yang (@QQBert)

Found a hyper bootleg Taiwanese #Streetfighter Ken figure from the early 90s - lol the difference between the Ryu and Ken art

1:17 pm

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Cursed book cover

Fear mongering Pokemon book

uhh

4:47 am

i found the most bubsy litterbox content ever

4:47 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLUjwZBPzR0

Reking Bear

Crash Bandicoot - Never Gonna Woah You Up

Oh NO

4:48 am

YOu've awakened the beast

best youtube comment on this: 'My mom walked in on me watching this so I switched to porn cause it's much easier to explain'

You know what, the highest view count I've ever gotten on a Youtube video... was from this:

4:49 am

https://youtu.be/mMYGGQW_2w4

J. Bone-Christian

WHOA Mania - Opening Animation

haha, related

4:50 am

this person has an entire channel worth of this?

4:50 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZTYBbMCog

Reking Bear

twenty one bandicoots - WOAHed Out

4:52 am

i really did miss the whole crash woah meme thing (i'm old)

I can’t believe Vid ate the gum

7:51 am

(I can)

7:51 am

https://twitter.com/gamehistoryorg/status/1188623809726832640?s=21

Video Game History Foundation (@GameHistoryOrg)

PLEASE DON'T CHEW THE THIRTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD GUM WE SOLD YOU https://t.co/RYJoavaW1Z

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Reking is like Cyriak when you're smoking weed instead of dropping acid.

1:23 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Xa4bHcJu8&t=58s

cyriak

Cycles

This stream has gotten gross quickly

Uh oh, better tune in

"What happens at 420?" —Kelsey

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5:24 pm

(I've got Pepper X and I am hella doing it for my charity stream next week) (edited)

We should do Hot Ones Video Game History Edition at MagFest

Holy shit uhhhh holy shit

5:28 pm

I was still looking into bringing back Weird History but that sounds even better

I sign up as tribute. It's an idea I was tossing around in my head the past few weeks hah

Hot Ones?

I guess it'd basically be the same thing, but with hot sauce

Yeah we could do all sorts of fun stuff

aha

It would be a hit

instead of milk and water, would they just drink bubly?

I feel like that'd just make it worse somehow

5:31 pm

Nothing against Bubly but I don't think carbonation is gonna help

Frozen in carbonite Bubsy

Hoping to finally get travel stuff taken care of soon and then we can do the silly things

the bio force ape challenge

5:41 pm

which is just trying to describe the game in one sentence

Game collectors spend so much money holy shit

Things got sauce-y

It took a while but the flurry of donations at the end was definitely impressive

7:15 pm

(i guess might have been discussed before but new to me)

Thats the one I have

I don't know what it is, but where can I buy one

It was during one of the GDQs

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Okay, let's do some dab critique really quick here

9:08 pm

Kelsey has good form

9:08 pm

Frank looks like he's covering a sneeze

That’s the Old Millennial Dab (tm)

We need the dabbing king @Norm to rate these dabs

lol, Franks dab

9:20 pm

i love it

I don't think he is covering a sneeze. My guess is he was about to execute the most perfect dab the world has ever seen when his nose started running, so he had to go in for the wipe. (edited)

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“Frank did the absolute worst dab” -Me, the Millenial/Gen Z Cusp (edited)

A generation has spoken

Also, I think the guy in the back got confused and thought they were doing the Thriller dance

I volunteer to do hot ones challenge at magfest. I’m an enormous baby too so this will go well

1:52 am

Also thank you for the dab compliments, I feel like a real millennial

Okay this is

happening. Everyone can prepare a short story and I'll bring all my Last Dab

...Have you ever heard of the Banana Challenge, Kelsey? It’s a whole Banana smothered with -Chocolate Syrup -Maple Syrup -Ketchup -Mayo -and Salsa con Queso

I have just one question for men: Why

Hey, as a nonbinary individual I... ...will admit that I concocted this idea before I came out or even knew I was, so, valid

Hahaha

Though that said it was also for charity, so it wasn’t all for naught

you know without the ketchup and mayo that almost sounds okay

Chocolate syrup and salsa con queso??? (edited)

the aztec way

If you need me to pitch in for some hot sauces, let me know @Phil Salvador

I've been wanting to put in an order anyway, but I think now I'm gonna have to get some of the extreme stuff

I'm going to regret this idea.

How would this work as a panel though? Like True Weird Stories again but every couple minutes someone hits hot sauce?

Yeah, or if we each have 5 minutes, basically split up the time so one wing a minute or something

2:27 am

Or 5 slides or something, however we want to split based on the amount of people

2:28 am

Or we just do them together, but that lets someone off easy by going first

2:29 am

We could end together with the last dab

2:29 am

Right before q and a

2:29 am

Someone will still lose by being last, but probably not by much

Yeah I figure it's like, three or four escalating sauces over the course of 10 minutes each (edited)

Yeah

I would suggest this one if I knew where to get it. https://www.hotsauceworld.com/hsw1156.html

2:44 am

It used to be dad's favorite, and he likes it on the hot side

just go through the Nando's peri peri sauce heat levels, clearly

And like, of all the design aspects that made this bottle actually scare me as a kid, I give the most credit to the fact that the ampersand has devil horns

2:46 am

Nowadays dad likes Secret Aardvark Sauce

I've been wanting to try Secret Aardvark

Secret aardvark is really good.

Laine is in https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1189224226731020291

Laine Nooney @ 🌇🗽 (@Sierra_OffLine)

i've just been informed a panel i'm doing at MAGfest may be done in the format of a "hot sauce gauntlet" so that's a thing

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hahaha

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1189494725897793537

Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX)

Shanghai Police uncovered a group illegally selling fake gundam figures. More than 1m items were seized with a value of RMB 300 million. Bandai Namco presented the police with a unicorn gundam figure to thank them, which they presented during a news segment today. lol

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Per General: https://youtu.be/iFbQenfHV2o

Moonlight Kids fkmrn110130

エマニエル・ルイス Emmanuel Lewis シティ・コネク...

LOL, my friend found this in a thrift store just now for $3. Seems familiar...

Oh I didn't know they did Ms.

i do not want to engage in ms pac man's rub-off games

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now robocop i can get into

I did a cursory dig into the Ms Pac-Man cards and it gets so much worse

https://twitter.com/FarmboyinJapan/status/1190634420744536065

Kyle McLain (@FarmboyinJapan)

GUYS

oh

7:25 pm

oh no

WOW.

7:30 pm

This is incredible

7:33 pm

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So many questions...

the hell is happening with these stickers

7:36 pm

Filthy.

Heh

7:38 pm

That one is super subtle

Oh if there's innuendo here it went above my head

7:39 pm

Please don't explain

I didn’t think there was at first either...and then I realized how many more points the banana is

Kate.

https://twitter.com/cinemassacre/status/1190712254616031233

cinemassacre (@cinemassacre)

???

We probably have an unused one of these

requesting high quality scans of the world's only pig memory card sticker

Okay I'll stop everything else and do that

7:59 pm

Interview everyone involved

good thank you the story of the world's only pig memory card sticker needs to be told

There's a whole box of a few different sets at the pop culture store near my office.

8:39 pm

I'd play it.....though I would love to see a fighting game that was something like "Mocap fighters versus sprites"

the fighting game equivalent of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/man-uses-last-cheat-code-to-set-game-genie-free/

Kevin Flynn

Man Uses Last Cheat Code to Set Game Genie Free

Thomas O’Neill used his last cheat code to set his Game Genie free in a heartwarming act of selflessness.

hahaha

Okay but for real though, do Genies lose their powers when they’re set free?

well having seen both versions of Disney's Aladdin, the answer is only if they're live action

I was gonna say, that could lead to some real doombringer scenarios if the Genie ever turns sour

My phone keeps trying to autocorrect Bubsy to “Bubly” (acceptable) or “Hindu” (what)

8:21 pm

I refuse to accept that I don’t type Bubsy enough for it to become a word in my dictionary

your phone is rebelling

8:22 pm

I name all my video game characters Bubsy, Bubsy is currently having an adventure in Outer Worlds

8:22 pm

in my world Bubsy is the most successful video game character

I’m so proud of him

8:23 pm

Important: which teeth does Outer Worlds Bubsy have

I'm not sure since they never really show you, it's all first person

That's the power of video games, you can imagine whatever teeth you want

okay then definitely the single tooth sheet

https://mobile.twitter.com/manicsocratic/status/1036290871451312128

Oh my god, the Terry Bogard Smash DLC includes a new recording of the English version of Psycho Soldier

2:49 pm

Starts at 25:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3VltKv3JI#t=25m29s (edited)

Nintendo

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Mr. Sakurai Presents "Terry Bogard"

yessss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CyP0bVWJ8w

Video Game Music Resources

Psycho Soldier Theme (Overseas Version) - Super Smash Bros. Ultima...

no one can claim koshiro doesn't love the saxophone

god it's so fucking good

why does this stupid song give me goosebumps

7:05 pm

KEY CHANGE OUTTA NOWHERE

if for SNK 40th we just delivered this track instead of the game I don't think anyone would mind

7:14 pm

$40 for a collector's edition and all it does is play this song

I'm so glad the lyrics are still pronounced the same way

7:15 pm

Psycho Soljerrrrrr

so is Athena actually going to be a playable character?

it's for terry bogard I think

has there been any confirmation yet whether they're going to have both Terrys?

7:21 pm

still a little disappointed there's no Ms Pac-Man swap for Pac-Man

athena's on the KOF stage in the background. The video indicates you only get hat terry, but the hat changes based on different source materials!

yeah, no jacket terry but different hats including the one from the anime

So it appears that Steven had a prototype rom for Bubsy 2 for Game Gear. I can confirm that Climax (UK) were the ones developing it.

8:28 pm

https://lostmediawiki.com/Bubsy_II_(lost_unreleased_Game_Gear_port_of_2D_platformer;_1994)

Bubsy II (lost unreleased Game Gear port of 2D platformer; 1994)

8:29 pm

Seems to have been figured out elsewhere now that I googled, but now Im curious if anything happened to end up in what I have. I doubt it though

A CD with it was sold to an unknown party

At least this confirms it was Climax, because it was on a list of stuff they did

8:38 pm

Ill have to run a search when I get home. I ended up with very few things from that era though

important news, the emojis are big now

11:30 pm

2

3:43 am

are they only big when they're on their own line still? face_14

3:44 am

guess so

It’s been that way for me for a while

2:46 pm

3:27 pm

Can finally see those faces (edited)

https://mobile.twitter.com/NintendoMemo/status/1192432038185504769

https://twitter.com/hallyvorc/status/1192534665107632128?s=21

hally (VORC) (@hallyvorc)

同じくDendy, Boogerman推しセット（いろいろと謎すぎる）

good lord

That Mario burger doesn’t look very appealing @Ethan Johnson (Play History)

I'm trying to 3D sculpt Steamroller Mario and I really don't have the skills. But it's worth a try.

it looks like a jello mold

"I don't need tutorials to do this" but it turns out you do.

9:19 pm

Tutorial guy just opens up his latest project.

@Gazimaluke now do it in Mario Artist Polygon Studio

it's an igloo with a mustache

10:18 pm

Post it to Twitter with the caption "Lost Super Mario Odyssey transformation??? (DATA MINED EVIDENCE)"

10:20 pm

fun fact, when I first tried to write "transformation" my phone keyboard wanted to put in "gneurshk"

https://twitter.com/CynicalPlant/status/1192866138385989634

🔥Stef🔥 (@CynicalPlant)

Jazz Jackrabbit was the first game I ever played and is hugely nostalgic to me. I've been wanting to model him up for a long while now, so here he is! https://t.co/EZ1Q99BRBA

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https://twitter.com/DinosaurDracula/status/1193178646724435969

Dinosaur Dracula (@DinosaurDracula)

There should've been a legit Nintendo game wherein Mario invaded a grocery store, put on a Santa costume and threw merch at everyone. https://t.co/f0akKXdJSZ

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https://mobile.twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1193283188862246912

"Saucy Buzzedman" seems like it's vastly inappropriate to post to Twitter.

This is amazing: https://talktotransformer.com/

4:51 pm

The bold paragraph is what I fed it, the rest it generated itself. WHAT.

4:52 pm

Bullfrog 2.

4:53 pm

With @simonc.

Feed it Bubsy dialogue

Gave it the first couple of lines of the Wikipedia entry.

Wow

5:12 pm

I think I discovered an alternate timeline

But

3

the Steamroller Mario one has chilling implications

5:19 pm

having destroyed all counterfeits, Mario turns his steamroller on the only one that remains... himself.

5:21 pm

Look at these absolutely perfect subtitles

BUBSY 3 Power of shifty is beyond perfect

5:25 pm

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5:30 pm

What the

...

wow

Thanks internet

Finally

5:32 pm

Here's more Bubsy lore I didn't know about

Lol

5:33 pm

This is so good

Oh god laughing so much

It had to be done.

It was an inside job!

5:41 pm

Bubsy's official domain name having a typo in it is perfection

Things got kinda wild

Johnny Depp as the Duke of Edinburgh made me cry with laughter

(edited)

It really seems like they settled on the cast

We're going to burn this to the ground today and I'm fine with it

5:49 pm

Hahaha

wow

6:06 pm

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6:13 pm

not to interrupt this flow of amazingness, but check out what i saw in the wild yesterday at a random thrift shop in St Helens, OR

This thing works really well in script format

6:23 pm

Lol

incredible

6:29 pm

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3

Our dead author of the definitice video game history book being Higinbotham is great

I have found perfection

6:50 pm

How the hell did we get Mark Crowe twice??

6:58 pm

I really want this Netflix series

7:02 pm

7:03 pm

So many good ones

deep

9:07 pm

I guess Dracula is feminist

1:09 am

nice

oh lord this one is one the edge:

2:45 pm

1

2

1

"might make you think a bit and think 'what else could this be", some people just want to put out thoughtful content, you know? Get people thinking about the big topics in life.

hahaha

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2

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how the hell did it make that turn

3:20 pm

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This thing truly is the gift that keeps on giving

I love the idea that Carlsbad Caverns were converted into a Bubsy theme park, seemingly without controversy

3:39 pm

I have achieved perfection:

3:39 pm

this thing really understands Molyneux

I’d just like to say that in the overwhelming amount I’ve read and seen here I did pick up one thing: Dr. Wright is a staunch advocate for affordable housing and I have to stan

5:04 pm

He’s the only person I could see fighting passionately for progressive policies and still being able to write Opinion pieces for the New York Times

https://ogn.theonion.com/fascinating-history-the-director-of-the-original-sile-1839777141

Fascinating History: The Director Of The Original ‘Silent Hill 2...

We thought we already knew everything there was to know about the critically acclaimed Silent Hill series, but looks like we were wrong. Director Masashi Tsuboyama recently sat down with OGN and shared some fascinating history about developing the survival horror masterpiece,...

hello welcome to the video game history foundation

excellent work

11:57 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsHkXhMqnMU

★WishingTikal★

Bubsy: Paws on Fire All Cutscenes (PS4, Switch, PC)

11:58 pm

(weird union-related joke in the first 15 seconds)

Theory: Bubsy has no teeth and instead wears dentures as a fashion accessory (edited)

that voice actor is def the worst/best

12:02 am

like picture perfect whiny '90s mascot voice

isn't that Vic Mignona (or however you spell that)

12:43 am

like, the one role that he was somehow allowed to keep, amid all the accusations and his impending (at the time) court case

12:43 am

unless they replaced him with somebody else really fast and never announced it

its curious that you mention that because in the credits at the end of that video they don't actually credit any voice actors

12:48 am

12:49 am

though imdb does list vic as being the voice actor still, but nobody else is listed so it might still be old

3:45 pm

Okay I watched the neural network come up with this and my eyebrows raised the further it got

3:45 pm

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3:53 pm

Playstation Mobile

oh hey, it's on both Xbox Live Arcade and XBLA.

[Thanks, Mark]

Ah yes, who doesn’t remember Grand Theft Auto on the 3DO.

5:22 pm

Actually, Lemmings did have a 3DO release I think.

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1194368713358594048

These but bubsy https://www.wish.com/m/c/5ae148b2d6339d6d8cb14873?hide_login_modal=true&from_ad=goog_shopping&_display_country_code=US&_force_currency_code=USD&pid=googleadwords_int&c=%7BcampaignId%7D&ad_cid=5ae148b2d6339d6d8cb14873&ad_cc=US&ad_curr=USD&ad_price=13.00&fallback_cids=5b0677b8e5891215df0d74875ae1740f2293183c778af188&campaign_id=6948791183&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgsKml5ro5QIVA2KGCh3IJArGEAQYASABEgJfsfD_BwE

I, too, am excited about the recent redesign of a classic video game mascot.

https://ibmcompatible.tumblr.com/post/189027646444 spot the Carmen Sandiego computer

IBM PC Compatible

Ran by: @street-trash

working on merch ideas, and I can't get this one out of my head

I love it

7:50 pm

Take my money

it's intentionally "blood red"

7:51 pm

as opposed to bubsy's regular red

The blood of his enemies

How about some fly VGHF pants?

NEW Harajuku Famous Actor Nicolas Cage Funny 3D Print Women Mens J...

Buy NEW Harajuku Famous Actor Nicolas Cage Funny 3D Print Women Mens Jogger Pants Sweatpants Trousers at Wish - Shopping Made Fun

Could also do sweatpants- like the ones that say "Pink" on the butt, but instead it says VGHF

Abruptly changing topic, but https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1194737093907533824

Cool Box Art (@CoolBoxArt)

Burger Man / Amiga / Byte Back / 1991

the blue rubber gloves add a nice creepy touch.

AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA AMIGA

that's the only word burger man can say

If the ketchup bottle’s closed and still full, what’s that on the ground... and in the Burger Man’s charbroil grilled maw...

AMIGA

I know that joke was meant to imply Burger Man had killed someone

1:18 am

But that's actually Burger Man's own blood

1:18 am

He is depraved

he bit his tongue too hard and it kinda hurts. get him a doctor

Cursed image from my upcoming presentation (edited)

hi this article is terrifying

4:54 am

https://medium.com/@ponett/i-read-every-sonic-comic-by-ken-penders-and-theyre-wilder-than-you-could-ever-imagine-1f9dd05ae433

I read every Sonic comic by Ken Penders, and they’re wilder than...

Former Sonic writer Ken Penders is famous for his legal battles with Archie. What comes up less is the actual content of his stories.

4:56 am

(i have never followed Sonic comics lore and now i'm happy)

Oh man. I read so much of this as a kid, I absolutely can’t wait to read this article

I see the name Ken Penders... and this explains everything

5:51 am

i've hung around in exactly the kind of tumblr circles that would happily showcase exactly why his name is so feared

5:52 am

trust me: this is a ride

https://twitter.com/gamespite/status/1194633145984794624?s=19

Jeremy Parish (@gamespite)

Yes, I managed to capture HD footage of Bubsy for Jaguar, but I failed to consider the human cost

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I kind of want to find my old sonic comics now. But also kind of don’t

That Ken Penders stuff is fascinating, how video games spawned this only tangentially related horrible universe. We absolutely have to add his Not Sonic comic to our library if it happens

just, how did knuckles run for so many issues

5:50 pm

were we all just that desperate for anything that could be an okay comic in the 90s? (probably)

I’m sorry that we’re still doing this but Bubsy’s Healing Womb is too good to not share

8:33 pm

Perfection

8:40 pm

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"But doctor," he said, "I am Bubsy."

8:52 pm

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Bubsy’s long lost twin brother Chunky

8:53 pm

Also, when is BubsCon and the VGHF needs to do a panel there

Read it again, Chunky is his sister

BUBSCON

Well “her hydrated” can be read in two ways

8:55 pm

Forget magfest @Phil Salvador , BubsCon is the new prime con

That's how religious schisms start you know

We are living in an imaginary cartoon

8:58 pm

Everything makes sense now

The computers have surpassed us. Soon they will be donating $10/mo to VGHF and joining this discord with funny Bubsy names and jokes better anything we could come up with as inferior and irrelevant humans

Doing a 2014 panel in 2019. Why didnt we think of that? It was so simple, and right there the whole time

what better way to contextualize history

There should be a panel about Bubsy-related text generation

9:10 pm

Wait, you guys are AI generating this stuff? I thought we were just taking turns writing erotic Bubsy fan fiction

TalkToTransformer, it's called, and yeah it's AI

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@kelslewin I’ll have you know that I looked at my Apple Watch and the notification was cutoff so all I read was “Bubsy’s Healing Womb is too good...”

1

12:20 am

The only thing tethering me to reality is knowing that it was TalkToTransformer

I've got one that's a little too hot for TV. Can we get an #erotic_bubsy_fanfic channel?

Bill Hader as Bubsy is quite a get

it's the part he was born for

I looked in on bubsy character designer ken macklin to see what his art is like now

8:31 pm

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(he's actually super talented etc. and I hand picked the one thing that looks like bubsy)

i think this is what Gex 3 would look like if it was a Bubsy game

so while i was gone my computer reset, while a chrome tab was on that bubsy video, and apparently while i was gone it just started auto playing bubsy videos while my computer was locked for like, 60 minutes until it asked me if i was still there

I'm at a local thrift store and I'm sorely tempted by this bootleg system

7:28 pm

It's just gonna have your typical stuff on it like super mario and contra

That's kinda what I figured. Plus it's $15 which is more expense than this PS2 I found in the kitchen appliance section

If you put bread inside it’ll make nice toast

Honestly, I kinda wish it was a ps3 there for jokes

As discussed at dinner tonight with Kelsey and Borman: Costco sells caskets https://www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html

2:10 am

Q: Why is Costco Wholesale selling caskets?
As a service to our members.

Oh yeah

2:11 am

They have a store displays in other countries, I saw one when I was in Australia

2:13 am

https://twitter.com/kelslewin/status/1196108584121249794

kelsey lewin @ ArchiveCon (@kelslewin)

Welcome to Crabtowne USA, Maryland’s #1 arcade where you can win a shaker of McCormick’s Cinnamon from the claw machine

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omg so much random crap in that claw machine

that KINDA looks like crazy crab

2:21 am

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1196603671724748800

foone (@Foone)

It's time for another generator! This time it's a weird one: It's a DOS-based NES emulator's about screen: NESTICLE! @dosnostalgic asked for it, so here it is! https://t.co/1zaFc7VRXJ

1:50 am

this might have been useful at PRGE 2018 bubsy

yupppp

1:52 am

I think what I ended up doing was emulating deluxe paint and typing it there, since that's where they lifted the font from

I like the headcanon that he's Big Bill Hell

yeah that's what Bill looks like, we finally know

https://twitter.com/lucyjamesgames/status/1196762403121197056?s=21

Lucy James (@lucyjamesgames)

Obsessed with this knock-off Uncharted figure we found in Akihabara

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I love it, it’s so good

6:41 pm

Open question for the floor: If you had an opportunity to GlaDOS yourself (that is, upload your brain into a digitized, transhumanist form) would you do it?

I'd certainly consider it, but would worry constantly about whether my digital self would be satisfied with the decision. There's certainly a lot of fiction going on about the implications of such a thing from that perspective. Hell, I wrote such a story for a college class and got good marks for it.

I’m not even explicitly saying “live forever” either, I mean it purely in the sense that you’d be boiled down to your software and emulated. That could theoretically mean stopping/starting, copying, resetting, hacking... simulating scenarios for testing, etc.

https://weaselswriting.tumblr.com/post/119916237551/digital-civilization That story, if anybody's up for reading a few pages of speculative fiction.

Weasel's Writing

Digital Civilization

(I’ve elected to bring this blog back from the depths to post some work for what I hope is a larger audience. Please like or reblog this post if you enjoyed it. Comments and criticism welcomed.) ...

6:50 pm

Kinda hits the preservation angle a bit too

I mean from a purely preservationist perspective, I think I’d be inclined to do so. If somebody could learn about history, find artistic inspiration or otherwise by analyzing me I’d consider it the same as interviewing somebody on camera or archiving a game.

I think brains get old and stop having new ideas and that keeping us around forever slows down progress

I mean the same could be said about the media that those minds create, too. To me it’s what people glean from it (not that I’m particularly optimistic when it comes to humanity repeating history).

I think maybe I'm kind of tired of old people being in charge, and that if we were to start preserving brains we'd start giving those brains we worship decision-making power etc. etc.

6:59 pm

but I guess the question is if we already had this would I do it

7:00 pm

oh also I guess we're not a consciousness that continues to grow? it's just a savestate?

7:00 pm

yeah sure whatever

7:02 pm

like yesterday a question came up about sachen games that I could answer and almost nobody else could, but it's not something I documented somewhere

7:02 pm

so yeah if someone were like "shit maybe the frank snapshot has memories about this"

I also feel like at the end of the day, everything is data. To a point that it’s overwhelming and that it probably doesn’t matter. I just get personally impacted by some of that data in a way that makes me want to show it to people.

7:07 pm

(Is my preservationist attitude a product of me distracting myself from my constant existentialism? Who knows!)

7:11 pm

As far as the being tired of old people being in charge goes though, very yes. There are very few people in power right now that aren’t actively alienating to me, and a lot of ‘em are jerks that pocket way too much money.

Since PSX is another machine I could never call it that when the X was removed before release and there is another thing called that.

Slim Thug calls it GameCube Nintendo

holy shit

12:03 am

He passed his medical exams, in so happy for him

Holy shit (edited)

Damn bubsy

It gets worse

11:20 pm

what is it about these generated stories that always makes me laugh

11:40 pm

they're too good

some unexpected lore in this one

meanwhile in an alternate universe where the Brothers Chaps were involved in Toy Story, like, 15 years before it normally happened

why are they only eating like half of those pizza slices. the hell are they doing

Someday it feels like all stadia related content will fit right in in the litter box.

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Honestly I was like “Yo, is this a pizza ad?”

they're probably laughing at a TV show or something while holding the controllers

5:35 pm

the guy in the Gilligan hat probably queued up a playlist full of Will It Blend

this could be us but you playing (on a regular video game system)

@sebmal They're able to experience the pizza but they don't own it

I do feel like this ad is missing something, though...

1:15 am

Is is the logo? Nah. Something else.

1:15 am

There we go.

https://twitter.com/olafurw/status/1197079572690472961

Ólafur Waage (@olafurw)

Stadia allows you to put in your: ICQ number AIM screen name and fucking MSN Messenger name

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Yeah, apparently their site was built off an old forum framework

1:17 am

Supposedly

@mele i love it so much

Here at the Litterbox, we're all about reimagining the pizza experience. We hear you, and you want to be able to engage with pizza without having to order a whole pizza. Let's be honest, nobody eats the entire slice anymore. So we're ushering in the future of pizza to fit your lifestyle (edited)

Stream pizza at 4K resolution, 60 frames per slice, with minimum latency and extra cheese.

You don't even have to wait for the pizza to get hot

2:29 am

No Annoying Ovens

So I have a garbage account that I occasionally tweet non-sequiturs from

2:29 am

https://twitter.com/headwalk/status/1197703586815209472?s=21

steep (@headwalk)

Stream pizza at 4K resolution, 60 frames per slice, with minimum latency and extra cheese. Google #Stadia. Anything you dream can be built.

2:29 am

It had to be done

https://twitter.com/PuppetCombo/status/1197945895918149632

Puppet Combo (@PuppetCombo)

now_thats_a_nice_truck.gif https://t.co/gdGWTIhb5O

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https://twitter.com/pervocracy/status/1198002414525329409

Cliff Jerrison (@pervocracy)

scientists continue to work on a formula to define Mario in terms of the speed of light, but until then, the International Prototype Mario remains stored in argon gas deep in the basement of the Académie Internationale de Jeux de Plombier https://t.co/F1gSswYTsk

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Why? Why...? https://www.suppermariobroth.com/image/189260060995

Supper Mario Broth: Photo

A Super Mario variety blog. Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.

4:27 am

What does it mean?

sexual dimorphism among the mario species

I guess even back then they knew Mario was actually from the Mushroom Kingdom and found his way to New York

sad day for our culture https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1199063540943876096

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1199725353503281153

Battleborn servers are shutting down in January 2021 https://t.co/43bZ9qIGuI "once the servers are offline in January 2021, Battleborn won’t be playable in any way."

bubsy servers are shutting down on...

Wait, they were okay with Mario having 3 fingers but DK couldn’t? Mario Yakuza confirmed?

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1200081963324850177?s=19

There is also this, which I think helps tell a different type of story

We proudly have one in the office

JohnRiggs+ (@johnblueriggs)

Yeah, it's real. You can also play as Bubsy for some reason.

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What a time to be alive

i wonder if that also includes the ported maps from other games hacks

6:02 pm

like there's a hack out there that adds Kakariko Village from OOT as a multiplayer map, and it actually works kind of well

Wow, I am behind on my rom hacks. I saw the Karkariko Village in SM64 hack the other day

6:06 pm

I think this is probably(?) the sonic one http://n64vault.com/ge-for-fun:goldeneye-with-sonic-characters

https://twitter.com/iFixRetro/status/1200664935405170688

iFixRetro (@iFixRetro)

Since people are beating each other up for dumb things on Black Friday, we’ve decided to do our own dumb shit as well! NESRGB installed on a Famiclone system! Designed by NTDEC, we were able to swap out the oscillator, PPU and CPU to run at 60hz on a bootleg ass system!

1:02 am

The idea is litterbox, execution is great.

Totally Litterbox

3:51 am

Official console

i wonder if i could mod my GameFillip 2012 to get cleaner video output. It's composite video, but has a really cheesy signal.

4:27 am

i mean, i sure couldn't because I've never used a soldering iron before, but i figure it can't be too bad

4:29 am

I'd think if i modded it for anything though I'd want to focus on the really loose cartridge slot

4:29 am

Famicom games wobble really bad on it though the boards grip and contact just fine

https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/what-sega-master-system-games-shouldve-been-called

WHAT SEGA MASTER SYSTEM GAMES SHOULD'VE BEEN CALLED

Even after 30 years, the jury is out as to whether Sega's original template for its Master System covers were an example of clean, crisp, iconic graphic design... or a half-arsed abomination.

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I'm trying to figure out where to get wings in National Harbor for the panel

4:07 pm

What if we just did chicken nuggets?

Nando's has wings

4:40 pm

dunno if they've got any sauce on em to begin with though

That's the tricky part, I think they're pre-sauced. And there's like a Dominos and a Pizza Hut that have plain/boneless wings... but now I kinda love chicken nuggets (edited)

I’m down for chicken nuggets

Same

OK Google, how do you sauce McNuggets

I tried to train myself last night by eating a slice of habanero. It did not go well.

Billy Mitchell hot sauce

Maybe I should just take up smoking

6:55 pm

Trading my health for not looking like a baby, this seems smart

habaneros are fairly hot

Excuse me a SLICE of habanero??! Goddamn

Well like, a little ring of it

I'd say start with a bit of poblano or jalapeno

Well done

It came with my eggs, as well as some jalapeño coins

6:56 pm

The jalapeños i could manage. The habanero was not fun

might be best to ensure you have a lot of milk and like a loaf of bread up there

Oh yeah absolutely milk. We need it for the pajama party too

6:58 pm

Rollin into MAGFest with milk

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/1201964371636736000?s=20

Chris Kohler (@kobunheat)

We've put up a post with some of our memories of the original PlayStation, which I have helped to illustrate with this photo of only the quintessential true solid gold everlasting classics of the PS1 https://t.co/K1vH0Xe7MW

https://twitter.com/CorwinB87/status/1201901149869068288

weasel 🚙🀄 (@CorwinB87)

Ah, 25 years of PlayStation. One of the most widespread, varied and diverse libraries on a single machine. I mean. (cough)

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hahah

Somebody on Twitter mentioned that TalkToTransformer mimics your format if you make a numbered list, and my results are incredible

5:46 pm

It also does really good inventories, as i learned from i think the author of the rogue like game Cogmind

5:56 pm

5:57 pm

wait who are these people and why are they in Bubsy's inventory

well, Bubsy is an obligate carnivore (edited)

these results are getting weirder

"Bubsy Fact 7: Bubsy"

The combination of "Bubsy is mean to his father" and "Bubsy thinks his father is a great person" feels like there's years of history to unpack

love hate

Bubsy is jealous he can never live up to his father's success

7:07 pm

Frozen 2: Bubsy’s Tale

9:46 pm

Or... is this a prequel? The dad’s still alive... oh no, what happened to Bubsy

Well okay

https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/1203058802309943298

LuigiBlood (@LuigiBlood)

https://t.co/wZQhkRAe6e

https://kinsie.tumblr.com/post/189532009392/retrocgads-usa-1984 the perfect companion to the POOLHALL THRILLS shirt

Get Psyched!

retrocgads: “USA 1984 ”

5:26 pm

then all we need is like, a pair of pants or a messenger bag or something that reads, in a really clinical font, "Barroom Attractions"

i wonder if i should put defunct gaming magazine titles on shirts too...

I want a hat with this on it

11:16 pm

I think at hat level it would just look like a tree

@Borman @kelslewin Just bought these, we're doomed https://heatonist.com/products/queen-majesty-charcoal-ghost-hot-sauce https://heatonist.com/collections/medium-hot-sauces/products/bravado-black-garlic-reaper

Queen Majesty | Charcoal Ghost

The color of this sauce alludes to the mystery of its flavor. Even before tasting, the aromas of ginger and plum hit your nose and excite the senses. As it unfolds on your tongue you are taken on a journey, from tart notes of apple cider vinegar and black plum, to the heat of...

Bravado | Black Garlic Carolina Reaper

Team Bravado is back at it with an elevated offering where Carolina Reaper meets aged black garlic. The sweetness of the slowly cooked garlic tempers the initial bitter burn of the Reaper, but not for long... This is a biting hot sauce you'll want in marinades, sauces, dressi...

12:13 am

I also got a blackberry hibiscus sauce but it's not online

Uhhh Carolina reaper might be where I draw the line

I'm gonna test these before, I don't want to actually hurt people

Oh good okay I trust you

12:14 am

My husband had something Carolina reaper and just immediately puked

I think the straight peppers are always way worse than the sauces

He had a chip I think? Like some Carolina reaper challenge tortilla chip type thing?

Yikes

12:15 am

Okay yeah I'll taste test tonight

ANYWAYS I trust you to not kill me

I appreciate that level of trust

12:16 am

I'm feeling okay because it's on the Medium section of their site

Oh okay great

Everything is fine

12:25 am

Kate WillærtToday at 2:14 PM i wonder if i should put defunct gaming magazine titles on shirts too...

i mean i'm pretty sure i still own a "Game Players" hat

1:44 am

i'm not entirely sure how, either, i never read that magazine in my life

1:46 am

at least not until this morning when i was directed to this tweet https://twitter.com/Hey_Its_Lollie/status/1203267921851453440

❄＜　᷆　᷇•＞❄ (@Hey_Its_Lollie)

US magazine "Game Players" had a scoring system that paid tribute to Cosmic Race, by making it the lowest score a game could get. This went unexplained for the mag's entire run, up until their final issue before rebranding, when they finally reviewed it. https://t.co/xDa...

I believe it was Chris Charla who did that (edited)

I never read that but I was still aware of the cosmic race scale

@kelslewin My asshole friend recently brought over some salsa made with carolina reapers and switched it with his mild one without telling me and watched me be in pain for the next 30 minutes after eating a big bite of it.

6:33 pm

It just tasted like pain

For the record, I just did the gauntlet myself to test it, and it's very doable. It gets real hot, but it's never going to be dangerous

11:37 pm

Definitely having some trouble after the last sauce but I'm not in pain (edited)

Victory

Definitely muttering "damn" to myself 10 minutes later, though (edited)

Okay great I can do that. Might even shed some tears because im a big baby

12:35 am

I’m so sorry @Hubz , that’s exactly what I was afraid of

Spicy food?

We had a photographer in the office today

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Lovely!

8:00 am

Also, I guess some of you already know the show, but I really liked the last Unraveled, one of the better episodes of an already amazingly funny show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0QpldEWmlY

Polygon

I used The Sims to perfect my apartment | Unraveled

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https://twitter.com/romero/status/1204370540930195456

𝕵𝖔𝖍𝖓 𝕽𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖔 (@romero)

Happy 26th birthday to my little DOOM guy. I’ve watched you grow from E1M1 to today, and I am so incredibly proud of how far you’ve gone. Keep slaying, my boy. I love you. - Dad

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i'm deciding that this is video game history even if the video game part of it never got off the ground https://twitter.com/kunert_ebooks/status/1204303793535381505 https://www.ebay.com/itm/362845817014

kunert (@kunert_ebooks)

going through my stuff at the parents house for the holidays and holy shit, look what I found (yes I did the bad internet drawing)

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Johnny Fiveaces, Original Zybourne Clock Concept Art

If you're bidding on this, you already know what it is. This is the original drawing of Johnny Fiveaces in pretty good condition (along with Sholtz and Gros Gammon drawn on the same piece of printer paper). It's been tucked away inside of a book in my childhood closet since t...

Oh my god will they donate the original Johnny Fiveaces to us

1:01 am

Oh it's for sale lol

yeah

1:49 am

though if you want to use foundation funds to outbid whoever and preserve johnny fiveaces for future generations i would absolutely understand

https://twitter.com/topherflorence/status/1204780126967345152

D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence)

Scorpion was murdered and he's back from hell for revenge. Now it's up to you to feed him steaks, take him to the doctor, and give him a bath so he can battle your friends at recess

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That's it, we're done here. We've peaked.

I really hate boogerman.

need boogerman emoji

no.

yes

this is not a democracy it is a litterbox

Boogerman and Bubsy would be friends

No even Bubsy would hate Boogerman.

correct.

hard. no.

lol

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https://twitter.com/redbullgaming/status/1204863143748476940

Red Bull Gaming (@redbullgaming)

We teamed up with @SnakeEyez and the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture to create a one of a kind, perfectly crafted controller, specifically for him. What do you think?

https://t.co/5087O9e3Fy

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10:15 pm

I am sure this has all sorts of ergonomic and functional uses but I can't help but toss it in the litterbox

How far that zangief guy has come

scanning this at ridiculous resolution is this litterbox material

5:49 pm

thank you for your service to the world

https://archive.org/details/linkthefacesofevil8100080cdiscan

Link: The Faces Of Evil - CD-I - 810-0080 - Covers, disc : Philips...

1200dpi 48-bit RAW scans of Link: The Faces of Evil covers + disc for the Philips CD-I. PAL version. ICC File is applied but only viewable in image editing...

So good

So, how ‘bout them Game Awards?

6:40 pm

My highlights: -Reggie speech -Goose bit -Disco Elysium got 4 awards and very subtly thanked Marx and Engels -Luigi’s Mansion 3 win, even though they did that in one of the lightning round “we don’t actually care about the awards” sections

6:41 pm

Also Reggie’s pin is based off of a sprite that my friend/Mother to Earth crew member Matt made so that was cool

I want to hear the story of what happened with New World. Earlier this year it was a misguided colonial violence MMO, and now in the new trailer, it's like a dark fantasy game (edited)

6:42 pm

That's gonna be a really interesting oral history in 5-10 years

At least someone was preserving some of the builds of the alpha, even if they arent very useful cough

Whoa, how many builds do they have?

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/12/13/link-the-faces-of-evil/

Densy

Link: The Faces of Evil

18ish

18 builds? Dang

But the person with them cough would technically be under NDA for the time being

closeup of pin

Will Wright showed up in one of the ads last night, that was surprising.

My main takeaway was that Facebook reeeeaaallly wants to be apart of the gaming industry (not a surprise, just really really depressing that they essentially bought their way into this industry with buying oculus and heavy marketing)

Facebook wanting that biometric data so bad

Those stadia ads also gave me some serious pre-release ouya advertising vibes

7:16 pm

This kind https://youtu.be/g0ha6Mb5_YQ

WarioSixFour

"Sixty bucks for a game?" - Ouya ad

it was like two steps away from a kixeye recruitment ad

7:20 pm

Reggie’s pin is a lightly edited version of Matt’s sprite that a Nintendo Store employee gave him as a retirement gift. He then scanned the pin and used it in his Cornell presentation

7:52 pm

https://twitter.com/capncococharms/status/1098749407476891648?s=21

ooh his sprite is very Mother 3

Yeah! So in a weird twist of fate, Reggie had no idea that it was based off of Matt’s M3 style sprite art but he’s effectively used it as a representation of himself

this proves that they're localizing Mother 3

I almost guarantee that it’s already localized, just not released

Reggie himself alone is localizing Mother 3

It could be a matter of fixing up rhythm combos, or waiting for “the best time”, but I’ll believe it when I see it (which will likely be never)

I would love for someone to figure out how to "un-compress" the audio in real time for gameplay

Is that what it is? Does it compress the audio when emulated and offsets the combo timing?

I'm not sure exactly what's happening but we have midi files and we have the midi instruments, but by the time the GBA plays them they're kinda scratchy and compressed

8:11 pm

people have extracted the data and made clean versions of the audio for youtube etc.

We basically need MSU-gba

my dark Gamer Shame is that i actually like how crunchy and scratchy gba games sound

the problem is that the GBA only has an 8-bit DAC

8:14 pm

There's only so much precision in audio that you can get with only 8 bits per sample

8:16 pm

it's not quite as noticeable if there's only a single sound playing, because that one sound can be optimized to sound nicer at that low of a bit depth, but when you're mixing stuff together you wind up with a lot of lost sample data coming through

8:16 pm

I'd assume the reasoning behind choosing an 8 bit DAC is cost and availability

8:17 pm

keeps the machine affordable

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1205630648817467399