space invaders, but with the aesthetics of like an early 90s environmental/educational cd-rom.
backgrounds that are high-quality photos (or maybe long videos where not much happens unless you’re really paying attention) of like the rainforest or arctic tundra. relaxing nature sounds in lieu of bgm, and all the sound effects are like panpipe notes and little wooden clunks
this feels like something that could actually exist… i’m imagining it as like a CD-i game
i was partially inspired by cdi tetris tbh. but the idea keeps growing in my mind
a game where this is the tutorial
it was weird to realize, after moving from the tri-state area, that the tourist stop and stare into the middle distance thing is just how people walk in the rest of the country. I’m not the best at threading the needle (it is hard to be so when you are at my scale) but dodging tourists has trained me so well for life on the west coast, where everyone walks like they’re the only people left in the world and it doesn’t matter how much space they take up (I call it the solipsist stride & stop)
my favorite is when people form a stroller phalanx across a bike path
This seems like the kind of thing that already exists and I just didn’t know about it but
Sim Sin City (vegas-themed city builder game)
Donkey Kong Costanza
would buy, if only to see Jerry Seinfeld get hit by a barrel and/or roasted by Cranky
Jerry would definitely be the Diddy Kong in this scenario right. I don’t really see any other options
I think “Donkey Kong” is a reliably very funny name outside the context of videogames. like the idea of someone publishing a targeted political memo under the pseudonym “Donkey Kong” is a great bit
dreamt of a videoball-like with no cursors where you use swipe gestures to stretch and flick the stadium. more tricky layouts too, like a C or a three-way triangle
a romhack of Alien Soldier that renames the game to Adam Sandler
a taiko no whatever machine h̶a̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ reprogrammed to play both donkey konga and donkey kong jungle beat
dear @bug, you have inspired me…
Wario drilling down into the earth out of greedy desperation, mining for gold and ancient treasure, kinda like a reverse version of VB Wario Land, the atmosphere is a lot less relaxed, more frantic and menacing.
You get a trip down memory lane of sorts by having him uncover old consoles and accessories along the way, Pikmin 2 style, as well as the bones of long-retired characters from nintendo’s past (I noticed this is actually a thing in Bananza itself, so I’m not too far off…), some of these intermingle and reanimate as boss fights (picturing the skeleton of that professor guy fused with a virtual boy to create some kind of mutant monstrosity seeking revenge for being discarded and forgotten…) Imagine if astrobot had the general tone of shadow of colossus, wario sheds a single tear for putting a permanent end to our collective childhood nostalgia… It’s all very moving.
The events of the game take place shortly after he’s laid off the entirety of his microgame staff from warioware and funnelled the profits into a large fracking operation of the entire planet. Game ends with him reaching the earth’s core and burning alive for all our sins as god nintendo always intended…
The reality in which this game exists is the same one where the cynicism of the gamecube era was actually a huge success for the company, so they decide to run with this and pull a kojima by having everyone’s switch overheat and catch fire alongside wario, serving double duty of burning down the house of every remaining gamer on god’s green earth. The violent videogame debate resurfaces in a new form, leading to the eventual banning of all videogames. People start selling contraband cd-roms out the back of their cars, away from the eyes of the law. A new dawn begins…
In a related vein
Reprogramming a POS machine so that like
Every $100 value that passes through the thing gives you a credit in a MAME emulator running on the monitor
And it’s some sort of contrived sales incentive thing.
digitised photo space harrier
identical twins character creation option in a ttrpg that requires two players to take it.
some kind of reward (like fabula ultima’s ultima points or tenra bansho zero’s chips) for stuff like spontaneously speaking in sync or finishing each other’s sentences, critical successes achieved by rolling identical numbers, even if the result would usualy be a failure, etc.
(why yes, i was watching fuwamoco clips this morning)
