videogame things you think about a lot lot lot lot

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Shall be officially rebranded as
Luke Skywalker: A Star Wars Story

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the level in narc ps2 where one of the henchmen says “Why do we have to wear all these identical uniforms, isn’t that kinda…gay” and then this starts playing

actually it has an even better needle drop now that i think about it

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There’s a Wiiware port of MDK2

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“I’m sorry I lost my sh*t at the meat packing plant.”

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the shooter distilled to its primal spirit

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what do you mean both of these games end with a shooting section with SEGA music in the background

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Everything I’ve seen of Astrobot looks like the cartoon that funko pops would watch within the fictional world of a funko pop cartoon.

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Every IP I recognise is half a second of happiness then twenty seconds of sadness, a ratio adequately reflected in the games level design and mechanics.

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If you’re making a game and have that degree of creative cotnrol you probably aren’t going to have an opportunity to provide a physical manual but the doxxing point stands.

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i think it makes more sense in the context of how the first few touhou games would ahve been sold: relatively small print runs sold at conventions and stuff, probably by zun to people he was talking to in person.

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Publishing someone’s contact information along with their name was normal to do for decades, even for something as banal as a letter to the editor of a magazine. Most of the time it’s harmless or can lead to a positive interaction.

Sometimes it doesn’t. The sometimes are why it’s stopped.

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the big-ass galactic map that came with physical copies of frontier: elite II

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Ooh I think I had the game for Amiga but don’t remember the physical map.

My Old Frontier Elite 2 Star Map (so much nostalgia!) | Frontier Forums

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im playin the built in astro boy playroom game rn and it is like… surprisingly competently designed for a glorified tech demo / console tutorial but yeah the aesthetic and aggressive branding is very off-putting. it’s hard to imagine the person that would really get into this. like disney adults but for SONY products? idk maybe they’re out there

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we are definitely out there and clutching our Sony Sports Walkman and MiniDisc recorders but there’s just something about modern PlayStation that’s devoid of any personality

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:I engage my enormous brain: I dunno, pretty easy for me (it’s a 6-10 year old)

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do they care about the sony part of it specifically though? like is a 6 year old getting super stoked to unlock the ability to zoom in on and rotate a UMD disk

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you have no idea. they love the multitap

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