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yeah it was the 90’s, stuff had to have blood in it randomly i guess - especially if it was like an edgy home computer take on something since home consoles wouldn’t do it that much. this felt of a piece with a lot of those kinds of shareware/win 3.x games i remember playing at the time.

this game i posted in the Grotesque videogames thread really embodies that more than anything i can think of

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The fact that Donkey Kong Bananza’s last world deliberately reprises this sound effect for Nostalgia™ speaks to its lasting appeal

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I’m not even much of a donkey kong guy (I don’t have a switch 2 yet), but all of those noises in that original trilogy are wonderful

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in gunstar heroes you get a bonus for completing the dice palace:

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why’s that the snes’s processor number??

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i attempted to play this as a kid but it’s one of those games tied to CPU speed and it moved much too fast. i immediately recognise that level layout though

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these blowdryer-shaped drones from metroid other m trigger a feeling of revulsion and hatred for me

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consoles have been always online for well over a decade now, and no open world game has had an actual 24 hour radio or tv station broadcast ingame

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I remember reading about this thing in a magazine

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i still think about the terrible yet highly memorable voice acting in Xenus 2’s English release 15 years later:

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I hope that cocaine is cut with kevlar you son of a bitch …

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how this song would fit perfectly as shadow hearts battle music

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I hate how I’ve been waiting my entire adult life for Half Life 3 and it’s never going to come out. just a constantly held breath.

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The GBA was only on the market for three years when the DS came out, but they managed to coexist for almost a decade.

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I remember someone here saying something along the lines that every indie dev given enough time will eventually make something where you control multiple characters at the same time.

I now believe this to be one of the truest things ever said here.

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Kingdom Hearts-ass watch, only from Bamco?

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