videogame things you think about a lot lot lot

cuba and you freaking out that i hadnt heard the original of that song is one of my happy memories for sure

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why did this make me think of Full House?

ILL BE YOUR DREAM ILL BE YOUR WISH ILL BE YOUR FAN’UHSY

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someone on this very forum had a hyper-extensive thread devoted completely to Life Tastes Like Cardboard, a free game from a few years back, which they constantly updated with illustrations and diary entries. can’t find the thread anymore so i don’t know if it’s gone now or not.

also BABBDI came out about a year and a half ago and i recall it getting a lot of attention.

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bernband OWNS

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RPCS3 stands for Russian Personal Computer Station 3.

– RPCS3 - Blog

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The weirder part of it:

Then at some point DH who is from Ukraine started saying the R stood for Russian which is what we roll with today as Nekotekina who joined in late 2013 and quickly became one of the biggest developers and the architect, is from Russia. So RPCS3 stands for Russian Personal Computer Station 3.

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i read this a few days ago, and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since

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Pretty great. ^ _^

Senior Gamest editor Zenji Ishii: America is the place where real street fights take place, after all.

Ishii: Which characters do they like to play in America?

Nishitani: Generally speaking, they can’t do the more complex moves. Shoryukens are out of the question.

Producer Yoshiki Okamoto profile: Hates men, smoking

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it me

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Thinking about Cave Story, a huge part of it was that it was optimized to fit on a single floppy disc at a time when everybody still had them. Cave Story didn’t require internet access at all, and especially did not require an account on any services to get a hold of. If you knew somebody who had it, you pretty much had it. That’s gone now in the steam era.

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i know right! it sucks!!!

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The Roottrees are dead is a relatively recent one that made quite a splash.

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cave story was one of the games i installed day one on my first pc long with warning forever, dan da dan, super mario pac, and an azumanga daioh doujin fighter

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The PS3 era was a rough one for 2D games; developers still thought the audience wouldn’t be able to bear un-blurred low-res pixels.

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i feel like free games are still made and played by the same group as ever - that is, kids and college kids with no money, low-end computers and time to kill - and it’s just that they’ve been totally ringfenced and split off as a seperate economy from that of “premium games” (pc/console and also the free indie games that loosely exist within the pc/console tradition). similar to what happened to phone games in general but maybe even more invisibilised and at the mercy of weird platform economy rules - like the fiercely enforced distinction between “youtube” and “youtube kids”.

the game “granny” has 100m+ downloads but i only found out about it by being morbidly curious about the lowpoly polygonal ghoul creature hanging out with elsa and pregnant spiderman in those children’s videos… and even then it was hard to figure out what the source was, bc the actual origin was kind of lost in a swirl of roblox remakes and dance videos and spam websites, granny4u.game playrealgranny.cz grannyinyour.area. even moreso than most games, information on these things is left to the whim of the seo market.

i actually don’t mean this to read like “don’t worry we still have free games and they’re more popular than ever :^)” hah. it’s grim to me that the traditional base for all the real experimental stuff in vgames - like, yume nikki was passed around between HS kids looking for oddities long before it possessed officialised artgame cred, iirc - has been locked down by platforms that are both hyperexploitative and also so puritanical and infantilising, hostile to any attempt to break out of their system or to develop beyond a target age group, while the remnants of ye olde free game culture are sort of left flopping around like beached fish as a result. i’m sure life finds a way and that there’s a barkley gaiden or life of d duck of roblox obbies somewhere nevertheless, maybe even with their own bands of devotees, maybe there’s already a new cave story. how would we know?

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Also:

Virtua Tennis 3 (2007) - PS3 - 1080p
Virtua Tennis 2009 (2009) - PS3 - 720p
Virtua Tennis 4 (2011) - PS3 - 720p/1080i

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granny

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I feel like the reason we’re putting Cave Story on a pedestal is because it looked Legit. Cave Story looks like a cousin of Gunstar Heroes, and you could buy Gunstar Heroes in a Toys’r’Us. Every time one of these indie hits has blown up and stayed popular its because they’ve been able to compete against the classics on equal ground.

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https://selectbutton.net/t/life-tastes-like-cardboard/12202

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