In Mario 64 it ought to be possible to jump backward fast and precisely to stomp on the Lakitu’s head. Then the screen would go black and perspective would switch to a backup Lakitu who comes out of Lakitu Central Heaven and flies back to Mario
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Not intentionally, but you can do this in Styx:
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No More Heroes 3 has a boss fight (minor spoilers) that takes place during a live concert – whenever you’re filmed by a drone, it becomes impossible to read the patterns consistently, and you’re encouraged to jump towards the screen and slash it to destroy the machine. But barely anyone discovers it in their playthrough since we’re so used to cameras being this sacred thing
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it was cool how beyond good and evil had a part where you had to deliberately enter and then find a hidden exit out of a racing minigame to advance the plot
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Have they staged that since the game became a hit
With the actors all having basketball hands
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regrettably bereft of ryukishi mittens
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the people on usenet in 94-96 insisting that the 3do m2 would outsell the playstation, n64 and saturn combined
and that i’ve procrastinated for several years on making a usenet thread
also 90s brit journalist slang like “coin-op conversion” and “beat-'em-up”
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Weren’t these universal?
in the uk game parlance “beat em up” is a fighting game as opposed to a belt scroller although the existence of the internet has made the american one more common in general
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back then, it just meant any game with punching and/or kicking people
some old people still use it like that and it’s so unclear and annoying
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Apropos of nothing, I’m thinking about this quote regarding Miyamoto’s reaction to the violence in Goldeneye:
One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.
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Miyamoto invented undertale
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ok but i;d love it if a game did this
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Inyamoto unvented miyatale
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I played “the good” Wild Arms and it is a real B- .
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moulder saying ‘ive always wanted to visit the pacific northwest’ in the x files fmv game as if the whole fucking show didn’t take place there for a while?? they go to Oregon in the first episode
sorry i have been watching xfiles for the first time
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i thought vancouver counted as pacific northwest oops haha, but they keep talking about oregon and washington in the show too. so i can be like WELL IN THE LORE
but i guess that also makes the thing in the game a funny joke
i am new to all this xfiles stuff
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