videogame things you think about a lot (Part 1)

Apparently the dude who did most of the programming also had Mac OS running on a genesis because it’s basically the same architecture. I’ll post the talk when it’s put up, some really interesting stuff if you like genesis and/or macs

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68k baby

If only the finder made FM synth noises in 1984

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Genesis… Apple… It makes sense

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The space shuttle is the next target, glory for Motorolakind :sunglasses:

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the tenacity of people who convert pre-existing assets for use in the sims and mikumikudance compared to the dweebs who run vgresources. xnalara people are another breed but so much hornier so i don’t want to give them credit for anything

im converting a bunch of sims furniture mods into .fbx files for use in unity and all the shit i wish i could find on vgresources is in sims of all things… like wtf

silent hill 2 toilets… in sims, pipes from half life 2 are in sims, stock crowd models architects use in CAD are in sims

theres an entire industry of people that make tiny detailed models of small consumer products to place in their sims game as a nonfunctional decoration, just for added mono no aware

willingly constructing something to take for granted

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the xnalara comment reminded me of the guy who made an elaborate sex framework for skyrim that has both better animation and UI design than anything bethesda has ever made. horniness is the most powerful motivator for modders

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when you hit the old man you find in dungeons in zelda 1 with a sword and he starts shooting fireballs at you

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You can buy a scott pilgrim the game the shirt but not the game.

https://www.gamestop.com/clothing/mens/clothing/tops-shirts/products/scott-pilgrim-vs.-the-world-t-shirt/10164968.html

i was so arrested by seeing this play on the pump it up (or whatever) machine at a bowling alley when i was 9. it was like going to dmx’s house and he’s watching gummo

“Hate”

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Max Payne wandering into that favela party and just standing there like a clueless jackass

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woke up thinking about this line

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uhhh well i’m gonna be thinking about this for a while…

Of all that memorable dialogue/VA, the strange inflection of

Begin by slaying that one, over there.

and bad-assery around

Death in the dream world will set your soul wandering for eternity, Demon.

also “you’re blood”

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i often think of the way Alucard says “WHAT?!” when he gets a status effect

and then of course

as you can see this is a PlayStation black disc

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Always that WHAT when someone in the other room tries speaking to me

also of course

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I’m interested in this.

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the weird 3d illusions in this line rider level

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