toy story racer is an ever-present threat
what dark sorceries brought it to be
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This Flash game from 2007 which wound up creating an entire subgenre
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COOL DUDE VOICE: UEP SYSTEMS!!!
i shout UEP SYSTEMS like the coolboarders 2 guy so often. too often.
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HERE WE GO
YOU’RE DOIN TERRIBLE!!!
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HEY HEY!!!
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the more i think about it probably most of the videogame things i find myself thinking about are sound clips – repeated barks, pickup sfx, snatches of dialogue. theres something about the repetition and kinda Pavlovian feedback to videogame sfx that just makes them weird earworms.
Have you ever been to a convenience store and the cash register made the Sonic ring pickup sfx? it’s fucked up
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UEP is clearly stolen from Tim Allen.
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Heard the Sonic ring and the Mario coin noise.
My game sound effect I think about is the one guy in Xenogears that yells JERK! in a cutscene.
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it looks like this is basically sprites superimposed over a primitive, looping FMV
yeah, that’s my theory too. but it seems like a lot of effort to figure out how to do this, then only do it once, in a licensed shovelware game
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it wasn’t the only GBC game to use FMVs. the gbc port of cannon fodder makes use of the rarely utilized 2000+ color mode for some surprisingly good looking FMVs:
(the audio in this clip is not from gbc actual hardware tho)
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what
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the first time i heard it i freaked out but now a road trip isnt a roadtrip if you dont stop at a truck stop with sonic ring sounds coming from the register
other sound effects stuck in my head a lot: Yoshi’s HNNNNGGGGGG from yoshis island (I actually use this sound to get songs out of my head), WEWWEWE BE JAMMIN from starfox, bowser going HUARGH after you say so long gay bowser, the tim allen grunt from donkey kong country, the health beeping from half life, grandia 2 feet noise, yume nikki feet noise, NO WAY DUDE from skate or die 2
theres more these are just what pop in my head without forethought
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we need a full fat action-adventure deep-dive followup to the Stinger v. Hogan storyline of this intro
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make it an re2make mod
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The lost Thunder in Paradise episode…
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the burger trucker and the what trucker are the same person he had a weird 1998
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I was seriously thinking that too! The surprised trucker craze of 98.
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Making a piece of hardware like the GBC do a fucking kart racer is powerfully good. Serious kudos to the people who decided they were going to do this with fucking Toy Story license money.
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Really just fascinated by all the experiments with FMV type stuff in the very brief but bizarrely glorious GBC era
Always thinking about the Tarzan GBC intro
(the game wasn’t great but some of its visual indulgences were real interesting–also very obvious that they had access to the teaser trailer for the film during development and maybe not that much else)
Seeing people working to make the goddamn Game Boy Color do stuff that really pushed its limits in the new era of 3D is frankly more interesting to me than people in the 2010s pushing old hardware to new limits.
The visual lushness on the GBC was really the best thing about Shantae, which is still true like five games and 17 years later, unless you value awareness of Matt Bozon’s libido more than I do.
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