these localisation differences in Splatoon 1’s two English versions (which were unified in 2)
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You probably have more hands-on experience with the store’s selection than most of the people working on it
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What’s COD feels like if I ever use a real M4A1?
the music here is like a mash up of the Tetris theme and Batman '89 and Darth Vader’s theme and the theremin from Grabbed by the Ghoulies
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BurgerTime was originally called Hamburger.
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Wait did Nada Surf seriously make a song for Catz on the nintendo DS?!?!?
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Brain dump of the junk that woke me up early this morning. I should really stop archive-diving the 10 Pence Arcade podcast–but it’s so darn listenable.
Summary
Everybody knows that Nintendo of Japan internally or whatever just referred to the hero character in Donkey Kong as Jumpman or something until Nintendo of American started calling him Mario after noticing a resemblance to their warehouse landlord. Mario - Wikipedia :
According to a widely circulated story, during the localization of Donkey Kong for American audiences, Nintendo of America’s warehouse landlord Mario Segale confronted then-president Minoru Arakawa, demanding back rent. Following a heated argument in which the Nintendo employees eventually convinced Segale he would be paid, they opted to name the character in the game Mario after him.
Huh so it’s basically a story about Nintendo being cheap jerks.
Also, Miyamoto had intended for the character to be young–mid-20s–but people took him to be older because of his huge bushy mustache. Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong's Darkest Secrets, 35 Years Later | WIRED
Oh dear Wikipedia also has an idiotic story about how Mario’s full name is “Mario Mario,” because Nintendo has no more good ideas:
While it is implied by the title of the Mario Bros. series, in a 1989 interview his full name was stated not to be “Mario Mario”.[29] The first notable use of “Mario Mario” was in the 1993 live-action film adaptation of the Super Mario series, and was further used in Prima’s official video game strategy guides, in 2000 for Mario Party 2 [30] and in 2003 for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.[31] In 2012, after Charles Martinet voiced Mario declaring himself “Mario Mario” at the San Diego Comic-Con,[32] the next month, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said he had no last name,[33] which Miyamoto agreed with the month after.[34] Two months after Iwata’s death in July 2015, Miyamoto changed his stance, asserting at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival that Mario’s full name was indeed “Mario Mario”.
I’d started being annoyed with Miyamoto because he’s revered as a god and I haven’t let myself be into Nintendo stuff–okay well I liked the Wario Ware stuff on GBA–since they changed their style when they went to the Super Nintendo. But I just realized that the 8-bit style I liked, then, was pretty much invented and implemented by Miyamoto. So yeah, Miyamoto back in the day was a gosh darn genius, dumb self.
And I want to play the arcade version of Donkey Kong–not the NES version, which has squished art and which Miyamoto didn’t work on (I think that’s in the previous article, maybe) because he was working on finishing the sports titles (Baseball, Tennis, etc)–but the only “play in your browser!” unlicensed versions on the web are of the NES version I think; short of getting an arcade cab–and Donkey Kong is one of the handful of most in-demand arcade cabs TO THIS DAY so that’s not going to happen–or just emulating the game properly in MAME (duh self), I guess I would have to get a Switch and the Arcade Archives version, but that seems like a dumb thing to do, especially for a version that probably has a few extra frames of input delay.
This is all pretty dumb.
Speaking of which, I’m still stupidly obsessed with Ms. Pac-Man, or maybe just Pac-Man, I don’t know; but I always feels like the blinking power pellets set up this kind of vibrational field at the corners of my vision that’s just waiting to trigger my latent photosensitivity (which I realized recently in fact was in large part triggered by gleams of light in the corners of my vision in my poorly set-up home computer/living room; although that’s probably all just an excuse and really I just don’t actually want to play them?), so I’ve avoided them. So it’s unfortunate I just happened to notice ]_] that out there on the web is a “play in your browser!” backwards-engineered HTML5 version of Ms. Pac-Man; it starts in a kind of small window but in Firefox if you right-click on it and select “Open in new tab” it opens larger, if slightly blurry : P (just like the Google Pac-Doodle, the I think only officially licensed play-in-your-browser Pac Pacman Doodle )–but, bizarrely, this unlicensed HTML5 Ms. Pac has NON-BLINKING POWER PELLETS which is all I want in a Pac game. But anyway the unlicensed HTML5 Ms. Pac also seems too easy (ghosts too slow?): I cruised through not even having to dodge much up to the red stage, where I died quickly, and just felt annoyed.
This is dumb.
Oh and while I tortured myself playing all the games in Midway Arcade Treasures 2 on PS2 lately, I found afterwards there’s a disc-only PS3 collection, Midway Arcade Origins: Midway Arcade Origins - Wikipedia --which would have them in a proper resolution, which also probably wouldn’t crash my Elgato when toggling between games. But I probably don’t want to play any of those games for more than a minute–except maybe Joust, which I already have in a lovely downloadable version on PS3. And I don’t want to have to swap discs with VF5 and wear out the moving parts in my PS3, so can we please stop thinking about this, brain?
Uh I think that’s about it. Sorry. = P
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There’s a joke about Mario’s last name containing Sega in there somewhere
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holy shit this song fucking rules
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I wonder if MAME logo is trademarked? I’ve noticed Nintendo reissue cabinets all have really ugly “real arcade hardware, never MAME” stickers on them, i guess to call out Capcom or Namco machines or something? It’s really hideous and feels like it’s in poor taste.
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about how if i had a job at kotaku my run would be legendary
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Write stuff for game oeuvre!!
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the next time i play fortnite on adderall i will think of something
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genius shit
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someone mod shadow of mordor to make orcs kissable
it’s the same input, after all
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let me stealth kiss the dog
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this was going to be a secret valentine’s day update until someone smart realized it was sexual violence
only shanking from now on
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