videogame things you think about a lot

[iguferon]

i feel that dude i could HEAR the quit sound reading that tweet

[BustedAstromech]

[parker]

people seem hesitant about them bringing kiryu back to Like a Dragon but I’m 100% onboard, I relate to kiryu more than ever since I too obtained a family and then abandoned them

[loki]

the sound test screen from space harrier ii. the screen itself is like the sound tests from a bunch of early first party mega drive games, with the song names listed in two columns in the game’s standard font, but the weird evocative titles and the sparse futuristic sound of the songs themselves really stood out to me and cought my imagination as a kid

[ellaguro]

i woke up with the Stage 1 music from the NES Little Nemo game playing in my head in spite of not having listened to it or played that game in years

Little Nemo The Dream Master OST | Mushroom Forest (Stage 1)

not sure what this means

[VastleCania]

this tune in particular is embedded in my childhood memories as deeply as anything else. that little delay between the two notes ~:22 is like, the first pleasurable friction i remember from a song breaking my expectations.

anyway seems like a good omen to me tbh

[ellaguro]

there is something about this tune. it is very wistful and innocent but also sorta melancholy and understated in a way that a lot of other NES music doesn’t manage to be. the fact that the root note of the bass in the first section of the melody basically doesn’t change probably contributes a lot to that.

also the forest level this is in is weirdly kinda dark and spooky, which you wouldn’t normally expect for a first level of a game like this

[L]

Sometimes I think about the general plot of the comic Little Nemo, of a “princess” spiriting away this small boy to a magical land of wonder where everything constantly scares the living daylights out of him, and she keeps showing successively scary things to him without really understanding what the problem is. It honestly feels depressing in a way that I’m pretty sure McKay didn’t really acknowledge or feel like exploring (given how it was essentially just a frame to draw something wacky each week).

[VastleCania]

honestly my main thought after the song RE: little nemo is the character who has become in my mind “femboy clown”

who it turns out is probably based on the “Candy Kid” from the comics

[u_u]

Candy kid says…

[Cerium]

Thinking about how I went to all the trouble of walking across the other side of my house to get the case of armo(u)red core V to read the manual only to find it’s six pages long and doesn’t tell you anything interesting.

[hellojed]

The loading screen for Armored Core 3 (the only one I have) makes me feel like I’m at a Radisson Inn off the highway next to the airport about to sit through a timeshare presentation

[MintyJuffowup]

The bureaucratic tedium of death dealing

[villain]

Greatest Hits Final Fantasy Anthology is somehow the cheapest double-box PSX game you can still buy sealed.

[AutomaticTiger]

I wonder if they were reprinting it? They kept a lot of old PSX games in print for years after the PSX wasn’t a thing anymore

You can still grab FF Origins on their store today for this reason

FINAL FANTASY ORIGINS GREATEST HIT [PS]

[loki]

yeah, i got chrono cross brand new only a couple years ago for like £10-ish

[villain]

Yeah, I assume it had a massive reprint at one point and yeah, I also noticed a lot of sealed FF Origins copies. I’ve just been looking for 2-disc PSX jewel cases to replace several of mine and noticed that, while trying to see if there were any really shitty 2-disc PSX games I could get sealed for the price of a Jimmy White’s Cue Ball 2 to harvest the case from, that FF Anthology was like, the most abundant and cheapest 2-disc PSX game sealed on eBay right now.

[BustedAstromech]

Cruis'n World Title For 10 Minutes

[meauxdal]

that sneaky portanento’d descending synth arpeggio that rises up behind “…to crui~se the wo~rld”

absolute perfection

[BustedAstromech]

I do love it