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Mike Mika

@MikeJMika

6 days

Go back… to where it all started.

Digital Eclipse

@DigitalEclipse

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Our update of #Wizardry : Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was built for modern hardware to offer a gorgeous, streamlined experience. Grab your controller for an authentic but accessible dive into the OG RPG today -- it's available now!

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How would it react to two logs suspended by ropes colliding with it?

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LimX Dynamics P1 is a versatile bipedal robot equipped with reinforcement learning capabilities, enabling it to master challenging terrains such as forests and ditches while maintaining its balance.

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Whoever our local news director is, kudos for deeming Golden Sun 1 & 2 as newsworthy between sports and weather.

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@willsmith @Chris_Rock I think you two need to hug this out.

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So this happened.

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How does one procure this thing from a store display without outright stealing it?

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I didn't make this, but I appreciate it.

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Been playing with the polarized 3D TV and got the idea to convert the Matrix so that one pair of glasses sees only the Matrix Raining Text effect and the other pair sees the Kung Fu fight between Neo and Morpheus, to feel like the characters watching it in the movie.

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4 years

Just hooked up Virtual Boy to work on a 3D TV with polarized glasses. How’s your morning going?

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Mike Mika

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Had I not just BOUGHT a Coleco Bowlatronic, I wouldn't have had my Leonardo DiCaprio moment watching Book of Boba Fett.

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At one point we were pitching this hybrid fighting and golf game with the Happy Madison crew. Good times. It should have been greenlit because it was a great idea.

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1 year

Hot take: The Dreamcast was the last console that genuinely felt hipper and cooler than any console before or after it.

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5 years

Half Man. Half Delorean. (via Jeff Koenig)

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3 years

We made what I think was the last MVC2 release on console when we were known as Backbone. (16x9, etc) I love the outpouring- We’d swap in GGPO and do documentary and museum work, etc. Will need to talk to Disney and Capcom to make it real. We’re game if they are. #FREEMVC2

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Mike Mika

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5 years

We're all gamers. #PlayTogether

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4 years

Leaked image of GTA for PS5 and XBSX.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

Wanna see something cool? Yes you do. Just got my SEGA arcade pop-up book.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

Dear Disney, please fast-track Spider-Man to Disney+. Charge theater prices. I'm cool with that.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

Sonic Riders Prototype (Game Cube)

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Mike Mika

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5 years

In the same vein as our Charlotte's Web game based on Prince of Persia, we did a Lilo and Stitch GBA game for Disney based on Metal Slug. By the time Disney looked at it it was too late - It was ready to ship. "It has GUNS? MECHS? WHAT?!" Then it sold well and all was forgiven.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

Happy 9/9!

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5 years

I find the darndest things when I clean my office!

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3 years

1970s Atari office photos.

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5 years

RIP Mr. Takashi Iwade, best known as a primary artist on Panzer Dragoon, he was also chief artist on Hundred Swords and touched so many other games from Jet Set Radio to Yakuza. The Panzer Dragoon series was beautiful and Mr. Iwade had a lot to do with that.

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Mike Mika

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There's no reasoning with it.

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5 years

Activision and Atari booths, CES, 1984.

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3 years

Step by step Steam Deck setup guide: 1. Install PSP emulator 2. Install Vita emulator 3. Install Switch Emulator 4. Install GB/GBC/GBA emu 5. Install DS/3DS emu 6. Install Game Gear emu 7. Install Wonderswan emu 8. Install Atari Lynx emu 9. Install LCD game emu pack 10. Profit

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3 years

The only casting announcement for the Super Mario Bros. movie that makes absolute sense to me is Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong.

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5 years

This image by Andie GeekGirl with the real Michael Biehn showing a young Ellen Ripley cosplay how to use the M41a Pulse Rifle MELTS MY GOSH DARN HEART.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

The Internet Archive is being threatened (again). If it were to go down, it’d be the loss of an enormous record of our history many times that of the loss of the library of Alexandria. Throw your support here:

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2 years

90s fashion is back.

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DOS and its sequel, MS. DOS.

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Very early prototype of Spyro for Xbox. Never completed.

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6 years

Still one of my favorite GIFs of all time.

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Lemmings IRL

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Mike Mika

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2 years

On this day in 1994 I was at the Chicago CES w/ my friends and during the Nintendo keynote they revealed Donkey Kong Country. Ultra 64 fever was high; everyone in the room assumed this was it, and cheered, marveled, and then they said it was coming to the SNES. Minds were blown.

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4 years

Where we peaked as a species:

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1 year

The LEGO set to end all LEGO sets. By Henk van der Linde.

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Mike Mika

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3 months

It feels like 1983 all over again for the games industry. Over saturated marketplace, deeply discounted games, closures and layoffs, and Nintendo, potentially, on the horizon with something new.

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2 years

I proposed this as a slipcase for #Atari50 at one point during production.

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10 years

Pretty much the coolest Lego thing ever. http://t.co/XpvH8Vfqwv

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4 years

My dad kept a Sega press kit.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

With Digital Eclipse in a funded situation, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what games we should go after. Our mission is to re-release, re-master and re-imagine. This means not only documentaries, museums, game improvements but also sequels and more. We’re funded! Let’s go!

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Mike Mika

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7 years

Showing #Trudeau all the cool stuff he has. #TRUMP

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Mike Mika

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2 months

I appreciate the discourse about arcade games not having micro transactions. But they literally were built on micro transactions. See: Gauntlet.

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4 years

On this day in 2013, my Daughter's request to play "as the girl" in Donkey Kong was fulfilled. She's still good at the game, but an even better role model to me as she teaches me daily about the world through her eyes. Because of that, I don't mind being called the #DonkeyKongDad

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Mike Mika

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3 years

The thought of moving this office is daunting. But it’s coming up fast. Ugh.

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Mike Mika

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1 year

Found a pile of NGage games cleaning up my room.

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4 years

Flight Simulator II (Apple II 1983) versus Flight Simulator (PC/XboxSX 2020). The difference 37 years makes.

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4 years

Real-time raytracing in full effect as images from Namco's PlayStation 5 Pac-Man emerge.

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5 years

"What kind of art are you into?" Me: "I'm into Japanese art." "What era?" Me: "17th century."

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Mike Mika

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7 years

I just hate it when they’re so smug about it. And like, Gandalf, I can’t even.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

PSA: If you didn't grow up playing these older games on CRT, the image on the right is the artistic intent. The left is the mechanical layout of data required to produce the image on the right. Both are fine, but the image on the right is what it is supposed to look like.

CRT Pixels 📺

@CRTpixels

3 years

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, Konami) - PS1 Sharp Pixels vs. PS1 Composite via Sony KV-13M51 This could be my new favorite. Notice the way composite color bleed turns a single pixel into red eyes, or the way the scanlines give definition to Dracula's lips and teeth.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

The sprites from a prototype Game Boy Color game based on Dark Crystal from the old Digital Eclipse Game Boy Color days.

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Mike Mika

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5 years

This is not mine, and I don't know where it came from, but I'm gonna share it anyway because I like it.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

This is the prototype Game Boy Color board I used to make NFL Blitz, etc. for Midway. The red buttons were the controls. It had sockets for expansion. The official dev kits were months away so Nintendo sent me this. Oh you could rewire a SNES for it, too.

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Mike Mika

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7 years

The Fairchild Channel F, first game console to use cartridges & a microprocessor. Designed by African-American engineer Jerry Lawson #MLKDAY

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Mike Mika

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3 years

The fear on the Japanese Olympic employee as the Australian women’s swim team coach comes at her like an unmasked Karen in Wal-Mart is priceless.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

Anyone else from the arcade era remember when someone would be doing really good at a game, but then they had to go, they’d look at you and go “Hey kid, take over my game.” That remains the ultimate cool move.

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Mike Mika

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1 year

A page from Miyamoto's design for Popeye before they changed it to Donkey Kong. Olive, Popeye and Bluto represented. (Scan by Gaming Historian)

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Mike Mika

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3 years

@Aaronnoraator Sounds risky. Easier to just assemble a team of experts from around the world and run scenarios for weeks then execute the plan with a potential 20% casualty margin.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

In honor of the Matrix announcement, here's that time I converted the movie to a polarized video feed so that you could see into the code.

Mike Mika

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4 years

Been playing with the polarized 3D TV and got the idea to convert the Matrix so that one pair of glasses sees only the Matrix Raining Text effect and the other pair sees the Kung Fu fight between Neo and Morpheus, to feel like the characters watching it in the movie.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

Happy 40th, TRON.

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3 years

Itty Bitty Inn has an Atari in every room. Swoon.

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Mike Mika

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10 years

Ubisoft tried to tell you, but you all got crazy. It really is hard for them to make women avatars. http://t.co/7TgkGxgfEU

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5 years

Did you know? I hid a marriage proposal in the Game Boy version of KLAX and it took my (now) wife four years top discover it? #gameboy30

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1 year

The challenges of storytelling in interactive entertainment in a nutshell.

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6 months

"Our influence comes from our experience. When I was a small child in Kyoto, I liked to go on adventures in the countryside with my shotgun. I surged with a sense of power over all living things." - Shigeru Miyamoto.

The Emotion Engine (Hiatus era)

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Shotgun Mario 64 is what all rom hacks aspire to be.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

I did that thing where I mounted my TV on a swivel and now vertical games feel new again.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

Found some source code.

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4 years

He. Kept. Everything.

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3 years

Don't Panic! On Douglas Adams' birthday, you can play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Infocom right here:

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Mike Mika

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7 years

"That's no moon, it's a SPACE STATION."

NASA

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7 years

Saturn’s moon Tethys may look like an eyeball staring into space, but that large circle is an enormous impact crater

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3 years

@kimpall We all have to pay bills.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

Michael Latham, long time game industry Producer, Designer, and good guy passed away today. He worked on a lot of games, and I know his name from Eternal Champions, Greendog, Home Alone and SCUD the Disposal Assassin. RIP.

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Mike Mika

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5 years

Keanu Reeves turns “55” today. Happy Birthday!

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That time we worked with Sandler’s production company to pitch a Happy Gilmore game.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

Digital Eclipse is looking for a strong Art Director, one that can be hands-on, produce pixel & 3D art, animate and work in different styles quickly w/quality. Respect for 80s/90s aesthetic. Sounds impossible, but I've worked w/such people in the past! DM me if you fit the bill!

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Mike Mika

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Seems common now, but 9 years ago we took the stage w/ @iocat , @xboxp3 , and Tricia Gray to demonstrate PC/Xbox crossplay for the first time with #IDARB . The industry felt so much smaller then.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

More 3D TV magic with polarized glasses. Only this time, I didn’t need to do anything to make this work. I just need to put on the glasses!

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3 years

My daughter wants to be a film maker. "Can you share my movie idea w/your friends in Hollywood. I want to put it on Netflix." I told her "Well, the odds of your first idea getting picked up is very low, what is it?" "Mermaids with machine guns." "I'll get you representation."

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Mike Mika

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5 years

Programming with Joey Ramone was the pinnacle of computing.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

Reminder that the Home Improvment game is dark AF.

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3 years

I love this box art.

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Mike Mika

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2 years

Masayuki Uemura, lead creator of the NES and SNES, passed away on December 6th at the age of 78. He was the head of R&D2, helped to domestic games, and created Clu Clu Land, Ic Climber, the Zapper and the FDS among so many other things. RIP.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

The man talking on the PS5 stream - He made Marble Madness - ONE OF THE MOST TECHNICALLY ADVANCED ARCADE GAMES OF ITS TIME, when he was 17 years old. What did you do when you were that age?

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Mike Mika

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4 years

I would love to know who is doing this? Found these videos on-line: Mini toy-sized Sega arcade games that replicate the interface and emulate the games with mini-video screens. This scratches a primal itch I didn't know I had.

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Mike Mika

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5 years

A direct correspondence from Atari to a young woman in Texas in 1982, in regards to her discovery of Warren Robinett's dot and signature in the game Adventure for the Atari VCS.

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Mike Mika

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3 years

LA kicked off post-pandemic summer w/an overdue hour-long slow pursuit of a stolen Uhaul. It had everything: Spike strips, blown tires, flaming engine, foot chase w/shoes flying off & pants falling down. I was hoping for a wildcard when firefighters opened the cargo, like dildos.

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Mike Mika

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6 years

The Target Exclusve to end all Target Exclusives.

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4 years

The PS5 is the most American-sized console to ever come out of a Japanese console company.

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7 months

Show a gif of a game that came out when you were ten years old.

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3 years

This is awesome! My job on this amazing film was to make sure the representation of games, gamers, and game development was legit, from story to production design. It’s been my mission to do this for film & TV and I feel so fortunate to be part of a team who embraced it all.

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The first reactions for #FreeGuy are here! They praise @VancityReynolds 's hilarious and heartwarming film, even calling it "the best video game movie ever made."

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Mike Mika

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At its peak, E3 was like a World's Fair, over the top, future facing, larger than life. Enormous in scale and decadence. Stadium-sized parties with $25 million dollar price tags. There is no place for it in today's world, and there definitely will never be anything like it again.

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Mike Mika

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4 years

1/In the #SAMURAISHODOWN Neo Geo collection, we have another cool trick up our sleeves: HD Zoom. The native resolution of the Neo Geo is 320x224. Sprite scaling consists of dropping pixels when scaling sprites down so that any amount of zoom-out causes pixels to be skipped over.

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3 years

No lies detected.

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