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christa lee

1 year

Need your retro console modded? HDMI out mod? Recap? Repair? Composite mod for RF-only system?Get in touch! I’m happy to service anything and everything pre-PS3! Go to or email christa @ soundretro dot co to reach out!!

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christa lee

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4 months

holy shit dude this ad

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The dithering on the face shadowing is unbelievable. Zoomed out on my phone display it could nearly pass for modern digital art. PC98 pixel art is absolutely unmatched

PC-98 Bot

@PC98_bot

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Mahjong Hou Tei Rao Yui // Queen Soft // PC-98 // #pc98 #QueenSoft

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2 years

very heartened by the people saying "oh I'm gonna hug the lady, I don't care about the HP debuff," buddy you're playin JRPGs now

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2 months

jesus christ yikes dude

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@Sony

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Which PlayStation game reigns supreme? Vote for your favorites in the polls below ⬇️

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christa lee

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3 years

mods are asleep post UK Ecco the Dolphin promotional plushie with Sega tramp stamp

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

8 months

nintendo directs are always fun because people who like mid-budget japanese games get to have a fun 40 minutes freaking out about Kawazugame and people who want Donkey Kong Swinging On Vines In An Open World are reliably disappointed. it's awesome

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christa lee

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2 years

you can whine about Scorsese "not liking superhero movies" or whatever but what he's saying is that it is impossible to properly fund non-franchise films within the studio system, without engaging with these tech firms, and increasingly that fact is unavoidable

Variety

@Variety

2 years

Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

6 years

If you like Katamari's music, there's a genre for you! Shibuya-kei was a movement in Japanese indie pop in the 90s, an amalgam of electronica, 1960s French music & Japanese Jazz. Pizzicato Five, Flipper's Guitar, Fantastic Plastic Machine and Cornelius are good places to start!

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2 years

It is not lost on me that this is the first time in decades a Japanese game (Not Nintendo) has sold like this and people on this website are shrieking about how it does not adhere to Good Design Practices

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christa lee

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@kitbracadabra the justification for the united states' invasion of Iraq in 2003 was predicated on the supposed presence of weapons of mass desctruction in that country; "weapons" that UN inspectors could not verify actually existed

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

5 years

Pusha T's verse is now on beat

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4 months

in case it's unclear: MGS3 came out in 2004. the war in iraq started in 2003

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@OhPoorPup

2 months

i did find a post of someone describing in kabbalistic terminology what specifically is being done to Shinji in EoE and I found it very liberating as someone who has heard "oh it's just a bunch of Cool Images, they don't mean anything, it's just nonsense" for 15 years

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christa lee

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3 years

i am once again asking ppl to stop using "accessibility" to mean "I can walk through an experience unopposed"

Scrub Quotes @ EVO Japan 🗾

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2 months

like 20 iterations of the same five ideas

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three of these video games are spiders man

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4 years

Hey Seattle: fuck this Steampunk Tea Shop (lol), don't give them your money or time

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@OhPoorPup

5 months

man it's so cool and sustainable that The Fastest-Selling PlayStation Game hasn't broken even. that's awesome stuff. make it bigger maybe!

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5 months

Hacked files released online as part of a malicious ransomware attack offer a glimpse at the complex challenges Insomniac faces juggling teams, projects, and budgets to deliver top-tier games while contending with potential cost-cutting measures from Sony

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4 years

v excited for playstation 5

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christa lee

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27 days

It’s disappointing to see a lot of skepticism over 1) a very cool late 90s Nintendo re-visitation of one of their formative games, 2) a very cool import title, 3) one of the best STGs on the platform. Do people just want Link to the Past all the time?

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@NintendoAmerica

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Three #SuperNES classic titles are now live for #NintendoSwitchOnline members! ☑️ Wrecking Crew '98 ☑️ SUPER R-TYPE ☑️ Amazing Hebereke

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christa lee

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3 years

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

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Bitcoin: Initiated

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4 months

My mind is reeling from the knowledge that Horizon Zero Dawn (the game we mostly talk about as unfortunately releasing the same week as BotW) is PlayStation’s best selling game ever

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

6 months

Seeing a lot of skepticism around OLED. I both service CRTs and edit video and I’ll tell you, OLED is absolutely the only display technology that feels like anything but a downgrade from CRT. We’ve been in Bad Display Tech Hell for 15 years

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8 months

i'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say that the original PlayStation game was designed, edited, rigged, and animated for 30 FPS, and this is Fine. 2 and 3 run at 60 and that's great

Kotaku

@Kotaku

8 months

Metal Gear Solid Locked At 30FPS In Master Collection, Konami Confirms

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

2 months

Strongly recommend this collection of Toriyama Dragon Quest illustrations

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8 months

computer, show me the greatest object known to exist

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christa lee

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2 months

did not realize until seeing End of Eva theatrically that 1) the voices are mixed REALLY HOT, like wow those screams are loud 2) they use multichannel to great effect in the Instrumentality sections 3) the end of komm susser tod has a lot of sex noises that I'd never noticed

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4 months

@kitbracadabra this ad is positioning the post-9/11 zeitgeist of warmongering and invasion as an echo of the game's own international political context, the War in Iraq as an echo of post-Cuban Missile Crisis American paranoia and disrespect of international norms

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christa lee

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3 years

In the early 1900s laws were established to keep studios from owning theatres. The concern was, if studios had control over the means of distribution/presentation, they could abuse and misuse that power to shut out others and mistreat workers. Sign up for Disney plus today and

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christa lee

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2 months

rewatched Evangelion 25' and 26' and had forgotten how unmistakably obvious what the correlation is between those events and End of Evangelion. it is so weird that there is this common "what the hell is going on???" reaction to them

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christa lee

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6 years

SONICFOX, WE GOT U

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christa lee

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4 years

I think that regardless of what happens (Biden could still win), the Democratic party is utterly useless when it comes to meeting people, particularly marginalized people, where they live. If Biden loses it will be largely an expression of that and it is indefensible

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christa lee

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2 years

to expound on this now that it's hit 500 likes (???), JRPGs are at their core an attempt to represent emotional experience through mathematic relationships. which is exactly what you're doing when you take the debuff to get the hug! welcome to JRPGs :)

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

9 months

Beat Armored Core VI! A message from another world, a better world, where we’re regularly making 4K PS2 Action Games

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6 years

oh thank god

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

5 years

Links Awakening is perf but u REALLY owe it to yourself to check out the game that lent it its game engine, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls), a Game Boy Rumiko Takahashi-esque comedy anime RPG that is dripping with charm!There's an English patch!

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christa lee

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1 year

Holy shit. Holy shit. Nintendo didn’t publicize it but Prime Remastered supports the GameCube controller

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christa lee

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4 years

might fuck around and forget the furtive pygmy

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3 years

oh, it's just gubble

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3 months

i forgot how good the SMTV localization was. please port this game to playstation five and rebalance the last third atlus

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3 months

I really wish there was a GDQ-style event for scoreplay. Cool Games Played Well or something. i think for a lot of ppl "speedrunning" is The Verb for Skilled Play and speedrunning is very cool but scoreplay is its own, really interesting thing

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2 years

you find the damnedest things on etsy

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2 months

sorta extremely bitter that all this fervor about microtransactions has to hit the game that meaningfully employs considered friction

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

2 years

it is also not lost on me that we've lived through a decade of Western games injecting corpse runs, roguelites, "NES-Hard Difficulty" and environmental storytelling into their designs Because Dark Souls Did It

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

2 years

Magnetic Rose is one of the most beautiful science fiction films ever made and it’s FREE? on YOUTUBE???? You better go watch it then

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@catsuka

2 years

Memories "Magnetic Rose" is available for free on Youtube thanks to RetroCrush. Directed by Koji Morimoto, with the help of Satoshi Kon.

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2 years

finally

The "𝕏" Doctor (Bsky Era)

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HDMI to hose adapter. 3D prints going wild.

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10 months

there is a tendency in retro circles to throw around "this is one of the most important" etc. it is easy to hear that all the time and think "surely that's overblown." I say this so u understand when I say "Baroque is one of the most important games ever" you know I am serious

Plissken

@Plissken___

10 months

There is a rumor that the Saturn version of #Baroque is better then PS1. Who we are to believe that by word! But starting from today you can play both version in English to compare them by yourself and decide what version is actually better. Enjoy.

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3 months

linda cube is the most important post-Mother RPG ever made. kind of a "baroque" situation where whatever I say about this game to convince you to play it will sound kinda hyperbolic, just play it

Cargodin - Commissions = OPEN

@Cargodin

3 months

Linda³ Again - English fan translation OUT NOW! In light of Linda Cube/Linda Cubed's themes, we remember the people who need our help in the Congo, Sudan, Palestine and in our local communities. Do something kind this week with your own hands. Patch + charity links in thread:

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2 years

While capturing Tetris CDi footage for [JOB], I ran into the Secret Dog! This takes place far enough into the level that you're likely to move on to the next one before he shows up, so you've gotta go in to Level 6 manually and hang around a bit. Sadie and I were hollering!! 🐶

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11 months

Shenmue is often accused of being “cinematic,” and there’s no doubt wuxia is a key influence, but I’ve always found far more interesting the way it takes the kinetic, arresting language of arcade game attract modes and lays it atop daily mundanities

Virtua Fighter 3 Intro and Attract Mode Arcade Version Sega Model 3

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11 months

Shenmue シェンムー一章横須賀 Dreamcast (1999)

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

"but Scorsese gets to make the movies he wants to make" yes his issue is that people not named Martin Scorsese do not get to make two (2) dramatic features without being swooped up by Disney or Marvel or Star Wars

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5 months

Alan Wake II is my favorite game of 2023, and one of the best written, best crafted video games I’ve ever played. It exists in a category alongside Kojima’s works, Kentucky Route Zero, 13 Sentinels, as a game that truly approaches literature. I cannot recommend it highly enough

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@Wario64

5 months

Alan Wake 2 (Standard/Deluxe) is $47.99/$63.99 on US PSN XBL Alan Wake Remastered + Alan Wake 2 + Fortnite outfit $26.79 on EGS after coupon

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4 months

I sincerely hope that whoever decided "How do you Live?" (「君たちはどう生きるか」) needed a stupid English title has a bad day. The point in the film where he picks up a book called "How do you Live?" and reads it is going to be lost on like. at least 60% of viewers. great job

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

6 years

Hey Twitter, I've been trying to drive up engagement lately, and WELL.....

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

2 years

was looking at this interview last night where Miyazaki describes Demon's Souls as an attempt to render out in play those actions that are implied in lower fidelity in Wizardry

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

Google on Saturn is a treat (watch to the end)

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2 months

The stupid tittering in the screening after Misato kisses Shinji. God. after it ended a guy shouted “SHINJI IKARI DID NOTHING WRONG” like buddy. be normal please

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@OhPoorPup

1 month

The Ultimate……the white whale of fan translations…….one day

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@sega_city

1 month

'SEGAGAGA' was released on the SEGA Dreamcast 23 years ago today in Japan.

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

8 years

Kaneko Kazuma, a lead designer on the Megami Tensei franchise since 1990:

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

3 years

Absolutely losing my mind learning that the Shadow Moses sequence in Metal Gear Solid 4 is running in the PlayStation 3's PS1 emulator. The unimpeachable necessity of Software As Text conveying the disparity between two works. The fallibility of nostalgia literally demonstrated

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5 months

Really wish 1989's Gunhed would get a US Blu-ray release. It's one of those Japan-only works that would completely reshape EN understanding of the works that followed. Metal Gear Solid is obviously riffing on it, but I've seen FFVII's Midgar cited as a descendant as well

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christa lee

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2 years

I’m gonna start keeping a list

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christa lee

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4 months

@NTA_Luciana @kitbracadabra i mean it's just an ad in a magazine, it's not key to the text of MGS3. i think it's just drawing a line between "then" and "now"

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If I think too much about Sega co-funding Neon Genesis Evangelion and Sakura Taisen around the same time as the Sega Saturn/Dreamcast, while putting out games like Panzer Dragoon Saga, VF3, Wachenröder, Shenmue, etc I start to get extremely depressed lol. What a magical time

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6 years

No I’m pretty sure I want to fuck a monster

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christa lee

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2 months

End of Eva is one of the most profound aesthetic experiences ever but in recent years I have found Gunbuster, Royal Space Force, and especially Kare Kano to have more emotional and thematic impact for me personally. If you loved End of Eva I super recommend checking them out!

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@OhPoorPup

5 months

In case you aren’t seeing it, here The letters spell Atami, a town in Shizuoka, which is a Japanese word that translates to “Quiet Hill” or, uh. “Silent Hill,” if you like. The “7780s Studio” that was supposed to be PT’s “developer” is named for Shizoka’s area in Square Meters

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5 months

kojima's OD update: there are letters inside Udo Kier's mouth

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“Nocturne is the hardest JRPG of all time” is one of the most baffling takes out there. If you calibrate your expectations to “save often, death is a consequence of knowledge-acquisition” it is as simple and straightforward as they come

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Is this a hot take or facts?

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@OhPoorPup

3 years

Materia Collective paid me $4700 last night, money that could have helped with immigration, surgery prep, rent or food during this pandemic. Money they would have kept withholding had we not made it Bad Optics for them. Interest is owed to ALL composers Materia neglected to pay.

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And Scorsese can't make the movies he wants to make without embracing Netflix. Francis Ford Coppola, whose Godfather is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is putting up 120 million dollars of his own money to finance a passion project, because there is no money there

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"things change, the industry changes" Yeah post-1920s there were laws about how studios could not manage theatres, they couldn't control the means of distribution *and* production, because it's anticompetitive. Netflix producing their own films for their own service is identical

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2 years

2:18 of R4 - Ridge Racer Type 4 for PlayStation rendering at 16:9, running on MiSTerFPGA. this is absolutely incredible

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1 year

"Seriously dude?" pt. 2 This one was really insulting. Quadraphonic condescension

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@OhPoorPup

4 months

fun fact, the late Rieko Kodama (producer of the Sega Ages Switch releases) got in touch with a former AM2 programmer who had held on to the source for Virtua Formula specifically, and M2 worked backwards from that to make the Nintendo Switch port of Virtua Racing

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If square enix is in the “we have to generate more revenue please god” mode I would like to see them make Dragon Quest Walk playable outside Japan

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Online at 16: "man, I really don't want people to think I'm some kind of perv, or unintelligent, better act Normal" Online at 26: "I'm dumb as shit and I eat ass. Here's a picture of a dog with its tongue out. haha funny. thanks for following"

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i keep a list of like "oh obviously this is going to instantly become my favorite game ever," things like Baroque, Chrono Cross, Linda Cube, Segagaga, God Hand, etc. so i can mete them out over the years, sure-fire hits I know I can count on. time to cross another off the list

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

tfw pascal the dog is here

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there's something disheartening about silent hill going from a game where characters are mostly-wordlessly inserted into a Zone where their traumas and misdeeds silently stalk them to a game where characters explain and describe their interiority through explicit language

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It’s fucked up to think about how many video games you could credibly call “The Best Ever” that Akira Toriyama contributed to. Like at least four

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

this really is the best localization in the history of the form, and it isn't even close. the depth and breadth of the demons' characterization is unlike anything I've ever seen in a localized video game. bravo @Atlus_West @SEGA @-the-staff-I-should-know-to-tag-but-don't

hiii i'm ruben hello

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WOW????

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I wanna echo this, Akira is a magnificently dense film, moreso than its reputation unfortunately implies. Absolutely do not live your life without having seen Akira.

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"I want more games by fewer people who are paid more to-- not like that!

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

If you watch a modern European drama, you’ll notice like 10 financiers’ logos before the first credit. That’s a crystal-clear illustration of how difficult it is to finance an adult, non-genre dramatic work in the modern landscape

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@OhPoorPup

2 years

this snippet from the Sega NetLink Saturn Modem Manual, illustrating an IRC

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2 years

Y’all, don’t stop buying Activision games, whatever you do, it’s important to keep buying them. Activision can tell which purchases are made due to “support for the developers” and “support for Bobby Kotick specifically.” They actually make you tick a little box. They Listen

Game Developer

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2 years

Activision Blizzard doubles down on Kotick defense in all-hands meeting

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The Neo Geo Dog is the most anyone has ever drawn A Dog. There’s so much dog going on

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One of my prized possessions is this CPU from (supposedly, I have no way of knowing) the Soviet space program. Yes, that’s concrete on the bottom

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Penny’s Big Breakaway Vanillatown 1-1 first Full Combo

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Brian Shea

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What moment in a video game will stick with you for the rest of your life?

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My nonbinary Irish music theory teacher, Mx. O’Lydian

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@OhPoorPup

3 years

the prevalence of generic nouns/verbs to describe art, art production and art patronage ("Content," "Stories," "Consume," "Creator") is a mechanism by which all art is devalued through ambiguation. The labor, appreciation and theory of artmaking as Content to Consumer Pipeline

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I don't like to mock game developers. it is hard, undervalued work and decisionmaking in AAA is not on an individual basis and thus nothing any of these ppl can control. But Elden Ring is doing nothing more complicated or innovative than reiterating 40 yrs of game design

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2 years

Developers from Ubisoft and Guerrilla as well as others upset over Elden Rings success.

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I try to be pretty stoic and removed on Politics Stuff, but seeing people serenade Anthony Fauci on his birthday and popularly laud him after his role in the AIDS crisis hurts in a way I can't convey. this man destroyed my community before I could know it and we praise him

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An excerpt from a letter Larry Kramer sent to Fauci in 1995:

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@OhPoorPup

3 years

This is horrifying, as is the cited anecdote in the image

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3 years

It took a decade, but Apple just completely removed the need for understanding files and folders with the iPhone. This kind of fundamental change is what great design looks like!

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@OhPoorPup

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(here is that post! )

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christa lee

@OhPoorPup

6 years

bitch ive been doing it for four years

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