Chris Kohler says PLAY LLAMASOFT!
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Editorial Director of "Llamasoft" & more @DigitalEclipse . @GoodJobBrain co-host, former @WIRED editor. Books: 日本語オッケー 🍛
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🦙LLAMASOFT: THE JEFF MINTER STORY🦙
𝟗.𝟓/𝟏𝟎 "Groundbreaking" — Paste
★★★★ "Fascinating" — VGC
"Gaming's answer to the Criterion Collection" — CNET
𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬𝐞.
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bro at a bar who wants to start shit:
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turns out Zelda 1 was a lot different in Chile
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Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s innovations seem to have few limits
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I love ebay (incredible message from a seller after I paid)
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This is just wild. Dataminers identified the exact samples used in the Super Mario World songs (which had to be heavily compressed to fit on the SNES cart) and rebuilt the songs using the full, uncompressed samples, and... wow.
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I saw a tweet the other day about "how is it that every mainline Zelda is, at minimum, very good, whereas with other game series they run out of juice" and part of that answer has to be that it's the Same. People. Making. Them. for the last 40 years!
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"the Nintendo 64 on Switch is just gonna end up being first-party Nintendo games and then a bunch of super weird B-tier stuff from random third parties nobody's ever heard of" oh you mean the N64's actual library?
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PARENTS:
If you're putting an Xbox Series X or S under the tree, remember this very important tip!
BEFORE you wrap it up, take it OUT OF THE BOX, and TURN IT ON, and CONNECT IT TO THE INTERNET. Then let it download the SYSTEM UPDATE, then download BLINX: THE TIME SWEEPER
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Paper Mario: The Origami King English localization appreciation thread
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*turns chair around backwards*
Folks, I'm hearing the word "Ouya" thrown around a lot today.
Let's remember something.
Ouya *shipped*.
They shipped it. Console, games, OS, etc. Got it to backers on time. ***ON TIME***. It had lots of games! You could buy it at Target!
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I once sat in a demo of a new Sonic game where the presenter started out by assuring us all that they had learned their lesson and this game would feature the classic Sonic action that everybody wanted. Three minutes later we were being introduced to something called a "werehog"
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Between this and the fact that they're apparently restoring Peach's castle to its original look, this is really getting interesting -- it's clearly being updated by people who understand a lot of behind-the-scenes about the original game.
HUGE NEWS
thanks, updated resolution!!! (also I love to see a stunt race fx cameo)
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Practically the entire teams who made the first Zelda, first Mario, etc. are still at Nintendo and actively involved in the new games - that kind of institutional know-how, that lifetime of experience, just doesn't exist with most other game franchises. It's simply unheard of
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Seeing a lot of Live A Live reactions today that amount to "I never even knew this existed!" which shows you why "but there's a fan translation!" is no substitute for a game being officially released, in terms of actually getting it out to its largest possible audience.
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder concepts and prototype levels:
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Not sure if these are anywhere else on the Internet in full resolution, so here, have some giant size (for 2005) images of the "Revolution controller."
These were handed out at the first preview of the controller, at Tokyo Game Show 2005.
Spot the differences!
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So it's not like you can replicate this situation but so much of "Nintendo magic!!!" can be boiled down to "people are not fungible"
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Prototype level cut from Mario Wonder:
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BREAKING: Police have arrested the man suspected of stealing the GTA source code. However, he immediately respawned outside the police station
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Some news! It is my last day at Kotaku.
Also, it's the last day of my 24-year career in media.
Time to start a new adventure, which you'll find out about pretty soon. Exciting things ahead!
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Of course, so much of this is because of the nature of employment in Japan vs. elsewhere, and at Nintendo in particular -- Nintendo simply does not do layoffs, but in return, employees are loyal -- Aonuma would not leave Nintendo if somebody offered him 10X his salary
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Hi! I am, we are, so happy with the overwhelming response to today's announcement!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is coming in both physical and digital form for PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam:
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me: this is one of the most revered games ever made, about a group of broken people desperate to find meaning in their lives after an apocalypse takes everything from them
you: and what is that
me: a talking octopus who wants to kill them
you:
me: he appears in an opera
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Oh hey it's the assistant director of Super Mario Bros.!
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Just went to a retro game store that turned out to be... a room in somebody's house lol
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日本からのフォロワーさん達へようこそ！開国後、すぐ日本にもどって、カレーばっかり食うつもりですよ
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Well, I figured the first million dollar game was imminent, but I didn't think it was gonna be today... or this.
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Ouya had Final Fantasy III!
Final Fantasy III!
It had Towerfall!
Now, did the market want it? Turns out, no.
But they *shipped a goddamned console*.
They actually did one of the hardest things to do, the thing many many many companies have attempted and wildly failed at.
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My mentions just started blowing up with curry discussion, and it turns out that a popular writer just discovered my 2008 curry article. It just keeps going ^_^;;;
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Back when I was in GQ Japan (see photographic evidence below), I expressed my hope that a "Japanese curry boom" would happen in the US at some point.
A couple of days ago, that phrase appeared in the SF Chronicle:
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Sega just announced the Game Gear Micro.
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Oh man I am at a hotel in Disney World and they have a
CRAZY TAXI
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metroid dread announced: Oh, cool, they're doing another side-scrolling Metroid as a prelude to Metroid Prime 4, the one everyone really wants
after finishing metroid dread: Uh, how is Metroid Prime 4 supposed to compete with that
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me before kids: i will never lie to my children
me with kids: ah sorry, the man at the restaurant told me you can't have a third apple juice or the police will arrest you
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Beyond thrilled to say that today is my first day as Editorial Director at Digital Eclipse.
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End of thread BONUS:
L: Paper Mario: Color Splash (Wii U, 2016)
R: Paper Mario: The Origami King (Switch, 2020)
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Big day for the Video Game History Foundation, which has released its long-in-the-works study of availability of historic video games. Results: they're not
An alarming 87% of classic video games released in the US are unavailable. Here’s why that matters.
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you have got to be absolutely kidding me
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At the risk of explaining a joke too much, what I am saying is that if the N64 library on Switch is what the NES + SNES ones are, meaning most of the Nintendo-published games plus a bunch of oddball third-party stuff, that is actually quite close to the authentic N64 experience!
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(Is this what the songs were "supposed to sound like"? Hmmmmmaybe, but consider that Nintendo was probably picking which samples to use based on which ones sounded best after the SNES compressed them down to hell.)
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While I would have to imagine that the FFVII Re-Trilogy will end up selling just fine in the end (it'll get ported, install bases grow, etc.) -- this is pretty much the inevitable result of doing episodic content, right? Sales drop off after Episode 1
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is “underperforming sales wise”, an analyst has claimed. The game has reportedly sold about half of what Final Fantasy 7 Remake did in the same timeframe.
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okay I did the thing you all wanted me to do:
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🚨NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE RT!🚨
So excited to FINALLY reveal "The Making Of Karateka," our next game from
@DigitalEclipse
!
Before Prince of Persia, Jordan Mechner created this 1984 Apple II masterpiece. Our new interactive documentary goes DEEP.
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this is the only good joke I have ever made
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Did 1990s adventure game puzzles make any sense? No. Were they fair to the player? No. But in the end, if you really considered everything at your disposal and thought about how they might work together, could you figure them out? Also no
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crazy how many eBay sellers don't want Manuel buying any of their games. what did he even do
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Super Mario games cannot be set in space. If it's set in space it's a Metroid
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Got to the flea market this morning... and it was raining. Very few vendors, tentatively setting a few things up in covered area. Very few buyers. Assumed I was going home with nothing... then opened up a box at a booth and started pulling these out one by one.
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Happy anniversary to the only good joke I ever told
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"this direct was for people in their 40s" YES. we need our games on the Switch. the kids keep using the big TV
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See, this is good to hear - that there were "serious conversations" about launching Mother 3 on 3DS or Wii U.
I think a lot of people want to believe conspiracy theories about how it's "never happening" for some secret reason or another, other than simple business considerations
Reggie says he had "many conversations" about Mother 3 with Satoru Iwata; "serious conversation" was had about digital release in the west, one idea was just been putting the Japanese version on the eShops
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So there was a minor happening in the collecting world over the last couple of weeks -- seems like a couple people hit the jackpot at an estate sale in the Dallas area and came away with some unbelievable sealed games that sold for massive prices.
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Just going through my box of old business cards looking for something, and I audibly gasped
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We made this 13 years ago at WIRED. No I don't know why we would do this
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just checking in again to see how many sellers still refuse to do business with Manuel. poor guy
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Stumbled upon a very cool tiny little arcade and game store in Worcester, MA called Materia! Owner opened it two months ago and is very friendly! Small but highly curated selection of games for play and sale.
Instagram:
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wife: so, is this family-friendly?
me: well, i set the language to japanese...
[half a second later]
ffxvi:
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Ok, so that store A Gamer's Paradise in Vegas? The one with the "museum" and all the system boxes on the wall?
It's closing September 30 and everything is now for sale :OOO
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Doing research in the
@GameHistoryOrg
library and found this surprising press release, in which Squaresoft says it will ship *four* SNES games in 1995 -- Evermore, Chrono, and two unannounced games. First time I have ever heard of this.
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lol I ordered a brand new game from GameStop and they shipped me an opened copy with a sticker sealing it. I admire their absolute, to-the-bitter-end commitment to being completely disappointing
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i want you to know that if i was on an airplane and the pilot died and they needed a video gamer to get on the controls I would 100% do it, no question. before we crashed I would be like "wow, this is nothing like actraiser
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Mario 3 needs a save function so obviously and badly that the developers basically apologized *in the manual* for the fact that it didn't have one
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absolutely brilliant clownshow. zero notes. so happy to be here to watch this amazing shit
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The situation Final Fantasy finds itself in right now is fascinating, because the genre in which it began (turn-based RPG) no longer has mass-market appeal, but there's so much pressure to figure out how to create a Final Fantasy game that sells 30 million copies.
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dammit I saw a tweet days ago about how this looks like two guys looking at a giant woman and now I can't see it the other way
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It's December 18 (in Japan...), which means it's the 35th anniversary of Final Fantasy!
While it can certainly seem that this groundbreaking RPG came out of nowhere, it was a culmination of the work Square had done to that point. Let's look at the road to Final Fantasy...
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It's tough to put into words just what an amazing collection this is - the devotion to this one often-ignored category that's clearly very personal to the collector, the immaculate condition and presentation, and the passion and the love for the games:
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My sympathies to everyone at Giant Bomb / GameSpot / Fandom. It's depressing to watch this entire space just collapse. I put 25 years into it. For a long time, I thought I was going to do it forever.
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"Child removed shrink wrap last night 12/13/20"
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yeah i'm into NFTs
Nintendo Sixty-
Four
Titles
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As a "congrats on quitting your job" present, I decided to keep going with my collection of big box SNES RPGs from Europe. (US boxes for scale).
It's wild that these exist! EarthBound-sized boxes for other major RPGs! All published by Nintendo.
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omg Namco ported Pac-Man Championship to the Famicom (as part of the upcoming Switch collection)
「ナムコットコレクション」のDLC購入数に応じたコレクション特典が公開！ タイムアタック形式の「パックマン チャンピオンシップエディション」が遊べる！ #ナムコットコレクション
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There is a *massive*, ongoing, perennial market for classic mini systems that Nintendo has abandoned and allowed these knockoffs full of weird ROM hacks to flourish.
NBC News running a piece on the knock off SNES mini and its absurd included rom hacks is hilarious
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I absolutely do not have time to play an RPG right now and I am absolutely going to buy two RPGs on the Switch this week
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Anyway, that's totally a Watchmen reference on this box, right?
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Well, THIS smile is not coming off my face for a while
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Yes, all 13 games from the arcade, NES, Super NES, Genesis, and Game Boy are included. The 11 Japanese versions are in there, too. The two arcade games, Hyperstone Heist (Genesis), and Tournament Fighters (SNES) will have online play.
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ok so let me get this straight: the toy section now is literally just the exact same toys they had when i was a kid in the exact same packages
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Everyone knows that Nintendo releases a successful console, then an unsuccessful one, then a successful one, etc. So the reason they cancelled the Switch Pro is, clearly, to skip over the unsuccessful console and go straight to the successful one. This is just math
From last week: Digital Foundry is claiming that the Switch Pro was planned, but then cancelled in favor of a console successor:
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This is going to be a packed, chaotic week, so before I forget I just wanted to talk here about Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, which is out on Friday. 🧵
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a fake wall you have to hit 50 times to break is just a regular wall
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