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Gaming historian / digital archeologist @ https://genesistemple.com Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/trKjYjtnjP Ex-music critic / Twitch streamer/podcaster - https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple Support https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple

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Which, of course, means that most tech/gaming small to mid-tier website has either been wiped away or been sold out

04.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Since Cucciolo, the 1998 Italian movie featuring several miinutes of SegaWorld, isn't available in any formats, it's time to get Filmauro to wake up. This movie deserves a decent, non-pirated release.
Please sign, get them to give us SEGAWORLD IN HIGH DEF
c.org/dmHYWCxChV

04.03.2026 08:34 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks maaaaaate

04.03.2026 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

also @timeextension.com give us a hand

04.03.2026 08:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

might be of interest to @sega-16.bsky.social

04.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Since Cucciolo, the 1998 Italian movie featuring several miinutes of SegaWorld, isn't available in any formats, it's time to get Filmauro to wake up. This movie deserves a decent, non-pirated release.
Please sign, get them to give us SEGAWORLD IN HIGH DEF
c.org/dmHYWCxChV

04.03.2026 08:34 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

ew

04.03.2026 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lesssssssgo

03.03.2026 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ultimate Drummer: Official Trailer

22.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 67    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 3

I guess Ukie needed legal threats since, when I asked them, they told me the same ol story "we did our due diligence before acting on the takedowns". Pff.

03.03.2026 18:03 — 👍 102    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My article is finally outdated!

03.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now that is some good news

03.03.2026 17:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

27.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 1526    🔁 792    💬 14    📌 13

Nooooo don't make me hungry

03.03.2026 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Plan 9 from Outer Space - best worst tie-in game - The Genesis Temple In 1992 Gremlin Interactive developed an adventure based on the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space. What happened?

I remember boxes also came with the movie on VHS, that's what happens when you basically have a public domain movie. I wrote about the game a while ago (not particularly interesting but there's some stuff about its development) genesistemple.com/plan-9-from-...

03.03.2026 13:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

It's kinda amazing how uninteresting this game is considering the soruce material

03.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did you sneak behind them and start singing at the top of your voice WEEEEEEEE AREEEEEEE CHARLIEEEE KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

03.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I mean it is honestly amazing that these people have in their CV "killed off several websites and ruined people's jobs and careers" and hiring managers are like WHY DO I HAVE THE WEIRDEST BONER RIGHT NOW??

03.03.2026 08:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kinda telling that I'm familiar with several of the names of people affiliated with Clickout Media in this article and, especially, with the fact that these people already didn't care about journalism back when it was still "kinda functional".

03.03.2026 08:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wonderful piece. As someone who in 2023 worked with Needler on what was - still - an average gaming website, I could already tell he would be a great asset to the Clickout Media empire.

03.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gamecube controller airbrushed very badly

Gamecube controller airbrushed very badly

Every time I stumble upon this Transformers Gamecube controller, I 100% believe it's one of those "gulf war" relics.

03.03.2026 08:18 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course I will be playing this game during the week (and probably the next) since this is a kids game featuring death and sickness and has scarred many young Wii owners.
www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...

24.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I thought calling him Infant Moses though, Baby might not sound too well

02.03.2026 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! I was thinking you could hit the main character directly, but I thought maybe it would work better if those animals attacked him from afar with a weird backwards kick???

02.03.2026 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Article about 13 people being reported for selling pirated Ps1 games

Article about 13 people being reported for selling pirated Ps1 games

Back in January of 1999, Italy was experiencing the first arrests for selling pirated Ps1 games. Back then, pirated PlayStation games could be found everywhere on the streets.
It was kind of a different vibe from the good ol' days of 1984 when everyone sold pirated games with no issues.

02.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I got a great story about the world being flooded and one single man being tasked with saving two beings of each species.
I also envisage a game where you jump around, collecting animals while lifting them over your head.
Ah, a man can dream.

02.03.2026 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sure, even though "narrative" is an even broader term and with thousands of years of human stories, telling something "innovative" isn't really even relevant at this point

02.03.2026 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sure, but you'd still have to make it VERY popular, otherwise I can tell you many other games that made it before but nobody cared.

02.03.2026 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jay was talking about "being the first at doing something", none of the games you mentioned came first at doing it, they were hugely popular so people wanted to jump on bandwagons. It would be like saying "Dark Souls invented soulslikes", no it didn't, it simply popularized a thing.

02.03.2026 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0