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YouTube video by Super Guitar Bros Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience - Acoustic/Classical Guitar Cover - Super Guitar Bros

This is pretty nuts as well. Love Aquatic Ambience.
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Typing of the Dead is a text adventure

Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web Explore Perplexity's blog for articles, announcements, product updates, and tips to optimize your experience. Stay informed and make the most of Perplexity.

the ai company running malicious bots has arrived to tell us why they are not running malicious bots.

www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/age...

naturally, i am opinionated on the subject. bad posts incoming:

a pixel art of a group of yoshi 's standing next to each other Alt: a group of yoshis standing around Baby Mario in Yoshi's Island

Touch Calendar, Get Dizzy: Today marks the 30th anniversary of Nintendo’s crayon-scribbled follow-up to Super Mario World, Yoshi’s Island

YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!) Samus Aran Origins: Metroid's Influences Beyond Alien | Hardboiled History (Hidden Influences)

For this one I drew heavily on @katewillaert.bsky.social's deep dive on Metroid's influences, which I strongly recommend: youtu.be/dGwWpbHLcXU?...

Underwurlde – “Scurrying slithering shadowy grave” 1983 was a good year for Ultimate. They released their first game Jetpac to much success earlier in the year. Then (after some other, less successful 16K games) they finished the year with a one-tw…

New post! It's on Underwurlde, the less revolutionary of Ultimate's pair of games in late 1984. It merely introduced a new mechanic still core to exploration-based platformers today:

www.superchartisland.com/underwurlde

Xbox posted this on their legacy socials earlier; currently obsessed and enjoying picking out new sound effects with each listen. Cheers to 40 years of logos!

(Anyone who knows me or remembers me from the old site might recall that I have an odd fixation with the old Rare logo sequences of yore).

On the one hand I want to know what CD-i slop to play now that there's a Mister core, but on the other hand, I don't trust anyone who has opinions on CD-i games.

orange cat standing in sink. text on reddit title says: yesterday he found cheese in the sink so now he’s looking for more sink cheese tag: ✨Floofy Orange ✨ (i.redd.it) submitted 7 hours ago by Melegie_ to r/OneOrangeBraincell subreddit 108 comments.

in a way aren't we all looking for more sink cheese where we found it yesterday

YouTube video by GameTrailers Car Park Capital - Official Announcement Trailer

I guess it was only a matter of time before someone copied the Chris Sawyer/Simon Foster aesthetic.
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DRUG WATCH (1985): This ZX Spectrum game designed by Nottinghamshire Constabulary was part of the 'Just Say No' campaign of the mid-80s. Pushers approach you in a surprisingly orderly fashion, chucking various drugs your way, and it's your job to just say no by, erm, firing the word 'NO' at them.

original virtua fighter blocky 3 characters doing a throw, older martial artist vs pro wrestler guy i forgot their names desert dunes background

virtua fighter blocky guy with arms raised text says game ove background is cloudy dark sky

we are rapidly running out of polygons. I remember when we could count all the individual polygons without even needing to pause our games. we rationed those things because we knew there wasn't an infinite supply. today? like 5,000x the whole game's polygons for one butt. we're gonna run out by 2029

Weird, last month the two words with which they showed their appreciation were 'you're fired'

A screenshot from the UK government's information service website with details about Rare Limited, including its incorporation date of April 16th, 1985

A screenshot of Tim Stamper's (@intimsworld) tweet from July 1st 2015 in which he states "On this day in 1985 @RareLtd started trading, but you may not recognise the paper we used. #30thAnniversary" There is a piece of paper pictured with Rare's original logo as letterhead. The original logo appears to be a golden gazelle or similar animal leaping over the word RARE, in a stylized font with a gradient golden appearance.

Today, some may celebrate the 40th anniversary of @rare.co.uk. This date was adopted a decade ago to commemorate the launch of Rare Replay (happy 10 year anniversary to that collection!).

However!

Rare was actually incorporated on April 16th, 1985, and began trading on July 1st of that year!

Speak for yourself, I have zero tolerance for British accents

Racing Lagoon now has a full set of Retro Achievements, courtesy of DoctorV. There's never been a better time to experience the wildest game Squaresoft has ever produced.

a first person screenshot of someone holding a skull as other action goes on in the background. text: skull-carrying,

marathon 2: durandal, print ad, excerpt, windows 95 (1996) archive.org/details/Comp...

I adore the Mario we see the perspective of in the quoted post, however am struggling with whether ACAB includes Mario on this seemingly officially licensed sticker, perhaps with context we understand a reason for this, was he simply going undercover to document proof of corruption I need to believe

Hot take: this was better. When I got a DVD in the post, I always watched it within a couple of days. I watched a ton more films that way; worked my way through half of the IMDb top 250.

When I can watch anything I want at any time, I get decision paralysis and watch nothing.

ROM returns: Striking gold in El Dorado Also this issue: a plus-sized portion of patch notes and an utterly unkown PS2 horror game, back online.

It's been hard to get a newsletter out for the past month with a ton of work and life happening but at last a new issue! Are you interested in a translation of a 7-part Dreamcast RPG series from Capcom? What about an online multiplayer survival horror game for the PS2 you've never heard of? Huzzah:

I think they pay you to move there

It’s certainly a choice

Excerpt from an email from a newsletter I just unsubscribed from: “It’s good to have you here! For those who don’t know, we’ve just moved our platform from Ghost to Substack.”

Surprised you could move anywhere against the surging mass of people coming in the other direction.

it goes further: Yu Suzuki had a oh-shit-the-boss-is-here button installed on his devkits that'd corrupt the screen and make the game look visibly "unfinished", in order to keep his boss from trying to force the game out the door ASAP shmuplations.com/afterburner/

If you search for what flavour these are, you find discussion threads with zero consensus. Are they salsa? Marinara? Chilli and lime? Pickled onion? No-one can agree, and Brits who know Walkers Crisps know the tenuous relationship between how snacks taste and their supposed inspirations. Impossible.

A silver tube of Pringles labelled ‘mystery flavour’ with the Super Mario logo and a question block.

I've eaten this whole can of Mario 'mystery flavour' Pringles and can confirm that the flavour is, indeed, a total mystery

My trivia-addled brain knows that the original Lemmings was officially released on (at least) 25 platforms, so let's go with that even though I'm almost sure another game has it beaten.

Now the emails just say 'we're raising our prices another 40% on the first of next month. thanks for reading. netflix'

Look, we see through it but you could at least do the dance, yeah? Go through the motions and act like it's not just because you realised you really like the money and want more?