Alex Kerr

saying a prayer to the Gaming Gods every morning for Konami+M2 to put out a Parodius/Twinbee collection next year

here ya go: Famitsu's launch-day interview with Gradius Origin team, which focuses on the making of Salamander III and the three bonus games they kept under wraps until now, among other things mastodon.social/@gosokkyu/11...

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Gradius Origin in particular is the product of a ton of extremely fanatical work by some real psychos, which you can read about in more detail here mastodon.social/@gosokkyu/11...

& here mastodon.social/@gosokkyu/11...

Salamander III-specific press will be dropping soon, gimme a day or two

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

if your game has potential appeal to super players you need to engage that market in the promo

YouTube video by Jaimers GRADIUS ORIGINS - Salamander III - 4 Loops Clear - 5,123,100 Pts

konami getting Jaimers a code for a 4 loops clear video as a promotional tactic is one of the smartest things i've ever seen

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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/

commendable, yes, but also emblematic of the hubristic spending that bankrupted Compile months later—the substitute for the cancelled 4th All Japan event wasn't @ Makuhari Messe, it was at a TGS booth

more than just tourneys, they were cons with cosplay contests, huge doujinshi alleys, concerts etc

Next's "Practice" puzzles are quite creative and challenging. (Though, that reminds me that the last puzzle might be impossibly bugged in the PC version; there's a single piece changed compared to PSX, and I don't know if anyone has solved it on PC.)

Alright, who's the jerk who locked up my MvC2 cabinet?

You should do this, but you need to do it effectively. I've worked with people in some of the companies below, and trying to persuade them that sex work is work will fall on deaf ears. Talk about how a 'small', 'niche', 'extremist' group is guiding their policies.

Itch staff are trying to fight things amidst delisting fiasco. Help them (and all the amazing devs affected) by filing a complaint with Stripe.

Unsure. Timeline-wise it could be, though independent invention isn't out of the question either.

that's not the game they're talking about. Sega 1988 supports up to three buttons that are all CCW. Sega 1999 supports two buttons that are CCW/CW and simultaneous press is 180

Since 2021, Mastercard has been imposing strict regulations on platforms that use the company's financial services — and Steam appears to be their latest target.

Tell Mastercard to reverse this harmful policy at action.aclu.org/petition/mas....

they've been adding new challenge charts to the Classic folder in general, i'm guessing in part to smooth out the skill points available there somewhat. i feel like Love This Feelin' CSP17 was an even crazier pull than this

(bizarre reference explainer: go fish in mario's fundamentals calls sets of four "books" as well)

instead of pon or kan you gotta say "that's another book for mario !" in a charles martinet voice

yeah, that must have been the logic. I can even conceive of there being a better version of it, but I loathe the one they're selling

i'm fine with carbonation in tea and yerba mate (e.g. guayaki, club mate, etc.), but it has to taste good. sprite+tea tastes like a vile ginger ale. i don't understand how they made it that bad.

idk if there's even any substantially real tea in it! it's caffeine free and the ingredient list at most has "natural flavors." truly a bizarre product.

YouTube video by HAMSTER Corporation Arcade Archives Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS II

Next week's ACA release got announced too- Super Dimension Fortress Macross II. Unlike the first Macross game on ACA, this one actually has an English trailer, but I wouldn't get my hopes up too much of it releasing outside Japan just yet~
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YouTube video by Voxandra ZeroRanger GO 1,502,734 Type-B II/IV/V (Ran at Game Masters on GDQ Hotfix on 6/24/2025)

The run is up on youtube now over on my channel! i'm still a bit beside myself lol

Screen shot of me running ZeroRanger on the GDQ Hotfix show "Game Masters" getting a 1.5 million score

I GOT 1.5 MILLION ON GDQ HOTFIX AHHHHHH omg I did it.

how did I do that.

there's an older variation of the meme that doesn't have the loss-like structure, so there is a theory that the one in common use today was a loss edit

you can schedule your gaming, so that you *know* you'll get strong opponents at x time

you get to meet and play new people/people who aren't always around

you get to enjoy an evening with folks sharing your new favorite, old standby w/e

you're gonna let your results get in the way of that?? gtfoh

the sooner you dorks stop treating bracket/tournaments as something you have to do "good" in and just an opportunity to enjoy organized play, the sooner this ancient onion headline will stop torturing you