Crushed

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

A screenshot of the Customize menu in Kingdom Hearts reading "Goofy: Conservative"

still love his movies but this is disappointing

The Two Weeks When Luigi Died Last timestamp of a file (gfxmain.c) that has Luigi's code active as part of the program: February 6, 1996 Earliest timestamp of a file (shade.c) that has Luigi's code commented out, signifying he is no longer being developed: February 20, 1996 This means that the idea of including Luigi in Super Mario 64 was abandoned in these two weeks. -By the way, what happened to Luigi? Miyamoto: Well... until February, he was in the game. (laughs) This is also completely consistent with a statement by Shigeru Miyamoto in a June 1996 interview. Source: x.com user @Alieneer_TF2, shmuplations.com/mario64

According to internal files and interviews, Luigi has been part of Super Mario 64 for 85% of its development time. New insights from development data allow us to narrow down when exactly he was abandoned, being the two weeks between February 6, 1996 and February 20, 1996.

time to go back to what works: the "lovely" nellie ohr

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

every time someone posted that picture of link on the cliff from zelda 1's manual as a symbol of unguided exploration, all I could think of was how at the end of said manual there was a little walkthrough and map telling you exactly where the first two dungeons are

header: government health warning text: spookyman can be dangerous, the maddening speed, constant action, bewildering pace, contribute to the psychological disorder "spookymanitis". if you're caught there is no cure. you asked for an infuriating, addictive program with the speed, illuminating graphics and complex features of the finest of all arcade games. this is some game! its wrecked marriages, careers! people be careful!

spookyman, government health warning, zx spectrum (1982) www.mobygames.com/game/48048/s...

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

YouTube video by KONAMI公式 Castlevania: Belmont‘s Curse（ キャッスルヴァニア ベルモンドカース）Announcement Trailer (CERO) | KONAMI

konami japan has gone back and forth on whether to just call the series "castlevania" or to keep "demon castle" and/or "dracula" as the title, whatever

but this trailer has them call trevor "Trevor Belmondo" instead of "Ralph C. Belmondo." absolutely unacceptable www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vOw...

some day I'm going to have to lay out in detail how Ghost Babel's plot (which was not written by Kojima) is like a rough sketch of what MGSV did, down to certain very specific themes and plot elements

there was more joy and charm from this man talking for a minute than the last two GoW games combined

good news for sonia belmont fans: you may no longer have to pretend that castlevania legends was a good game!

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every now and then the part from That Review that angrily complains that there're two different pronunciations of Caesar resurfaces in my mind like scars reopening from scurvy

lol

it's written like anglophones making fun of German, and spoken like Germans making fun of English

i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye.

well here you go

The Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy, with a bizarre mirrored face and distorted details

Terra from Final Fantasy VI, heavily squished and distorted with low detail

The swordsman Firion from Final Fantasy II; he has an odd protruding jaw and skewed face

A pale and dark-haired woman from an original Amano piece; the 3D conversion process has left her flattened

yoshitaka amano now has a thing on his website where you can see some of his works converted into 3d and you need to see this shit

yoshitaka-amano.com/arcane-canva...

Transcript: Gotta have game. People don't remember bits and bytes. They remember games. So it's a good thing this little guy is on our side. He's the most recognized video game character in the world. And his spirit has helped us spawn a slew of great games. He is the standard. The bar. The ideal we try to surpass with every game we make. Because systems and technology come and go. But a great game lives forever. Source: pietriots.com/2013/02/23/a-message-from-nintendo-gotta-have-game, grailed.com/listings/28438307

In 2023, I posted about a bizarre Dolce & Gabbana shirt featuring Mario standing in a beam of light alongside text praising him. I have tracked down the source of the image, which was a splash page in the E3 2000 brochure. Now the venerated Mario can be seen in high quality.

Laura Dern (left) and Sam Neil (right), dressed as their respective characters from "Jurassic Park," sporting horrifying deaged Naughty Dog game faces as they float over a backdrop of a field.

A human teenage girl* and Sonic the Hedgehog (right) stand in a CGI meadow from the video game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and it actually looks more grounded and convincing than that other image *She's voiced by Lacey Chabert. Everyone jokes that this is the game where Sonic "makes out with a human lady" but the reality is that she actually kisses Sonic's corpse on the mouth to resurrect him after a giant alien bird god eats the universe

they fucking torment nexus'd me

A screenshot from Pentiment. Two men in early modern attire drawn in the style of an illuminated manuscript talk next to a cooking fire. The man on the left has a speech bubble saying, "If they're primoridal [sic], as Aristotle says, then God didn't create them. They exist with Him, since the dawn of time."

this is not in fact creatio ex nihilo as mario is using dead matter, such as how El formed the preexistent chaotic matter into the heavens, earth, and water

Toonami getting ready to show the first six episodes of Cyborg 009 again:

a screenshot from Threads reading "So let me get this right, the government created a FAKE snowstorm so that Leviathan ( a giant MALE mystical sea creature similar to Godzilla but way stronger and bigger allegedly) from the Bible does not fully thaw out. If it does thaw it will destroy the world because only God can defeat this creature like he did the female so that she didn’t reproduce. Did I get it right 🤧😭 👀"

I have had "a giant MALE mystical sea creature" stuck in my dome all day like I can't stop thinking it