ChuChu Rocket Scientist

Dude picked today to throw off his chains and take a stand against the capitalist oppression of the quest 64 joke account

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Chu Chu Rocket is an Action Puzzle-Game by Sonic Team, where you direct mice to your goal by placing Arrow Tiles on the grid

The gameplay is as basic as could be, but the emergent strategy and psychological mind-games that stem from this core gameplay-loop lend it immense depth!

An absolute blast!

heard this was mid

a Fall 2000 print ad for Mystical Ninja Goemon / Goemon's Great Adventure that features the title character seemingly submerged naked in a hot tub full of bikini models. No information describes the game whatsoever aside from a tagline at the bottom reading, "god knows what its about but it sure is fun"

Konami: "when we try bring Mystical Ninja games to the US they sell poorly. Americans just don't understand this franchise no matter how we advertise it"

Konami, advertising Mystical Ninja in the US:

EGM October 1999:

People really, REALLY wanted to believe that Project Ares (Eternal / Skies of Arcadia) was going to be a Phantasy Star revival, but it was not; the actual Phantasy Star revival two years later was actually a Diablo clone. Things might have been very different.

The fall 1999 print ad for Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast cuts together screens from in front of Twinkle Park, then in front of the Hotel, and then all the way into the "At Dawn" segment of Speed Highway, as if they are a single contiguous scene

boy I hope somebody got fired for that blunder

"Vanilla Monkey Ball" implies the existence of another, significantly kinkier Monkey Ball

like Beck

a segment page from an EGM article about buying and maintaining arcade cabinets

a sidebar section to the article, titled "FOR SEGAPHILES ONLY"

[visibly sweating] w-what the fuck did you call me

seaman? with God's perfect child right here in front of your eyes??

you'll be getting many long-overdue stern AIM messages from me momentarily.

don't ever show your face in the Keyword:GamePro chatroom again

confident marketing from the makers of

-Lemmings
-Oh no! More Lemmings
-Ah fuck! Yet More Lemmings
-Fucking Hell, How Are There Still More of These Little Shits That I Clearly Hate Yet Must Advertise

damning testimony by seminal Sonic Hater @mikedrucker.bsky.social (EGM #112, Oct 1998)

the greatest lie the devil ever told was that Sonic Adventure was going to run at 60fps (EGM #112, 1998)

also I'm still a diehard Diehard GameFan fan, but EGM clearly went out of their way to hire somebody with real art degrees to do these impeccably crisp layouts.

the first game was entirely "I need to find the man who killed my father. I am trying to reach him about his vehicle's extended warranty"

FUN FACT: it was actually personal in the first game too

Shenmue II US DC print advertisement from EGM, November 2001. The switch to Xbox-exclusive was so last-minute, it's hard to believe US DC copies weren't already being pressed.

Everything humanity knows about Jump Runner is encompassed in this image. It never came out anywhere.

Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000 was released on schedule if you're into that sort of thing.

Jet Set Radio, despite its mystery at the time, was a rollerblading action game localized as Jet Grind Radio. The new name completely undermined all sales potential and nobody ever played it anywhere ever.

Hidden & Dangerous did eventually release on Dreamcast, but it wasn't Armed & Dangerous, so history doesn't care

I-Spy Operation Espionage, despite the clumsy title, came to US Dreamcast.

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine never left the PC and N64.

(PART 7) 25 years ago, ODCM thought the Dreamcast was getting...

[X] Hidden & Dangerous

[X] Spy Operation Espionage

[_] Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

[X] Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2009

[X] Jet Set Radio

[_] Jump Runner

SCORE 19/42

Heroes of Might and Magic III was never released on Dreamcast, but reports over the years suggested that the port was essentially completed and was abandoned due to quality and performance issues. The lost Dreamcast build was finally discovered and uploaded in 2020, and the performance isn't great.

Halo, a third person strategy-shooter by Myth and Marathon dev Bungie, had just jumped ship from Mac to Windows and seemed like an perfect fit for Dreamcast.

Unfortunately, it never came to dreamcast and there's no real evidence Bungie ever intended to.

Nobody ever heard of Halo ever again.

Gundam Sidestory was released April 2000 as (AHEM)

Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes

It is a spiritual sequel to the JP only Gundam Side Story games on Saturn and heavily based on the 08th MS Team anime. More Battletech than Battle Assault, this is a great squad action-sim.

Grand Theft Auto 2 launched on Dreamcast alongside PC and PS1 and was arguably the best way to play it before PC mods expanded. The only GTA on DC is unfortunately one of the least memorable and least popular.

Giga Wing hit delays and was nearly cancelled, but released in July 2000.

Grandia 2 (II) released early the next year and eventually got a PS2 port in 2002 and eventual HD port on Steam. The Dreamcast version still has the best performance, but all versions have Millennia so its fine regardless.

(PART 6) 25 years ago, ODCM thought the Dreamcast was getting...

[X] Giga Wing

[X] Grandia 2

[X] GTA 2

[X] Gundam Sidestory

[_] Halo

[_] Heroes of Might & Magic 3

SCORE 15/36

I've been trying to tell people this for 20 years. 0% interest? No late fees? No credit checks? He even finances renovations this way?? What is wrong with people

In 1994, the Sonic 3 air attack is called the "Insta-Shield" despite not actually functioning as a shield

In 2022's Sonic Origins, the move is renamed "Double Spin Attack" despite now functioning as a shield

In Simpsons 3F18 Skinner calls his hams steamed despite obviously being grilled