Chris Baker

Last night…

(I was terrible, but I did luck into a totally knocking off a competing stone at one point. Felt good.)

Agreed!

Also fun: magazine covers for canceled games.

I've seen a few people comment how they love the "Conan reference" here.

Reminds me of when I worked on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and everyone was loving that Beenox added a reference to "Spider-Pig" from The Simpsons Movie.

At least you can’t accuse her of judging a book by its cover. ‘Cause it has an objectively great cover.

Just caught a few minutes of @p1podcast.com’s Episode 1000 extravaganza. Congrats, guys!

@liretro.bsky.social—you guys need to help them celebrate their upcoming 20th anniversary milestone with a panel (it’d be @sewart.bsky.social’s second LIR panel appearance!).

I mean…you can’t really say Vikor wasn’t unlicensed Conan to begin with, so… 😀

I'm such a MOTU nerd, one of my biggest reactions watching the new trailer was, "Was that Vikor?!"

Yes. Yes, it was Vikor.

Who knows how good the actual movie will be -- but no one can deny they're NAILING the fan service.

The only way I could be sure is to have the money for a car wash or something.

(If it’s not obvious, that whole response was phone suggested. Thankfully, I have enough money for a car wash. At least for now.)

Robotech Invasion with Greg Sewart (Player One Podcast) Greg Sewart from the Player One Podcast stops by to give us an inside look at Robotech Invasion. After all, he did help make it.

IT LIVES!

@sewart.bsky.social invades to give me the inside scoop on Robotech Invasion. How does someone go from being a fan to working on the thing? And how is @cbake.bsky.social involved?

Promos from @mojoversepod.bsky.social and @invasionremake.bsky.social

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I still regret never actually visiting the wonders of Kentia. I know I missed out.

That press demo I remember was actually an onsite visit to Oak Brook for EGM, OPM, and Expert Gamer. (Pretty sure John had recently moved to Japan at that point.)

And I remember Enix framing that three hours as a selling point when they demoed it for a preview. (And us kinda actually eating it up.)

Maybe monitor your push-notification bot’s excitement about certain dates a little better there, OneDrive…

Discovered live on stream that Captain Commando is about to be about contemporary times

See? It’s not even good at being a Throw Momma From the Train figure.

a close up of an elderly woman wearing a pink robe making a funny face . ALT: a close up of an elderly woman wearing a pink robe making a funny face .

I love the idea of this existing, but the design has me hearing it shout out “HERMAN!!!”

Fun bonus: You can also make out our first cable box -- totally dial-based -- which was on the floor for some reason. We had probably had cable for a handful of months at that point.

Finally, I spy Chutes & Ladders, the Donkey Kong board game, a Lite-Brite, and...some action figure set I don't recognize at all. Probably generic toys of some sort. Anyone recognize?

You can also make out the box for Mr. Mouth there, too. youtu.be/UIp1DvxEfvc?...

Something kind of stunning I'd learn years later: I always thought he was meant to capitalize on Pac-Man -- but the toy debuted in Japan in 1976...where it was called PAC-MAN!!!

The centerpiece there is Kid Kong (open box to the right), which I tweeted about back when Godzilla vs. Kong debuted on HBO Max.

Not sure how I found the commercial buried in this YouTube video, but I'm glad I did: youtu.be/QUZz7cB-now?...

Random photo (of a photo) of me I just stumbled upon from Christmas morning 1981.

How many toys and board games can you identify?

Wow, haven’t thought of that show in ages! Loved it, though.

And yes, my Spider-Man-video-making era was full of Fudgebudger source credits.

Someone calling me "oddly formal" was such a specific, on point comment that I used it as a touchstone for writing a game faction.

BUCK!!!

RIP Gil Gerard -- one of the first live-action heroes I remember loving on TV as a kid.

And this tweet from just after I saw Endgame is still my head canon until proven otherwise.

Looking forward to this one!

While downloading, I remembered I reviewed the NES version, I think in 1999 for the All Game Guide. T2D’s attract mode (it has a legit attract mode!) already surpasses that one. web.archive.org/web/20141116...

@p1podcast.com Congrats, guys! I know @sewart.bsky.social loves his emojis. Looking forward to your expansion into Washington state and beyond. www.replaymag.com/player-one-o...

I love that Ando Prime is featured in the Galactic Racer trailer -- a callback to the original Racer. It was also seen in hologram form in Episode II.
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TWO huge Star Wars game announcements at #TheGameAwards now? That's so wizard!

The commercial taught me that that one cool piece of classical music I knew was Beethoven’s Fifth. It also taught me answering machines existed.

It was clearly an educational production.
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