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I've done my best to clean up the IA scan.
Not only are their poses subtly different, the angle of the lighting is completely changed. Like they made everyone sit there while they moved the lighting around a bit?
Somehow this one looks more early '90s than early '80s to me.
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Interesting bit of trivia about the famous "Can A Computer Make You Cry" ad below: There was an alternate version that was only ever printed in Creative Computing that at first glance is just the photo in color, but it's actually a different shot from the same session.
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I will update the spreadsheet!
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Over on Gaming Alexandria Discord we've been trying to piece it together (with a lot of input from @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social)
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For fans of history, one of EA's first games Murder On The Zinderneuf contains a meta-game of sorts: Which real and fictional people are each of the 16 suspects based on? In many cases they are a combination of at least two.
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You should just randomly use it in place of whatever idiom you’d normally use. Reading the responses to this has been completely out of pocket.
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I dare someone to name their video game cover band Panic! At The Doki.
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Oh, "I. Marui" comes from the prototype I guess.
tcrf.net/Proto:The_Le...
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The big question re: Clu Clu Land is whether any of the credits line up with anyone who worked on Legend Of Zelda.
And the answer is: not unless "JIM" is the mysterious "I. Marui" who is credited as "Marumaru" in Zelda. But where does "I. Marui" even come from if it's not in the game?
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Most of these guesses come from this useful page:
w.atwiki.jp/ncgamereport...
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"T.S" = Takao Sawano? (Mario Artist)
"SUG" = Tadashi Sugiyama? (Zelda II)
"KAZ" = Kazunobu Shimizu? (Zelda II)
"ERI" = Kazunobu Eri? (Mario Artist)
"K.M" = Kenji Miki?
"TOM" = Tatsunori "Tomichan" Takatura again?
"M.U" = Masayuki Uemura?
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I'm completely lost on the others though.
Clu Clu Land is equally tough. It's an important game because Zelda's rupee and puffer enemy come from this. But who worked on it?
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However, Melee also says DDP's Tadashi Sugiyama did character design, and he's not here.
People that could be here: "SOE" might be Zelda's Yasunari Soejima. "IYO" could be Metroid's Hiroji Kiyotake. "TOM" could be DDP's Tatsunori "Tomichan" Takatura.
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Ice Climber is important because it was a vertical-scrolling platformer before SMB2/DDP. And in fact, we know one DDP programmer worked on it: Kazuaki Morita said so in a Nintendo Power interview, so he's "MOR." Melee says Akito Nakatsuka did music, so he's "NAK."
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One sad/frustrating thing about Nintendo history is that any early game that Miyamoto didn't work on, we frequently have very little info about who worked on it. However, high score tables in the VS. arcade editions might offer hints? Let's take a look at a few.
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Now that we're approaching one year since the Famicom 40th minisite opened, I'm looking at some of the epic hi-res artwork.
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Better not tell them about Tropical Dave.
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There’s an obscure lost Japanese-only arcade game from 1980 called Tropical Dive, and whenever I see it in my spreadsheet, my brain registers it as “Tropical Dave.”
Hey man, it’s Tropical Daaave!
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That's what I'm saying, yes. This might've changed my life as a kid.
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Do you ever think about how Mario Maker was like a sequel to WarioWare DIY was a sequel to Mario Artist was a sequel to Mario Paint was a sequel to Family Computer BASIC?
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What I also learned is that apparently very few straight women follow me. Or maybe I was just posting too many polls and this one got lost in the shuffle. Non-binary not attracted to women was also a tiny sample.
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Men and non-binary attracted to women overwhelming voted for Lady Bug, roughly 80% to 20%. Women attracted to women was a closer race, 62% to 38%.
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I conducted six polls, broken down into male, female, and non-binary people who are and are not attracted to women. The sample size probably wasn't large enough to be representative, but it suggests some interesting trends. In particular, the group Ms. Pac-Man won was gay men, 65% vs. 35%.
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Before I share the results with you, I'll let you chime in about which you think is more "sexy," and if you want to elaborate on your rationale.
Also, I forgot to tag @drewgmackie.bsky.social, you should follow him.
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This was the result of an unlikely conversation between myself (an asexual) and Drew Mackie (of the podcast Gayest Episode Ever) after I read his recent article on the history of Ms. Pac-Man, over on his excellent gaming history blog:
www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/ms-pac-...
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Bluesky sadly still doesn't have polling functionality, so over on Twitter I recently conducted a very strange poll. I asked different groups who they considered to be more "sexy" in their classic cabinet art depiction: Ms. Pac-Man, or rival Lady Bug?
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I found a screenshot of Video System's Droppers for the Neo-Geo (shown in ACME 1996) while researching something else, as "Danger Droppers Caution." Source is Mexico's Club Nintendo Magazine (May 1996). (Thanks to Hap for identifying the game)
archive.org/details/club...
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@brandon.insertcredit.com Hi, did you back up this early Saturn promo video you posted about 5 years ago on Twitter? Lost my copy & the original uploader set this to private & is being kinda difficult about it. Waited 1yr+ for a re-up to their "gaming channel", but no. Shame for this to go missing!
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forgotten gaming history
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The Inside Out characters in my head.
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What if I said I checked the dates and it was several months before Kung-Fu Master and Yie Ar Kung-Fu, but a few months after the Player Vs. Player edition of Karate Champ?
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I'm still hung up on why Arcade Archives didn't include Ladies Golf as a mode in VS. Golf.
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This is a very unpopular tweet so far, lol.
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Fun forum thread telling the story of the time the only two American fans of Urban Champion met up to battle it out in all three major ports of the game.
(For the record, I feel Urban Champion is unfairly maligned just because it didn't age well and we got it in the U.S. several years late.)
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Had a not great morning, like a “oh no, I think all the work I did this week is unusable” kinda morning. But then I had a breakthrough later in the day that will make every project so much easier going forward. After I redo that unusable work.
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A lot of arrangers like to put their own unique spin on the music, changing up the emotion in different ways, which is cool and all. But the above arrangements are impressive because they're exact recreations of the originals but with epic instrumentation.
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This week's audible crack is:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaXT...
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Me at my dad's: "Wow, the news sucks. But hey, I just heard about this old movie neither of us has seen, about a guy who made cars. It's called Tucker."
Me 2 hours later: "That was a great movie, but wow was today probably the worst day to watch it."
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I swear, I look away from the internet for one day and democracy dies. Who’s turn was it to watch democracy?
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I think people like me need this "dumbed down" with example of worst case scenarios (and/or most likely scenarios).
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As a kid I had a very New York accent for awhile that confused people, in hindsight it was probably from watching so much 80s MTV before we lost cable.
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Bizarro Me!
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No option for “carbonated beverage?”
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Very not-South.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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There is no bottom.
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The lead in Baraduke being named Kissy.
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Flippy bird got as far as a prototype card, but even earlier the name was going to be Busty.
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Oof autocorrect mangled that sentence.
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Similarly, Flicky was originally going to be named Flippy, which kids episode found hilarious for a bird I imagine.
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Actual official early merch.
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