Chris Kohler

Jared Petty @pettycommajared.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

It's a very special day for me. I worked on this, and now it's real and out there on consoles. I helped make a video game.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

one time he sent me a copy of the collected works of his comic "Brendan Brewer, Video Game Reviewer," with the note "please don't sue me."

Still considering it.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

Woke up this morning to the terrible news that my friend Cameron Davis (@gazunta.bsky.social) has passed away.

He was a journalist turned game developer turned comic author who did these very funny, very sweet family comics and loved games. I'm so shocked I won't get to talk to him again.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

Childhood pictures of Miyamoto and his design for an elephant-shaped clothes hanger for kids, from the December 31, 1993 issue of Famitsu:

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:48 UTC

(and yes that does mean that 3D World Runner and Rad Racer were originally going to be in the same franchise!)

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:47 UTC

Summer CES 1987 was, in a manner of speaking, Square's rather understated debut in America. Nintendo showed "3D Racing" aka Tobidase Racing aka Highway Star aka Rad Racer. While over at its stand, the brand new company Acclaim was showing The 3D Battles of World Runner, aka Tobidase Daisakusen.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:46 UTC

...and they're like, oh, right, that's Highway Star, which had been announced in Japan as "Tobidase Racing" but wasn't out yet. Computer Entertainer also noted the announcement of "3D Racing" but didn't mention Konami's game.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

I jumped over to Famitsu to read more. Indeed, they were very interested in the 3D glasses as well! Rad Racer at this point was being called simply "3D Racing." The Famitsu interviewer says, haven't I seen this before? And Howard Phillips says, well, it's from a company called Square...

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

The Famicom 3D System only came out in Japan, so it's interesting that its worldwide debut was actually as an NES accessory! And even more interesting, the bottom right screenshot shows a game called "3D Space Adventure" by Konami - this is likely Falsion, released on disk later

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 05:43 UTC

Since there were no game enthusiast magazines in 1987, coverage of Nintendo's rather eventful Summer CES is hard to find. I stumbled across another interesting photo spread in the Japanese magazine Famimaga. I didn't realize that the Famicom 3D system was announced at this CES:

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

As a few people have pointed out, the "elephant clothes hanger" makes SO MUCH more sense now. David Sheff described it as a whimsical plaything but failed to understand that it was an example of Miyamoto's schooling in human engineering.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

Childhood pictures of Miyamoto and his design for an elephant-shaped clothes hanger for kids, from the December 31, 1993 issue of Famitsu:

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