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Hardcore Gaming 101
Hardcore Gaming 101
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The raccoon tail / tanooki suit from Super Mario 3 is also probably based on this bit from Dr. Slump. The reason he holds out his arms when running is also from Arale here
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Almost 1000 warning screens from when you try to play a color portable game on a monochrome handheld vgmuseum.com/features/warn/
The PS1 open world mystery game Mizzurna Falls has been fan translated into English romhacking.net/translations/4
Holy crap you can use the dagger as a lightning rod to inflict a ton of damage to the Cyclops in Castlevania III!
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小澤至論 Michinori Ozawa
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コロナによる外出自粛で暇な方の為に、悪魔城伝説のサイクロプス戦でのテクニックを上げておきますね。
このボス戦、なんと短剣を避雷針代わりに雷を呼んで大ダメージを与えられるのです！動画の5回目の短剣で成功してますね。皆さん知ってました？
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Props to the Wulverblade developers who, when asked why their Roman-era Britain beat-em-up has black people in it, gives a thorough, historically accurate explanation
Just got an email from my kid's principal warning about the inappropriateness of Doki Doki Literature Club. This is an elementary school.
ACTUAL RETAIL STORES: spends thousands of dollars in research and manpower to merchandise their product in a way that's appealing and makes people want to spend money
GAMESTOP: rows and rows of this
(TW: transphobia) is it too much to ask for right wing fan translators to NOT stick slurs into their work?
"Free Nintendo Switch with $1200 diamond purchase " is one of the weirdest promotions I've ever seen
After nearly two decades of those "you're reading this book backwards" warnings on manga, there are still people that are completely flummoxed and/or mad about it
The Castlevania Bloodlines 0.5 beta ROM has been released to the public! segasaturno.com/portal/exclusi
This overhead photo of a NJ highway in autumn looks like it comes from a gorgeous vertical shoot-em-up
Here's Vincent's cameo in Persona 3 Portable, which IIRC actually predated Catherine by a little bit
Nintendo Makes Revisiting Classic *insert any Nintendo property* Games a Huge Hassle
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Nintendo Makes Revisiting Classic Metroid Games A Huge Hassle bit.ly/3xR30mM
Nemuru Mayu, a JP PS1 first person dungeon crawler with an incredible visual style. hardcoregaming101.net/nemuru-mayu/
I remember thinking Metroid Prime 2 was kinda drab looking when it came out, and that's still true in parts, but there's still some stellar visual design here
Here's the cover artwork for our upcoming Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, by and !
