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Think you know the story of Donkey Kong? I've uncovered up new sources that tell a somewhat different tale. [Trying out a different thumbnail this time.] ➡️

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7 years

1972: Odyssey comes with a Switch 2017: A Switch comes with Odyssey

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2 years

Before Super Mario Bros. redefined "1UP" to mean an extra life, it originally meant "player 1 is up," a word video games borrowed from pinball machines. But who coined it?

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5 years

This year, a number of #NaNoWriMo2019 folks are trying out the "Comic Sans" trick. There's something magical about Comic Sans makes it easier to write with. As a UI/UX designer, not only can I tell you *why* it works, I can tell you how to get the effect from any font. A thread.

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4 years

Today is an important anniversary in pop culture history. It will be overlooked, because it's not the anniversary of an important movie or an important video game. No, it's the anniversary of an important meme. Maybe THE most important meme. The meme that changed everything.

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8 years

Jack Fucking Kirby. Sadly, it's a "genre of fans" who have since returned.

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4 years

Maybe in 1981 when thinking up an original character to replace Popeye, maybe Miyamoto wanted to go for a specifically American look, and maybe he paged thru the last years worth of POPEYE magazine for inspiration, and maybe one of the covers grabbed him...? 🤔

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3 years

Pointed out by @GameResearch_E in @GamingAlexandri Discord, a recently uploaded 1977 news clip features some rare footage of un-emulated arcade games from the period. Most notably, our first real look at gameplay from the first video fighting game, Sega's Heavyweight Champ.

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2 years

I had this feeling that Samus, giant shoulder pads were a reference to something, but could never find it. After awhile concluded maybe not. But recently someone on a Metroid FB group pointed out an obscure old OVA called Dragon’s Heaven, and…I think this is it, folks.

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5 years

Did you know the first computer game with a narrative doesn't have its own Wikipedia entry? Did you know the first writer of a narrative in a computer game was a woman? Let me tell you about The Sumerian Game. (Thanks @frankcifaldi for finding and scanning this pic.)

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4 years

20 years ago today, Bad_CRC dropped the music video for "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds, and "All Your Base" suddenly transformed from a mere forum in-joke to full-blown viral meme.

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3 years

Did you know the second year of COVID was originally called Doki Doki Pandemic?

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5 years

Why were there two different Sonic cartoons by DiC airing within the same period? I recently spoke with DiC Exec VP Robby London about Carmen Sandiego, but I couldn't resist asking him this unrelated question. He told me the internet has it all wrong. Here's the REAL reason.

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2 years

Saying the quiet part loud.

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This is what we will have if you let Ranked Choice Voting and Independent Redistricting Commissions into your state.

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3 years

Nobody talks about how the visual aesthetic of Frank Miller’s Sin City was clearly inspired by Bill Watterson’s Tracer Bullet.

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3 years

Everyone knows Metroid was inspired by the movie Alien, but what about all its other influences? "What other influences?," you ask. I hope you're sitting down. ▶️

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Not Wordle, just a portrait of Luigi. 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ 🟩🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜️ 🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ 🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️

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4 years

Mario trying to look LA-cool looks kind of funny...but the connection to Los Angeles fashion also hints at a rarely talked about aspect of his origin. This is a thread.

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2 years

"Knives Out" - Radiohead "Glass Onion" - The Beatles What's the third installment going to be called?

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1 year

Spotted this on Reddit. Tag yourself; I think I'm drifting from Metroid Prime into Pokemon.

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1 year

Weird factoid of the day: Apparently Pauline wasn't given a proper name until the Donkey Kong cartoon in Saturday Supercade, where she obviously needed a name because she was a main character.

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2 years

If you've played the rereleases Goldeneye 007 (on Xbox) and Metroid Prime this year and your first thought both times was "this feels so good with modern twin stick controls," can we just take a moment to thank the teams behind the games that standardized that? (A thread.)

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4 years

I'd never seen anything spread like this. Within two weeks, even TIME was reporting on it. Today viral memes are commonplace, but "All Your Base" the grandfather of them all. What are your "All Your Base" memories?

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3 years

Streamline Pictures was founded by two animation-fans-turned-pros who wanted anime to be mainstream in America. Their first U.S. theatrical release was Castle In The Sky. In 1989, they distributed Akira and Lensman. One is considered a classic, the other mostly forgotten.

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4 years

Check out this unlicensed Pac-Man toy. The yellow logo even calls him "pakkuman." I particularly like the cute like Pac-Man icon embedded right in the logo. There's just one catch. This toy is from 1976, and Namco's Pac-Man debuted in 1980.

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2 years

People using "MTG" to not mean Magic The Gathering is the most confusing and upsetting thing in my timeline since people using "CRT" to not mean 4:3 television sets.

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2 years

Please use Dunkman next time you see someone gratuitously dunking.

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2 years

Someone should make a clever meme image that people can use to reply with a retweet to news articles that means the equivalent of “this headline was clearly formulated for retweets, and you fell for it.” Maybe a clever meme would get people to pause before retweeting to dunk.

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2 years

Jerry Kelley was an artist who wanted to push the boundaries of commercial illustration, injecting influences like Cubism and Futurism to create a Contemporary Style. His 2nd pinball design was ahead of its time, a bit of retro futurism that contained the 1st appearance of "1UP."

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4 years

In the early 80s, Hayao Miyazaki discovered Moebius' work via the comic Arzach, and it inspired him to create the manga/anime Nausicaa. In the mid 80s, Moebius discovered Miyazaki's work via Nausicaa, and it inspired him to name his daughter after the title character.

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1 year

The week I first heard the Namco Museum Of Art video series was finished, I downloaded all the vids because I figured the English channel would go down one day...I just expect it to happen so fast! So now you can watch here:

GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu

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1 year

oh goddammit, this isn't one of those "we half-assedly tried a thing and got no results, therefore we are declaring it a catastrophic failure and pretending it never happened" things, is it (re: Namco Museum of Art videos)

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4 years

A reminder that stoking division along arbitrary generational lines is just a distraction to keep us from uniting against the real problem: the rich.

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7 years

"Minnesota Nice" is really Minnesota Passive Aggressive. #MinnesotaConfessions

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2 years

Weaponized nostalgia.

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From there it showed up in the mega hit Pac-Man and various Nintendo games. Confusingly, the word appeared in Super Mario Bros. when you got an extra life. When SMB became a literal game-changer, it changed "1UP" with it. But it remains a mystery who on the team did it, and why.

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2 years

Pinball was largely a solo game until 1954, when Super Jumbo became the first multiplayer EM pinball game. Each player had their own spot on the backglass to display their score, and the player's number would light up to indicate whose turn it was.

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5 years

Want to recreate the Comic Sans effect with Arial? Just bump up the text size to lucky 13pt.

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5 years

DiC wanted to do this split again with Sonic SatAM, but this time ABC wanted the exclusive. So DiC asked if they could do separate series with a different title and a completely different tone, and ABC agreed to this arrangement. And there you have it!

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7 years

Oh, look what DC just digitally restored!

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2 years

Once again, it didn't immediately catch on. But after 1966's A-Go-Go, Kelley kept putting "1UP" in his designs, and eventually other artists started doing it too. In 1978, I believe Namco's Gee Bee became the first video game to use the phrase.

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3 years

Are you excited for the 35th anniversary of #Metroid this week? I am! So I made a set of Samus emojis you can use in your Discord!

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2 years

In 1960, the unknown artist of Williams' Big Chief decided to be a little more specific, writing in "1st UP," etc. The idea didn't catch on, but may've inspired another artist.

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2 years

But where did the concept of the "extra life" come from? Tune in later this week, and please support my research on Patreon (link in bio).

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5 years

Our brains get exhausted when lines of text are too long. Researchers place the "sweet spot" at around 50-60 characters (i.e. letters, symbols, and spaces) per line. Though you can comfortably go up to 75 characters per line, which is what you're more likely to find in novels.

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3 years

It's M-Fing happening! If you have Instagram, follow "thefairshot."

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11 months

Video: The origin of Mario like you've never heard it before. Even if you think you know the Donkey Kong story, you don't. Please share this wherever you can think to, and consider supporting my research on Patreon.

Mario Origins: How A Popeye Game Became Donkey Kong – A Critical Hit!

Donkey Kong was originally going to be a Popeye game. Mario would've been Popeye, Pauline would've been Olive Oyl, and DK would've been Bluto.

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3 years

I tried to find Justin Bailey. This is my report. (Maybe with enough of a signal boost it'll lead to a follow-up, fingers crossed.)

Metroid's Justin Bailey Is A Real Person; Here's Why He Hasn't Spoken Up – A Critical Hit!

“Justin Bailey” is one of the most famous secret codes in the history of gaming. But who found it? And who was Justin Bailey?

www.acriticalhit.com

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5 years

If you open up Google Docs or Word, your default text size is 11pt. Arial in 11pt is 90-100 chars-per-line. Calibri 11pt is 95-105 chars-per-line. Comic Sans 11pt is 75-85 chars-per-line - nearly the sweet spot! (At least in Word; in Docs its less bold, resulting in 85-95.)

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5 years

I swear I'm turning 87 this year, because I'm certain I've lived through eight decades. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2017s 2018s 2019s March

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4 years

But there was something else going on in Japan in 1981: Popeye Magazine was about to celebrate its 100th issue. Confusingly Popeye (subtitled "Magazine for City Boys") was a Japanese fashion magazine dedicated to American fashion -- more specifically LA fashion!

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11 months

While browsing through Japanese game mags, I came across something really special: A 30-page feature in LOGiN about American role-playing games, published 3-4 months before The Black Onyx. In this thread we’ll take a little tour. (How about them dramatically-lit miniatures btw?)

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1 year

I'm one of those obsessive people who likes to make sure I'm showing the correct building a company was located during a given year, which gets tricky when talking about early Nintendo Of America. Now that I've done some research, let's take a brief tour.

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2 years

Happy #MAR10 Day! Did you know Donkey Kong was originally going to be a Popeye game? Here's my attempt to translate the Miyamoto sketch discovered by @GamingHistorian into pixels (in the form of a teaser for my next essay):

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7 years

I see a little silhouetto of Batman...

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4 years

You know who else died three days before Easter Sunday, and then returned?

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Nintendo gives a final warning that Mario dies on March 31st

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4 years

Now, I'm not positive that's why Nintendo was so keen on Popeye games, but it seems like the most likely cultural touchstone for Japan. Especially since the magazine spun off into titles like Olive and...Brutus!

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3 years

My latest video is my first to clock in at 20 minutes! Also my first to be NSFW, so you'll need to be logged into a Youtube account to view (sorry!).

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3 years

This is the biggest and sharpest this image has ever been available online.

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10 months

Here it is, the complete Ikegami article. Thanks again to everyone who made this happen:

Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle - shmuplations.com

This article, penned by Ikegami Tsuushinki programmer Hirohisa Komanome, is an in-depth examination of the making of the original Donkey Kong arcade game.

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5 years

A bounty hunter with a T-shaped visor hired to hunt a small green alien baby but befriends it instead WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE.

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1 year

Today's extremely stupid mystery revolves around Mario's mushroom. The one you immediately picture in your head is red with white dots. It's loosely based on the "fly amanita" which is red with white bumps (rather than merely spotted).

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3 years

When I first envisioned this as a video, I was like "I should probably push this one a few years out, because I'll never be able to top it!" But circumstances change. Come watch the video I might never be able to top. ▶️

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5 years

This is why magazines and newspapers use columns. Columns allow them to print text very small without the characters-per-line becoming massive and exhausting. (But you also don't want too few characters-per-line, as in this caption that went too long to support the small width.)

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6 years

Pssst...did you know this Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of Super Metroid? It was released in Japan on 03/19/1994. Maybe we can get it trending on that day? Pass it on...

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6 years

Interesting to note: This is the only #CarmenSandiego game that is currently "in print" and playable. All of the previous games in the series are only still playable thanks to preservationists; and even then, there are a few later installments that might be lost forever.

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5 years

While doing research for a series on the history of @CarmenSandiego , I found these character designs for the '90s cartoon by @sinKEVitch buried on an old DVD collection! @SienkiewiczArt

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5 years

@MExasperated @karma_thief I think we could safely fudge Bruce’s age by four years...

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5 years

In theory, you can even bump it up to 18pt to achieve that ultimate sweet spot of 50-60, but writing in such large text might weird you out. It'd be better to achieve 50-60 characters by writing in a two-column document, but your novel will probably be single-column 75ish anyway.

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1 year

This is basically where we're heading with everything, they're going to keep aiming for record profits while removing spending power from the workforce until it finally crashes the economy. IAnd maybe b/c it hasn't crashed yet they think it'll never crash, so they keep pushing.

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7) The new robber barons of Hollywood are on a suicide run. They’ll extract as much wealth out of the system as they can before it crashes, and they’ll beat up the workforce as much as they need to to create “savings” to make Wall Street happy, to stretch out the run.

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Anyways, feel free to experiment with different point sizes and magnifications (and maybe even margin widths) to find what feels good to you. Just make sure you're not writing those single-column paragraphs in 11pt (or smaller), because it sucks!

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2 years

Is Inception a Metroidvania?

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A rare find for my fellow movie nerds. This is Christopher Nolan’s hand drawn plot map for his film Inception.

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7 years

Today is Jack Kirby's 100th birthday. #Kirby100 This year is Kirby's 25th anniversary. What if they met?:

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1 year

If anyone out there can tell me the source of this image of Miyamoto and Takeda posing with their Sheriff game, so I can try to track down a better scan, I will be so grateful.

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3 years

Missed opportunity: Mario = Danny DeVito Luigi = Charlie Day Peach = Kaitlin Olson Toad = Rob McElhenney Bowser = Glenn Howerton

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4 years

It's Women's History Month, so what better time to launch my 50-part series about the history of playable female protagonists in video games? In this short vid that sets up the series, I reveal once and for all the first game that let you play as a woman.

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4 years

Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong, a game that was originally designed to be Popeye. This makes sense when you realize the hammer = spinach. Nintendo did release a Popeye arcade a few years later. But...why? Why the infatuation with Popeye?

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2 years

Yesterday I did a thread (below) about where the etymology of "1UP" before it became associated with extra lives, but where did the phrase "extra life" come from?

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2 years

Before Super Mario Bros. redefined "1UP" to mean an extra life, it originally meant "player 1 is up," a word video games borrowed from pinball machines. But who coined it?

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I've seen a lot of Twitter threads calling out gay subtext in movies/shows, but rarely asexual subtext. Maybe that's because it's harder to do? But it does exist. Let me know of examples you've seen? @AsexualJournal I'll share a few that have stuck out to me:

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Y’know, the last thing I expected to find when firing up the Cowabunga Collection was something that might be historically important to the Metroid franchise, and yet…maybe there is?

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5 years

@saladinahmed @GWillowWilson And where debt is small enough to get paid off in a timely manner without interest doubling or tripling it.

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4 years

NEW VIDEO! Everything you ever wanted to know about Nintendo's forgotten FMV game: (Please help me reach my first 1,000 followers on Youtube by subscribing to my channel!)

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5 years

Another subtle thing: Mac/iOS and PC/Windows renders text differently. In short, Windows is garbage at rendering text, though you’re unlikely to notice unless you regularly use both like I do. (In an odd quirk, Docs iOS displays 12pt Arial with the chars-per-line of 13pt on PC.)

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5 years

When I'm writing in Docs on PC, I like to bump up the magnification of the browser to 125% so the text looks a little smoother. Whether that actually helps my writing, I don't know...I just hate looking at the text less.

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5 years

If you look at the episode list for The Real Ghostbusters, you'll notice two separate season 2s: one for the network, and one for syndication. (Incidentally, Robby London is maybe the only person who can say he worked on both Filmation Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters.)

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@DanaSchwartzzz

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4 years

Tell me if you've heard this one: A character in a bright yellow space suit hunts underground space aliens, and at the end is revealed to be a woman. But I'm not talking about Metroid. A game called Baraduke did it a year earlier.

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3 years

For my next trick, I will transform the best possible thing into the worst possible thing by changing only one letter! DONUTS DONFTS

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5 years

@CarmenSandiego @sinKEVitch @SienkiewiczArt I'm also pretty sure Bill Sienkiewicz also illustrated the logo. I mean, just look at the lines on her coat, or those curls in her hair...

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3 years

Somewhere out there is a woman who modeled in the San Francisco Area in the '80s who's either unaware she was the original Carmen Sandiego, or is unaware who'd like to know.

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Was it the failed 1980 movie? Or the '80s Hanna-Barbera cartoon? That doesn't seem to be the case, because those two featured Bluto as Popeye's foe, while Nintendo's game featured Brutus (a look-alike created to get around temporary copyright issues in the '60s).

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And here's the final result:

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3 years

@forestillusion I attempted to interpret what the rough sketch might’ve looked like as pixels:

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2 years

It's my turn now.

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GEOGRAPHY Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego HISTORY When In The World Is Carmen Sandiego BIOLOGY What In The World Is Carmen Sandiego PHILOSOPHY Why In The World Is Carmen Sandiego BIOGRAPHY Who In The World Is Carmen Sandiego DOCUMENTARY How In The World Is Carmen San-

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Datamost published a couple very ahead-of-their time games on the Apple II in 1982. Swashbuckler was the first side-view fighting game. Aztec was the first side-view Roguelite. Both games were by the same author, a mysterious Paul Stephenson, who did no further action games.

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2 years

PITCH: Konami Simpsons style beat em up, but it's Popeye, Olive Oyl, Wimpy, and Bluto against a series of enemies from the original comic strip. The mysterious final boss is Brutus.

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1 year

A long-standing urban legend is that the reason Konami's Genesis and SNES games were often so different had to do with licensing issues between consoles. But what if the true reason is a lot simpler?

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2 years

Who doesn’t love an epic crossover? Youtube channels Atari Archive ( @ubersaurus ) and A Critical Hit! (me) teamed up with the community at the Video Game History Foundation to bring you this epic story in video and article form:

Video Game History Foundation

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2 years

A year-long search for a lost video game pioneer comes to a happy conclusion today. It is our honor and privilege to introduce you to Van Mai, the innovator who brought female representation to home video games 40 years ago.

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I’m convinced that “Millennials are killing everything” was created to distract from the reality that capitalism is killing everything. Most of the examples could always be explained by “millennials cannot afford that anymore,” but slanted to create a generational rift.

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3 years

This image isn't from a Nintend-related cartoon. It's from Galactic Patrol, a Lensman animated series released two years before The Legend Of Zelda. This is a continuation of an epic thread started last night. Link below if you missed part one.

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3 years

Streamline Pictures was founded by two animation-fans-turned-pros who wanted anime to be mainstream in America. Their first U.S. theatrical release was Castle In The Sky. In 1989, they distributed Akira and Lensman. One is considered a classic, the other mostly forgotten.

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If you’ve been following me long enough to know how much I love a good twist, believe me when I say @patrickhwillems latest video contains an epic twist you absolutely need to see:

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2 years

How come we don't see more stories like this showing up in the Trending bar? "Inflation is higher than it's been in 30 years, but corporate profits are soaring the most since 1950 [70 years]."

Companies are pocketing their fattest profits in more than 70 years, even as they complain about...

Companies aren't just raising prices enough to cover rising costs from inflation, they're padding their margins on top.

www.businessinsider.com

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