Yes, my studio has fired almost all staff below the age of 35. Same at another studio one my relatives work at. Also look at how retro game stores are also disappearing, and the shrinking video game sections at department stores.
Keeping Microsoft afloat is Office 365 subscriptions that are needed worldwide just to conduct business. Xbox has been a black hole for Microsoft finances, but because 84% of all computers on Earth use Windows, and many home and business users don’t use LibreOffice as an Office 365 alternative, Microsoft wins.
This is how it is at the video game studio I am with right now. We have 90% Macs for design, programming, and audio/video/art work, but final coding and all management use Windows.
And Microsoft wants “Gaming” 365 and an expansion of Xbox branding beyond Xbox systems and computers.
Wait, I already have like 5 PS1 Tomb Raiders on my PSP, and a few Game Boy Color/Advanced title, too. I also recall a Tomb Raider I played on the weird N-Gage 🤔
American Supreme Court has ruled twice against copyright holders. One case, who’s name escapes me at this time, is like Balun v something I think, ruled once a company or a citizen has sold a product to another citizen, that citizen can do whatever they want with the product.
Universal v Sony ruled that consumers are allowed to make copies of anything they own, or have broadcasted into their homes.
Also, the American Constitution only allows valid contacts if two parties meet. All that fantasy legalese of EULAs and TOSs have NEVER stood up in ANY American courtroom, as the Constitution invalidates the concepts immediately. (Individual state constitutions may allow EULAs and TOSs to be legal, but state and local judges have still dismissed or ruled against EULAs and TOSs.)
Under the American Constitution, Americans are unbeholden to so-called “international” law, as the American Constitution declares itself the supreme law of the land.
As for 3DS emulation, ALL licenses 3DS titles are programmed on devkits that use a 3DS emulator. I have used this devkit many times on a dozen titles that I worked on at a few development studios.
As a programmer and designer in the industry, I despise copying my works, but I will not go after somebody who does it. That’s between them and God and nobody else.
My daughter closed her retro store due to many factors. One of the factors is dead inventory. Retro games rarely sell. 90% of what people kept calling for or asking in shop was GoldenEye “64” (yes, everybody called it this). Rarely was anything else asked for.
I’m guessing, but maybe this Game chain had a similar problem. Or liquid capital dried out.
RC Madiax quality of games. I’ve passed the last few times they’ve done their free stuff.
However, for people in extreme financial distress (like everybody I encounter recently in person), free games are good enough for them.
Whomever wrote this company ports cell phone games is being generous. This company really seems like RC Madiax or the old Xbox Indie games. Even below some WiiWare I’ve played.
NFTs? Yeah. If you can’t do it when the power goes out . . . whatever my business professor said.
Anyway, on a related note, why are BitCoins and other phony digital currencies utterly worth less than the American penny?
Because I can fill a sock full of pennies and defend myself. How can I fill a sock with BitCoins?
Ergo, NFTs could be retooled for stoping fraud on digital documents. NFTs are worthless. I have a real painting by Monet, then I can sell it. (Actually, it was the Vermeer that EA allowed me to take when they shut down a studio I was working at for them.) I can’t sell sn NFT.
Just because an older person like myself is still in video game design and programming doesn’t mean Sega has older programmers and designers with experience.
I’m going to sit back and wait. Nintendo always went forth with their characters, even if some take a decade break. Sega just left their stuff to rot, then re-released the same Genesis ROMs over and over and over . . .
Due to NDA, I can’t give any specifics what I saw regarding a new Nintendo “entertainment” system. I will say what my team saw was beyond anything we were thinking. Maybe some investors (speculation) saw the same thing we saw in Redmond?
@rockodoodle Paperboy is Atari Games, who was also Tengen, who became Time Warner Games, who merged with Tradewest and Midway (formerly a division of Williams) to form Midway Games, who is now owned by WB Games.
These games are from Atari Inc., who is actually Infogrames, who bought Hasbro Interactive from Hasbro, and licenses the Atari Inc. name and games from Hasbro under very generous terms. They don’t have the rights to most Atari Games titles, like Paperboy, Pit-Fighter, Rampage, etc.
Wow. A collection of nothing. Seriously makes WiiWare titles look like masterpieces. I know a handful of these are fun, but there’s nothing on this list screaming, “Play me, Seymore, play me!”
@raphsolo Having worked in TV broadcasting as a programmer and engineer, the newsanchors are actors. The authors slam the content onto a teleprompter, and the actors we hired are trained to read the content in a certain way. The director of the segment, the producer of the segment dictate to this actor how to say the words in the way he did. No doubt they think they have ridiculously strong level of high viewership, who were all born in 1890, and who speak in hushed tones as they gossip about Bianca being in trouble in a delicate condition from that boy from the other side of the tracks.
In other words, bad on the producer and bad on the director for making a segment like this.
Greatest drug ever created is the smartphone, especially after Apple combined the Wii’s OS/channel menu with the design, and the DS’s touchscreen. I see EVERYBODY but me looking down at their smartphones ALL the time, earning L-shaped necks and ruined eyes.
As for the video gamer stereotype, it’s still there. Then I strike back, and tell the person, usually in their 60s or 70s, how they were screaming at the top of their lungs 20 or 30 years ago that they claimed to still be young in their 40s, but somehow morphed into Archie and Edith Bunker.
Hey, I’m an old otaku and an old gamer myself, who still plays, designs, programs games, and I read comics. I admit I’m old, so I’ve dealt with this stereotype my whole life. Especially family members, who are all gambling addicts. (I don’t gamble, just those old Masque slots games on Mac/PC.)
What ruined video game magazines and websites starting 30 years ago?
Constant “reporting” on speculation and predictions.
Analyst needs people to keep hiring him.
Next Nintendo system to be made by Nintendo. May require eyes, hands to use.
Okay, snark off. This guy isn’t taking into account how huge the Switch is with on-the-go people. Maybe I read this article differently? I don’t see it with his out-of-context quote.
Economy is rotten worldwide. He predicts people to spend $400 on an electronic toy and $70 for titles? He needs to share what he’s smoking.
Having been in computers since 1980, and video game programming and design since 1992, I’ve seen disputes like this before. Good for them getting their rights back, whoever they are.
This kind of problem happened to the studio I was at. Without violating and NDAs, the Studio developed a handful of titles for a particular publisher, with a specific property. When the Studio was bought by a major publisher, and that publisher was bought by a major Hollywood corporation, that Studio got screwed out their royalties from the other publisher, who also was bought by another major company themselves, who in the end, became part of a major toy company, with the properties the Studio had developed becoming the property of a . . . Wizards of the Coast.
Yeesh. Anyway, in the end, the Studio lost ALL its rights and royalties.
Good for this unknown developer to become their own publisher and get back their property.
Somebody told me that DVD sales are still very decent.
Not sure if he looked ar his own store’s lack of DVDs and Blu-Rays.
For me, though, I find discs very useful. I have a portable Blu-Ray player, and it’s good to use in the van’s AV port for riders to watch as I drive ‘em. I’d buy this Blu-Ray.
Nintendo Power had the soundtrack CD for sale, along with other games. Used to listen to 1080 music in my car driving to college/work. (Work was a video game studio.)
I played the game frequently. Was also stolen, and I replaced the cartridge, but never achieved those high scores ever again.
No joke, after I made the comment here, our house erupted into a very National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation fight, so much so the cops were called to put it down.
Merry &$@#%¥€ Christmas as I say. One Christmas I got in trouble by the priest because I was playing Sonic 3 on my DS (Sonic Collection or something) in Church before the Mass. I was also 40 when I did this.
In all serious, have a late Merry Christmas, a current Merry Christmas, or a future Merry Christmas like those in Hawaii and American Samoa.
And a Happy Martian Christmas to all space aliens and Borg. (Why am I being told to put dowbn the egg nog? What do they mean I’ve had plenty?)
Maybe not forgotten as just plain ignored. I over-hear my daughter and her gamer friends always talking about Among Us, something called [sic] Genshin Impact, and Mario/Zelda/Pokemon. The guys they date or are friends with are always into GTA Online, Madden, WWE games.
Ergo, this game isn’t forgotten. It’s just plain ignored. Not by me. My spouse and I buy ALL anime games for Switch. Just something we got into a few years ago.
I see amiibo just sitting on shelves, nobody ever touches ‘em anymore. I like amiibo, and I have almost every one of ‘em, including the cereal box. Just stating that the thrill may be gone after nearly a decade.
I liked it find back then, I like it fine now. This and Quest 64 were lots of fun for myself and my co-workers of the past. My spouse plays Harvest Moon 64 and I think an old PS1 version.
@dimi I hear lots of sales charts and reports aren’t the most reliable. Since I don’t work in retail, I have no opinion. I just presented somebody else’s is all.
@Anti-Matter You should’ve visited my daughter’s video game store when she ran it. 90% of customers want Mario, Zelda, and GoldenEye. Everything else just sits around, unless it’s anime/Japanimation related/influenced.
I learned the cartoony art-style by drawing Mario characters back around 1990, Nintendo’s Valiant comic books. I guess it’s natural for people to want to create their own from their passsion? I don’t know. I don’t assume to answer for others.
Reminds of an old producer I worked with back in 1992 on some really popular PC games. He was always full of his own legend about being a programmer and producer. He was let go, and thought he’s be able to make “legendary” and “god-like” games on his own. Nothing came of his other projects. He got into the Dot-Com trend and disappeared to Italy or somewhere, not as a video game anything, just a handyman or something.
COMDEX was the first BIG convention to drop dead. In 1994, COMDEX had nearly 500,000 attendees, not counting the vendors a booth staffers. By 2001, COMDEX was gone. Some of the vendors that already booked booth space before the demise went ahead and held their own tiny convention.
E3 worked when it just industry mingling with industry. Allowing limited press, like EGM, GamePro, Game Players/Next Generation access worked for promotions and favors.
When Internet nobodies started showing up, how does that help the industry from within the industry? Is Pat the NES Dork going to produce and publish games? I don’t think so.
Then yes, combining what I wrote about limited, approved press, Nintendo and $ony can easily make a YouTurd video with all their stuff presented, tightly controlled. In essence, that’s E3 in a bottle. Industry may not mingle with industry anymore, though. I miss going to industry-only conventions like COMDEX, CES, and E3. It always magical to see the newest tech. and media being developed. When I was at 3DO, and I couldn’t get to Trip Hawkins for an in-person meeting, I’d just wait for CES and talk to him at the booth. NDA prevents me from saying what was spoken in these meets, but still, it was nice. The other part is manning a booth at E3s, and looking in awe at people playing a game my crew and I worked on. Smiles in faces, asking when it would be released, and if their store wants to carry X amount of copies to sell.
Anybody here ever played Body Harvest or Space Station Silicon Valley on N64?
GTA6 can run on N64 using the older engine, ergo, it can run on Switch. The question is it worth spending the time to either run the program in an older version of the engine, or just skip the system again. L.A. Noire runs fine, and I haven’t any issues with Red Dead Redemption. (My personal playing experiences. I speak for nobody else but myself.)
GTA5 did have two prototypes running, one for Wii, one for Wii U. The Wii version used Manhunt 2’s engine. The prototype I viewed was just Strawberry rendered. It looked pretty good. I never viewed the Wii U prototype, which I believe was canceled after porting the engine to work poorly in development phase. I did see a photo of a random screen, but that doesn’t mean jack during development.
The reason GTA5 wasn’t ultimately released for Wii was Nintendo’s very sour online for that system (GameSpy managed it), the lack of a native hard drive (512 MB would never cut it, and the SD card slot didn’t stream data, as it was more of a despository or “book shelf” for download Shopping Channel programs), and allowing a USB hard drive isn’t in Nintendo’s favor. Even if Rockstar proposed packing in a hard drive, Nintendo would say no (based on previous experiences from the studios I worked had) because the game would be about $100 or $150 for Wii.
I played the first one on Wii U. I never found the end of the first level. Same feeling I (and antique AVGN) had with Terminator 1 on SNES.
I was recording the footage for a well-known YouTurder but in the end I told him I never completed the first level, as for some reason I never discovered the end of it.
Maybe it’s just me, but that’s my experience with the first game.
The Switch delay makes sense to me. If I bother purchasing the Windows version, is the code written by kit or by an actual programmer? Was the code fresh, or was it transliterated, mapped, dynamically mapped, or emulated from the PowerPC code of the first game? Is there code conflicts and graphical miscalculations within the Windows version’s source codes for an ARM translation/conversion?
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Re: Hacker Gary Bowser Discusses Post-Jail Life And Chipping Away At Nintendo's $14m
The decisions people dictate the life they live.
Oh, and he has what he intended.
Leaving it at that.
Re: One-Third Of Game Developers Impacted By Layoffs In 2023, GDC Reports
Yes, my studio has fired almost all staff below the age of 35. Same at another studio one my relatives work at. Also look at how retro game stores are also disappearing, and the shrinking video game sections at department stores.
I can’t speak for any other studio.
Re: 8% Of Developers Are Apparently Working On Games For Switch's Successor
NDAs keep my mouth shut on what we’re developing at the studio I’m at right now. It’s all good stuff, too.
Re: Microsoft: ActiBlizz Acquisition Gives Xbox A Chance To Be A "Good Publisher" On All Platforms
Keeping Microsoft afloat is Office 365 subscriptions that are needed worldwide just to conduct business. Xbox has been a black hole for Microsoft finances, but because 84% of all computers on Earth use Windows, and many home and business users don’t use LibreOffice as an Office 365 alternative, Microsoft wins.
This is how it is at the video game studio I am with right now. We have 90% Macs for design, programming, and audio/video/art work, but final coding and all management use Windows.
And Microsoft wants “Gaming” 365 and an expansion of Xbox branding beyond Xbox systems and computers.
Re: Aspyr Finally Reveals More Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Details
The original Tomb Raiders on a portable system?
Wait, I already have like 5 PS1 Tomb Raiders on my PSP, and a few Game Boy Color/Advanced title, too. I also recall a Tomb Raider I played on the weird N-Gage 🤔
Re: 3DS Emulator Citra Is Coming To Meta Quest Next Week
American Supreme Court has ruled twice against copyright holders. One case, who’s name escapes me at this time, is like Balun v something I think, ruled once a company or a citizen has sold a product to another citizen, that citizen can do whatever they want with the product.
Universal v Sony ruled that consumers are allowed to make copies of anything they own, or have broadcasted into their homes.
Also, the American Constitution only allows valid contacts if two parties meet. All that fantasy legalese of EULAs and TOSs have NEVER stood up in ANY American courtroom, as the Constitution invalidates the concepts immediately. (Individual state constitutions may allow EULAs and TOSs to be legal, but state and local judges have still dismissed or ruled against EULAs and TOSs.)
Under the American Constitution, Americans are unbeholden to so-called “international” law, as the American Constitution declares itself the supreme law of the land.
As for 3DS emulation, ALL licenses 3DS titles are programmed on devkits that use a 3DS emulator. I have used this devkit many times on a dozen titles that I worked on at a few development studios.
As a programmer and designer in the industry, I despise copying my works, but I will not go after somebody who does it. That’s between them and God and nobody else.
Re: GAME Apparently Ending Physical Trade-Ins From Next Month (UK)
My daughter closed her retro store due to many factors. One of the factors is dead inventory. Retro games rarely sell. 90% of what people kept calling for or asking in shop was GoldenEye “64” (yes, everybody called it this). Rarely was anything else asked for.
I’m guessing, but maybe this Game chain had a similar problem. Or liquid capital dried out.
Re: QubicGames Launches New Year Giveaway With 12 Free Switch Games (US)
RC Madiax quality of games. I’ve passed the last few times they’ve done their free stuff.
However, for people in extreme financial distress (like everybody I encounter recently in person), free games are good enough for them.
Whomever wrote this company ports cell phone games is being generous. This company really seems like RC Madiax or the old Xbox Indie games. Even below some WiiWare I’ve played.
Re: Oh No, GameStop Is Closing Its NFT Marketplace
NFTs? Yeah. If you can’t do it when the power goes out . . . whatever my business professor said.
Anyway, on a related note, why are BitCoins and other phony digital currencies utterly worth less than the American penny?
Because I can fill a sock full of pennies and defend myself. How can I fill a sock with BitCoins?
Ergo, NFTs could be retooled for stoping fraud on digital documents. NFTs are worthless. I have a real painting by Monet, then I can sell it. (Actually, it was the Vermeer that EA allowed me to take when they shut down a studio I was working at for them.) I can’t sell sn NFT.
Re: Pokémon Horizons' Netflix Release Delayed To March (North America)
Sure would be nice if it was on normal TV. (That’s a Pandora’s Box of topics and discussion there.)
Well, take their time. I’ll import the Thai DVDs to watch the series.
Re: Three More Sega Classics Are Being Revived, It's Claimed
Just because an older person like myself is still in video game design and programming doesn’t mean Sega has older programmers and designers with experience.
I’m going to sit back and wait. Nintendo always went forth with their characters, even if some take a decade break. Sega just left their stuff to rot, then re-released the same Genesis ROMs over and over and over . . .
Re: Nintendo Shares Hit Record High, Apparently Thanks To 'Switch 2' Fever
Due to NDA, I can’t give any specifics what I saw regarding a new Nintendo “entertainment” system. I will say what my team saw was beyond anything we were thinking. Maybe some investors (speculation) saw the same thing we saw in Redmond?
Re: Random: Horrific Mario Hologram Is Freaking Out CES Attendees
As an actual antendee of CES (and a Las Vegas resident) NOBODY is “freaked out” by the Mario hologram.
That’s a fact.
This article is hyperbolic hysteria or looking to make news fiction.
I’m an actual CES attendee. As in I go into the Las Vegas Convention Center. I actually have viewed potentional future products and displays.
I wonder who the mythical “freaked out” are.
Re: Masahiro Sakurai Plans To "Wrap Up" His YouTube Channel This Year
@boxyguy I was 5 videos a day from 2014 to 2019, plus two 2-hour livestreams a day from 2017 to 2019.
Then things went a different way and it had to be stopped and deleted at the new company’s request (names rhymes with Bamco Nandai).
But that’s because the company owns all ideas and concepts I make during time of employment.
So I know what’s going on him. 👍 It’s how the industry works.
(A family members has contributed to more patents to a major computer company than anybody I know.)
Re: Masahiro Sakurai Plans To "Wrap Up" His YouTube Channel This Year
I see what I was told on Sunday is truth. Wish I could say more, but NDAs.
Re: EA Sports FC 24 Is The Top Game For December '23 As Switch Settles In Behind PS5 (UK)
Could’ve fooled me. No Switches at Target, Best Buy, Walmart in Las Vegas area. All but ONE pawn shop sold out, too.
Even a few small retro stores are sold out of Switches.
Wasn’t until late last week did Switches get restocked at Best Buy/Target/Walmart, then sold out completely by early evening.
PS5s and Xbox Whatevers fully stocked just sitting there.
And GameStops have been shrinking PS5 area, Xbox area while expanding Switch area.
Facts proven by leaving house and visiting stores.
Re: Rumour: Switch Online Datamine Uncovers Plans For "At Least" 38 N64 Games And 52 Sega Genesis Titles
After over two years, barely any games since this unreliable leak.
Re: The Pokémon Company Donates 50 Million Yen To Aid Japan's Earthquake Victims
Helping one another is the highest form of a civilized society. An even higher form is to be humble and never mention the help offered.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Will Bring Critically Acclaimed Exclusive To A "Competitor System" This Year
Rumors and speculation like this reminds me of the last days of the Dreamcast.
Re: Soapbox: The 'Recharged' Series Proves Atari Is No Longer A Spent Force
@rockodoodle Paperboy is Atari Games, who was also Tengen, who became Time Warner Games, who merged with Tradewest and Midway (formerly a division of Williams) to form Midway Games, who is now owned by WB Games.
These games are from Atari Inc., who is actually Infogrames, who bought Hasbro Interactive from Hasbro, and licenses the Atari Inc. name and games from Hasbro under very generous terms. They don’t have the rights to most Atari Games titles, like Paperboy, Pit-Fighter, Rampage, etc.
Re: Nintendo Download: 4th January (North America)
Wow. A collection of nothing. Seriously makes WiiWare titles look like masterpieces. I know a handful of these are fun, but there’s nothing on this list screaming, “Play me, Seymore, play me!”
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
@raphsolo Having worked in TV broadcasting as a programmer and engineer, the newsanchors are actors. The authors slam the content onto a teleprompter, and the actors we hired are trained to read the content in a certain way. The director of the segment, the producer of the segment dictate to this actor how to say the words in the way he did. No doubt they think they have ridiculously strong level of high viewership, who were all born in 1890, and who speak in hushed tones as they gossip about Bianca being in trouble in a delicate condition from that boy from the other side of the tracks.
In other words, bad on the producer and bad on the director for making a segment like this.
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
Greatest drug ever created is the smartphone, especially after Apple combined the Wii’s OS/channel menu with the design, and the DS’s touchscreen. I see EVERYBODY but me looking down at their smartphones ALL the time, earning L-shaped necks and ruined eyes.
As for the video gamer stereotype, it’s still there. Then I strike back, and tell the person, usually in their 60s or 70s, how they were screaming at the top of their lungs 20 or 30 years ago that they claimed to still be young in their 40s, but somehow morphed into Archie and Edith Bunker.
Hey, I’m an old otaku and an old gamer myself, who still plays, designs, programs games, and I read comics. I admit I’m old, so I’ve dealt with this stereotype my whole life. Especially family members, who are all gambling addicts. (I don’t gamble, just those old Masque slots games on Mac/PC.)
Re: Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Says He's "Not Involved" With New Switch Flash Cart
Why bother? All current systems call home when a game is started.
Re: 'Switch 2' Will Be An Iterative Evolution And Will Cost $400, Predicts Analyst
What ruined video game magazines and websites starting 30 years ago?
Constant “reporting” on speculation and predictions.
Analyst needs people to keep hiring him.
Next Nintendo system to be made by Nintendo. May require eyes, hands to use.
Okay, snark off. This guy isn’t taking into account how huge the Switch is with on-the-go people. Maybe I read this article differently? I don’t see it with his out-of-context quote.
Economy is rotten worldwide. He predicts people to spend $400 on an electronic toy and $70 for titles? He needs to share what he’s smoking.
Re: Frogwares' Legal Dispute With Nacon Over 'The Sinking City' Is Finally Done
Having been in computers since 1980, and video game programming and design since 1992, I’ve seen disputes like this before. Good for them getting their rights back, whoever they are.
This kind of problem happened to the studio I was at. Without violating and NDAs, the Studio developed a handful of titles for a particular publisher, with a specific property. When the Studio was bought by a major publisher, and that publisher was bought by a major Hollywood corporation, that Studio got screwed out their royalties from the other publisher, who also was bought by another major company themselves, who in the end, became part of a major toy company, with the properties the Studio had developed becoming the property of a . . . Wizards of the Coast.
Yeesh. Anyway, in the end, the Studio lost ALL its rights and royalties.
Good for this unknown developer to become their own publisher and get back their property.
Re: Plans Are Reportedly In Place To Celebrate Earthbound's 30th Anniversary
Just putting it out there, but my daughter worked at a retro video game store for years. Nobody ever asked for EarthBound. Ever.
Most asked for games: Def Jam, GoldenEye “64”, Mario, Zelda, Madden, WWE, NBA 2K, The Show, and FIFA
Re: Feature: What Video Game Consultants Actually Do, And Why ‘Kit & Krysta’ Are Doing It
Still never watched anything by them. I do remember Nintendo Week on the Wii, with Alison and Gary. Am I allowed to link a video here?
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-week-final
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For A Zelda 1 Remake, Please
Remake for Zelda 1 was on BS service in Japan.
I know next-to-none of people outside Japan had the service. Game studio I worked at did.
Re: Sonic Prime Season 1 Is Apparently Getting A Blu-ray Release In 2024
Somebody told me that DVD sales are still very decent.
Not sure if he looked ar his own store’s lack of DVDs and Blu-Rays.
For me, though, I find discs very useful. I have a portable Blu-Ray player, and it’s good to use in the van’s AV port for riders to watch as I drive ‘em. I’d buy this Blu-Ray.
Re: Feature: 8-Bit Wolf - Remembering The NES Game Teaching Kids To Conquer Wall Street
I used to play this. Thanks for the article.
Re: "Fans Have Waited Many Years For A Return To Form" - WayForward On Contra's Grand Revival
When Contra went bad, Metal Slug filled the void for me. Metal Slug’s been void lately, so back to Contra?
I like WayForward’s Contra 4, but I’ve never been pass the first level due to, to me, unfair difficulty.
Color me skeptical of their Contra design.
Re: Soapbox: 1080° Snowboarding Is The Coolest Nintendo Ever Got
Nintendo Power had the soundtrack CD for sale, along with other games. Used to listen to 1080 music in my car driving to college/work. (Work was a video game studio.)
I played the game frequently. Was also stolen, and I replaced the cartridge, but never achieved those high scores ever again.
Re: Soapbox: I Scoffed At Switch Lite, Then I Backpacked Through South East Asia
A friend of my daughter needs a Switch Lite suddenly. That’s how the cookie crumbles.
Re: Editorial: Happy Holidays, Nintendo Lifers
@Lady_Galadhiel Amen to that!
No joke, after I made the comment here, our house erupted into a very National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation fight, so much so the cops were called to put it down.
Truth!
Back to egg nogging!
Re: Editorial: Happy Holidays, Nintendo Lifers
Merry &$@#%¥€ Christmas as I say. One Christmas I got in trouble by the priest because I was playing Sonic 3 on my DS (Sonic Collection or something) in Church before the Mass. I was also 40 when I did this.
In all serious, have a late Merry Christmas, a current Merry Christmas, or a future Merry Christmas like those in Hawaii and American Samoa.
And a Happy Martian Christmas to all space aliens and Borg. (Why am I being told to put dowbn the egg nog? What do they mean I’ve had plenty?)
Re: Soapbox: It Feels Like Everyone Forgot The Best Switch RPG Of The Year
Maybe not forgotten as just plain ignored. I over-hear my daughter and her gamer friends always talking about Among Us, something called [sic] Genshin Impact, and Mario/Zelda/Pokemon. The guys they date or are friends with are always into GTA Online, Madden, WWE games.
Ergo, this game isn’t forgotten. It’s just plain ignored. Not by me. My spouse and I buy ALL anime games for Switch. Just something we got into a few years ago.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC amiibo Appear To Be Getting A Restock (US)
I see amiibo just sitting on shelves, nobody ever touches ‘em anymore. I like amiibo, and I have almost every one of ‘em, including the cereal box. Just stating that the thrill may be gone after nearly a decade.
Re: Review: Harvest Moon 64 - Rose-Tinted Specs Recommended For This Beloved Farm Sim
I liked it find back then, I like it fine now. This and Quest 64 were lots of fun for myself and my co-workers of the past. My spouse plays Harvest Moon 64 and I think an old PS1 version.
Re: UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Takes Gold As Mario Wonder Slips Into Third
@dimi I hear lots of sales charts and reports aren’t the most reliable. Since I don’t work in retail, I have no opinion. I just presented somebody else’s is all.
Re: Activision Blizzard's Bobby Kotick Will Step Down Later This Month
Good-bye to the jerk who stopped mine and my co-worker royalty checks after the Vivendi merger.
Re: Sega Reveals New Details For Shinobi, Jet Set Radio, Streets Of Rage Revivals
Well that’s just ducky!
I know I was having recent discussions with a friend who is still in the industry about Jet Set/Grind Radio two months ago.
That’s as far as I can discuss about that.
Re: Fan-Made 'Link's Awakening DX HD' Port Taken Down By Nintendo
@Anti-Matter You should’ve visited my daughter’s video game store when she ran it. 90% of customers want Mario, Zelda, and GoldenEye. Everything else just sits around, unless it’s anime/Japanimation related/influenced.
I learned the cartoony art-style by drawing Mario characters back around 1990, Nintendo’s Valiant comic books. I guess it’s natural for people to want to create their own from their passsion? I don’t know. I don’t assume to answer for others.
Re: Fan-Made 'Link's Awakening DX HD' Port Taken Down By Nintendo
@Drac_Mazoku Maybe they’re legends in their own minds, impressing nobody but themselves?
Re: Hideki Kamiya Reveals Why He Left PlatinumGames
Reminds of an old producer I worked with back in 1992 on some really popular PC games. He was always full of his own legend about being a programmer and producer. He was let go, and thought he’s be able to make “legendary” and “god-like” games on his own. Nothing came of his other projects. He got into the Dot-Com trend and disappeared to Italy or somewhere, not as a video game anything, just a handyman or something.
Anyway, this guy reminds of that guy.
Re: Talking Point: What Classic Sega Franchises Do You Want To See Rebooted?
Beyond Oasis, Clockwork Knight, Bug!, Shining Force, Kid Chamelon, Chakan, Eternal Champions, Virtua Cop, etc.
Re: E3 Has Been Cancelled, Permanently
COMDEX was the first BIG convention to drop dead. In 1994, COMDEX had nearly 500,000 attendees, not counting the vendors a booth staffers. By 2001, COMDEX was gone. Some of the vendors that already booked booth space before the demise went ahead and held their own tiny convention.
E3 worked when it just industry mingling with industry. Allowing limited press, like EGM, GamePro, Game Players/Next Generation access worked for promotions and favors.
When Internet nobodies started showing up, how does that help the industry from within the industry? Is Pat the NES Dork going to produce and publish games? I don’t think so.
Then yes, combining what I wrote about limited, approved press, Nintendo and $ony can easily make a YouTurd video with all their stuff presented, tightly controlled. In essence, that’s E3 in a bottle. Industry may not mingle with industry anymore, though. I miss going to industry-only conventions like COMDEX, CES, and E3. It always magical to see the newest tech. and media being developed. When I was at 3DO, and I couldn’t get to Trip Hawkins for an in-person meeting, I’d just wait for CES and talk to him at the booth. NDA prevents me from saying what was spoken in these meets, but still, it was nice. The other part is manning a booth at E3s, and looking in awe at people playing a game my crew and I worked on. Smiles in faces, asking when it would be released, and if their store wants to carry X amount of copies to sell.
Re: GTA 6 On 'Switch 2' Would Be "Very Tricky To Pull Off", Says Digital Foundry
Anybody here ever played Body Harvest or Space Station Silicon Valley on N64?
GTA6 can run on N64 using the older engine, ergo, it can run on Switch. The question is it worth spending the time to either run the program in an older version of the engine, or just skip the system again. L.A. Noire runs fine, and I haven’t any issues with Red Dead Redemption. (My personal playing experiences. I speak for nobody else but myself.)
GTA5 did have two prototypes running, one for Wii, one for Wii U. The Wii version used Manhunt 2’s engine. The prototype I viewed was just Strawberry rendered. It looked pretty good. I never viewed the Wii U prototype, which I believe was canceled after porting the engine to work poorly in development phase. I did see a photo of a random screen, but that doesn’t mean jack during development.
The reason GTA5 wasn’t ultimately released for Wii was Nintendo’s very sour online for that system (GameSpy managed it), the lack of a native hard drive (512 MB would never cut it, and the SD card slot didn’t stream data, as it was more of a despository or “book shelf” for download Shopping Channel programs), and allowing a USB hard drive isn’t in Nintendo’s favor. Even if Rockstar proposed packing in a hard drive, Nintendo would say no (based on previous experiences from the studios I worked had) because the game would be about $100 or $150 for Wii.
I better stop before I break an NDA.
Re: Freedom Planet 2 Switch Release Delayed To Spring 2024
I played the first one on Wii U. I never found the end of the first level. Same feeling I (and antique AVGN) had with Terminator 1 on SNES.
I was recording the footage for a well-known YouTurder but in the end I told him I never completed the first level, as for some reason I never discovered the end of it.
Maybe it’s just me, but that’s my experience with the first game.
The Switch delay makes sense to me. If I bother purchasing the Windows version, is the code written by kit or by an actual programmer? Was the code fresh, or was it transliterated, mapped, dynamically mapped, or emulated from the PowerPC code of the first game? Is there code conflicts and graphical miscalculations within the Windows version’s source codes for an ARM translation/conversion?
Re: E3 Has Been Cancelled, Permanently
I always told them to hold in Las Vegas only.
The Winter CES before the first E3, during the booth tear-down, the SNK rep. gave me about dozen Neo-Geo CD games for free.