CAUSIN MUCH MAYHEM DROPPIN DRAMA Tech Art Director @ 17-BIT in Kyoto. Ex-Square Enix, Anchor Inc, 90s PC Gamer. My opinions are mine, yadda yadda. He/him
I am in Boston right now for PAX East and did a trip to MIT to explore; classic game company Infocom (among others) came out of here and it was awesome to see places that were referenced in games like Lurking Horror (like the Infinite Corridor)
Off-model Pokemon, at E3 1998 the Nintendo booth would fire out a couple dozen of these from a giant Pikachu every twenty minutes and it turned into a riot. They had to stop doing it because people were getting knocked over.
Accolade kept sending me shit despite the fact that I would give their games terrible scores. These dudes were basically the kings of junkets and promotional goods. The money must have been coming from somewhere.
Time to go through crap in the basement and stuff it in a box to go to Goodwill! Here we go! Paging @jeffgerstmann.com who may remember some of this junk.
Manhunter New York (1988, Sierra) is a game with an incredibly weird/oppresive vibe and I would REALLY like to reboot it. Pretty sure Microsoft has the rights. Come on guys, I will promise you Gaming Copilot integration or something, just gimme funding
Here is your reminder that the new season of BAKI is out on Netflix. The story is that the greatest fighters in Japan are all super bored, so they clone the greatest samurai of all time Miyamoto Musashi in a secret lab under the Sky Tree so they can try to beat his historical ass
At the ALGO Arcade in Kobe, there are TWO four-player Spikeout stations, and there's a giant stack of Model 3 boards and harnesses on a wire rack because they wouldn't fit inside the cabinets they're using
This is the weirdest sanity-be-damned game I've played since DISASTER REPORT 4, and I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just saying the number of double-takes I've done had extended into the dozens
Fighting game character designed peaked in "VS" (Polygon Magic, THQ), an American-reskinned version of the Taito game "Fighters Impact" that features an evil Street Mime who does Aikido