Yeah, technical challenges wouldn’t be the obstacle; licensing ones would - various games for the system are owned by a variety of different rightsholders. I think the ideal solution would be to make a version the same size and shape as the original that has all the games to which the manufacturer has rights hardwired…

That’s what I’m thinking. A miniature version is cute and nifty, as well as conceptually consistent with all the other miniature recreations of classic platforms that we’ve seen in recent years, but I would imagine that for a handheld system that was small to begin with, it sacrifices actual usability. There’s a…

I don’t know why they’d put it as “Lucas claims it was a prequel”, as though there were some reason to doubt that, but Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom explicitly states in onscreen text at the beginning of the movie that it’s 1935, while Raiders of the Lost Ark explicitly begins in 1936.

“Theatrical release”? All releases of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom set it in 1935, while all releases of Raiders of the Lost Ark start it off in 1936.

I remember the first time I ever saw the game. I remember being confused by my first glance at it - the ghosts with their big eyes looked cuter and friendlier than the Pac-Man himself, who with his voracious appetite and lack of facial features initially seemed vaguely threatening, so for a brief moment I thought the…

Class of ‘86 here. Nice to see folks my age or even a little older here.

I cut my videogaming teeth largely on things like Space Invaders that didn’t have endings, just more and more of the same stuff only harder, and the goal wasn’t “beating” it so much as getting a high score. The earliest games I can remember ever actually finishing were certain early adventure games on the Atari VCS…

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Probably Journey again, and maybe Patapon and / or Patapon 2, and maybe some Terraforming Mars.

This is wonderful. To me, it’s also immensely distressing, as I was just about to nervously contact the editor of one of Kotaku’s sibling sites (io9) to pitch an article of the listicle variety, but the yawning gulf between the best possible version of what that article could be and the expression of insight you’ve…

“If you can explain to me exactly what that dream about Yul Brynner symbolizes, I’ll buy you your own lifesize Yul Brynner gunslinger robot.“

Wait, are you talking about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, or one of the other movies that got mentioned here like the Saw and Sharknado sequels? I certainly don’t think the Indy movie has anything approaching “objectively terrible acting”.

Not only are you wrong, you’re actually even more wrong than you are intentionally being. By that I mean that not only was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade not the last Indy production, it wasn’t even the halfway point - or even a third or a fourth of the way - in the total body of Indiana Jones productions. Not…

I’ve eschewed my usual jeans and slacks in favor of wearing almost exclusively pajama pants for about four weeks now. I know that’s not super-unusual for lots of people these days, but it certainly is different for me.

Excellent, thanks!

I am so, so happy with Journey. I had missed out on it when it first came out - I haven’t really kept up with consoles much in a long time, but just recently finally got a PS4 after years of wanting one (I know the 5 is due this year, but that’s fine) - and I didn’t really know anything about Journey, but it quickly…

Looking at these on my phone, the resolution difference is effectively removed and I mainly see the different... rendering styles, I guess? I don’t know what to call it.

Congratulations!

He’s not even that old - he’s 59.

I just haven’t been able to afford to buy a new console near the beginning of its lifespan since... well, ever. I just got my PS4 in November (when it was bundled with three games for $199 for Black Friday). My PSP was another Black Friday deal, my NES was the smaller top-loading revision brought out late in its life,…