Yeah, the only reason I click on these sorts of things is to see the commenters tear it apart. It was especially disappointing once when I had a look at some massive crawly arse-lick promotional thing for some stupid rock band on here and found they'd turned the comments off.

Steven Seagal was almost in a video game in 1994, but it was never released: http://www.nintendoplayer.c… If you've got a spare half hour or so, you've got to take a look at that.

The palette swap wouldn't have affected any other program. Back in the days of EGA you generally only had a single program displaying on the entire screen. Windows hadn't taken off yet, and it took until Windows 3.1 in 1990/91 for the whole multiple apps onscreen thing to start becoming common, by which time PCs had…

Who want us to eat them.

That was Gunpei Yokoi. Apparently he didn't intend the Virtual Boy to be released in the state it was in, and was going to develop it further, but Nintendo forced a launch of what was basically an unfinished product so they could concentrate their R&D resources on the N64. It tanked, and they quite unreasonably blamed…

Rivals to Vídeo Brinquedo, makers of such fine films as The Little Panda Fighter, The Little Cars, Ratatoing, and What's Up?: Balloon to the Rescue. Except those films all actually exist.

T-shirt stalls in British open air markets circa 1991 are way ahead of you with that one.

And the thing about that is that it had already been done back in 1987 by a Commodore 64 programmer called Richard Aplin, who came up with "Invade-A-Load" - a game of Space Invaders while you waited for a different game to load in off of a cassette tape, which might take about 8 - 10 minutes. There were even a few…

That was a different band, not Big Black. IIRC Big Black got their cover from a police photo taken on the scene of a suicide.

I'm bothered by the way that the cute ghost's eyes go lower than its mouth when it's shrugging.

Nor Big Black's "Headache". Saw it once and that was enough for a lifetime. (It's an actual photo of someone's head blown to pieces, to stop anyone from trying to Google it.)

I've always been fascinated by the shriners cover, because being British I've never known what the deal is with the shriners and why they drive about in tiny cars. To me it's like a single image from a dream made real.

I hope I'm remembering this correctly, but I think the butcher photo was part of a triptych of art prints they did with some photographer friend of theirs showing the Beatles in different situations that were meant to somehow comment on their fame and 60s society and all that junk. A newspaper once printed the other…

I used to be on an (internet) mailing list back in the late 90s where some discussion of this occurred, and some of the people who were talking about it were people who worked in the TV industry. One guy (now passed, I think) claimed he and some of his colleagues knew who did it, but they decided not to report him…

"Mega Drive" was the original Japanese name, I think. It was retained for the European launch. Also "Hero Turtles" is the UK / Irish renaming of the Ninja Turtles, due to some ludicrous censorship worries over ninjas and their associated weaponry in a children's cartoon. The UK's film classification board actually…

I'm glad you came to your senses re: "Pete & Pete". Possibly the best live-action show Nickelodeon ever did.

He already did that, I think. I saw Fantagraphics tweet a picture of that exact thing.

Wait, wasn't this published about a decade or so ago? I'm sure I remember this coming out years previously, with the same title but a different cover.

This has nothing to do with this article, but I was expecting there to be a newswire about Terry Jones by now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/e…

"designed to look just like a tiny Super Nintendo—or, more accurately, a Japanese Super Famicom"