And, if you look close, you'll find that the "Love Gun" album artwork is integrated into the artwork on the back of "Nevermind."

Well, it was originally used as the front cover for the album, not just an insert. I've seen lots of speculation that the whole thing was a stunt by Geffen to get the album noticed, since very few of the "original cover" copies were ever pressed in the first place (ie, just enough for a publicity stunt) and the…

I haven't seen the ABC Mallrats since it first aired, but as I recall it, the badly-dubbed replacement line is something about how he likes to "make girls feel uncomfortable" in the back of a VW or something to that effect.

I think W.A. Stokins was the author of that goddamn "play as Shen Long in SF2" prank, but I forget the author of the TMNT2 one. What I don't forget is the hours wasted and the finger cramps trying to put that code in quick enough. I think the address on it was from Fuldagin, HA.

Considering "King Ralph" came out in 1991, that *is* pretty impressive.

Sadly, Gene himself uses the line "KISS is a brand, not a band" these days.

Haven't seen mentioned yet, but I thought it interesting that Matt Groening mentions on the DVD commentary that he kinda-sorta took issue at the time about the scene where Homer recoils in pain after being hit by the baptismal waters, since it seemed to imply Homer might be Satan himself.

Sometimes this actually has been done, but rarely, and I honestly can't even remember any specific examples when it comes to games that were officially/commercially released. There's definitely been a few cases in the NES realm though, where developers have released source code for games that never made it out, and I…

I always hated Startropics myself, but I think Nintendo must have just forgotten the thing even exists. Perhaps because it was US-developed? Even the original NES games never got a Japanese release, so I kinda doubt they'll ever revisit it since a large portion of the gaming world would be completely unfamiliar with…

Eh. I'm over by Joplin, MO., grew up close enough to OK to stand in my yard and be in Newton County MO and Ottawa County OK at the same time, and I know how conservative things are around here…

I *think* Hutz has been seen "recently" (sometime within the last 10 years) as a background character too, but it was generally viewed as a tribute (or maybe just an error) and it's the only time post-Hartman-death that he's been back. I forget what episode though, or if it was even Hutz or McClure for sure, so…

Yeah, theoretically you *coulda* put all 4 NES SMB games on one NES cart with room left over for the original Mario Bros., though it woulda made for an expensive/large-for-the-time one. I always viewed All-Stars mostly as a cheap stopgap solution, some 'new' Mario product to put out during the long gap between SMW…

Since I'm making a bunch of replies anyway, I'll point out that a more-uncensored version of MM NES does exist as a prototype, and the ROM is out there. I don't know if it's 100% uncensored since I never played the PC original (yeah, I know), but I played the hell out of the NES version and always wondered why the…

And then there's also the reverse part of it, simply what you're demanding the hardware to do, via software code. Sure, your new PS4 should have no problem running a nearly-20-year-old N64 game theoretically… but then realize that the PS4 doesn't have any of the same hardware the N64 had, so you're dealing with…

Too late for anyone to even notice this, but like I said a few posts above, I was a co-founder of a ROM release group specializing in NES, and we did indeed get C&D notifications from Nintendo (which we ignored) and lots of other release groups and websites did, too. I'm not aware of anyone in the "emulation…

Nah, those are probably fine. It's the stuff like those one-of-a-kind prototypes (and the occasional pirate bootleg) with the more "volatile" EPROMs and EEPROMs that are really in danger - commercial carts typically used MASK ROMs that aren't likely to die off anytime soon (though it *can* happen in rare cases). …

I'll say this about the archive aspect, as someone who co-founded a ROM release group and spent the latter half of the '90s and some of the early '00s helping get NES games dumped and released (and some other stuff too, but NES was always my focus personally) - we always told ourselves we were doing it mainly for…

The newer DirecTV setups actually seem remarkably resilient to weather, at least compared to the old days. When my parents had theirs upgraded to HD they got a new dish along with it, and the weather problems virtually disappeared, whereas before the mildest little shower could put it out.

Does he actually specify it as an '89? I think they do, which always bugged me, because it's clearly a '82-86 model before they redesigned 'em! Jerry of all people shoulda caught that.

I thought it was a given that everybody could hear Brian (especially since they've had him appear on talk shows and stuff like that where he's interacting with people outside his circle of family/friends), though I don't suppose they've ever explained why. It's Stewie who's really in the "can they or can't they hear…