looks free roaming but very linear. now a Kirby esque breath of the wild type map would be interesting! and I am now wondering if Kirby will enter the hellish realm that is what Zelda suffers, putting the games in a chronological order in some kind of lore tome. I say this because this looks like it would be a nice…

looks free roaming within levels but not very open world. still quite the surprise though thats for sure.

The first public MAME release was on February 5, 1997.

Arcade video games remained the largest sector of the global video game industry until about 1996 with the console market surpassing arcade video games for the first time around 1997–1998. In the West arcades started dying in high numbers in the 2000s and…

thanx for explaining David Cage I had forgotten he existed so didn’t get the joke either..

its through the walking tour youtube videos that I discovered just how much of Jet Grind Radio was based on actual city layouts etc. a Shibuya walkthrough (I think) eventually came to a giant bus station area and I was like “OMG its real.. we’ve skated all over this place” to my spouse lol

ya Kawasaki warehouse was great.  a movie in a franchise I like was filmed there but they didn’t exploit it anywhere near as much as they could have.  I like the idea of indoor spaces looking like outdoor spaces so I was in love with the decor.

I would suggest you building mame cabinets is part of why arcades died off except for the fact I play mame games all the time and until they closed would go and spent 2 bucks on the machines in my local retro game reseller’s basement twice a week. in retrospect earning my 2 bucks times the amount of people I saw…

if you pay close attention the spiritual successor to arcade games was not the console or PC games that initially took their place but the cell phone games since so many had the same manipulative algorithms and game play that tailors itself to your skill levels to keep you playing but more importantly to keep you just…

so the response has been ‘No new Nu we want the Nu that we knew?

heheh

oh very much so. he liked Futurama, Beetlejuice, Hellboy, the recent Joker movie, and Chuck Palahniuk’s books, and proceeded to sell book marks and posters of other peoples art while celebrating those things. the funny thing is those complaining didn’t even know most of the references. they kept calling the sandworms…

the van-life youtuber who recently went missing after arguing with her fiance, Gaby Petito used to take turns reading chapters out loud with her fiance and he mentioned that on his Intagram where he tried to sell lino-prints of other people’s pop culture designs. I mention this because when I checked out his Instagram…

you know, instead of clicking the pencil tool in photoshop with your tablet? :P

reminds me of when Infograms bought Atari and then said lets call ourselves Atari because people have fond memories of Atari.

that was like taking a pet someone once loved but died a while ago and wearing their skin hoping the previous owner will come give you a hug.

meanwhile I know it wasn’t relevant to how this new…

“Yeah, there are badass women characters, but Ripley and Sarah Connor had some actual motivation and plot to show it”

ya so? look at it genderless. nobody compares John Wick’s character development to Rambo.

you sound a little sensitive. instead of worrying about diversity hows about you realize its the Tomb Raider…

America thinks the US is exclusively either NYC or Texas for the sake of most media with some Hollywood Vegas and Alabama thrown in as well

“Now I have also watched Kate and the movie scene in question and if you’ve seen it too you’d probably know why the Japanese audience laughed at it.”

having not seen Shang Chi yet I still get a laugh out of the giant glowing ad on the side of the building across from his fight with death dealer the ninja(?). and in…

I thought many anime get around that by using fictional names on their obviously Euro based cities

Americans seem to have that stereotype down as a trope too. I laugh at how many times I see some one barge in on an italian mobster and he has a plate of pasta in front of him.

I love how Golgo 13 feels like a police procedural from the other side.

and if people can spend money to watch Ocean’s Eleven or other heist movies then they can spend the money to watch a crazy insane murder plot unfold.

like Star Wars started so many cheesy 80's space movies, John Wick started a fad of insanely skilled assassins with a huge problem that needs fixing.   there was sci fi before Star Wars but ya once Hollywood gets the scent of cash it goes this way.  in John Wick’s case its prob also cause the budget doesnt have to be…