the more i think about it, the more i believe it could very well be Technos. the art still fits, they were obviously one of the 3rd parties, and the only thing that’s making me question it is the sprites (the more finished looking ones, anyway) and backgrounds. it’s closer to Gowcaizer than Double Dragon, for sure.

“no one played it back in the day” is a myth. it sold fairly well, all things considered (the era, the theme, etc). and even so, plenty of Japanese people did and most Japan-known game secrets from that era of titles have long since been discovered; at least so long as the game has a domestic release and also has…

the game was unfinished, and that doesn’t really change anything i wrote. most games look like butt until the last 10-20% is being worked on.

speaking as someone who has spent far too much time with arcade stuff in general, this does not look like SNK art to me. it looks far more like Taito or Visco, the latter of which may have been a subsidiary of Taito by this point- cursory research isn’t being clear on when they joined up.

your time on this planet is finite, and the amount of energy you have to use within that time is finite. Time and energy are the two universal resources that every human, regardless of culture, creed, or currency, must manage. thus, everything one spends time and energy on has weight and gravity- especially in light…

i’m guessing you’re kidding, but this was like, every ad agency back then. a mirror on both the time* and of the demographics to which these ads pandered. 14-30, and especially the lower end of that.

those were additional hardware devices, which wasn’t what you were seemingly suggesting. in the case of SGB especially, the hardware was very antiquated by the time of its release, which also changes things- it came out in that weird period where Game Boy kinda died before Pokemon resurrected it. in any case, the…

you’re thinking very, very small picture here. would the increase in sales, and thereby profits, offset the costs of starting, running, and maintaining those services? of maintaining the software that runs the software? to say nothing of the angry parents who will be confused as to why they bought a Wii U AND a 3DS if…

so that’s your reaction? blame someone else for your pretty clear failure to understand contextually appropriate phrasing?

sorry if it came off as if i’m contradicting what you’re saying at all- “be patient, this will take additional time” was the intention, not “don’t get your hopes up, dipshit, you’re gonna be dead before you can play this.”

keep in mind, this will require more than a dump to get working- the hardware sounds semi-custom, and from the sounds of things emulation will likely require adapting the source code of FreeDO in some way. in any event, the point is that it’ll almost certainly be a while before it’s post-dump playable.

Is “shoehorned” the new “shoved down our throats”?

Am I the only person here who knows what echolalia is and, given obvious gigantic overlaps in the gaming community with the autism spectrum community, that echolalically repeated words, phrases, and ideas become cultural currency within all our communities and…

Literally everyone is aware of these things and literally everyone sane is aware that they only look bad when forced through a specific prism. So take your own advice, maybe?

yes, everyone is aware that you’re convinced that you’re right.

here are some popular GG trigger words:

Anita
Woman
Feminism
Censorship
Social Justice
Dyed Hair
Empathy
Zoe

whether or not you realize or accept it, you’re doing exactly what you scorn others for doing- reacting emotionally after encountering words and/or concepts that make you uncomfortable. literally every human does this…

thanks, was surprised this didn’t get at least a passing mention in the article.

skip the dumb, confrontational, childish and strangely defensive bullshit. they are not equally bad, nor are they as ugly, and you’re betraying your own lack of perspective by suggesting so. tattoos are a personal choice, and often a dumb one. race is not a choice, nor can it just be covered up, nor is it suddenly…

Right, hence “that old Asian mysticism that was common lore among people who have basically never actually met an Asian person outside of a television set or who never otherwise moved beyond thinking the stereotypes set forth by the media.” That was more or less meant to cover everything from Charlie Chan to Calgon to…

oh, for sure. I just think it’s interesting that “African” is now the most visible/common (or so it would seem!) exoticizer, but i would guess based on observation that “African” wouldn’t have sold near as well as one until relatively recently. At least in America, can’t speak for Europe.

like if you put “ancient…

wasn’t “ancient Chinese proverb” more or less used interchangeably for decades? Chinese may also be “Asian”, “Oriental” or “Japanese”, contextually speaking. that old Asian mysticism that was common lore among people who have basically never actually met an Asian person outside of a television set or who never…