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Then I'm glad I couldn't stand watching it.

I think it's a matter of timing. Japanese home video games really came into their own at about the same time home video game hardware became capable of playing any kind of background tune. However, when all these early BGM composers had to work with was maybe a few pulse wave generators and a noise channel, as well as…

Nintendo had experimented with color display when they were developing the VB, but the LCD panels they used refreshed too slowly, and the blue LEDs needed to pull off a full-color display were ridiculously expensive back in 1995.

The saddest footnote in the VB's history is that its failure effectively ended Gunpei Yokoi's 30+ year tenure at Nintendo; he left shortly (some say he was 'encouraged to leave') after the VB was discontinued. He went on to develop the Bandai Wonderswan, but, tragically, he was killed in a car accident in 1997.

I'd imagine you could actually see him die a little bit when asked that.

I though it was "Wrapped up like a douche."

Binary solo!!

I think the …,1 referred to the first disk drive in the chain if you had a couple daisy-chained together. You would type load "*",8,2 to read from the second drive.

It really is a tribute. The 2600 is basically a glorified Pong console, and programming it to do anything more than bouncing a block between a couple of sticks took real talent.

It certainly didn't help that their follow-up to the 2600, the 5200, was such a turd. It was huge, ungainly, and expensive, and it came with the worst 1st-party controllers ever designed. They were known to break the first day they were used.

B-17 Booooooomber!

I'd agree with the general conceit that ET didn't single-handedly tank Atari, but to imply it had nothing to do with their misfortunes, or that the game isn't utterly dreadful smacks of blatant revisionist history.

Accompanied by a loud creaking noise.

Meee—yaarrrgh!

Hmm… It seems the mods didn't get the memo.

I didn't realize until recently how long it'd been since I did anything with that dusty old blog. I'm glad Google doesn't just delete abandoned blogs after a year or so.

You got nothing to worry about… as long as your math's not wrong.

Hi all! I'm back from my years-long exile to the Negaverse, and I was thinking about getting the ol' blog fired back up. Nothing new has been published yet, but I got a few more reviews and at least one more how-to on deck. If you're interested, I have a (very very… *sigh* very empty) Twitter account set up,…

Is it weird that my favorite Mario music comes from SMB2? I love that tinkly ragtime piano in the title music, and the tribal beat in the underworld.