I had a few of those GI Joe Street Fighter figs. They were awful. ReSaurus’ line was awesome. Still have a Blanka figure and a Street Fighter Jr Akuma figure somewhere in storage.

I was about 7 or 8 when I played Simon’s Quest and the transition to night time always made me uneasy.

This is a tougher question than I thought it’d be. It *might* be Contra. I remember going to a Zayres and buying a copy. I’m almost certain I bought it with my own money. My folks typically only bought me games for my birthday or Christmas. It would have been unusual for them to take me to a store just to buy a…

So would “free” in this case also means “purchased via Humble” as well?

Terrific article. SWG is a game I still think about often. It had a charm that no other mmorpg was ever able to cast over me. Reading your last paragraph really makes me want to jump into the game. If only to find the spot on Tattooine where my medium sized house once stood on the Starsider server. The amount of hours…

I’m sure we’ll get to see this Kermit Meme in action when the rosters expand in September.

My lovely wife bought me this vintage Jabba the Hutt play-doh set. Had one of these when I was about 4 or 5 years old and had mentioned it in passing a couple months ago.

I got a PS1 for Christmas 1996. The reason I asked for it was because of a classmate’s description of Resident Evil. It sounded like the coolest game concept and I HAD to experience it for myself. And man was it fantastic.

So this happened in late 2004. I can’t recall which game I was buying but it was either San Andreas or MGS3. So I went to my local Eb/GameStop sans preorder and told the guy is like to buy a copy. He told me that even though they had plenty of copies in stock, he couldn’t sell me a copy of the game unless I bought a…

Why isn't he wearing shoes?

$6.3 million is a lot of money but it doesn’t sound near enough to make a proper current gen open world Shenmue. Have they mentioned how much they’re getting from Sony or other investors? Like, what percentage of the total budget was the original $2 million goal?

John Valentin. I remember him.

How do you land the plane on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun for the NES? Been struggling with this for a couple decades now.

I spent an entire hot summer day in 1992 playing The Addams Family on SNES. I played this mediocre game until my thumbs had blisters on them. That’s the only time I’ve ever developed blisters while gaming. Why did I put myself through that? I was bored and 11 and I really liked the movie it was based on.

I think the two figures by the bus may be Super Mutants. The one closer to the bus being somewhat heavily armored.

So we traded Patrick Swayze for John Cena?

Also Carcetti in The Wire.

I’ll always remember him as the bad guy in the Eddie Murphy “classic” The Golden Child.

Holy Shit. I rewatched this not too long ago and didn’t make the connection.

I remember hearing about this back in 2002 well before SWG launched. I thought it was a great idea to have Jedi be in the game but also be able to be faithful to the fact that Jedi were virtually extinct during this time period. I was disappointed when Jedi permadeath never materialized. Still, despite it’s many flaws…