They created a derivative for a mod to the original game with a different character (Crazy Otto) but Namco struck a deal with them as arcades were asking Namco for another Pac-Man game and they had nothing ready. So they formed a Square/Disney style partnership for Ms. Pac-Man.

I would like to see them organize one last hurrah, though and bill it as The Last E3. Then they can shift focus to small indie events as there is probably a place for a TED talks of trade shows, smaller, semi-annual events that use the power of the brand (like “E3 Minneapolis” or “E3 Austin”) that shine the light on…

“Forgotten,” and to be honest, I had forgotten about it despite having a fairly impressive memory. But with the likes of the SpongeBob show, the Wiggles tour, the Ninja Turtles spectacular, and Smurfs on Ice, it sort of just blends in to the era of kids’ stage shows.

I’m impressed. There seems to be nothing that other platforms do that Sony can’t do almost as well.

Lucky.  It looks like I sat on an Ewok back there. 

I liked it but one inconsistency stood out to me. When the Convenant broke into the settlement, the General’s bullets from the mounted gun bounced off their shields, yet Master Chief took them down using the exact same gun.  I understand they were trying to demonstrate how badass the Spartans are, but that logic just…

He pronounces Stephen as “Steven” instead of “Stefan.” So I’m not convinced he’s the best authority on the subject of pronunciation. 

Where do you live where every time someone mentions gender or orientation that they immediately launch into a discussion about the mechanics? Are you a middle schooler posting from the back of a school bus because if you’re not, that’s seriously messed up.

Bwahahahaha! Yeah, a multi-billion dollar company is going to stop supporting the political party of large corporations. That’s freakin’ hilarious!

I can’t wait to pick up a DendyStation 5.

They don’t look all that much different from the yellow and black striped garden spiders we already get up here in the northeast. 

Note the lack of memory between walking and waking. I, has have many others, have experienced that temporary loss of memory during trauma. It’s possible that a memory flash occurred during that time and was lost in the great reset.

(Slightly relatable: I was recounting a concussion experience the other day to someone…

I think in this case we can extrapolate from shock and other trauma and see a pattern of the brain entering “protection mode.”  It’s highly unlikely that the brain would pick this moment to be, “Well, f-ck it, why bother anymore? Hey, Steve, remember that time you crashed your motorcycle and didn’t feel your leg snap?…

Some of the ROMs that they are using in their Virtual Console releases have been traced back to piracy. They absolutely have lost some of their own source code. And that’s to be expected for the same reason that BBC lost original episodes of Dr. Who. Until VCRs were invented there was no reason to think they would…

I wonder if the font has something to do with patching the dialogue. Either you squeeze more words in or you create additional dialogue boxes. 

It’s also important to note that some of the ROMs exist now only because of piracy. Nintendo lost many of the originals precisely due to their reluctance to archive anything and their attempts to restrict anyone else from doing so either. Much of the Satellaview archive is gone forever because Nintendo didn’t keep the…

KB Toys was giving out a sheet of uncut cards in each of its stores via lottery on Black Friday in 1999. I wonder how many of those are still out there. (The Auntie Anne’s pretzel shop upstairs backed up the sewage drain and the resulting “back flow” flooded our store and ruined our sheet. So not that one, but the…

I don’t think you understand how the internet works. The First Rule is that everything has to be the best or worst thing EVER!! Best mayor/Prime Minister/President, worst movie/TV show/driving game, etc.

Star Trek has five good films.  Fake God convinces a laughing Vulcan to steal a spaceship and Bald Girl leads the crew to hook up with a lost satellite are not good films in any way.

LCDs themselves will last a long time. I'm worried more about all the individual controllers.