https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5EuMxsOic
― Pheeel, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8iBBJE_MZ0
i have never played a single MGS game but dunkey's supercut here just cracked me UP
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/aMwloJ1.png
While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s probably because there are so few pieces to go around. There are thousands of copies of Battletoads In Battlemaniacs for the Super Nintendo, but only one original painting of its box artwork—and that’s owned by Dan, a 42-year-old accountant from Vancouver, British Columbia who’s been hunting down original game art for the last decade.Recently, he posted a massive bounty for one of his holy grails—he’ll pay $100,000 for the original box art used on the NES game Contra. Yep, that’s five zeroes.In an age before high-res digital art and Photoshop, the covers of game boxes were painted by hand and photographed for the box cover. The paintings had to be done larger than the final product, so the original art is usually around 18 by 24 inches, with larger examples going up to about 20 by 30 inches in size.Dan, who asked Kotaku not to use his last name over privacy concerns, began as a garden-variety game collector, at one point amassing a near-complete set of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System that were still sealed in the original shrinkwrap. That all changed, he said, when he bought his first pieces of art.
Recently, he posted a massive bounty for one of his holy grails—he’ll pay $100,000 for the original box art used on the NES game Contra. Yep, that’s five zeroes.
In an age before high-res digital art and Photoshop, the covers of game boxes were painted by hand and photographed for the box cover. The paintings had to be done larger than the final product, so the original art is usually around 18 by 24 inches, with larger examples going up to about 20 by 30 inches in size.
Dan, who asked Kotaku not to use his last name over privacy concerns, began as a garden-variety game collector, at one point amassing a near-complete set of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System that were still sealed in the original shrinkwrap. That all changed, he said, when he bought his first pieces of art.
Dan works with financial numbers for a living but doesn't know anything about how money works. Dan is an accountant in Vancouver who is concerned about his privacy but doesn't know how privacy works.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
(ok, he probably has an idea about much he's overpaying for box art but has a passion for it and doesn't care how much he's getting ripped off. it's probably not right to say he doesn't know anything about how money works. sorry dan, all of this is totally normal)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/eceb5639b8d362913a21cb63c185b2f7/tumblr_p3fglvbADE1utw2woo1_1280.png
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
http://images.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/random_images_resurface_from_1994_showing_nintendo_destroying_counterfeit_games_with_a_steamroller/attachment/3/original.jpg
Nintendo games seem to be a particularly popular option for counterfeit product makers; the chances of finding a whole host of knock-off goods from any car boot sale or eBay search is scarily high. While we don't always see how companies such as the 'Big N' deal with such matters, these recently rediscovered photos show what is possibly the best method we could ever imagine.Enter the steamroller. Found by the archivists at Gamegeschiedenis, these images of counterfeit Nintendo products being crushed were reportedly taken in the Netherlands back in 1994. The photos featuring some lucky employee whose job was to go around stomping on the fake games in a Mario outfit stood out as a particular highlight to us, although that actually does seem like a good way to put across a strong message to potential fraudsters.http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/random_images_resurface_from_1994_showing_nintendo_destroying_counterfeit_games_with_a_steamroller
Enter the steamroller. Found by the archivists at Gamegeschiedenis, these images of counterfeit Nintendo products being crushed were reportedly taken in the Netherlands back in 1994. The photos featuring some lucky employee whose job was to go around stomping on the fake games in a Mario outfit stood out as a particular highlight to us, although that actually does seem like a good way to put across a strong message to potential fraudsters.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/random_images_resurface_from_1994_showing_nintendo_destroying_counterfeit_games_with_a_steamroller
some real funny images at the link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
VIDEOPULP
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
I want that Kratos tat on my face.
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uC3cC4gG9Q
― 龜, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
I was up far too late doing this. pic.twitter.com/ndd9UqRjVW— Jake L (@jaykayell_) February 9, 2018
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
i had to google Steamed Hams the other day. it's a forgettable joke from the declining years of classic era Simpsons. no idea why it's a huge deal and a giant meme. people have a lot of time on their hands.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
WHICH ONE OF YOU INCANDESCENT GENIUSES RUNS THIS ACCOUNT
https://twitter.com/YakuzaNoContext
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/LBcw0xT7M7— Yakuza Without Context (@YakuzaNoContext) February 6, 2018
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
yet another social situation where doing the worm is not appropriate
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
the magical thing about yakuza is that context doesn’t actually add much to these screenshots, it really is a straight-faced gangster sim that also finds room for utterly batshit side-missions
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
i had to google Steamed Hams the other day. it's a forgettable joke from the declining years of classic era Simpsons
what no
that's one of the all-time best Simpsons episodes and I remembered that entire dialogue even though I hadn't seen it in over a decade
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
http://store.steampowered.com/app/769060/Dab_on_em_Haterz/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
the episode is uneven, but the Skinner/Chalmers bit is a masterpiece
I think the meme has peaked though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIcXRbZ458
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
also - https://www.tofugu.com/travel/84-members-only-nintendo-bar/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ki4YBoI5s
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
me when someone disrespects the majesty of Steamed Hams
pic.twitter.com/REkWuiUNaP— Yakuza Without Context (@YakuzaNoContext) January 13, 2018
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Thursday, 15 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
ps
pic.twitter.com/IgQWWeUoVz— Yakuza Without Context (@YakuzaNoContext) January 12, 2018
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Thursday, 15 February 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
hey give Adam a break on the steamed hams thing, you gotta remember he is from Utica
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwxq512u8A
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
Love how steamed hams and yakuza got brought up itt completely independently, then someone posts that high-effort high-quality bootleg of the two, because of course that exists! Everything exists, apparently.
― Dan I., Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
This guy's thinking dancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVibNKrp8sQ
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 16 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bfixbnUHkwBfnJVEhMBvyT-650-80.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
Is that kingdom come? That game looks both very bad and possibly really fun to goof around in? I’m waiting til it’s $10
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTGg1kUQCo
― am0n, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
There may be some debate about whether this counts as 'hilarious' or 'punishingly masochistic' but I'm dying atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ejhCBkZtU
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
(NB: I find abysmal video game voice acting endlessly amusing.)
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.filfre.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lm2-6.png
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 April 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
(from this fantastic article at Digital Antiquarian - breaking down exactly why i had to follow all those instructions to make all those boot disks circa 1990-1993...)
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 April 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
the other week i got lost in that site. highly recommended
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
oh god that article. i lived through the era - i remember tweaking for EMS, XMS, etc - and it's killing me reading it
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 April 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
God yeah, boot discs! DOS=HIGH,UMB is real Proustian madeleine stuff. And sometimes resigning yourself to playing something without sound or mouse, because the game needed the memory those drivers would otherwise be taking up. Where did I learn to do this stuff? Feel like it can only have been through readme.txt files, we definitely weren't googling it (and ahem I rarely had manuals for the games I was playing in those days either).
― JimD, Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
LshiftOshift2starshift2comma8comma1
― Orbital Ribbonbopper, Inventor of Flying and Popcorn (Old Lunch), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
i have perpetually toyed with "load quote star quote" and "comma eight comma one" as either artist or album names for myself, should i ever finish any more music and need names for it. such powerful, imprinting incantations. what did they mean? why couldn't you just load? who knows! i always typed them. sometimes the disk had written instructions on it to type something else and i did that too. my great proustian cue though is the sound of the c64 disk drive in action.i think a lot of the boot disk know-how was circulated via BBS and/or by friends of friends, sort of like how pirate copies seemed to get around even though we didn't know THAT many other people with computers. some of it may have even been in game manuals or otherwise provided by the publishers. hilariously, i think the toughest time i ever had getting a game to work was in the late 90s when i picked up a vintage copy of Serpent Isle --- back when it came out, origin had had its games' exectuables load their own proprietary memory manager to strongarm the system into giving the game the resources it wanted. utterly incompatible with windows 95. we got there eventually but the real solution was to rebuild a state-of-the-art 1992 machine, which i then mostly devoted to wing commander replays.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Great band name ideas, Dr. C. We're clearly on similar Proustian ground.
(I knew this was happening but I forgot it was happening and now I learn that it's happened: the C64 Mini.)
― Orbital Ribbonbopper, Inventor of Flying and Popcorn (Old Lunch), Saturday, 7 April 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Oh, Jesus, that's a nice idea. Kind of a wretched collection of games but one assumes it'll be hackable to the full library. Maybe someone can make a plug-in with recordings of disk drive noise and then we'd really be talking...
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 7 April 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
xp Note: The keyboard keys are non-functional
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
;_;
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 7 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/If0M0AV.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
Gahhhhhhhhhhh
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
awful
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
I’m more comfortable and capable of looking at the president’s dick pics than trying to rescue him, tbh, so I am as bad of a dude as that makes me
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.18173-12/30421878_4221069802639_1717658580_n.png?_nc_cat=0&oh=9f8405870356a34ec36f4338e2adebef&oe=5ADB78DF
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CY1tvXLwk
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
For the Miyamoto one obviously.https://www.clickhole.com/find-out-what-ariana-grande-diane-keaton-shigeru-miya-1825125261
Is that "one million troops" guy still around?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 June 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/final-deployment-4-queen-battle-walkthrough/
sort of the "too many cooks" of walkthrough videos
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link