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I like obscure old video games and make a lot of videos about them. I've documented all of the Nintendo Famicom library and I'm currently working on the PC Engine.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello, new followers!

My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Famidaily: All of It - YouTube

All of the Famidaily videos in order.

www.youtube.com

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Day of Linux on the Desktop!

Or as it's known elsewhere "Ugh-I-guess-I'll-check-Mac-prices Eve".

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like there's another early game with the premise of being the caddie instead of the golfer, but I can't think of a specific example and it's always possible it was a clone of this.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 17h

At one point in school my tescher became furious at me for not knowing my home phone number. "Why would I need to memorize that? I never call it!"

Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 20h

I strongly doubt a human was involved at any point after I hit the submit button, though it evaded my trap to disregard all applications and recommend interviewing Englebert Humperdink for the position.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 20h

FWIW, I ran down which company this application was for and ratted the recruiting firm out to them. I hope I made someone's day miserable.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 20h

Who could have predicted that letting chatbots run HR would be a bad idea?

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

As bad as those AI summaries usually are, they're a hundred times worse for anything with limited English sources.

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Is google AI hallucinating or is there something I don't know?

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Well, unless you're stretching the aspect ratio. That is an abomination against nature and must be destroyed.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I hate the most in my nerdy hobby is the obsession with consumerism, especially how it's often turned into a virtue. It's why I always say that there's no wrong way to enjoy retrogames: emulate, originals, re-releases, whatever. As long as you're having fun, you're doing it right.

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

There is currently a montage of people buying video games while a voiceover talks about how game collecting is celebration of capitalism, which is where our culture comes from. The Star-Spangeled Banner is playing in the background

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, gamer documentaries that are bad or documentaries about bad gamers? Because the later sounds like it could be fun.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Don Doko Don was one of many late-80s/early-90s games from Taito that were keeping the single screen arcade format alive. Taito ported the game to the PC Engine and it looked pretty good. Unfortunately, there is a significant problem that holds it back.

youtu.be/P_uOXgsNKpg

Don Doko Don (ドンドコドン) - PC Engine Power 143

YouTube video by RndStranger

youtu.be

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Tron: Ares feels like it was conceived and shot during the two weeks where people thought "the metaverse" was going to be a thing.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Zero Time Dilema ended the Zero Escape series the way it started: with completely insane, needlessly complicated plot twists that don't make any sense in the context of the story.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

The filmmakers definitely knew the one shot that they liked.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

So that was totally a left over vampire movie script that they turned into The Howling II.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

Never watched The Howling II before, but any movie that opens with Christopher Lee reading from the Book of Revelation gets points right off the bat.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

I just came up with the worst pun title and it's so bad that I think I'm using it to determine the subject of my Christmas video. I'll have to get started on it soon if I do since it's probably going to be three to four hours long.

Hint: I'm twisting the title of a Ray Bradbury story.

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morning sensibilia 🔆 @loveshy.icu · 3d

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

Superman is a character that doesn't translate well to games. Even the basics are tough: the three things everyone knows about Superman is he's strong, he can fly, and he's invulnerable and all of those introduce significant design challenges.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

For Random Game Saturday, I have Superman for the Genesis. Vaguely based on Taito's arcade game, it as good as the average Superman game.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

(Obviously the reverse is true, too, and I should not be relied on for any ME.)

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

Important safety tip for electrical engineers: do not let mechanical engineers wire up your power.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

That's one I'm totally unfamiliar with so it'll be interesting, one way or another.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

How do you make a wrestling game after the PC Engine already has the definitive wrestling game? Hudson squared that circle by making Maniac Pro Wrestling into something completely different from any other wrestling game ever made.

youtu.be/HkTIGLiCuuE

Maniac Pro Wrestling (マニアックプロレス) - PC Engine Power 142

YouTube video by RndStranger

youtu.be

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

The US cover art for Valis III manages to make bikini armor look even less comfortable than it normally does.

The cover of the US TG16 CD version of Valis III which is a painting of a woman wearing silver metal armor with double pauldrons, a completely exposed midsection and neck area, and some breast cups that look more like drill bits and one points at the viewer, the other points in a 90-degree direction away from that and her torso is angled to be facing somewhere between those two directions.

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