Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 3m

Okay, I'm listening
www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/de...

'Death Stranding, but Norman Reedus is a horse in 13th-century Mongolia' is the pitch for this demo with the most detailed steed mechanics I've ever seen

Be right back taking a quick course on horse genetics.

www.pcgamer.com

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 4h

The temples of anguish built by years over arguments whether it was the real Violet Berlin in Micro Machines

3

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 4h

The power of the internet is when you discover there's a green Pac-Man ghost, and within two minutes, you know their name is "Funky", when this is exactly the kind of shit that used to drive us mental for every minute of the day beforehand.

1 1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 4h

Folk complaining about how weirdly restrictive and litigious Nintendo can be have no idea how things were when they were owned by Hiroshi Yamauchi.

2

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 4h

Performing critical research -
They'll let you do multiplayer Mario Bros via different Mario Advance games, but not different region versions of the same one.

A successful multiplayer connection between European copies of Super Mario Advance 1 and 2.

An unsuccessful multiplayer connection between Japanese and European copies of Super Mario Advance 1

1 2

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 7h

While I think it's cool that they made a game about a car with big hands to eat food with, it's a shame that it isn't very good.

Time Extension @timeextension.com · 7h

SNK Arcade Oddity 'Munch Mobile' Is The Next Title To Get An Arcade Archives 2 Release.

SNK Arcade Oddity 'Munch Mobile' Is The Next Title To Get An Arcade Archives 2 Release

Otherwise known as 'Joyful Road'

www.timeextension.com

1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 8h

Watched a big thing about how uniquely good PS2 slim power adaptors are, and how you can power pretty much every pre-94 console with one wall socket by using splitters and converters. But I've already sorted this shit out, man. Don't make me think about it again.

4

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 17h

It should come as no surprise that I'm at least five times better at Mario Bros than whoever set the high score on this GBA cart

1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 18h

He was so snidey about it until he looked up the value

4

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 19h

Just feeling tremendous love for games (from 20-30 years ago) right now.

1 3

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 20h

Only just found this out - When you delete a Mario Advance save, you select it with a Mouser bomb, which subsequently explodes Birdo.

5

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 23h

Jumping Flash is so good

2 8

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Bananza's Emerald Rush mode would be a really good fit for JumpingFlash 4

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

We did it, team

1 9

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Yes mate

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Similar, but I think a more apt comparison is in how much work Shinkawa put into designing REX. Spent the game's pre-production building resin models and detailing how each component of it was powered and functioned through hundreds of sketches.

1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

I looked for a boxed copy. Another day.

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

The extension to the shop is very welcome, by the way. PAL games and toys are flooded with families, but weirdos can cool down in the imports and boxed hardware corner.

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Got £80 credit. Listened to my heart and took a scary heavy hitter off the "someday" list. The other was an instabuy. Price, irrelevant.

2 12

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

HNGG

1 3

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Scary maybe pile

1 3

Reposted by Ross Foubister

The Bird Lady ~ ringra15! @ringra15.bsky.social · 2d

A new drawing of another one of Nintendo's underrated games. This is Kururin from Kuru Kuru Kururin. Very interesting and charming series of games I find. Easiest drawing I made ever, only took 4 hours to draw. Wished all drawings were like that.
#Nintendo #KuruKuruKururin #fanart

A drawing based on Kuru Kuru Kururin! It features Kururin strolling by on his way home.

4 15 41

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

👋

1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Don't think they even did this shit at Pixar.

1 1

Ross Foubister @87th.bsky.social · 1d

Christ. They built miniature sets as reference material for the Onimusha 3 intro so they could get the lighting right in CGI.

1 1 4