(old professor voice) ...rather than having a unique sprite for each building or unit, palette swaps were used to identify factions or teams, or to indicate easier or harder versions of enemies. Remnants of this design pattern are still in use to this day...

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wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

working late is a quest
a quest for QUEST MASTER

😇

See you there! I'll be bunkered working the museum most of the weekend, but maybe I can sneak the panel. :)

(scribbles reminder to rent 8K camera and boom mic)

Swing by the museum when you get a few this weekend! We've been working on it for months. :)

Gonna be playing one song in this concert!

Watch SQH 7pm pacific on the 19th!

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It's gonna really special!!!

It's a fair request, you're not asking for a lot

What a special Clifton Day. Rode the train into my hometown (and original home of WGS) with @galexquest.bsky.social and Babycrab, met @morseus.bsky.social and @cherryb6mb.bsky.social there, got some handcrafted goodies, ate a great lunch, and took in the fresh air and sights of the autumn woods. 🍂

*sunglasses slowly off*

Occasional reminder: Dick Tracy (1990) includes music by Sondheim, sung by Madonna (and Mandy Patinkin), in a movie starring Warren Beatty and featuring Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Catherine O’Hara.

It’s the sort of thing that sounds like a fever dream if you don’t know about it.

I'm here if you need to talk. 🫂

We got 20 subscribers the day we debuted IONGAMING (12/11/2015), and I was through the moon.

Play for the love of the game, my man.

No Halloween name this year.
I'm already scared enough.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 was brilliant. It was like people looked at Super Mario Galaxy, were amazed by it, and asked themselves, "But what if it was a Mario game?"

Constant power escalation (protagonist, antagonist, or both) in comic stories is absurd. It makes the deeper themes hard to take seriously when the principal figures are filling up like Macy's Day balloons. Nobody was meant to be physically stronger than Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.

this sword appeared to me in a vision

Audacity Games pages dedicated to David Crane's upcoming game for #Atari2600 console, Rescue from Poseidon's Gate, are now live so we can find out more about it. adgm.us/portal/guide... #atari #retrogames @atari.com @garrykitchen.bsky.social‬

I am imposing a 100% subscription tariff on Bluesky. Reading this requires you to go watch at least one back episode of IONGAMING. Sorry. Rules are rules.

i am mega jelly

I make no promises, except a very appreciative "thank you for your service" and maybe free admission to the (already free) FMV Zone museum.