the cookie's bustle bad times were bad but now that we seem to be past them it's kind of awesome what theyve wrought. more people than ever know about the game, the official soundtrack was tracked down and ripped, there's a fully playable english translation. never been a better time to bustle
It is extremely funny that Luckey probably paid millions of dollars for a team of stylists to give him a cool guy makeover and the most they could do for him is "guy who lives in a bowling alley and is not allowed to go near schools"
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Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.
Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.
Wow interesting! you can find out more here
nogamesforgenocide.com
A living room with a modern TV next to a CRT with an Super Nintendo sitting in front of it. HEADLINE: Entire Living Room Rearranged to Accommodate Newly Acquired SNES.
Upon acquiring a used Super Nintendo, an entire living room was upended to accommodate the retro console’s addition.
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EVE Online
A third of the way through the Anachronox demo, the player encounters a hulking alien merchant. “My sorrow runs deep,” the merchant, whose name is Demonstrare, says. “I will only exist for the short duration of this demo. I do not exist in the full version. “Write the company. Tell them that you want me in the full version.” What Demonstrare, even with his curse of self-awareness, did not anticipate was that if anyone did ask Ion Storm to bring him over to “the full version,” it wouldn’t have mattered. The demo shipped on a disc stuck to the cover of a PC Gamer — where it shared space with now-forgotten
titles like Throne of Darkness and The Corporate Machine — four months after Anachronox itself had been released, and three months after Ion Storm’s parent company had shut down the studio. Demonstrare never made it to Anachronox. And while twenty-five years later the game can run on modern hardware, the demo does not. Demonstrare is gone. Recently, I asked Richard Gaubert, the writer of Anachronox, if the developers ever heard anything about Demonstrare. Gaubert didn’t even remember the character.
Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"
An old collage with various fighting game "You Win" logos.
somehow, palpatine returned
that's not ASCII!
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☝️🤓
When I dumped the Unreleased Japanese version of Burnout 1 PS2, unaware it never came out in Japan, I left it in my “non-priority” prototype pile for nearly a year
When I finally revisited it, I realized it was a important build👇
www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/unrelease...
Nice to meet you, Alice!
How would you design the ideal games magazine using elements of other magazines, like some mad magazine scientist? (i.e. the reviews of X, the editorial of Y, the cover designs of Z, and so on)
Just discovered that my RenderWare video has been played for the last three years to students in the Game Engine Architecture course at the University of Michigan!
Man, I had no idea. So inspiring to see something you made used in that way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ynx...
I’ve been looking forward to playing Ghost of Yotei! But there’s a bit of a gap between paying £50 to play it and paying £530, so looks like I’m just watching it on YouTube.
Also that present-day Microsoft would be in any way capable of that feat.
The tell in that phony Windows 12 article is the implication that Microsoft engineers would ever get the go-ahead to rearchitect Windows.
Cryups
gives a new meaning to ‘to err is human’
maybe he naturally has a very consistently posed and lit face
I have no evidence for this statement and yet I believe it to my core: if IBM had continued to develop OS/2 over the last 25 years, it would have overtaken the install base of Windows long ago.
This whole interview rocks
Babbage's circa 1992.
Babbage's circa 1992.
Babbage's circa 1992.
Babbage's circa 1992.
This Week in Gaming posted these awesome images over on Facebook. Look at all those boxed consoles! I miss these kinds of stores so much. Now it's mostly Funco Pops and figures.
1994 advertisement indicating the the company formerly known as "STD" has changed its name to Interact Game Products, for some reason
Cool, why did you change it
With a double jump, blaster, and aN oversight-induced infinite jumping technique, Jar Jar Binks is the best character in The Complete Saga on DS
Video game redemption for the Gungan. 🏆
Pokémon Red & Green sold poorly in Japan when they launched in 1996, only catching on months later. Apples and oranges, I know, but this is indicative of the shift in how execs at game publishers, streaming services, and Hollywood studios need instant results or they pull the plug. It's unhealthy.
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In celebration of Cookie's Bustle Day, I'm breaking the entire protocol I've been setting up behind the scenes and, I suppose, officially launching my VOD channel. Please enjoy a full stream of the English translation for Cookie's Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKd...
