Cal Skuthorpe

@buzzclik.bsky.social

Design guy. Font spotter. PETSCII fanatic. Views all my own, my bosses have nothing to do with it. I make tiny robots here: https://bsky.app/profile/petsciibots.bsky.social I make fake C64 games here: https://bsky.app/profile/64thdimension.bsky.social

In 1996, Nintendo was seemingly very fond of a single particular stock photo of the sky, so that it ended up on the cartridge artwork of three different games released in that year: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Pilotwings 64.

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Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series