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Colin / ItsChocobose

@itschocobose.bsky.social

A likable guy who creates YouTube content about retro games. New the the retro scene, but late to the modern era. linktr.ee/itschocobose

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Colin / ItsChocobose@itschocobose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m sorry but Summer Games Fest dropped the ball by not being the show with a new KH4 trailer, the OoT announcement, and the Tales of Eternia remaster announcement. Niche yeah but still those are kinda big in the space…

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Happy" birthday to Superman 64. From our scans of the industry trade magazine Games Business: a brutally honest post-mortem with technical director Rob Stevens. "At the end of the day we had to get it out [...] it just had to go out the door." archive.gamehistory.org/item/f399d99...

Here we talk to Titus technical director Rob Stevens about the publisher's N64 howler Superman. But before we rummage around in this company's misery, two points need to be made. (1) Most of us are big enough to admit that we've all screwed up somewhere along the line. But not everyone is big enough to come right out and talk about individual, painful examples. (2) We contacted a broad cross-section of the industry for this feature. In some cases we mentioned that we wanted to talk about certain individual stinkers. Of these companies, only Titus felt able to grant an interview. GAMES BUSINESS: One game that has come up is Superman for the Nintendo 64. Were you involved in that product? ROB STEVENS: Minimally. I should have been more involved, which is maybe why it didn't turn out so well. GB: Did you know it would get slammed at review level? RS: Yes. GB: So why not stick at it at group level and try to get it right? RS: We already had been sitting on it for about three years in development, and it was pretty much a disaster from start to finish. GB: So what was the problem? RS: Lots of stuff. I don't want to air our dirty laundry in public, but there were management problems, organizational problems, and inexperienced programmers. GB: How much power do you have to say to the bosses, "This isn't good enough"? RS: It depends on the game and the circumstances. For example, with Superman, there was no power whatsoever. It was going to go out and that was it. GB: Did you get a lot of bad feedback from consumers who bought it? RS: I'm kind of divorced from that to a certain extent, but we did get a lot of customers kicking and screaming. [article continues from here, longer than alt text can support]
Hit Save!@hitsave.org · 2mo ago

Happy 27th: birthday to one of the Nintendo 64's most (in)famous titles: The New Superman Adventures, aka Superman 64! Who else lacked the strength of character to fly through all of those rings? Funny how they didn't show up in this trailer, huh?

Colin / ItsChocobose@itschocobose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So I managed to fit in the entire 214 episode run of Stargate SG-1 during my paternity leave and I wrote some words about my experience watching. www.tales-from-the-backlog.blog/why-stargate...

Why Stargate SG-1 Still Works: The Sci-Fi Formula That Made It a Classic

A nostalgic look at why Stargate SG-1 became such a beloved sci-fi series, from its unforgettable team chemistry and humor to its mythology, optimism, and lasting sense of adventure.

tales-from-the-backlog.blog

Tama Hero@tamahero.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wish I could have 5 of me 1 to do my day job 1 to do content creation 1 to take care of myself 1 to do volunteer work 1 to actually try to make progress in my life