Played the first level of Dragon Hopper last night and... it's great?!?!? Amazing to get another finished, polished first-party Nintendo game from 1996. I would have had a blast with this had it come out back in the day.
Chris Kohler
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Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse. Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer. Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
my theory: I don’t think these were ever for sale or intended for sale. I think Nintendo manufactured these in 1993 to have “stock-on-hand” to replace broken SMB/Duck Hunt carts, and that they were sent to the smelter once NES support wound down (August 14, 1995). The timeline lines up nicely.
Chris Kohler@kohler.bsky.social · 6d agoPretty crazy stuff if you haven't seen it - a game store owner had a box of Super Mario/Duck Hunt carts that turned out to be - brand new - manufactured in 1993 (!) - an extremely late variant unknown to collectors nintendowire.com/news/2026/07...
Pretty crazy stuff if you haven't seen it - a game store owner had a box of Super Mario/Duck Hunt carts that turned out to be - brand new - manufactured in 1993 (!) - an extremely late variant unknown to collectors nintendowire.com/news/2026/07...
We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros.
Inside, were 97 individually wrapped, brand-new copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. Each game was wrapped in the same baggie that would have come in an
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Really good post that dovetails with a lot of what I said in my Portland Retro Gaming Expo panel last year -- - you should be having fun with your hobby - buy the things you like, keep what sparks joy - don't let "bargain hunting" mean skipping things you like and buying stuff you don't want
Kimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · last wk.~Why~ you buy old games is infinitely more important than ~which ones~: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/09/07/t...
Really good post that dovetails with a lot of what I said in my Portland Retro Gaming Expo panel last year -- - you should be having fun with your hobby - buy the things you like, keep what sparks joy - don't let "bargain hunting" mean skipping things you like and buying stuff you don't want
Kimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · last wk.~Why~ you buy old games is infinitely more important than ~which ones~: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/09/07/t...
Fun flea market trick: if you come across a high school yearbook, check out the Wikipedia section for "notable alumni"
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
This is such an exciting collection and looking forward to what researchers come up with by combining sources. From the announcement video: Anthony Parisi tapes + Carolyn Rauch photographs + E3 guidebook = Location where the video/photos were taken
Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w agoNew in our digital archive: We're taking you back to E3 like you've never experienced it. Explore thousands of pages of ephemera and nearly 24 hours of video from the history of the Electronic Entertainment Expo Read more: gamehistory.org/e3-history/
I have just been made aware of a place called "Little Yummy" in Asakusabashi that serves "Forbidden Bacon Cheese Curry" tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A13...
Just when I thought the flea market was gonna be dead I found Lammy?!??
I'm going to VCF West! I mean, I usually go, but this time I will bring a whole bunch of computer games, hardware, ephemera, and other such things to sell. August 1-2 at the Computer History Museum - it's a really fun show if you are a huge nerd vcfed.org/vcf-west-lay...
[my brain, to the tune of "simply irresistible"] shitting in a taco bell
Futurism@futurism.com · 3w agoLive más — on the toilet.
As a person who covered the original Steam Machines, Steam Controller, visited Valve to talk about it, etc. and watched it all be received rather poorly, it was really interesting to see them basically announce the same thing many years later and see the total 180 opposite reaction
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3w agoValve's new Steam Machine was 14 years (and one big failure) in the making. Here's the twisty story behind the Steam maker's decade-long quest to bring PCs to the living room: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I'm not on Threads but a friend sent me this -- looks like Coco Ichibanya is (finally, after several false starts) coming to the Bay Area, starting in Cupertino!
Was in a travel bookstore and looked up curry rice in the Lonely Planet "Eat Japan" guidebook and the entry bounces between "dismissive" and "passive-aggressive hate"
(sung to the tune of the Ninja Turtles theme song) (old timey song advertisements edition)
Eating breakfast at BAFTA! They have photos from our year up on the wall!
London game pickups! Got the Master System version of Prince of Persia and Elite Beat Agents from a small retro store called Crazy Thumbs, but the nearby CEX had the deals with Xenon 2 (£8) and FFVI (£26). I have FFVI but it has a big crack in the front of the case, so: upgrade time!
*through gritted teeth* the beauty of Final Fantasy V is that you can complete the game with any combination of characters, and the Four Job Fiesta encourages you to try using jobs you might otherwise not explore!!
Saw the Totoro stage play and it was freaking amazing. Worth going to London for. You can also eat Cocoichi for lunch and then walk there. I didn't (because we had it last night).
