Lucas M. Thomas

@lucasmthomas.bsky.social

Video Game Journalist and Father of Five! Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Force Magazine, Publisher of Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man & Mega Man: Bot in the Family, President of NF Publishing and Author of The Impact of Iwata. Former Editor-at-Large for IGN.

The Coin of Destiny in #bb28 should just be a guaranteed HOH takeover instead of a 50/50 flip. The odds of being voted into the BB Time Capsule multiplied by the 1-in-10 chance to specifically land on the Coin power in the spinning minigame in there are already enough of a longshot.

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

Jump Height: 1186 pixels (5 vertical screens)
Jump Distance: 900 pixels (3.5 horizontal screens)
Jump Duration: 360 frames (6 seconds)
Source: info: Jdaster64, supermariofiles.wordpress.com

This take on the original Mega Man stage select screen was a fun spread to put together, though in hindsight I wish I had given each robot master their own dedicated spread/section. There's always Mega Man 2 to fix that.

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In Paper Mario, Parakarry is a clumsy postman who joins Mario to find letters he lost. However, at the end of the game, Parakarry leaves, while the letters never actually get removed from Mario's inventory. This creates the humorous effect of Parakarry forgetting them once again.

In Paper Mario, Parakarry is a clumsy postman who joins Mario's party to find letters he lost.
After defeating Bowser, the partners leave and Parakarry resumes delivering letters.
However, his found letters do not get removed from Mario's inventory, as though he forgot them again!
Dramatization
Parakarry: What an adventure, Mario! Thanks for helping me find all those missing letters! Until we meet again!
Parakarry leaves, leaving Mario annoyed, holding the letters.

Anyone know where to get the original, highest resolution version of this amazing new Castlevania artwork? It's so much bigger than you see on most websites, with so much more going on, but this huge version I found is super low res,

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