Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
This is just wild. Dataminers identified the exact samples used in the Super Mario World songs (which had to be heavily compressed to fit on the SNES cart) and rebuilt the songs using the full, uncompressed samples, and... wow.
I saw a tweet the other day about "how is it that every mainline Zelda is, at minimum, very good, whereas with other game series they run out of juice" and part of that answer has to be that it's the Same. People. Making. Them. for the last 40 years!
"the Nintendo 64 on Switch is just gonna end up being first-party Nintendo games and then a bunch of super weird B-tier stuff from random third parties nobody's ever heard of" oh you mean the N64's actual library?
PARENTS:
If you're putting an Xbox Series X or S under the tree, remember this very important tip!
BEFORE you wrap it up, take it OUT OF THE BOX, and TURN IT ON, and CONNECT IT TO THE INTERNET. Then let it download the SYSTEM UPDATE, then download BLINX: THE TIME SWEEPER
*turns chair around backwards*
Folks, I'm hearing the word "Ouya" thrown around a lot today.
Let's remember something.
Ouya *shipped*.
They shipped it. Console, games, OS, etc. Got it to backers on time. ***ON TIME***. It had lots of games! You could buy it at Target!
I once sat in a demo of a new Sonic game where the presenter started out by assuring us all that they had learned their lesson and this game would feature the classic Sonic action that everybody wanted. Three minutes later we were being introduced to something called a "werehog"
