Echoing the sentiments here. It was so cool reading the pioneering early days of Nintendo and about someone ambitious and clever who helped shape the games of our childhoods. Leslie, you're great!
I remember before I was gifted a Dreamcast, I begged my mom to rent it for us from Hollywood Video a few neighborhoods away. My friends and I gathered around and played Sonic Adventure as long as we could, knowing we didn't have a VMU with which to save the game. The graphics really felt "next gen" to us in a way no other system had. Once I bought the system, I was definitely part of the problem, as I remember buying burned discs and a boot disc off some other teenager in my high school. He had a trenchcoat and got a real kick out of swinging it open to see an array of disks pinned to the inside of it in sleeves, like the Resident Evil 4 merchant going "what are you buyin!?"
@LowDefAl I won't argue with your larger point, but don't assume no one wanted to play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties! My best friend and I have a whole spreadsheet of FMV games, and related still-image visual narrative games, that we are working through. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties was a very fine addition to our joint collection and we had an AMAZING time playing it. We could not stop laughing!
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Re: Interview: "We Did Try To Keep 'Forest' In The Name" - How Mario 64's Princess Peach Helped Bring Animal Crossing To The West
Echoing the sentiments here. It was so cool reading the pioneering early days of Nintendo and about someone ambitious and clever who helped shape the games of our childhoods. Leslie, you're great!
Re: Anniversary: It's Been 25 Years Since The Dreamcast's North American "9.9.99" Launch
I remember before I was gifted a Dreamcast, I begged my mom to rent it for us from Hollywood Video a few neighborhoods away. My friends and I gathered around and played Sonic Adventure as long as we could, knowing we didn't have a VMU with which to save the game. The graphics really felt "next gen" to us in a way no other system had. Once I bought the system, I was definitely part of the problem, as I remember buying burned discs and a boot disc off some other teenager in my high school. He had a trenchcoat and got a real kick out of swinging it open to see an array of disks pinned to the inside of it in sleeves, like the Resident Evil 4 merchant going "what are you buyin!?"
Re: Soapbox: The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It
@LowDefAl I won't argue with your larger point, but don't assume no one wanted to play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties! My best friend and I have a whole spreadsheet of FMV games, and related still-image visual narrative games, that we are working through. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties was a very fine addition to our joint collection and we had an AMAZING time playing it. We could not stop laughing!