Wario Wario Wario

new needlessly intense licensed cartoon game music just dropped

I'm watching YouTube video essays about the CGI Bratz movies - god damn you, rigid 2000's-era gender demographic divide! 6-year-old me would've LOVED those dreadlocked potato babies!

While I don't think preservation of any commercially-released work should have to be justified, I think shovelware preservation is especially important because those are the historical context of many consoles, especially Nintendo. The average Wii experience was not Mario Galaxy and Rhythm Heaven, it was Ninjabread Man and Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal - this doesn't mean everyone needs to be making passionate video essays about said games, but if someone 10 years from now wants to immerse themselves in the historical context of the Wii, they need to have these games accessible, and not just the greatest hits, to get the full picture - not in a backhanded "oh, that'll make you appreciate Twilight Princess" way, but in a "this is how most Wii players played Wii" way. The same goes for almost all of Nintendo and Sega's consoles with maybe the exception of the N64, the earlier 2 PlayStations, and a lesser extent for every other console

Note that the individual games named were simply used to represent the wider concept of shovelware, I am not suggesting that LTAA and NBM sold better than SMG or RHF, as much as just that more people played shovelware as a totality than the "timeless first parties" as a totality.

i googled "almost naked animals multiversus" and found a nasb2 render

Looking into the history of Virtual Console releases and marketing to address a response to one of my posts on an unpopular opinions thread and JESUS CHRIST THEY WERE SELLING N64 GAMES FOR $11 DOLLARS IN 2015.

Uh oh, the Zuko update added probably the most game-breaking bug in NASB history. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Plush Baby Crash is where the art of the alternate costume peaked TBH

personal pet peeve: "puns" based on words with the same etymology

wow they added 20% of the n64's third party library in one update

i know that quinton reviews isn't a really a gamer but there's no way attack of the toybots ds is an rpg. it's obviously a beat em up.

I only just realised how weird CBBC must sound to someone non-British

• Half of the shows were serious YA dramas
• They still do the whole "live puppets between shows" thing from the 60s. Even now.
• There was a show called Chute! that was literally just memes, including Neil Cicierega works
• A weirdly recurring theme about shows involving the concept of being trapped forever (the aforementioned Chute, Trapped!, and Relic)
• Multiple shows were fundamnetally based around really ambitious web-browser-game connectivity, and it worked somehow
• Big Babies

As a kid I always thought CITV was the "edgy alternate network" (as far as that can go when there are 2 viable channels for your age demographic), but yeah, in hindsight, CBBC was unhinged. Very unhinged

I've been thinking about the idea of a Disney villains crossover (platform) fighting game, and I had the really stupid idea of the hero you take down as a boss in the story mode being a team-up of all of Disney's well-meaning non-villainous antagonists who are mad that whoever's sending invitations to the Not-So-Scary Halloween Party considers them "villains"

I get that leaving in excess amounts of unpolished characters from 2010 is a common criticism of Smash Crusade, and I do agree, but I kinda like how it has this very weird anachronistic version of Duck Hunt that aligns more with the 2000s-era notion of them as an "epic troll" as opposed to the "dopey idiot" image Smash established, even though I prefer DH's Smash moveset and personality

There are only 3 female cereal mascots and two of them are zombies for some reason

List of fan rules:
Keep away from babies
Do not touch the blades
Only clean while turned off

It's funny to see other crossover platform fighter fans go "Oh no, Mr. Krabs/Dee-Dee is a stage cameo! They're disconfirmed!!!", because not even Smash abides by that fan-rule - Conductor Link's cameo in 3DS was announced before playable Toon Link.

why does the google search result for lizards have a fart button

Maybe I'm not playing enough games, but I think the Antonblast Satan line about screenshots is the first time I've ever seen a specifically modern gaming feature used as a meta-joke.

why does youtube want to show me a bunch of tally hall videos, i dont think ive ever watched anything related to tally hall

I had a dream where a pizza shop opened near me with, for some inexplicable reason, an AOSTH Robotnik theme, and 2000s Sonic fans staged a riot there because it was meta or something.

It's weird how obsessed anti-AI-bros are with the definition of "art". There are tons of valid arguments against AI use, including recreationally, but everyone just focuses on weird non-relevant etymology-based petty insults that vaguely tie in to the abstract idea of the human condition, aimed at... basically nobody. Like, you should be critcising the lack of attribution these tools give and their marketing as anything other than a party trick, or the big Hollywood studios and clickbait farms actually trying to replace people, not the terminology of all things, or - as I've made fun of anti-AI-bros for aiming at a lot - kids who want to make SpongeBob say **** words. There are situations where terminology is important, like class and race, but this isn't really one of them, "art" to many just means "still image", and I'm pretty sure that's the notion the term AI art is meant to evoke, not that someone using it is a sophisticated and serious artiste, just as smashing paint at a wall can be art in a literal sense, even if maybe not figurative.

The ranking is complete. Overall thoughts on the console are in the Waterworld review

i like how when you google search "corn flakes chicken" it shows you recipes instead of the mascot, has a very light "celebrity death" energy.

Game Boy Horror
Dual Scream
Virtual Boo
Slime & Watch
Grave Boy
Game Boy Night
Game Eye Socket
Game Boy Entranced
Game Boy Advance RIP
Game Boy Psycho
Poltérgeist Mini
DS Fright
DSiball
13DS
Brew 3DS
Nintendo Screech
Switch OOBE
Off-Color TV Game
Uncannily Computer
Nintendo Ectotainment System
Slop Loader
NES Tragic Mini
Super Frankencom
Spooker Nintendo
Gatedecay System
Super Comboo
SNES Panic Mini
Nintendo Sixty-Lure
iBoo Player
GameCoffin
Paranormal Q
Weerie
Wii Skinny
Wii Ooooo

If the next Smash has a primarily original stage lineup like Melee and Brawl did, I actually think it'd be really cool if Mario's stage selection was like 80% Mario Kart. Not only is MK basically the main series and not the platformers at this point, but it also has the most interesting locations of any Nintendo franchise IMO, given it's probably the one most dependent on locations.

Asking for a Wario Smash moveset without farting is like asking for a Mario moveset without fireballs.

"Nester's Funky Bowling is better than Virtual Bowling" is the Virtual Boy opinion that will have me like tangledswords (1).png

(both suck though)

um jammer lammy is one of the most aesthetically pleasing video games of all time but god damn that thing they do in the cutscenes where everyone's feet is 3d is just ugh.

i think the saddest part of the ms. pac man legal disputes is that an actual gaming legend's likely final original appearance ever has to be super smash bros. ultimate of all games.

If the next Luigi's Mansion continues the "Nintendo handheld but spooky" theme, they should absolutely go for Poltérgeist Mini.

I do not enjoy Scott the Woz' content, but I will admit that titling a Virtual Boy video "I've seen better" is absolute genius.

I get the vibes from the Antonblast demo that it is actually faster than Pizza Tower, but also has a higher skill floor for speed. I haven't gotten to that skill floor yet so I can't say.

whats up with heteronormative luggage cases on the windows 10 toolbar today

Space Squash might actually be better than Red Alarm. The VB project is certainly showing fruits now.

So, what I'm gathering from the trailer for the next episode of Digital Circus is:

Mainstream animation: pitch it as an episodic comedy, once you get the greenlight, lore and shonen transformations time
Indie animation: pitch it as a lore-driven epic, once you get the greenlight, episodic teleportation adventures in wacky backdrops time

the comically large melee sequel roster from 2003 has been ruined for me because i just realised the star wars characters were only there because nintendo had an exclusitivity deal for the prequels on the n64

I feel like a lot of Nintendo fans, in relation to the Switch's third party support, treat it as a game itself, that should have a consistent vision or something? Like "Antonblast before Pizza Tower just feels wrong!" that's not a creative or even business decision anyone made, those are two seperate games, one with a developer that wanted to port it, another with a developer that didn't. "Why would Microsoft put Call of Duty on Switch instead of Rare Replay?" because they think there are people who want to play COD on Switch, and are less confident that Rare Replay would still make money (keep in mind that Rare Replay is 1. a budget title, and 2. heavily dependant on the Xbone's built-in capability of OG and 360 emulation) - this is not cause and effect or a case of priorities. Not everyone who owns a Nintendo console is a fan of Nintendo games, let alone a non-fan of the gritty GAAS shooter market - in fact, there are probably more COD fans playing Switch than Rare fans just on virtue of COD being a bigger IP than anything Rare has ever done including DKC.

Seriously, why would you be upset over any game being avaliable on your console? There's not a finite amount of games in the world, console libraries are a situation where everyone can be happy without compromise, because there's just so many people making games, just wait until the current consoles drop in price to get everything else you missed.

Holy crap, Red Alarm is good. If you only ever play one non-Wario VB game, make sure it's Red Alarm.

I'm playing the VB games in an emulator that makes them look purplish-grey, but even then I think I've become very attentive to red objects during this masochistic experiment.