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If I was rebooting Pac-Man, here's what I'd do: (mostly world and character based)

1. Namco Arcade shared universe, later Namco titles (like Tales of and Tekken) exist as in-universe fictional franchises.
2. Worlds would be themed on those games - so instead of a "mansion world", it's a Mappy world; "sky world", Valkyrie world; underground, Dig Dug; space, Galaga; kingdom; King & Balloon, so on.
3. No elements from Mr. Driller (other than the "Taizo Hori" name) exist in the Dig Dug content.
4. Pac-Man is older than he was in the PMW games, but not by much - in his 40s about
5. The Pac-Family would all be playable - Mr., Ms., Jr., Baby, and Professor - plus Jr's innocent sweetheart Yum-Yum
6. Game would be side-on 3D platformers like PMW1, but stage ends would function like Yoshi's Story where you have to obtain a certain amount of collectables.
7. The Ghosts aren't villains, just Pac's friendly rivals who would have their own variation on the story, with the 4 main ghosts as well as new versions of Sue and Orson (piloting Toc-Man) being playable in the same way as Pac's family, Yum-Yum and Orson both have the animations of the opposite stories' characters. Those stories would collide in bonus rounds done in a classic Pac-Man style
8. The villain of the game is Kamuz from Legend of Valkyrie, who has a bit of a Disney renaissance villain-esque portrayal both in threat and flamboyance, but Goro and the Mewkies from Mappy are side comic relief villains.
9. Pac-Man would have two powered up forms: Super Pac-Man which lets him eat spectral enemies, and his Jekyl-form, Pac-Devil, who lets him eat both spectral and organic enemies.
10. The Ghost story would likely have a different rule for clearing stages, but I'm not sure what.
11. Pinky is a boy again - instead of being cute/flirtatious, he is hyperactive to represent his real name of "Speedy"
12. The ghosts' "naked" forms appear again as a replacement for their eye forms, but are recoloured to yellow so they look less like penith
13. Jr. and Yum-Yum's equivalent to kissing on the cheek is nibbling on each other's cheeks - yes, I know you think that sounds gross but I find it cute so I'm going with it.
14. The game would play into a vintage aesthetic, but not OutRun or Memphis like most recent Pac-Man media uses - instead it would use a funky swirly 70s aesthetic and soundtrack (I know Namco arcade games are mostly associated with ragtime music, but I'd really want to use this sort of aesthetic and I feel the music needs to match)

good old image posts, slowing down load times for decades.

Gotta get back,
back to the past,

Good news: you can finally be trusted outside the house!
Bad news: the only thing to do in walking distance is the Spar.

I don't want context for this, not because it sounds disturbing but just because it can't possibly live up to the thumbnail

The Lock NES Monster

If they were to reboot Nicktoons Unite, I like the idea of the Avatar characters being present throughout all of the plot as idolised, wise-mentor-like figures to the goofier and less-adventure-ready slice-of-life characters, but not being unlocked as playable until near the end when stakes are at their highest. Mostly because the idea of Korra choosing Garfield as her successor is way funnier than the already funny idea of Garfield beating Korra in a fight.

why do people find "sega dreamcast from star wars" so funny

I kinda feel Smash's music and stage rosters have the same imbalance problems as the fighters - in terms of music there is nowhere near enough genre variety for such a big songlist, with the lack of metal songs outside of Xenoblade being the most egregious example, and (although I'm not critcising this specific point) a surprisingly large amount of flamenco songs; while with stages there are beyond too many "grassy level 1 plains" stages, and nowhere near enough villain, sand, technology, or snow themed levels.

The best crossovers are ones that aren't advertised, happen in the middle or near the end of the game/movie/show and aren't even acknowledged as being characters from a different world.

Looking at you, Starfy Wario cameo. You too, ROB in MKDS.

I'm really annoyed that YouTube turned all short videos into "#shorts". I want to watch Squidward say "teenage hormones" on NORMAL YouTube thank you very much.

I feel that if you look at Nintendo's IPs from the financial side instead of the "what die-hard fans want" side the most glaring series absence on Switch isn't F-Zero or Mother, but rather Nintendogs

oh great now the classic sonic purists are reviewing food

I didn't realise the Steam Deck was coming out so soon - if I had known I would've saved up my money much more rigidly.

yo we just got earthworm jim in smash infinite

remember when the entire donkey kong fandom was extremely hyped over decades old stock art being used in a calendar

or when the waluigi fandom was extremely hyped over a poster website misnaming a poster

man, speculation is funny to look back on - we're all gullable at the end of the day.

Oh god, Little Z put out a video making fun of fangames made by little kids.

Disappointed, but not surprised.

I feel that if NASB got a sequel, Odie would be all but a lock, but he has absolutely no chance of making it to the DLC.

The juxtaposition of cute characters with horror was invented by toy manufacturers so they could sell their old stock of teddy bears without raised eyebrows who say "I love you!" instead of "jeez louise, don't be a buzzkill!"

Not true, obviously.

I've been seeing a lot of talk (two videos, more specifically) on YouTube about the romantic dynamic in Chowder lately, and honestly while I disagree with the analysises and criticisms people throw around of the show in this context, that does remind me of how as a kid I was really disappointed that Chowder ended up with Panini in the finale.

Unsourced TV Tropes has set me to disappointment many times... I can't find this anywhere.

Imagine having a successful acting career kickstarted by Read180 Stage 8 | King of the Hill | A play based in the "Bobby Slam" episode from the TV series. by Scholastic

I don't really like the idea of a general Disney (platform) fighter - not because of corporate woes or uneasiness about Darth Vader beating up Pooh, but because "Disney" is such a vague starting point all things considered and as such even an Ultimate-sized roster would likely be super safe and predictable while also leaving out some super important characters. I think it'd be best to restrict it somehow - the new Disney Speedstorm is focusing entirely on the animated canon, certain live action IPs, and Pixar which I think is a good way to go, but personally I'd want a Disney fighter to be based on a single IP that isn't star wars or marvel - The Simpsons, The Muppets, The Incredibles, Toy Story, The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, Futurama, I can easily imagine fighting game rosters based on all these IPs without any need for guest content.

adam sandler in bedtime stories

I had a weird dream where at the end of a Nintendo Direct, they showed off gameplay of a new Smash without announcing it exists prior - specifically of "Tingle", who wasn't Tingle but rather Link with Tingle's head. It then cut to the new Smash's menu, which for some reason had an "impact crater" theme, Koizumi walked in as a bad green screen and started reciting this horrifying cult-like prayer to Sakurai (I remember the specific sentence "both revered and feared in all multiverses") without revealing anything about the game, and then it cut to the Jill Dozer reveal which was done in the exact same style as the NASB reveals - down to the music - and her opening montage contained a clip of her stuffing a plush at Build-A-Bear.

the wacky names people are coming up with for AiAi on the Sega Soccer thread are great.

remember when kirbys epic yarn stole music from animaniacs

I dislike the idea of only using game-related characters if Smash got non-game characters much more than just expanding it to Goku and Shrek with no regulations... that being said, if Sora came with a Wreck-It Ralph spirit that was listed as part of the "Fix-It Felix Jr. series" that would be one of the coolest easter eggs Smash has ever done.

I think the main way a mega-elaborate crossover movie can work is

1. Don't limit the cameos to the producer and distributor's characters, do a lot of licensing
2. Focus on original characters
3. Give cameos reduced prescence, only use as plot-relevant if you're super confident

That's why Lego Movie, Wreck-It Ralph, and Roger Rabbit worked IMO, while Space Jam 2 and Wreck-It Ralph 2 didn't.

I think the next Nintendo console should be designed to be backwards compatible with the Switch just as the 3DS was for the DS(i) since the Switch doesn't have any intrusive gimmicks that'd slow down preservation like the Wii U did - plus the Switch eShop would likely stay online longer than the DSi shop did relative to the 3DS' lifespan given that the entire DSiWare library was basically "forgettable garbage, cherry-picked mingames from earlier releases, and Go! Go! Kokopolo."

To me, the fundamental appeal of crossovers - as a concept - has always been that they're the only place where hyper-obscure characters can see new life, without the "who?" I'm left with nothing but a "why?".

i was browsing the boss baby wiki anf the spooky scary boss bauble jumpscared me

I like how the original Mario movie was conceptally based almost entirely on the location name of "Dinosaur World" - it's like if you made the Sonic movie about heaven and hell because, y'know, "Angel Island".

While Scoob was a bit of a flop, I don't think a Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe is as bad an idea as a lot of the cinematic universe concepts I see thrown around - though it's still a bad idea. At the very least HB cartoons generally tended to share a similar tone to the point where you could realistically believe they share a universe, similarly to Marvel and DC, but even then most of these characters are super mundane and while you can make a movie with Peebles trying to sell Magilla Gorilla or Richard Dastardly trying to cheat at a race, you can't really tie them together in an "epic" way. Their superhero/action shows alone (Herculoids, Johnny Quest, Space Ghost) could perhaps work for a cinematic universe, but that'd likely 1. bring up the "why isn't Sonic/Pac-Man in Project X Zone?" confusion, just with Fred Flintstone, and 2. a lot of the Hanna-Barbera action shows are heavily associated with Adult Swim's takes on them, which basically makes this the "we need to make Aquaman not look lame" thing all over again, but caused intentionally by previous official works.

I can barely remember anything I did in my last years of school, but I vividly remember this Talking Tom advert I saw as a kid where a girl sleeps with an iPad in her arms

I don't know if it's just because she's in a game where that generally isn't the norm, or because I'm very critical of the platfighter game she's in in general, but Min Min's repeated punch attack is WAY more egregious than all of NASB's reused air/ground attacks combined.

FMV games recemption arc, baby!