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does anyone remember the commercial where cgi foam man goes to woodstock, explodes to death in front of a giant crowd, everyone cheers, and he is reborn as a baby

I think that when people discuss "If I was in charge of Smash..." hypotheticals, or really any major pop-culture directing job hypothetical, they don't realise how different their mentality would be when put on the hot seat, and that they can't simulate that change. I don't want Geno in Smash, and I don't like fan demand, but maybe sitting on Sakurai's old director's chair could just spark in me "Oh hey, that makes sense, that'd be neat" because power corrupts

Trust me, most fans would immediately say yes to SpongeBob and Goku if they had a legitimate, consequential opportunity.

N64 and PS1 game menus were just as bad about attention span retention as YouTube Kids.

There are only 47,000 lions on planet Earth (accounting for both captive and wild lions), therefore "a billion lions" also abides by Stan Lee's law of "these are fictional characters, the winner is whoever the writer wants to win".

Are we sure that the title "Adam Ruins Everything" refers to Conover and not Smith?

A lot of Smash characterisation discourse would be ended in a second if people just bothered to press this for once.

The Switch "eSlop" remedy update is uhh... really bad actually. It just puts MORE emphasis on heavy-hitter games and discourages indie devs from doing discounts

Like, it is an inherent net positive that Gimblegorm's Super Fun House, made with royalty-free Unity assets and only providing 10 minutes of playtime, can find an audience. Someone will like it inevitably. It's an ultimately damaging band-aid compared to just... you know, vetting the games. The reason people are upset with eSlop is because they can't discover new content because of it, not because they're weaseling into the charts.

Just found out that nintendogs has epic western final boss music

One of the reasons I think Duck Hunt should be Nintendo's first rep in a bizarro-reality Microsoft or Sony Smash is that well...

Where the hell else are you gonna put 80s content, but with Nintendo rep? At least assuming this game would be done on the weird middle-ground factor of Smash's 3P content. I doubt Pac-Man would get as much priority when Namco has such strong ties to the PS1 and PS2, and 80s rep in general doesn't make sense for a game targeted at PS (or worse yet Xbox) fans who likely would've only gotten into gaming in the late 90s or later, but adding Nintendo content already has an inherent "go out of your comfort zone" factor and inate headline drawing ability that you may as well play into to represent something it'd be hard to have otherwise.

The Homebrew Channel did nothing wrong (this message is directed only at the Homebrew Channel itself, not anyone else)

Thinking more about Simpsons arcade (and its one-season-no-problem ilk: South Park N64 and SpongeBob SuperSponge) and I do wonder if video games based on shorter running shows/franchises would've also become a bit disjointed from the (retroactive) source material as time goes on.

Speaking on a show I do have a bit of authority on: Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day has quite a bit of that, but not much. It's based directly on the "Rocko saves Spunky from danger" plot that's mostly confined to season 1; Earl the Dog and Slippy the Slug - character who were meant to be major characters but very quickly disappeared - is present and one stage seems to be based on an unmade episode - Ironically, some elements actually became MORE true to the show retroactively (Earl got adopted into the Bigheads' household midway through the series, he's always in their home here; Filburt was meant to be a minor character but became prominent over time and is featured here). There is some other smaller weirdness in the game that is moreso just regular inaccuracies (for instance, some objects coming to life are friendly, when officially the malicious objects are just imaginary products of Rocko's paranoia and not a part of the show world - I would've missed that too if I hadn't read the pitch bibles). Rocko's crossover game appearances actually themselves in the modern (haha) day tend to suffer from "first 6 episodes and the movie" syndrome, there's a lot of Suck-O-Matic; a lot of garbage day goop; and a lot of flying houses.

It's funny how people got on NASB's case for using acquired characters, but had no problem with MVS including characters from a series that's arguably most iconic specific imagery is this:

I really love ROB's implementation into Smash as a whole, but I hate how he's the only character they won't let Subspace stay it's own thing for. The lack of diegetic Stack-Up/Gyromite content is perhaps an issue, but it's not a big deal, I don't even mind adding pathos to ROB in theory (I've imagined my fair share of tragicomedy Game Boy Camera fanfiction). Having this goofy little guy labled with "the last of his kind" as if that's a core trait of the character is just stupid.

I don't care how they do it, they must put ROB's egg in Smash.

watching the nostalgia critic video on simpsons arcade
"these bunny characters are from matt groening's old comic stri-"
LET HIM SAY HELL.

I kinda want to do a big deep dive into 90s Japanese fighting and beat em up stages, particularly games not released or succesful on Nintendo platforms, to figure out just how much of their DNA is in 64/Melee/Brawl stages (especially Melee) - mostly because I just replayed Simpsons arcade and noticed that the first stage in Springfiled reminds me a little of Smash's Onett and it made me wonder how much of it was Boss Baby vibes vs. a legitimate potential inspiration like I'm pretty sure Kongo Falls and Bridge of Eldin have for SF2.

Hey, sorry to pester you but are you planning on doing a replacement submission for the trading card game thread?

just watched a compilation of the wb michigan j frog bumpers, and jesus christ why did they put so much effort into this. they did a song for EVERY CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP and EVERY SHOW and some of the sponsorships were COVERS OF JINGLES. 90s corporate america, your devotion maximalism will never fail to fill me with glee.

I think I've said before that Yoshi's Story has my favourite credits sequence in any game (which is absolutely biased because it's the first ever game I ever beat), but a close second would be the Simpsons Arcade. Nighttime cityscapes are my favourite aesthetic of all; I associate the Simpsons credits theme and its subtle differences from the opening with settling down for the night through my childhood routine; and the little scene with the diamond at the end is wonderful (if out-of-character)
Mr. Gimmick's good ending - which kinda has a similar feel to Simpsons' - would be a somewhat distant third

how can streamers use google or any ai thing without being doxxed every 5 seconds.

reading the ssbwiki a lot for roster projects has given me weird beefs

IN THIS HOUSEHOLD, YOSHI COMES AFTER METROID; ROB IS GREY; AND THE WII U GAME IS THE 5TH ONE!!!!

I think this video might be the ideal method of going-back-in-time to show someone from the 90s a future Smash roster
-They're actually in motion with stages
-Chronological order means increasing "what??" factor as they get further and further from their culture
-Every character gets equal devoted screentime, they HAVE to face the reality of asking "the hell is a greninja?" instead of just darting their eyes straight to Sonic
-"Oh god, this is still going on?" factor
-Pac-Man is only shown in pizza form, lead them to complete confusion over how that works
-Ridley jumpscare funny
-Wario's scene merely hints at the reality of his portrayal in contrast to the 90s American view of Wario, leave them with the unease of "Wario's a bit off here huh..." rather than jumping into the fart.

It's weird how so many people are convinced that Sprunki being gruesome horror is just a fanart thing, when the game is really easy to find; requires no effort at all; and you can get to the horror within literal seconds

Turns out Argonaut always owned Buck Bumble and that's why he's absent from Captain Laserhawk lmao.

pictured: the super geek hero, mixing colours with bad microphone quality

i can't believe this the original dvd cover and not a very recent reissue, it just looks too convenient

This show is the exact pin-point of "not for me", but "The Gaslight District" is one of the coolest titles I've heard in a while. It just oozes every type of skeevy, great fit for something gritty and violent like that.

I think that when people talk about the Emoji Movie, they don't note enough that jailbreaking is a literal part of the film and etymology for a character name. Imagine if the Mario movie had a character called Arthur the Card.

It's funny to me that one of the first "reboots" so to speak specifically targeting 2010s nostalgia was Content Cop of all things.

got a reddit ad from thq that said "we proudly don't use ai" and then i go check the comments and it says this

for some reason i was making a "giving each character a unique galeem/dharkon theme" list (i genuinely don't get what my obsession with making weird hypothetical scenarios for this unsalvagable game is) and while i didn't finish it i was at least left with the utterly amazing image of pac-man strutting in on the galeem battle when all seems hopeless to the tune of this like the pac-chad he is.

thought this site got brawl vaulted for a second

STRAYS NATION: I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT KETCHUP HAS PICKED UP THE RIGHTS TO FIXED.

this is good news actually

Reading the Cookie Run character list and half of these names are "Spicy Ketchup Cookie" while the other half is "Great All-Seeing Bunyip Lord Cookie"

never forget what copyright law took from us (theatrically released youtube poop)

didn't realise i would be charged for the animation vs kickstarter today, had to lower my pledge, averted disaster quite a bit there since i only realised 3 hours before payment.

why was it called the COLD war? blue is cold, but this conflict was over red. learn basic colour theory smh

I don't like Metroidvanias at all, but linear platformers that implement backtracking elements into a single level are pure Ludokino. Drill Dozer my beloved.