I literally got hired due to my Battletoads prowess

Ironically my sole memory of Tom Sawyer NES is beating it on a rental

JPjparish.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 1:15pm

New NES Works this morning, which includes a piece on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Kinda tough to cover that one without getting into the more difficult parts of its legacy, so I'm sure the YouTube comments will be well-measured and universally thoughtful youtu.be/ZNL2_Wdm03A

A total load of Bulls: Jordan Vs. Bird: One-on-One & The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | NES Works 142

YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works

Teared up twice. youtu.be/M_WNxWctGsk?...

Silent Hill 2 - Official Launch Trailer

YouTube video by IGN

Didn’t get to go to TGS. Or the Nintendo Museum. Or Japan. But I’m doing okay:

30 years ago, give or take a week, a little game changed my life. This is a bit of a pilgrimage.

These are funny because they reveal the deeper truth behind Vance's indignation about being fact checked: He's a debater who built his whole debate strategy around being able to lie uninhibited

Witness me @rdbaaa.space At the last possible moment, I am become Natsu-mon

NG+ isn’t until next summer! There are rules. At least the circus was a success.

@rdbaaa.space summer is almost over and I’m just trying to climb Mt Tengunoyama. If I jump at the last second I’m millimeters away. How many game hours should I devote to stubbornly retrying?

When I worked at Target in 1998 and Kiki’s Delivery Service showed up in Home Video, I could never have guessed I’d have to buy the final* Ghibli film from then-up-and-coming online bookstore (on my phone) because Target replaced its entire movie section with physical books.