You know how Pokemon say their names and also so does Yoshi? Are there other, older instances of this kind of thing in Japanese pop cuture?

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Season 2 of @funfactorpod.com is here! It's a deep dive into games media in 2002-2004, as the Internet continues to grow, and corporate-backed games media begins its rise.

Available on your podcatcher of choice, or on YouTube with a bunch of fancy slides and our beautiful faces.

Don’t eat it all at once!

Or maybe don’t eat it at all!

Happy birthday 🎂 to the Gameboy! Released on this day in 1989.

As always, I'm celebrating with my very own Gameboy sandwich!

Just mix:

Bread;
Marmite;
Pickled gherkin;
Skittles;
Chocolate spread, and
Blueberries.

Yum!! 🤤

#TillysCabinetOfCuriosities

cares so little about it he wrote a novel

Was Pikmin the weirdest Nintendo launch game ever? [Next Generation #85] YouTube video by FunFactor

It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuuuesday!

Or is that Twosday? Because today's the launch of FunFactor Season 2: RISE OF THE CORPOS.

Today's episode digs into the Xbox launch lineup, the death of NextGen magazine, @chrisslate.bsky.social's review of Pikmin, and the rise of corporate-backed games media.

I need a UFO50-style compilation of fake Amiga-ish European computer games. The most beautiful looking, sounding, and most inscrutable games you’ve ever seen

Claiming ot be the biggest simulation gaming even of 1973 is EAST CON III scheduled for July 7th and 8th at the Hotel McAlpin, 34th and Broadway, in New York City. Co-sponsored by the SICL and the AGA, the emphasis in the East Con III will be on competition. All sorts of tournaments in a variety of categories will be held including an Avalon Hill Classics tournament with trophies and $175.00 in cash going to the top three finishers. Miniatures, Chess and Diplomacy competitions will also be held. Among the other attractions will be a magic show by talented entertainer (and designer of LUFTWAFFE) Lou Zocchi, and a demonstration of an electronic space warfare game played on television screens!

The very first issue of 1973 wargaming magazine the Avalon Hill General contains a surprising reference to "a demonstration of an electronic space warfare game played on television screens." I had to know more...

RAE THE DOE PRESENTS: SOME NEW IDEAS TO SHAKE UP THE WORLD OF GAMER T-SHIRTS We see a series of gamer t-shirt designs, each with mismatching fonts in a way that is garish. YOU MAY SEE ME AS JUST ANOTHER GAMER GIRL BUTI SMACK ALL THE UGLY VILLAGERS IN MY ANIMAL CROSSING TOWN WITH A BUTTERFLY NET UNTIL THEY MOVE OUT I PLAY CALL OF DUTY WITHOUT CALLING THE OTHER PLAYERS HOMOPHOBIC SLURS OVER VOICE CHAT. JUST DOING MY PART, NO NEED TO THANK ME I DON'T NEED TO PLAY GACHA GAMES I ALREADY PULLED A SIX STAR. THAT'S RIGHT, MY WIFE CAUTION: THE PERSON YOU'RE TALKING TO HAS STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DREAMCAST AND GAMECUBE VERSIONS OF SONIC ADVENTURE YOU LIKE THAT GAME? TOO BAD I ALREADY WATCHED A VIDEO ESSAY ABOUT WHY IT'S MEDIOCRE We see Rae wearing a shirt that says “35% GAMER.” She looks happy. RAE: SEE, I LIKE THIS ONE. IT MANAGES EXPECTATIONS.

Rae the Doe - Gamer T-Shirts

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And ready for everyone is this piece on the value of old and "outdated" reviews and perspectives. Gaming's critical past is an important resource and provider of now oft-forgetten views:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/04/20/l...

Gades in the English version of Lufia: The Legend Returns saying THIS is what I would call frue destruction!

I still think about this often.

Cruachan Dam before a snow-covered mountaintop.

Side view of the dam. Hail collected at the foot of the concrete slope.

Dam centre with something looking like a valve

Entrance to the interior - up two flight of stairs in one of the buttress alcoves

Scoped out Andor’s imperial garrison (Cruachan Dam on Hollow Mountain).

Dundee's famous Lemming statue from the video game Lemmings, made down the road.

When you pass the Lemming statue you have to stop and appreciate its majestic arse. I don't make the rules.

A photo of a NES cartridge for Lotus 1-2-3 for Nintendo - Node Edition, on a white background with an old partly torn label.

NES ain't done til Lotus won't run.

going to follow Nintendo YouTubers around with this image and shout 'fake news'

A British print ad for the Nintendo Game and Watch line that doesn’t mention Nintendo, or the fact that it’s imported, anywhere. The company selling them is called CGL and they’ve added their own logo to the device as if it was their own.

Ah yes. Who could forget when the Game and Watch was invented by *checks notes* CGL?

(Computer and Video Games, December 1981)

New: PC Strategy Games issue 3 from June 2000!

• Is single-player a thing of the past? Catch up on this 'online gaming' thing.
• Interview with Demis Hassabis, back when he was making interesting games, and not... y'know.
• Reviews include Earth 2150, Thief 2 and — last but least — Airport Inc.

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Three-Monitor Ridge Racer Machine Emulated in MAME Hackaday Article

Three-Monitor Ridge Racer Machine Emulated in MAME

tbh anybody who's worked on an old PC game and owns the rights to the source code should just release it into the wild, if you don't have any other plans for it. Maybe now it seems like nobody cares about it but I promise you there will be someone who does.

Pictured: The Daggerfall Bad Dog Button, featuring a depiction of Bethesda's "Bad Dog" mascot dressed up as the Underking.

let it be known that anytime I post about old computers or video games or w/e it’s with the understanding that yes, the world sucks now, but it also sucked then (and will likely suck in the future)

:)

Blog post with more info and link to scans: savestate.site/pc-strategy-ga...

New: PC Strategy Games issue 3 from June 2000!

• Is single-player a thing of the past? Catch up on this 'online gaming' thing.
• Interview with Demis Hassabis, back when he was making interesting games, and not... y'know.
• Reviews include Earth 2150, Thief 2 and — last but least — Airport Inc.

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They're allowed games even today! We never learn.

STREET TALK A collection of machine slang or strange expressions overheard while watching people play the Mazeman variety of game. Complete with a likely interpretation of the meaning. • A monster munch — eating all four ghosts to score a 1,600 point bonus. • An expensive fruit — caught by a ghost after being tempted to eat a fruit. • Get them in the nest — trying to eat the ghosts while they are still inside their base (a rather pointless exercise as you can't get in). • Fangs in the backside job — escaping after a ghost seemed certain to catch you.

British Pac-Man slang
(from Computer & Video Games, November 1981)

I disagree… Portal 2 was released five years ago at most. ☠️

A full-page ad for the Acorn dealer Leasalink Viewdata in Stapleford, Nottingham.

The shop ‘Nottingham Computers’, closed and empty. Some idiot has put UKIP propaganda in the window.

Looking through these old issues of Acorn User, and I see one of the biggest Acorn distributors back in 82 (they had the page 2 ad in several issues) used to be a short walk up the road from where I last lived. Had no idea—it was most recently still a computer shop (now closed) but an unrelated one.

I wasn't even that curious about your thing in the first place, you just made up my mind what I think about it.

If one of the account onboarding steps for your service is entering a mandatory phone number, 100% of the time I'm closing that tab.