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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I get it. It's called Castlevania because it's a metroidvania set in a castle!

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 21h

Otherwise it was business as usual, with all of us fighting over who got to play what games on it. I will say, I will never forgive myself nor my sisters for how poorly we treated some of these discs for our systems. My Underground is in very poor shape because of us leaving them all over.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 21h

I now coincidentally own all three, since my sisters kinda fell off gaming over the years. Tarzan sucked, no getting around it. But BfBB and Underground are some of the most fun games I still own on the system. We did eventually pick up Bionicle (bad) and Sunshine (good) for the system that year.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 21h

2003 was a big year for my family in terms of gaming. We got the Gamecube this year, and my sisters and I each got to pick a game to go with it. My youngest chose Tarzan, the older of the two took Battle for Bikini Bottom, and I got Tony Hawk's Underground.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of writing out a new series of posts over the next week or two around big gaming moments that relate to most of the years of my life. Wanna stretch my memory some and just practice some writing. Don't be surprised though if some years are boring while others take a whole thread to cover.

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Colorgrave @colorgrave.bsky.social · 1d

Let's jam out during this week's Dev Log! 🎵🎸

We've got our Audio Lead John running this one, check out the full video on Youtube!
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#devlog #indiedev #indiegame #platformer #music #retro

The Musical Life Behind Our Games (Devlog 6 - Claire a la Mode)

YouTube video by Colorgrave

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 1d

You know, I kinda miss the old school Stargate shows back on Sci-Fi (SyFy). Always kinda weird it never churned out a decent video game either considering the series seemed ripe for it. Universe especially was just coming into its own as a series before it got canned.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing I can think of is "Not every piece of equipment is necessarily a flat upgrade". Great game, hope you enjoy it!

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

I still spent most of the year begging my dad for the GameCube though that even my sisters started getting in on it and the following year he eventually caved, and in fact my sisters are important for many of the stories about the years going forwards.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

We never did find at the time a copy of the third Pajama Sam game, but we did have basically every other Humongous Entertainment game since buying used PC games in our area was actually pretty cheap from what my dad told me. He was happy I liked all these cheap games, that's for sure.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

We had the first one, but none of the others. Obviously these came out years earlier, but to me they were new at the time & they were tons of fun. Honestly, they're still pretty well written for kids games! Definitely worth checking out. Eventually we did grab the second game at a secondhand store.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

This year was however the year I was allowed to use the family PC, and they had several "Edu-tainment" games which I still kinda love to this day. The major ones were several of the Humongous Entertainment games such as Freddi Fish and Spy Fox. My favorite was Pajama Sam.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

This year the GBA and GC both launched, but the only game I got on GBA was Link to the Past at the end of the year. My dad was adamant that's all we could get. Obviously my dad was just being financially responsible, but young me was a brat and thought he was being an asshole lmao.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

2002 was a big year in games but my year was a bit weirder. First off I should make a correction: I was wrong about THPS3 last post, I misremembered when I got it & was informed by my sister that we actually got it and THPS4 THIS year for Xbox. Sorry about that! Still left a huge impact on my life.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of writing out a new series of posts over the next week or two around big gaming moments that relate to most of the years of my life. Wanna stretch my memory some and just practice some writing. Don't be surprised though if some years are boring while others take a whole thread to cover.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 2d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

Gottem

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

No happy YOUR birthday

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh! I almost forgot that my birthday gift was Pokémon Crystal! Definitely still the best version in Gen 2. If Red started my "epiphany" for the series, then Crystal solidified it. I put HUNDREDS of hours into it because I was convinced there was more to it than what I found lmao.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

THPS3 was my start into wanting to be part of "Skate Culture" (spoilers: I never really ended up in it) and I ended up begging for basically every entry in the series from that time onward until Proving Grounds, which was kinda my last straw for the series.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 2d

Let's head to the olden times of 2001. My dad had bought the original Xbox, I had been playing Pokémon on my Gameboy constantly, and my sisters were finally getting old enough to also be interested in toys and games. We didn't buy many new games that I could play but I did get THPS3 before year end.

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of writing out a new series of posts over the next week or two around big gaming moments that relate to most of the years of my life. Wanna stretch my memory some and just practice some writing. Don't be surprised though if some years are boring while others take a whole thread to cover.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 3d

a black and white drawing of a man standing next to a computer

ALT: a black and white drawing of a man standing next to a computer

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not as picky as other people are so I personally haven't had any issues with any of the "Classic Collections" Nintendo has, but every once in a while even I notice when something feels off haha.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 3d

It's always super nice when ports/remasters can make buying the game more enticing than emulating it. I guess it makes it feel like the devs actually still care about it.

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MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 3d

I know most people weren't anticipating my arrival there or anything, but decided to cancel my trip to TwitchCon this year due to some extreme mental health issues. Been having bad feelings all week and today it just got so bad that I had to make a decision. Hope everyone going has fun though!

MassDefect @massdefect1.bsky.social · 3d

Hold on hold on hold on I got this. I got this. Uhhhh.... Uhhhhhhh.... more dancing and twirling? Idk I'm not a dance doctor.