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Sep 7, 2018 13 tweets 4 min read
A story. When I was 13 years old (pictured), my family planned a road trip to Seattle. And all I wanted to do, more than anything else in the universe, was visit Nintendo in nearby Redmond. A photo of Cabel when he was 13 years old wearing a SUPER cool
Nintendo was everything to me as a kid. Their games changed the way I looked at the world — they’re why I open every door and press every button and spot every detail. I couldn’t eat without having a Nintendo magazine to read while eating. And…… heck yes I was a Fun Club member The The contents of the envelope, including a Super Mario Bros. sticker, issue 2 of the newsletter, etc.
I also called Nintendo Customer Service… a lot. (1-800-422-2602. Still memorized, and still works.) So before our trip, I called them up to make sure they gave tours. "Uh, I'm sure someone can show you around!" the guy said. Awesome!
But when we got there, and the whole family walked into the customer service/repair depot…

Well, of course they didn't give tours. "It's Insurance risk," they said. "Sorry." A photo of the Nintendo of America Inc. sign
I was devastated.
Two weeks ago, cleaning out the basement, I discovered something long forgotten: I was do devastated, apparently, that I wrote Nintendo a letter.

And, of course, Nintendo wrote back. An envelope from Nintendo of America Inc. addressed to Cabel Sasser
"We were pleased to receive your recent letter. First of all, let us apologize for not being able to give you a tour of our facilities. We understand that this must have been a great disappointment after you drove so far."
(Page two starts with this incredible sentence: "Your speculation on the relationship between Tengen and Atari was correct.")
I can still remember the feeling of getting this letter, the feeling of being taken seriously as a kid, of having my feelings addressed, and my nerdy questions answered. I felt so much better, and I loved this company even more.
Cut to 2018. My company is publishing Untitled Goose Game, and after a lot of discussions with a lot of nice people, we decided to debut the game on the Nintendo Switch. And when they showed our trailer in the Nindies Direct, and our logo followed theirs… it hit me hard.
And when I walked down to the Nintendo booth at PAX, turned a corner, and saw our game sitting right there… it also hit me hard. The A close up shot of the Untitled Goose Game sign in the Nintendo booth
And after nearly 30 years…
I finally got my tour. Me standing at the new Nintendo signMe holding up my Nintendo badge.

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Dec 20, 2021
A quick thread about something I find interesting:

A specific visual aesthetic that is 100% lost to time.

It's just gone. Nobody cares about it. Nobody is replicating it for nostalgia. Most people don't even know how it was done.

Let's start with this video (via @stevesi)…
…and now, please watch a bit of this incredible classic.
If you don't know already:

How do you think these two videos were made?

Traditional cut-and-splice film editing? Cel animation or optical animation for the special effects? Something else entirely?

The answer…
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Let's compare the three — three!!! — totally separate ways to save PNG files in Photoshop.

① "Save for Web (Legacy)" is the classic interface we grew up on, and the only one that supports animated gif. (How legacy? They save as "Adobe ImageReady" files, discontinued in 2005 😅)
② "Export As…" is the new, "modern" interface for saving files in Photoshop. "Modern" in this case means kind of a weird UI, and missing a lot of options and features. But it's pretty zippy and doesn't block your other windows like (Legacy) does.
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I love "Save the smallest PNG from over a hundred possibilities!". drstrange.gif
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I am glad Ferrari is partnering up with Jony Ive and Marc Newson, because FINALLY someone will design a car for multi-millionaires
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ALERT. This amazing Donkey Kong coaster with the "hidden" track seems to be officially happening!!! Press Release: nintendo.co.jp/corporate/rele…
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Here's a quick story about design.

When I was a kid there was a funky, late-70's mall in downtown PDX called "The Galleria", in a converted department store.

The Galleria had an equally funky logo that I always liked as a kid — but also always made me feel a little weird.
The logo reminded me of other visuals surrounding my childhood, like the 7-Up signs at the corner store, or the "Pinball Number Count" sequence on Sesame Street (one-two-three four five!)

Eventually The Galleria closed, and later it became a Target, and the logo was history.
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Yeah. Turns out, my parents designed The Galleria logo.
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