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2 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Oops I'm playing with the mailing label thermal printer again Image
Ahhh Image
Okay I'm done ImageImageImageImage
everyone stop requesting game boy camera photos, they're four colors, this is monochrome
I lied I wasn't done ImageImageImageImage
video games are cool and pretty

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23 Mar
Video game companies would sometimes (not always!) "watermark" copies of games sent out before release, so that if it leaked they knew the culprit. Here's a fun example in a build I just dumped of Boogerman on the SNES. Left is retail game, right is review copy. Image
Update: Motika has been apprehended and is in federal custody
Since y'all are into this, here's my favorite prototype watermark that I've seen, just straight up in your face telling you that they know it's yours so you better not copy it, GAME PLAYERS MAGAZINE. Image
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21 Mar
Our old Cuisinart burr coffee grinder has a hilarious design flaw that fills its own insides with super fine grain coffee over time. The switch stopped working so we couldn't turn it off, there was a solid coffee brick stopping it after like 13 years of near-daily use. Image
I should brew this and relive most of my adult life in one cup
It still works but after cleaning it's dumping like 75% of the yield inside of itself, our current theory is that it's been doing this for years now but we didn't know because the fresh coffee was bouncing off the Coffee Wall and into the hopper.
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20 Mar
It's time to show everyone that Koala Mario is the king of off-model Marios. Get in here and vote Lou OUT.
You're all voting for the wrong one
There are FOURTEEN MINUTES LEFT and it is REALLY CLOSE. Get in there and give Koala Mario the win he needs. Everyone voting for Lou doesn't know what "off-model" means.
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10 Mar
I'm really proud of this episode, because we mostly talked to Howard about his craft and his creative process, not about E.T. and the market crash. In fact, it took about 45 minutes until E.T. even came up!
I think Howard's a really interesting guy, and his output during his time at Atari demonstrates a really unique take on what game machines could be capable of at the time. He's a rebel and a pioneer, not just "the guy who made E.T."
Anyway, go buy his book! There are not nearly enough video game autobiographies out there, let's demonstrate to the publishing world that we want to see more of these! onceuponatari.com
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6 Mar
Hello today I am enjoying the chunky sprites, typography, and pseudo-NES music in the GBA version of Batman: Vengeance. ImageImageImageImage
Look at chunky Robin! Almost a pseudo-Sworcery look going on with the one-pixel-wide extended arms Image
@decafjedi important discovery Image
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2 Mar
Okay, I've hit a dead end so I'm asking Twitter for help.

Anyone out there working at GameStop in 2015? I'm trying to figure out if there was a preorder display box for Mega Man Legacy Collection. I have a vague memory of seeing one but can't substantiate. I'd like to get one! Image
It was my first physical game, so I went wild on collecting anything that promoted it. There's a lot. Image
Thanks to @bighatpaul I'm learning there was even more stuff I didn't know about, like this glass water bottle. My narcissistic display is gonna need another shelf! target.com/p/just-funky-m…
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