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(Joe Bourrie) Author: Beyond the NES, Owner: Syncoplay Retro Gaming. Founding member of THE VOID VR, Game Designer for EA/THQ, Tetris Blitz designer, Famicom enthusiast.
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Did you know that Little Nemo: The Dream Master was a reimagining of one of the first animated films ever, during the silent film era in 1911? Here's the original Little Nemo: youtu.be/uW71mSedJuU?...

Printed a giant Dragon Quest slime for my nine year old, he thinks is the coolest thing ever 🤣

Big boi

Shining Force Classics Bundle (I, II, and Shining in the Darkness) is now free. Sega will remove it from the mobile store soon (iOS/Android). SF I was lowkey my first JRPG. And II is a true classic! GET EM NOW play.google.com/store/apps/d... apps.apple.com/us/app/shini...

Based Howard Phillips

Just like Mama used to make. Mama was a terrible cook.

No kings except

I wonder what would happen if a person tried to sue a game studio for sexually harassing them via NPC dialogue?

Admission of Guilt: I've never played a Silent Hill game

My company booked me with Frontier Airlines, which cancelled the flight during my layover in Denver. So now I'm stuck in the hospital-hallways wing of the Denver airport waiting in line to be extorted by the worst airline in America. Yay.

Pickups from day 2 of the Raleigh Game and Geek Expo! A classic Dragon Quest card game, and a developer diary of Mother 2's production with original documentation and art. I'll definitely be sharing stuff from this book in the coming weeks.

Picked up a couple great games at the Raleigh Game and Geek Con today. Thanks to @johnriggs.bsky.social for taking the time to chat about games, life, and parenting 🤣

Anybody going to be at the Raleigh Game and Geek Expo today? I'll be there around 1:00

This game was released, ignored, quickly forgotten. The meetings with the programmer were some of the most baffling conversations I've ever had. His attempts to dodge the question when I asked "didn't you write the code?" were telling, even if I didn't know exactly what the scam was at the time.

Happy Dinosaur Day and Pride Month to all my gay Yoshis!

In a 2015 Nintendo Dream interview, Eiji Aonuma states that Kafei and Anju's wedding in the "Testament of Love" sidequest of Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was inspired by a staff member's wedding he attended during the 1998 Taepodong Korean missile crisis, and the strangeness of impending doom

This broke me.

Oh man, Christmas is coming early this year!

XY⬇️⬆️, comrade!