interesting - I would say power drift looks like sega but I could see an argumen for feels like nintendo. also f-zero gx should probably go closer to the axes while still remaining on the “actually is nintendo” side because it “actually is sega.”
Trying to think now of the most nintendo sega game. hmmmm. Sega never quite has that polish so it’s tough. I kinda want to say it’s just the Sega Pico?
FWIW F-Zero has the only instance I know of a Nintendo OST featuring an original death metal song:
Alex! That’s a heck of a scheme.
I’ll probably get a lot of ire for this, but Sonic 2 is the
Sega game that most feels to me like it could have come from Nintendo.
I’d say the most nintendo feeling sega game imo is Chu Chu Rocket. Kinda feels like the type of game the people behind Wario Ware and Rhythm Tengoku could’ve made in an alternate universe
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando’s John Carpenter’s statement in the original reveal (2023!) is probably the most interesting thing about it:
“It’s exciting to be collaborating on a new video game with Focus and Saber. Look, I really like shooting zombies. They keep telling me that they’re called ‘the infected.’ Please. They’re ghouls, dude. They blow up real good and there are a ton of them. People are going to love this game.”
original as in “originally copied Carcass’ homework”, that’s karaoke machine Heartwork
Appreciate the episode!
Gonna check out more of Ed’s newsletter. Also thanks for the reminder that I have a whole new Lower Decks season just waiting there.
Holy shit lmao
at long last is this finally nintendo’s undoing ???
I have to stop submitting questions when I am profoundly ill and / or tired.
There was also Excitebike 64 which was released at the end of the N64’s life cycle in Europe (summer 2001) and subsequently went almost entirely unnoticed. It’s pretty good (as of circa 2015 when I last played it)
1080 Snowboarding also had a Gamecube game, 1080 Avalanche (or if you’re cockney, Have a Lunch). I remember it being unfavourably compared to SSX at the time but it’s also a Good Game!
Didn’t expect a Alex “Big Boy Barry” Verrey mention lol, quite the character. Nice guy too. Worked with him briefly when Mad Catz was working with Harmonix.
I don’t think wave race 64 has a different sound track in japan does it?
my merch would be a bowser zippo lighter.
to my knowledge, no. And if it’s better that the Wave race 64 OST that I know, it has to be one of the greatest of all time.
The music in that game is outstanding
These are such funny and sad numbers. Was Id alone in their Jaguar optimism or was there some genuine hype for a minute?
I’m gonna say skateboarding is as fun in real life as a video game. Granted, that’s subjective and your mileage may vary (I prefer it IRL but skateboarding video games are really great so that says a lot!), but I find it to be a very game-y activity and it is the closest thing I real life I get that gives me the same feeling of nailing a really tricky jump in a platformer.
Ed was very funny. I appreciate the way he speaks his mind while cracking jokes.
I also like Queens a lot, but have only seen them live once, rather than 16 times. I’ll throw out Hazelight Studios because they started a weird little subgenre with Brothers and A Way Out and then tweaked it to something more “radio friendly” with It Takes Two. That, and Josef Fares and Josh Homme both have some eccentric qualities that I think people find interesting, but in very different ways. I don’t think Josef kicked a photographer while (probably) drunk as hell.
the Los Angeles Lakers have just acquired Big Boy Barry via trade.
