In Never Say Never Again, Super Villain Maximillain Largo challenges James Bond to a round of “Domination”, a competitive realtime strategy game that combines elements of Risk and Missile Command with betting and electrical shocks as feedback. The game uses a pair of screens on each player’s side to display information as well as a transparent display between them. The whole thing fits very well within the Architecture of Villains. It’s also interesting how frequently Risk-style war games occur. This is the third we’ve seen after Eschaton and Nuke ‘Em.
(Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a clip from the movie on YouTube otherwise I would’ve included it here.)
THE GHOST, 1983 (estimated) developed by Nintendo (I think). Even though I cleaned the cart’s contacts with a q-tip first, none of my Famicom games work anymore since I tried playing this.
Ah yes, that's what people typically think the title refers to. But due to the lack of anything car-related in the game or any depiction of Mansell in the game itself, people still question who the title actually refers to.
Fourteen obscure NES/Famicom ROMs that were never released in North America, according to a neural network:
Power Punker (Europe)
Business Gaiden (Japan)
Astro Robin Hood (Japan)
Entity Rad (Europe)
World Championship Shting (Japan)
Star Trek - The Atlantis Bone (Japan)
Insection - The Arcade Game (Europe)
Captain Player Earth (Japan)
Magic Dark Star Hen (Japan)
Murde - The Fingler’s Quest (Europe)
Metal Fighter Blaseball (Japan) (Rev A)
Smurf the Edify (Japan)
Skate or Space Dive Bashboles (Europe)
Chack'van, Ultimate Game of Power Blam (Japan)
Nigel Mansell’s Font Fighting (Japan)
Art by @rinth444. An interpretation of 20 characters from the first four books in The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolf. Done in the style of a 90s CRPG.
Animal Crossing, but you’re a traveller who settles in a seemingly abandoned japanese village because you got a sweet deal on the real estate. Then you realize that the village is not abandoned and is inhabited by animal spirits! You can befriend them and do all the other typical animal crossing stuffs, but your goal is to help your villagers pass on. When they “move out”, you have successfully put their spirit to rest. And new spirits for you to help are always coming into the village. Please? (Oh, and also the only other “living” person in the village is a fennec fox shrine maiden named Safaia)
Game Concept: a Bubble Bobble RPG in the style of Mario and Luigi games
Everything is Terrible (Acornsoft, 1982).
‘If Winter Ends’
Cartridge for My Famicase Exhibition at METEOR in Tokyo. @meteor_club #famicase
A collection of epistolary fiction about video games that don't exist
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