Lucas M. Thomas
@lucasmthomas
Video Game Journalist and Father of Five! Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Force Magazine, Publisher of Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man & Mega Man: Bot in the Family, President of NF Publishing and Author of The Impact of Iwata. Former Editor-at-Large for IGN.
The legend himself Walter Day just stopped by my booth, chatted joyfully for 10 minutes, gave me his card and promised to make a trading card of me too. @liretro.bsky.social is going great already!
I have returned to @liretro.bsky.social! It's my second time as a guest at this expo, but my first time running a table. Meet me here this weekend and we'll talk about games and books and magazines!
Zelda Fitzgerald should be in there somewhere as the inspiration for the princess' name. (And thus the series as a whole!)
Physical PlayStation games? Back in the PS1 days you just needed one weird friend who'd occasionally give you burnt copies of random games.
Sometimes my 3-year-old finds my phone sitting around, picks it up and snaps dozens of selfies. My Camera Roll ends up looking like this. Happy Father's Day!
Do an Addison challenge! Create a makeshift version of his unsteady President Hudson sign and task the kids to use other things from around the house to prop it up.
You can also buy these Tears of the Kingdom Koroks with backpacks. Buy two of them, set them far apart from each other in a backyard or something and do a "Can you help me reach my friend?" challenge.
Korok hunt is great! We have this plush at home and I'll hide him in different places around the house for the kids to find.
Use big, light building blocks to wall off a door in your home, and don't let the kids break through it until they earn a "bomb" by completing a different challenge. Then make a big dramatic display of "blowing up" the barrier and letting them through.
Original Golf has always been nebulous with its Mario-ness, yeah. Maybe that is he/isn't he question spurred them on to leave no doubt in the followup:
This iconic intro, the celebratory dances after boss battles and the little vignettes when entering each new world. Kirby's Adventure had it all!
Went to the movies; saw Mortal Kombat II. Ticket-taker sees me and reacts with utter shock: "Is that a MARIO shirt!?" Genuine surprise and awe from this man. How? Why? He reacted as if Mario were some obscure media figure from decades ago. My dude, there's a Mario film in your own theater right now.
I believe the Bomberman GB boxart you have used here is incorrect. That's the North American Bomberman GB, which was the same game as Bomberman GB 2 in Japan. It's not the same game as Wario Blast. Wario Blast was the US version of Japan's Bomberman GB:
