Marc マルク🗼
@shiftyweb
French showa boy living the Tokyo life, on a quest for 神ゲー Game designer, co-host @pixelbento.fr. Words are my own セガのハードを選んだ人間 Pixelbento.fr
Interesting to see that games cartridge size held meaning back in the days in Japanese magazines. The bigger the cart, the higher quality and content one could expect: more beautiful the sprites, more animations, levels, music tracks and so on.
I quite like how Nintendo updated the character design from Switch Sports to Resort. The Level 5-ish style is totally talking to me. This would do for a great second coming of the Mii, thus paving the way for the return of Street Pass. 😇
Browsing Japanese auction sites and stumbling upon stuff is my form of doom scrolling. I wouldn't know what to do with those so I hardly buy anything, but just getting to see those is great. Here, a box of Shinobi carts for the Master System / Mark III.
J'ai trouvé un super cadeau pour @thierryfalcoz.fr Un sofubi Sonic qui brille dans le noir. Comme ça il le verra. Le jour. La nuit. Tout le temps. TOUT. LE. TEMPS.
40th anniversaries celebrations continue with this week's Famitsu, with a special feature of Dragon Quest.
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the most famous Japanese video game magazine: Famicom Tsushin, most commonly known as Famitsu. A special issue is getting released this Thursday for the occasion.
Yesterday was Beep’s store in Akihabara last day in its current location. While it’s just a move, it feels like the end of an era with one of the most peculiar game shops in Akiba. Looking forward to their new place.
Toho Cinemas and Studio Ghibli are collaborating on the opening of a new cinema in the city of Nagoya on June 11th, with this beautiful poster.
For Golden Week I am staying in an old house in Aichi prefecture. It has a well furnished book shelf. As I was browsing it, my eyes stopped on this book by Shigesato Itoi. While unrelated to Mother / Earthbound, look who shows up a few pages in. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Mother 3's 20th anniversary website is now open. Cool kids will soon be wearing Mother 3's branded converse shoes. Still not available to play in any other language than Japanese. www.1101.com/mother_proje...
Digging some more and apparently it's a particularly old fishing game series. Capcom doesn't own the IP. Not even sure they developed that one title? Anyway. Same energy.
Listening to some OG Xbox playlists made me realise that I knew only the most popular titles. A Capcom fishing game!? What? Different name and cover between the west and Japan. Put a manga/anime style girl on the western cover, of course. Capcom only made that one episode?!