Challenger With Commentary
Challenger with Commentary
I like Instagib, but it’s a lot more difficult to get good stream highlights onto YouTube from there. This run of the 1985 Japanese-only Famicom game Challenger was so watchable and the chat was so random that I jumped through the technological hoops to get this posted for all.
Challenger is famous for its control scheme which is backwards compared to modern games. On the NES controller, you would press A to shoot and B to jump. I actually played this on a Power Joy by Trump Grand that I bought for $5 at CORGS-Con, but it has the A and B buttons reversed. It makes the Power Joy terrible for most games but perfect for Challenger.
The video features Skype chat from myself, Jdetan, and Kinkaido, so of course it’s NSFW.
Wow, it's been a long time since I've had an actual image on this blog, right? Anyway, the top of the N64-ish controller actually has a pointy bit that functions as the Zapper. The trigger is where the N64's Z button would be. It doesn't work well.
Source: Challenger with Commentary – YouTube, which is edited from an .flv archive of my Instagib stream (Instagib.tv deletes archives after 24 hours), uploaded to YouTube, downloaded from YouTube as an .mp4, and finally edited in Pinnacle Studio 14 like my other videos. I really need to find a better way to do this. Also, the camera on my phone.
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Source: Mastodon via YouTube Music
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I'm questioning if the move to Tumblr last year was a good idea. My feeds are panicking about stuff getting flagged! Tumblr might suffer the same fate as other services Yahoo bought. It's too much work to write the same post on WordPress and Tumblr, and all the linked text is lost on Facebook and Twitter cross-posts anyway.
Source: Rockson Film Production via Anime Hell at Ohayocon 2019
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Source: Go Straight (remix EP), by ramon via corruptionasart via kinsie
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Source: Adam Savage via several Tumblr users via Trynant, based on Kevin Synnes – Duck Army
ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two
This blog's cross-posting to Facebook is making me rethink how I want to post things. You should subscribe to my RSS feed instead, but I have too many friends that just use Facebook, and I want that to look nice too.
Videos cross-post well, right? Enjoy some tool-assisted goofing off in fighting games.
Source: ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two (TFC2k13) - YouTube via Shoryuken.
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Source: JackTech via YouTube related videos for Bafael’s Zangief BnB guide somehow
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3QYb7AN6k via Anime Hell via MisterKleenhead
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Source: PiNe – Lemonade via Pixiv
レモネード - LEMONADE
Foothills Of Passage
Dead End Thrills brings out the best in video game environments. This community goes beyond simple screenshots by making modifications to the game engines to render super high resolution images so professional you'd think they're marketing assets. My dual-monitor desktop just got taken over by this one from the new Shadow Warrior.
The old WordPress blog had the 'large' 2221x945 version and a broken link to a ‘full’ 3755x1598 version. Never mind those, I found this 8192x3486 monster on Flickr. Enjoy!
Source: Flickr and foothillsofpassage.png via Dead End Thrills
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Source: Magnetro via YouTube subscription
