- The Tumblr account Super Mario Broth highlighted a rare Super Mario Bros. 3 animation this week –
The
Hammer Bros. suit sliding. You normally can’t slide in the suit in the
game, so you have to do it in this one stage.
- Also in the category of Super Late Easter Eggs, a bald guy
in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! reveals when
to throw punches to knock out Piston Honda and Bald Bull. Read about it on
Reddit here.
- In advance of the release of Star Fox Zero on April 22, there is a comparison of Corneria
across the different versions. And hey, check out YPB’s Star Fox episode here!
- Nerdist and a bunch of other sites had the Player Piano
cover of the
moon theme from DuckTales. It’s
the hot game that got one out of one DuckTale from Todd on one of our first shows!
- From TechTimes, Mark Lelinwalla looks at the
five console generations Kobe Bryant has spanned. Also from TechTimes,
Dianne Depra has a cool preview piece on a neat new book, The Art of Atari. Some really good images here!
- And again on TechTimes… Quinten Plummer has a
cool article on how the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Illinois managed to
revive a prototype Beavis and Butt-Head game
that only had 12 copies made. The secret? Cannibalizing a 3DO.
- OC Weekly has a story on Sega Genecide, a cover band.
Headline: “Sega
Genecide eat, breathe and shit 90’s cover songs.”
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO
GAME HISTORY…
- Not quite today, but on April 13, 1992, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past came out in North America. It continued
the wildly popular series, and it was a bright, vibrant 16-bit game. Per Wikipedia,
it sold 4.61 million copies, good enough for fifth on the platform.
- On April 12, 2001, Big Ape Productions released The Simpsons Wrestling for the PSX to pretty miserable
reviews. Of course, if you’re looking for a good Simpsons game, or want to hear about some of the horrible ones,
check out our
previous show!
Video game history
information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.
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