- On Polygon and a bunch of other sites, Sega announced
that it had finalized its acquisition of Atlus. As of now, operations aren’t
supposed to change at either company as a result, except for Atlus helping in
some North American localization for Sega games.
- Now Gamer has an interesting piece on the failed development
of the M2, a follow-up to the 3DO, that never saw the light of day. Panasonic
still spent $100 million on it though, and its tech made its way into some
Arcade games. Read the piece here.
- Micah Mertes of The
Omaha World-Herald has a neat story on a tech museum that had a “petting
zoo” display for April 1, featuring old systems, typewriters and Tamagotchis.
- Mike Matei of Cinemassacre (home site of the Angry Video
Game Nerd) has a video on the top 10 obscure NES asshole enemies. Check it out here!
It’s NSFW and frustratingly accurate.
- From IGN and a bunch of other places, there is now a 24-carat
gold NES available.
(Warning: Autoplay video.)
- Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarian has a great long read
on how the NES muscled its way past the 1980s computing industry, thanks to a
focus on fun games.
- Ryan Gibbs of The
Young Folks reviews
Atari Vault, the 100-game Atari
collection that recently came out for a bunch of different platforms.
- From ABC News’ Avianne Tan, a grocery store created
a Super Mario Bros. display from soda
boxes.
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO
GAME HISTORY…
- To circle back to a news roundup item… Not many games have
historically been released on April 7, buttttt, Atlus was founded in 1986. If
you’re into RPGs, you know them as the developers of Persona and the Shin Megami
Tensei series of games, as well as quirky stuff like Etrian Odyssey and Radiant
Historia. And, Rockin’ Kats! (And by
the way, the director of Radiant Historia
would love to make another one, per Siliconera.)
- Per Moby Games, in 2005 VIS Games filed
for bankruptcy. Their most prominent games were a very bad version of Earthworm Jim 3D for the Nintendo 64, and State
of Emergency, one of the few Rockstar Games that wasn’t a smash hit.
However, it did inspire this
awesome Lewis Black rant.
Video game history
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