UFO 50 is so damn good

Bonus weird ad with the PS1 being used to open beer bottles:

It warms my heart that people are still making memes about decades-old games.

It’s all connected

I wish I had known that back in the day. It was one of my favorite games on n64.

You don’t want to see another polished turd with ray tracing?

The closest I’ve felt to those monumental leaps in recent history was the first time I played VR. It feels similarly mind-blowing.

I want to say that’s Tetris.

Here’s a clearer image:

That’s impossible…

I’ve barely dipped my toes into the games so far because I keep coming back to Ninpek and (I forget the name) the one where you keep jumping upward and try not to fall.

This was the one that I saw a video about before I knew what UFO 50 was! I tried searching for Mortol on steam, to no results. Lol

What a creative idea for a platformer.

Holy wow.

Where are you posting this? I’d be very interested in reading! I’ve only just gotten started, but I can already feel that I’m going to sink a ton of time into this game.

Yeah, I have been confused by some at first. However, that was also my experience playing games like this back in the day, so in a weird way it has added to the authenticity for me. Lol

If I can’t figure some of them out (looking at you, Barbuta), I’ll have to look up some stuff.

They were so fun and over the top.

This is the way.

Social media will jump from one super important and stressful thing that we all need to lose sleep over to the next with or without us. Yes, these things might be important, but a lot of online activism seems to be about who can scare more people into supporting X, Y, or Z with zero regard for the reader’s mental health, the rhetoric used, or even being 100% factual.

It doesn’t hurt to disengage every so often.

I try to watch what I read online, and it truly helps.

Do:

• Keep yourself informed by reading bland articles about climate studies with direct interviews from the scientists conducting them.

• Stay knowledgeable about who to vote for to support reasonable climate policies.

Do NOT:

• Read articles that inject opinions from the web journalist, terrifyingly worded headlines designed to get you to click, or anything written for a secondary purpose (e.g. voter mobilization).

• Get your info 2nd, 3rd, or 4th hand from social media personalities on tiktok, youtube, twitter, or any website with an algorithm than rewards the most extreme takes with more engagement.

• Let fear prevent you from living the life you want to live or making long term plans.

And yet Atari’s most popular console was just numbers, lol

You know, I haven’t thought about burning CDs for my Dreamcast before. Is it pretty simple these days?

Retro Sega systems stand out with their cool, mystical/sci-fi sounding names: Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast.

They were unique and felt like they were telling customers that we’d be in awe when using their consoles.

(Master System and Sega CD were pretty boring though)

Most other big systems’ names seem so utilitarian and uninspired:

• GameCube and Xbox are little boxy devices on your shelf that play games.

• The Nintendo Switch can switch between handheld and docked.

• All the PlayStations are stations that you play games on.

Yawn

The way I felt about the Wii U was probably similar to how adults felt about the Dreamcast back then.

It seemed really cool, but it didn’t feel worth the money while there were other great consoles already. I was still getting a ton of use out of my original Wii.