I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.
Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to “slow down” the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes… Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.
Gen 2 : “We’ve heard your request for huge mammaries, and we’re giving you Miltank.”
They even got an expert from IGN. “7.8, too much water.”
Including himself. If I had to find some respect for the guy, the fact he risked his own life might be it…
Fortunately, I don’t have to. What an idiot.
Or Wii points. With craftfully engineered payment options and prices so that emptying your account was a puzzle where you always end up buying something you didn’t really want.
Combined with star points in Europe, the loyalty reward points that you couldn’t use for anything for years… And then they let you exchange them for Wii points, at a ridiculously low conversion rate, and you’re struggling to use those again.
Well, it was the only switch 2 game. Bananza is actually pretty cool.
You overestimate LoZ’s popularity and underestimate Mario Kart’s. Not even those two particular entries, but in general. And I say that despite being a sucker for both the LoZ series and the less conventional BotW/TotK.
BotW sold a lot for a Zelda game and even then it sold a lot less than Mario Kart 8 DX (despite it being a port of an older game).
My take though? I got the bundle mostly because I expected better from MK World. It’s not a complete dud, but I would agree it’s rather underwhelming. MK8 is still my favourite and I would never consider it “a boring racing game” in any way.
It would be way more useful on NES (and Game Boy) because some idiot decided Switch B was NES B and Switch Y was… nothing at all.
That’s not how thumbs work. You can’t have your thumb rest on both Switch B and A like you could on a NES (or GB) B and A, the orientation is wrong for that.
On a SNES button pattern, you’ve got two diagonals, B-Y and A-X, with B-Y being the important default, natural one and A-X the alternative options for which you slide up with your thumb.
At least A-X works on switch online NES, but B-Y should too. They’re the basic button pair everything else uses.
Especially since switch 1 games are emulated on 2, and they’re still working on it to get the few incompatible games to run. A firmware update a week ago fixed Crypt of the Necrodancer that was unplayable on 2 until then.
Not very surprising that changes in the emulation software might break other stuff. As long as they fix those quickly, I prefer they keep working toward 100% backward compatibility.
My favourite (inconsequential, but incredibly stupid) automatic AI question/answer from Google :
I was looking for German playwright Brecht’s first name. The answer was Bertolt. It’s a pretty simple question, so that at least was correct.
However, among the initial “frequently asked questions”, one was “What is the name of the Armored Titan?”
Somehow Google decided it would randomly answer a question about manga/anime Attack on Titan in there. The only link between that question and my query is the answer, Bertolt (so of course, it wasn’t in my query). Because there’s a guy called Bertolt too in that story.
By the way, Attack on Titan’s Bertolt is not the armoured titan.
None. It’s made with the clear intention of substituting itself to actual search results.
If you don’t fact-check it, it’s dangerous and/or a thinly disguised ad. If you do fact-check it, it brings absolutely nothing that you couldn’t find on your own.
Well, except hallucinations, of course.
I am seeing more and more people trusting that “zero-click search” result without looking for any kind of source or discussion around their information. Honestly, it’s scary.
“Eleven times in all caps” is going to be my mental image for vibe coders for a very long time. It sounds too stupid to be real, but, I want to believe.
That works too.
Yeah, well as I see it Meta needs EU a lot more than EU needs Meta. Adapt or GTFO.
We truly are in the metaverse era.
They found a way to convert physical shit into virtual shit.
I am speaking from experience.
The latest example of that I encountered had a blatant logical inconsistency in its summary, a CVE that wasn’t relevant to what was discussed, because it was corrected years before the technology existed. Someone pointed at it.
The poster hadn’t done the slightest to check what they posted, they just regurgitated it. It’s not the reader’s job to check the crap you’ve posted without the slightest effort.
Every now and then I see a guy barging in a topic bringing nothing else than “I asked [some AI service] and here’s what it said”, followed by 3 paragraphs of AI-gened gibberish. And then when it’s not well received they just don’t seem to understand.
It’s baffling to me. Anyone can ask an AI. A lot of people specifically don’t, because they don’t want to battle with its output for an hour trying to sort out from where it got its information, whether it represented it well, or even whether it just hallucinated half of it.
And those guys come posting a wall of text they may or may not have read themselves, and then they have the gall to go “What’s the problem, is any of that wrong?”… Dude, the problem is you have no fucking idea if it’s wrong yourself, have nothing to back it up, and have only brought automated noise to the conversation.
I distinctly remember them failing a console launch spectacularly by (among other things) trying to pass it as a media center and talking about how great it is to watch TV on.
Somehow the chatGPT US map generated a clean, correctly spelled French word for “Mondays” instead of Illinois.
Sorry, Illinois, Garfield hates your guts.