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Super Metroid's Influence On Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
After Koji Igarashi revealed in a GDC talk that Symphony Of The Night was inspired by The Legend Of Zelda, people began to claim SOTN wasn't inspired by Super Metroid at all, despite Igarashi previously being very open about Super Metroid's influence. Above are a few examples, from my video essay on the history of the word "Metroidvania."
Dracula Ponders, "What Is A Metroidvania?"
Created for my new video essay about the history of the word "Metroidvania."
Xcavator 2025 Never imagined I'd have a chance to design a logo for an actual NES game, but here we are! I've already had one person comment they thought it was something designed during the game's original development, which is quite a compliment. I couldn't resist designing an '80s style magazine ad for it now that it's finally been announced. :-)
A photo recently surface of Mister Rogers looking just like the Sickos meme, so of course I had to do an edit.
If Ms. Pac-Man is a separate character from Pac-Man simply due to the honorific, is Mr. Pac-Man also a separate character from Pac-Man? Is Mrs. Pac-Man a separate character from Ms. Pac-Man? 🤔
Zoot suit samus, made for caseyexplosion in response to this post
Who's that firing shots that freeze A space warrior with an ice beam Tubes and brains and laser hands Who's your Mother? Yes I am
Think you can beat Kraid Well, that Ridley sure is tough Stay out of our way Your large shoulders don’t scare us
Zoot Suit Samus (Samus!) Go ahead and upgrade your gear Zoot Suit Samus (Samus!) But let’s see you get through Norfair
You’ll never uncover our master plan No matter how many blocks you can scan I don’t care if you skipped and speedran You’ll face me in Tourian
I just want you to take That disgusting zoot suit off At least show your face If you beat us fast enough
Zoot Suit Samus (Samus!) Go ahead and upgrade your gear Zoot Suit Samus (Samus!) But let’s see you get through Norfair
This is like sex, but for fonts, so it's even better
I'm an autistic asexual with a special interest, of course I like fonts more than sex.
Are you me? What is happening?
I felt the world doesn't have enough angry Christmas songs, so here's a loud blues I call "Got Laid Off For Christmas."
Distracting myself tonight with some image cleanup. If there'd been a computer game industry in 1967, this might've been an ad for the first narrative video game, featuring its Gabe Newell.
(IBM employee Bruse Montcreiff, essentially the producer of The Sumerian Game.)
I've continued to quietly research the history of playable female protagonists for a series I call Video Dames, and an until-now unrelated video on the history of Carmen Sandiego. But very soon (this year?) they will no longer be unrelated: For the first time in a game, Carmen Sandiego will be playable!
"How does a company go from making faulty baby strollers to creating cultural touchstones? It's the sort of unlikely story that could only make sense in a place like...The Twilight Princess Zone."
When EA launched it's first line of games in 1983, it ran a creator-focused ad entitled "Can A Computer Make You Cry?" It was more stylish than game ads had been up to that point and got a lot of attention. But there was an outtake that only appeared in one issue of a single magazine, Creative Computing. At first it appears the only difference is that the photo is in color, but it's actually an entirely different shot from the same session, with different lighting and everything. (I guess they made everyone sit there while they moved the lighting around a bit?) I've cleaned it up for you from the scan that's on the Internet Archive. Somehow this version looks more early '90s than early '80s to me?
When Jim Steranko drew the classic X-Men logo in 1968, he made a few mistakes. How many times was the logo revised?
How The X-Men Logo Got Fixed
Did you know there are five different versions of the X-Men wedge logo? In this article I explain why they exist and how to identify them. (And then I create a sixth variation to test a theory.)
Also, which one was the basis for the '90s cartoon's title screen (except they cut off the bottom!).
What if EarthBound tribute, but it's The Wizard?
I just finished putting together a Spotify playlist featuring 3 hours of female-fronted hard rock from the '70s. It's a sequel to my previous playlist of female-fronted hard rock from the '60s. Enjoy. :-)
The story goes that when Bally/Midway learned that Grid Bugs had been cut from the film, they lobbied to have them put back in.
I used to do topics like these as threads on social media, but with the current state of things I'm thinking of drifting back to blog articles.
The colors of the heroes and villains in Tron was finalized a lot later in the process than you'd think, but personally I think they made a mistake settling on boring blue-on-gray for the heroes instead of the vibrant contrast of red-on-blue.
