In a bit of political commentary, George W. Bush - looking very much like a chimp - has turned up on a fanciful cartridge for Nintendo's Famicon
Kotaku notes that the former President's cartridge is one of 58 contained in retro game shop Meteor's 2009 Famicase exhibit.
Monte: trolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
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Monte: Papa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
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Papa Midnight: Monte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
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Avalongod: I think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
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Avalongod: @Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
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Wonderkarp: Zippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
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Monte: Seirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
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Monte: We have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
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ZippyDSMlee: Wonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
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MaskedPixelante: http://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
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Matthew Wilson: the sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
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MechaTama31: So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
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Monte: I feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
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quiknkold: and we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: The whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: I thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
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Matthew Wilson: while he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
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Papa Midnight: That was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
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Matthew Wilson: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
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james_fudge: I think Evan killed it. He's a great guy and super smart.10/17/2014 - 6:38pm
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Funny enough on the famicase site the entry has a short blurb that says "Save NYC!" so I guess its not supposed to be too terribly negative huh?*shrug*
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
And if they ever portray Obama on a game cartridge as a monkey, it'll be declared 'The Most Racist Game Cartridge Ever'. ;)
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Not to be confused with Resident Evil 5, the Most Racist Game Disc ever?
"De minimus non curat lex"
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
you beat me to the punch, thats what i was gunna say
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
"...has turned up on a fanciful cartridge for Nintendo's Famicon."
Famicon? I thought it was Famicom. Is it correct either way? The Wiki article seems to anticipate both spellings but doesn't clarify if "Famicon" is incorrect or merely an alternate spelling.
Not that it really matters. Just curious.
Andrew Eisen
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Ya i was thinking the same thing. I was also thinking that the Famicom was basically a NES and that cart looks more like a Super NES cart, hence shouldn't that be a Super Famicom game??.
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
No, that is what the Famicom carts looked like. They changed the shape for NES carts to help prevent importing of Japanese only games.
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
I remember them adding two grooves to the backs of all the Super NES cartridges that aligned with two pieces of plastic inside the SNES itself...the Super Famicom games had no such grooves and thus didn't fit...unless you took a screwdriver and hammer to your SNES and knocked out the offending plastic. Then the games work just fine.
Did they do the same thing with the 8-bit systems?
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
ohh i see, at that age importing was the last thing on my mind hehe :P wasn't till ps2 that i got into importing :/ not that i'm that young, i'm 29, but ya
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
I believe Famicom is correct, short for FAMIly COMputer.
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Idiots
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
I LOVED famicom! i must go check my basement if i still have it.
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
If this was real i would love to see how much of a monkey the made bush in the game.
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Hey, maybe we should call this game Donkey Bush Jr,
And maybe an Italian Carpinter will try to climb both of the Twin Towers to save his girlfriend from Donkey Bush Jr.
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
"I'm sorry, our princess is in another tower."
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
"I'm sorry but our WMDs are in another country."
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
"Only one way to go then!"
"But sir, your dad said specifically you don't want yourself an incident, don't ever invade china."
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
... He's climbing the twin towers. o_o
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
ZOMG the 9/11 Truth conspiracy is true!!!
GameSnooper
Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Oh, my God, that's funny as shit. Hat's off to you, whoever-the-hell-made-this.
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Re: Dubya Immortalized on the Famicom
Yeah. That's great! The King Kong metaphor fits perfectly.