@peteskerritt.com I’d take a screenshot and show you the broken images and videos on my timeline, but, y’know… attachments aren’t showing, so that would either be pointless or unintentionally funny.
@peteskerritt.com I’d take a screenshot and show you the broken images and videos on my timeline, but, y’know… attachments aren’t showing, so that would either be pointless or unintentionally funny.
@peteskerritt.com Madden brought authenticity to a video game interpretation of football. Madden’s plays. Madden’s type of players, who he strongly considered to play/represent the sport best.
The games weren’t (and aren’t) perfect simulations. But knowing a real (and successful) coach had a hand in it was BIG.
@peteskerritt.com So many of these “content creators” who talk shit about Atari VCS-Era games weren’t even born yet & have absolutely zero standing to talk about what things were like. Still, clueless people just blindly believe it because some dude with a camera says it happened.
Pisses me off to no end.
@peteskerritt.com One more shelf for now, number four. From The Crow: City of Angels to The Divide: Enemies Within, with some Destruction Derby, Dino Crisis, and Disney in-between. There’s less light under this shelf, so my camera does the best it can.
@peteskerritt.com Here’s shelf number three, with a whole lot of C games… from C-12: Final Retribution to Critical Depth. Of note here are both Castlevania: Symphony of the Night variants and a whole lot of Cash Banooca— I mean, Crash Bandicoot representation.
@peteskerritt.com I distinctly remember hearing “COIN DETECTED IN POCKET” from the Berzerk machine for the first time and feeling like I had to put a quarter into it.
Gorgar just scared me. And I wasn’t good at it. Tough to be good when I’m too little to nudge the table properly.
@peteskerritt.com Sadly, while JAM T.E. for the original PlayStation looks and somewhat sounds the part, it’s become my least-favorite version over time. The 16-bit ports, while looking/sounding worse, nail the gameplay & have less aggressive AI out of the gate.
@jar155.bsky.social The money slot seals it. So bloody cool!
@peteskerritt.com This “thing” isn’t going to be “over” for a long, long time. And there’s no reason to be a “patriot” for a war that nobody but the King wanted.
There aren’t very many smart people left, apparently, but the few of us who remain know better.
@peteskerritt.com The arcade original is fine for what it is, and if you’ve never played it, it’s cool to see the differences between the coin-op and the NES versions. Playability-wise, though, the NES version spikes the coin-op. Much snappier pace.
@peteskerritt.com I love that platform. Been close a couple of times to buying one (again)– but those game prices always make me change my mind. Lots of triple-digit games.
The music for TG-16/PCE games have such a distinct sound that always takes me back 30+ years to a happy place.
@peteskerritt.com My awful experience isn’t everyone else’s, though. Some platformer people love the complex stuff, the constantly inflating number of moves to master & figure out when to use. “Not for me” doesn’t mean “Not for thee”.
It’s more disappointing than anything because, again, I’m a Bubsy guy.
@peteskerritt.com In my advanced age, I’m here for the simplicity. Give me a Jump button, maybe a Run button. That’s it. No modifiers or button-press combos. The barrier to entry in learning the play controls needs to be lower, and layering complex button combinations on top becomes difficult and intimidating. Nope.
@peteskerritt.com “You HATED it? Why?”
I really wanted to like it. I’m a Bubsy guy. But those play controls, man… too many complex “hold these buttons to do the thing” moves to keep remembering. I don’t need 12 different kinds of jumps, 5 glides, and 3 ways to roll into a ball. It’s a platformer, not a final exam.
@peteskerritt.com It’s probably worth remembering that BlueSky has had multiple “shit the bed” outages in recent weeks and months. Kind of like an athlete, a platform’s best ability is availability– and if a platform stops working enough, people will drop it or jump ship.
The mobile app being garbage doesn’t help.
@peteskerritt.com Maybe someday before I’m worm food (or ashes), the smart people will realize that they’re smart and figure out a way to make idiocy embarrassing again. The future of humanity may well depend on this, and before the stupids destroy everything.
@peteskerritt.com We used to shame morons. Made them wear dunce caps. You wanted to be smarter to avoid public ridicule… or, at least, you knew enough not to be a blithering idiot in the open. You were more cognizant of what you said and how you carried yourself.
Now that morons rule the US, it’s different.
@peteskerritt.com Hard to believe it’s been almost 40 years now. Definitely one of my lowest points. I had given up. Even video games weren’t helping.
Being hospitalized was the worst. I watched the Red Sox lose the ‘86 World Series in a hospital community room with other patients. Lots of other time in isolation.
@peteskerritt.com I was not allowed to leave the hospital for two months. My mother (and estranged father) were both deemed unfit for me to go to. My dad’s mom stepped in and won temporary custody. This meant yet another move and yet another new school— but the home situation would be a lot better.
@peteskerritt.com The 1-2 punch of living in a new town and being a high school freshman beat me down come September, along with a troubled home life with a mentally abusive mother.
Nobody at the school liked me (the “fresh meat” freshman), and it all weighed so heavily that I tried to end myself later that month.
@peteskerritt.com We had every reason to feel like the games we bought were ours, instead of always under surveillance and possible license revocation because reasons. Our games worked until the disc, cartridge, or console stopped working, and those could generally be replaced.
No relying on “internet”, either.
@peteskerritt.com Video game fans kept up with happenings via monthly magazines, and the only voice that knuckledragging fanboys got was with Letters to the Editor, which were vetted & chosen for print in very small, skippable sections in the front or back few pages of issues. No death threats or violent ramblings.
@peteskerritt.com People didn’t say stupid shit publicly, because “Talk shit, get hit” was still the prevailing rule. When people did say/do stupid shit, there wasn’t always a flock of brain-rotted morons filming beatdowns with phone cameras. If you had a camera on you, you weren’t wasting film on that crap.
@peteskerritt.com I get that people don’t like change. I hate change and thrive on consistency. That said, the world isn’t going to stop changing because of my disapproval of change.
If video games are still going to be a thing (which seems to be the case for now), then even resisters will fall in line eventually.
@peteskerritt.com It’s not like a physical aspect can’t be created. Pretty much any store sells POSA cards. Put ’em in holiday cards. Put ’em in gift boxes. Include ’em in another wrapped gift to be opened.
It’s a change. People will get used to it, even if Meme and Pepe don’t have Clearance bins to raid for games.