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Star Fox Adventures: Solid GameCube Outing Has Fun 🦖
Star Fox Adventures launched on the GameCube back in 2002. We didn’t play it 24 years ago due to middling contemporary reviews (although some were a bit stronger) and didn’t get the chance to play it. UNTIL NOW!
This week, in September of 2026, Nintendo re-released it on its digital classics platform. Thusly, it gave us a chance to dive on into this action-adventure romp and see what this was all about.
A Surprising Amount of Dinosaurs in Star Fox Adventures
Importantly, this was developed by the British developer Rare. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the developer had a unique partnership with Nintendo and only produced games for Nintendo consoles.
It launched on September 23rd 2002 and was Rare’s only game for the GameCube console. Microsoft had acquired the developer for itself and Rare hasn’t made a game for Nintendo since.
However, the key Rare staff that made it such a stunning force in the 1990s had moved on. So Microsoft was, essentially, buying a different developer. And this really shows in Star Fox Adventures.
It has the hallmarks of a classic ’90s Rare game… just without being anywhere near as good.
The game is largely a third-person action-adventure experience. You take control of Fox McCloud eight years after the events of Lylat Wars (recently remade as Star Fox on the Switch 2). You must save a cat-woman thing called Krystal from a mysterious curse by investing Dinosaur Planet, using Krystal’s lost magic staff as a weapon, and then going around exploring and uncovering secrets.
It plays out like the spiritual successor to Rare’s Jet Force Gemini (1999) on the N64. That with occasional flourishes from Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, with a bit of Star Fox lore thrown in as well.
Above is it running on the Switch 2 (seems to have had a bit of a graphics rejig for this re-release). The game certainly looks great, there’s a really fancy water effect we love.
To our DELIGHT, we soon realised it also features one of British composer David Wise’s soundtracks. He worked with Ben Cullum on this one and it has all the familiar ’90s Rare music hallmarks.
It can be a bit samey, not his best work, but the usual Wise hallmarks are there of catchy hooks that lend fine atmospherics to the various regions you visit.
Away from that, our general issue with Star Fox Adventures is it’s just very middling.
This is past-peak Rare and not the same developer that created so many era-defining blockbuster titles in the 1990s. It was actually Nintendo’s idea for the action-adventure focus, with resident genius Shigeru Miyamoto suggesting the concept when Star Fox creator Takaya Imamura wanted to make a Lylat Wars sequel.
Rare had randomly been working on a new game called Dinosaur Planet, which Miyamoto saw when it was demoed at the gaming event E3 2000. The two companies then agreed Rare would adapt it into a Star Fox game.
The outcome was a game that promised a lot, but the execution is lacking. It’s not a bad game at all, but the core problems are cumbersome controls and a disappointing and plodding action-adventure centrepiece. There’s just too much plodding around, lifting up rocks for money, gradually collecting money, lifting more rocks, hitting some enemies etc. etc.
This is from the same developer that wowed the gaming world with Banjo-Kazooie (1998) only four years earlier. In comparison, Adventures is a flat pancake of generic stuff.
It highlighted Nintendo had nothing to fear in 2002 with the departure of Rare. It hasn’t been the same since circa 2000 and Microsoft’s big purchase backfired, as none of the landmark blockbuster titles it hoped for followed for its Xbox consoles.
Star Fox Adventures has its moments, though, and the game did make for a marked shift away from the traditional Star Fox format of on on-rails space shooting.
As it’s a standalone experience, we think that says everything you need to know. Nintendo didn’t consider a success and won’t be pursuing another outing anytime soon.
#actionAdventure #Entertainment #Fun #GameCube #gaming #Lifestyle #Nintendo #Rare #Retro #RetroGames #RetroGaming #StarFox #StarFoxAdventures -
Star Fox Adventures: Solid GameCube Outing Has Fun 🦖
Star Fox Adventures launched on the GameCube back in 2002. We didn’t play it 24 years ago due to middling contemporary reviews (although some were a bit stronger) and didn’t get the chance to play it. UNTIL NOW!
This week, in September of 2026, Nintendo re-released it on its digital classics platform. Thusly, it gave us a chance to dive on into this action-adventure romp and see what this was all about.
A Surprising Amount of Dinosaurs in Star Fox Adventures
Importantly, this was developed by the British developer Rare. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the developer had a unique partnership with Nintendo and only produced games for Nintendo consoles.
It launched on September 23rd 2002 and was Rare’s only game for the GameCube console. Microsoft had acquired the developer for itself and Rare hasn’t made a game for Nintendo since.
However, the key Rare staff that made it such a stunning force in the 1990s had moved on. So Microsoft was, essentially, buying a different developer. And this really shows in Star Fox Adventures.
It has the hallmarks of a classic ’90s Rare game… just without being anywhere near as good.
The game is largely a third-person action-adventure experience. You take control of Fox McCloud eight years after the events of Lylat Wars (recently remade as Star Fox on the Switch 2). You must save a cat-woman thing called Krystal from a mysterious curse by investing Dinosaur Planet, using Krystal’s lost magic staff as a weapon, and then going around exploring and uncovering secrets.
It plays out like the spiritual successor to Rare’s Jet Force Gemini (1999) on the N64. That with occasional flourishes from Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, with a bit of Star Fox lore thrown in as well.
Above is it running on the Switch 2 (seems to have had a bit of a graphics rejig for this re-release). The game certainly looks great, there’s a really fancy water effect we love.
To our DELIGHT, we soon realised it also features one of British composer David Wise’s soundtracks. He worked with Ben Cullum on this one and it has all the familiar ’90s Rare music hallmarks.
It can be a bit samey, not his best work, but the usual Wise hallmarks are there of catchy hooks that lend fine atmospherics to the various regions you visit.
Away from that, our general issue with Star Fox Adventures is it’s just very middling.
This is past-peak Rare and not the same developer that created so many era-defining blockbuster titles in the 1990s. It was actually Nintendo’s idea for the action-adventure focus, with resident genius Shigeru Miyamoto suggesting the concept when Star Fox creator Takaya Imamura wanted to make a Lylat Wars sequel.
Rare had randomly been working on a new game called Dinosaur Planet, which Miyamoto saw when it was demoed at the gaming event E3 2000. The two companies then agreed Rare would adapt it into a Star Fox game.
The outcome was a game that promised a lot, but the execution is lacking. It’s not a bad game at all, but the core problems are cumbersome controls and a disappointing and plodding action-adventure centrepiece. There’s just too much plodding around, lifting up rocks for money, gradually collecting money, lifting more rocks, hitting some enemies etc. etc.
This is from the same developer that wowed the gaming world with Banjo-Kazooie (1998) only four years earlier. In comparison, Adventures is a flat pancake of generic stuff.
It highlighted Nintendo had nothing to fear in 2002 with the departure of Rare. It hasn’t been the same since circa 2000 and Microsoft’s big purchase backfired, as none of the landmark blockbuster titles it hoped for followed for its Xbox consoles.
Star Fox Adventures has its moments, though, and the game did make for a marked shift away from the traditional Star Fox format of on on-rails space shooting.
As it’s a standalone experience, we think that says everything you need to know. Nintendo didn’t consider a success and won’t be pursuing another outing anytime soon.
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Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 46
Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans!
In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will take a look at another batch of retro gaming print ads from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and handheld) that were published in comic books, magazines, flyers, posters and newspapers long before smartphones, social media, the worldwide web and streaming became popular. To put things in perspective, people back in the 1980s to the 1990s were more trusting of print media for information and images about electronic games and related products.
With those details laid down, here is the newest batch of retro gaming print ads for you to see and enjoy…
1. Frogger Print Ad
Do you find this old ad humorous?When Frogger was first released in video arcades in 1981, it easily attracted countless gamers offering them bouts of fun and the video game critics were very impressed with it. Considering its massive arcade success, it was unsurprisingly ported to the game consoles and home computers of the time. Parker Brothers secured the license for cartridge versions and the company produced Frogger ports for not just the Atari 2600 but also the Atari 7800. This print ad they came up with had a deliberate cartoony artwork (with a touch of humor) and an artist created a hand-drawn illustration intentionally made to resemble a screenshot from the game. I saw this ad a number of times when I read comic books in 1982.
2. The Legend of Kage Japanese Arcade Flyer
Action and excitement in ancient Japan!In my life, I never had the opportunity to play the original arcade version of The Legend of Kage and ended up playing only the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) port. Behind the scenes, Taito itself came close to preventing The Legend of Kage from being released in the arcades. The company placed it in a certain game show where it received praise by many which prompted Taito to give it a full arcade release. To promote the game, the Japanese arcade flyer had lively hand-drawn artwork that perfectly reflected what the game is about, who the playable hero is and what ancient Japanese setting was used. Fortunately for Taito, The Legend of Kage became a huge commercial hit and this led to the production of ports for different consoles and computers.
3. Hyper Olympic Japanese Arcade Flyer
Arguably the best track and field game ever made for the arcades.In 1983, Konami released their summer Olympics-inspired arcade game Hyper Olympic (titled Track & Field in other parts of the world) which offered players the opportunities to compete in a series of events with emphasis on pressing the buttons as quickly as possible. The arcade flyer Konami came up with featured fine-looking hand-drawn artwork showing athletes competing in track and field events (with the types of events displayed at the top-most part of the flyer) while showing just one screenshot (lower right) and displaying the officially 1984 Los Angeles Olympics logo (lower left). In my view, this old arcade flyer does a good job promoting both the arcade game as well as the 1984 Olympics itself. Too bad nobody makes this kind of arcade flyer anymore.
4. Terra Cresta Japanese Arcade Flyer
Did you ever play Terra Cresta in the arcades in Japan?Nichibutsu, which produced a lot of arcade games that were released only in Japan, released Terra Cresta in Japanese arcades in 1985. It turns out Terra Cresta is a sequel to their 1980 game Moon Cresta which itself was their first big arcade hit game. Nichibutsu literally loaded the front of Terra Cresta’s arcade flyer with lots of visuals and details. As you can see, seven screenshots of the game were displayed (each with descriptive text), a fancy looking artwork that emphasized the science fiction setting, some English descriptive text, the cocktail table arcade machine and a pretty Japanese lady wearing an aerobics outfit with legwarmers (popular in the 1980s). This flyer truly has a strong 1980s flavor.
5. Sega Master System European Print Ad
From the early days of Sega’s console business.After many years doing arcade games, Sega made the bold decision to start competing in console gaming with the release of the SG-1000 in 1983 in Japan. Even though Nintendo was a very tough competitor with the best-selling Famicom, Sega did not give up and proceeded to launch their console in America and Europe referred to as the Master System. In a serious attempt to gain customers specifically in England, Sega made a print ad showcasing a family sitting in front of a TV set with the young boy playing a racing game on a Master System. Looking at how the descriptive text was presented, it was clear that Sega emphasized bringing the arcade game experience into the comfort of home while also promising that a lot more new games will be released in the near future. This is an eye-catching ad and also a fine example of aggressive marketing by Sega.
6. Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run North American Print Ad
What was the best baseball video game you ever played?Following the commercial success of the 1994 Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, Nintendo got Ken Griffey Jr. again as endorser and proceeded with the follow-up Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run. With the highly talented Rare (Donkey Kong Country) chosen as game developer, Nintendo was highly confident with the baseball sequel and the 2-page print ad reflected that. The Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run ad had a striking image of a broken baseball bat on one side while the game’s details, two screenshots and the creative description dominated the other side. While I am not so interested in baseball, I can say that this old print ad is indeed attention-grabbing.
7. 2Xtreme North American Print Ad
From the time when the X Games were wildly popular.Remember how popular the X Games (Extreme Games) were back in the 1990s? Early in the life of the PlayStation console, Sony released ESPN Extreme Games which sold over a million copies worldwide. As expected, a follow-up titled 2Xtreme was approved for a 1996 release. Sony came up with a 2-page ad that had an upside-down X Games participant with roller blades dominating most of the space and six screenshots were displayed. The descriptive text in the lower part of the ad was deliberately written to be hip and cool.
8. Macross Plus Japanese Arcade Flyer
The front. The rear.Based on the mid-1990s anime OAV, the Macross Plus video game from Banpresto was designed as a vertical-scrolling 2D shooter that captures the feel and intensity of the anime’s spectacle. The front of the Japan-only arcade flyer showcased the YF-19 Excalibur, the YF-21 Sturmvogel and the VF-11 Thunderbolt (plus the basic arcade controls on the lower-left) which were all rendered in 3D polygons to delight Macross fans and gamers who are interested in new 2D shooting experiences. The rear of the flyer showed additional details and it even includes English text descriptions. Strangely, no screenshots of the game were displayed. Being a long-time Macross fan, I can say this old arcade flyer is still engaging to look at.
9. Macross VF-X2 North American Print Ad
An impressive looking print ad for a Macross video game that never got released in North America.In the late 1990s, Bandai prepared to launch Macross VF-X2 (the sequel to 1997’s Macross Digital Mission VF-X) on the PlayStation console in North America. This was a very intriguing move because Bandai never brought the mentioned 1997 Macross game outside of Japan. Shortly after the official announcement of a North American release, Macross VF-X2 got featured in video game magazines, an English demo of the game (first mission only) was distributed through Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, and Bandai came up with the 2-page print ad you see here. Unfortunately, Macross VF-X2’s North American release got cancelled because of copyright issues and legal obstacles (note: Harmony Gold held the Western rights to Robotech and actively blocked the release of genuine Macross products in America). As such, this impressive looking Macross VF-X2 print ad for North America ended up as a promotion for nothing!
10. Star Wars: Racer Arcade Japanese Print Ad/Poster
This is one of the many video games based on Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.In 1999, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was a massive box office hit in theaters around the world and it marked a new era of Star Wars movies with digital effects available. Similar with 1993’s Jurassic Park, George Lucas’ movie also had a huge lineup of merchandise, action figures and video games. The pod racing from the movie became the basis for Star Wars: Racer Arcade which was released in Japan on June 2000, and then in America a month later. To help arcade operators attract gamers and Star Wars fans, a print ad and poster were released featuring a very dynamic image of pod racing from the game dominating the background, a few screenshots displayed and some computer-generated of characters and vehicles. At the lower right part of the ad/poster is the image of the arcade machine which has a huge screen, a seat and control panel. The descriptive Japanese text was written to excite both fans and gamers. Did you play this Sega-produced Star Wars game in the arcades?
11. Konami Wai Wai World Japanese Print Ad
Can you spot Simon Belmont, Mikey Walsh and King Kong in this Japan-only print ad of Konami Wai Wai World?Going back to the late-1980s, Konami released a 2D adventure game on the Famicom that was very ambitious as it featured side-scrolling treks, vertical-scrolling shooting sequences and, most notably, a cast of characters that emphasized crossovers between intellectual properties of gaming. I am talking about Konami Wai Wai World (sometimes called Konami World for short) which had characters, settings and elements of Konami’s own properties like Gradius, Castlevania and Twin Bee. Not only that, King Kong of King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch and Mikey Walsh of The Goonies were also featured which is astonishing because they represent entertainment intellectual properties that were licensed to Konami for video game adaptation. That said, the emphasis of crossovers and excitement was shown in the form of 2D character sprites in this Japanese print ad of Konami Wai Wai World. This is the kind of game that Konami itself will never be able to make again and to do a remake or an enhanced re-release of Konami Wai Wai World will require overcoming all the legal obstacles in the way.
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Diz o que vais jogar neste fim de semana
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New post: They Found It and Stopped Looking
https://lanie.work/advocacy/they-found-it-and-stopped-looking/
#Disability #Septo-Optic-Dysplasia #Endocrine #Medical-Gaslighting #Hypochondriac #Pituitary #Rare-Disease #Advocacy
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New post: They Found It and Stopped Looking
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New post: They Found It and Stopped Looking
https://lanie.work/advocacy/they-found-it-and-stopped-looking/
#Disability #Septo-Optic-Dysplasia #Endocrine #Medical-Gaslighting #Hypochondriac #Pituitary #Rare-Disease #Advocacy
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New post: They Found It and Stopped Looking
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New post: They Found It and Stopped Looking
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#Disability #Septo-Optic-Dysplasia #Endocrine #Medical-Gaslighting #Hypochondriac #Pituitary #Rare-Disease #Advocacy
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Long Tailed Shrike. A UK Rarity
It’s hard to credit but the Long Tailed Shrike is still sowing up at Eastleach in Gloucestershire. It was first sighted around the beginning of July, and I rode Morrigan up there to try and photograph it in the first week of August.
Its normal range is the scrubland of Asia, so gods only know what it’s doing here. I gather there have been others in the past but very few.
A pretty thing with its bandit mask and pale red chest, but look at that hooked beak! I was wondering why a medium sized songbird would have such a vicious looking beak, and it turns out they are indeed carnivorous, catching small mammals and reptiles.
It was a nice day for a ride and with a rare bird spot too. Not that I discovered it… my thanks go to the Gloster Birder for the alert.
Obligatory shot of Morrigan, with the burning hills of North Wales beyond (July 28th)
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Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths
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Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 43
Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans!
In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will take a look at another batch of retro gaming print ads from the 1980s to the 1990s.
For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and handheld) that were published in comic books, magazines, flyers, posters and newspapers long before smartphones, social media, the worldwide web and streaming became popular. To put things in perspective, people back in the 1980s to the 1990s were more trusting of print media for information and images about electronic games and related products.
With those details laid down, here is the newest batch of retro gaming print ads for you to see and enjoy…
1. Taito’s 4-in-1 Print Ad
I remember seeing this ad in some comic books I read back in the 1980s.There is nothing like taking the clever approach of promoting multiple video games using only one single print ad in the size of a single page. Taito did exactly that in the 1980s when it promoted Elevator Action, The Legend of Kage, Arkanoid and Renegade for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) promising excitement as the mentioned games were making the jump from arcade to console. What is very notable in Taito’s single-page print ad was that it did not show any screenshots of the games. Instead, they used hand-drawn artwork to emphasize each game’s theme or setting, and leave it up to the viewers’ imagination as to how those games would look like on NES. This old ad is intriguing and amusing at the same time.
2. Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Print Ad
Cars and high-speed action emphasized in this ad.Following the huge success of the original Chase H.Q. on both arcade and consoles in the late-1980s, the sequel Special Crime Investigation was released in the arcades in 1989 and ported to game consoles and computers in the early 1990s under the title Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation. To promote Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation for home computers, game publisher Ocean came up with a colorful print ad showcasing a few cars, a city background and elements of gun-related action presented in nice art. The ad has an image of the original arcade machine to remind gamers that they are playing the sequel to Chase H.Q.
3. Dancing Eyes Japanese Arcade Flyer
The front. The rear.Released by Namco in Japan in 1996, Dancing Eyes is a puzzle arcade game that became notorious due to its overtly sexual nature. With the way it was designed, players control a small monkey called Urusu-San and crawl along a 3D grid mapped over characters (mostly ladies) or various objects. If the 3D grid is mapped over a young lady, any tile of the grid destroyed by the player exposes the lady’s underwear or skin. Such sexuality is reflected in the arcade flyer of Dancing Eyes which has a suggestive hand-drawn art on the front while the game’s mechanics are explained in the rear. Even the rear of the flyer shows sexual nature of the game with screenshots. While the game was officially released only in Japan, Dancing Eyes actually was made available for gamers to play at the arcade of X-Site amusement center inside Festival Mall in Alabang during the early 2000s and it attracted a lot of guys. I bet Namco did not know about that.
4. Sega Saturn North American Print Ad
This print ad always caught people’s attention.When the Sega launched the Saturn console in America roughly four months ahead of schedule in 1995, the company suffered as the sales were disappointing, ties with business partners were strained and the available Saturn games were very few. By the fourth quarter of that year, more games became available for the Saturn and this gave Sega the opportunity to aggressively market the console as the one that gamers should get for their enjoyment. To promote the Saturn, Sega came up with a two-page print ad that had a dominant image of a naked woman whose private parts were cleverly covered by screenshots of the available games. Since most gamers were predominantly male from teenagers to adults, it made sense for Sega to come up with an eye-catching sexy ad to promote their console and the video games (including those from other companies). This old ad is considered by the woke and rabid feminists as very offensive today.
5. Blockbuster Video Print Ad
If you won the grand prize and wanted a lot of entertainment, you would not want to leave your home.Back in the late 20th century, Blockbuster Video was the dominant retailer that offered customers movies in home video format for sale and for rent. Along the way, the company offered video game rentals and attracted millions of gamers around the nation. Given the tremendous growth of video gaming in America in the 1990s, Blockbuster got itself more involved by launching the Games of Summer Sweepstakes in 1996. Utilizing print ads, the sweepstakes offered the Ultimate Game Rooms – composed of a 41-inch big-screen TV, Surround Sound speakers, hi-fi VCR, NBA Jame Extreme arcade game, the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, a gaming chair, Acclaim games for Saturn and PlayStation, and a 1-year free Blockbuster Video game rentals privilege – as the grand prizes. Do you know anyone who won in Blockbuster’s sweepstakes?
6. Independence Day (ID4) Print Ad
A nice looking ad for a game that was actually mediocre.Remember how big a blockbuster Independence Day (ID4) was in cinemas in 1996? The film grossed over $800 million worldwide and it revived the disaster movie genre using modern filmmaking techniques and the latest technologies of the decade. Given the massive success of the movie, it was not surprising that an official video game adaptation was released in 1997. To promote the game, Fox Interactive (the video game company of the movie studio behind the film) came up with a 2-page print ad using official artwork from the movie showcasing the alien spaceship being attacked by a military fighter plane. The ad showed only 3 screenshots and the descriptive text was written to make gamers feel like they have the role to lead Earth’s fight against the aliens. While the art looks good, it can only go so far to hide the mediocrity of the game itself.
7. GoldenEye 007 Print Ad
Bond, James Bond.When GoldenEye achieved both critical and financial success in movies, it revived the James Bond movie franchise big-time and Pierce Brosnan was easily accepted by the public as the newest Agent 007. Several months before the movie was even released, an official video game adaptation started development. After much revisions and hard adjustments, the project evolved into a first-person shooting game for the Nintendo 64 console titled GoldenEye 007. To promote the game, Nintendo came up with a 2-page print ad that cleverly showed Brosnan as James Bond on the left and displayed the screenshots and other details on the right. This ad was easily eye-catching and it made lots of gamers excited. As history showed, GoldenEye 007 got released in 1997 and became a huge critical and commercial success while also proving that first-person shooters on game consoles can be a lot of fun.
8. North American Sega Saturn Games Promo Print Ad
There definitely was something fun offered to gamers. Who could go wrong with titles like Tomb Raider, Nights into Dreams, Virtual On and Virtua Cop 2?As mentioned earlier, the Sega Saturn had a bad launch in America in 1995 which caused a lot of problems for the company. In 1996, Sega of America went on the offensive to really capture gamers’ attention by launching their Saturn games promo. The message of this 2-page print ad was very clear…Sega offered one free first-party game (limited to four specific games including Nights into Dreams) to those who bought two games (from a lineup of twelve specific titles). It should be noted that the Christmas season of 1996 was the most successful sales period of the Sega Saturn in America as gamers really responded to the promo. Even though some called this promo an act of desperation, nothing changes the fact that Sega succeeded during the most critical sales season of 1996.
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#1980s #1990s #action #adventure #advert #advertisement #advertisements #advertising #adverts #Agent007 #Alabang #AlabangBlog #aliens #America #Amiga #amusement #arcade #arcadeFlyers #arcadeGames #arcadeGaming #arcadeOperators #Arkanoid #BlockbusterVideo #CarloCarrasco #CD #CDROM #ChaseHQ #ChaseHQII #ChaseHQIISpecialCriminalInvestigation #ChatGPT #cinema #CityOfMuntinlupa #comicBooks #comics #comicsBlog #computers #console #consoleGames #consoleGaming #consoles #DancingEyes #electronics #ElevatorAction #entertainment #entertainmentBlog #fantasy #feminist #FestivalMall #film #fun #gameConsole #gameConsoles #gamers #games #gamesConsole #gamesConsoles #gaming #gamingConsole #gamingConsoles #geek #GoldenEye #GoldenEye007 #Google #GoogleSearch #handheldGaming #IBM #ID4 #IndependenceDay #IndependenceDayID4 #Instagram #Investagrams #JamesBond #Japan #LaraCroft #LegendOfKage #magazines #marketing #MegaCD #mobileGaming #movies #Muntinlupa #MuntinlupaCity #nakedWomen #Namco #NightsIntoDreams #Nintendo #Nintendo64N64 #NintendoEntertainmentSystemNES #Nippon #nostalgia #PCGames #PCGaming #Philippines #PlayStationOne #posters #printAds #printMedia #promos #PS1 #PSOne #Rare #Renegade #RetroGaming #RetroGamingAdsBlastRGAB #Retrospective #sciFi #scienceFiction #Sega #SegaGenesis #SegaOfAmerica #SegaSaturn #sex #sexy #sexyWomen #shooter #SNES #socialMedia #SoutheastAsia #spaceTravel #SpecialCriminalInvestigation #SuperNES #SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystemSNES #Taito #technology #The1980s #The1990s #TombRaider #UFOs #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesOfAmericaUSA #videoGames #VirtuaCop2 #VirtualOn #woke #women #WordPress #WordPressCom -
#BanjoRecompiled, a port of #BanjoKazooie for modern systems, just released a few hours ago! :awesome: Oh my sweet childhood. 🥹
https://github.com/BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp/releasesTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0906Cz-59eU
Randomly stumbled upon while playing the original game on my #Analogue3D. 😄
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GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE / #UE
THIS IS #NOT #YOUR #COUNTRY
THIS IS #NOT #YOUR #COURTYARDYou should be SUED for this call to #invasion of an #UE #territory and banned from the #UE
#GREENLAND (#OIL / #GAS / #RARE #EARTHS ) TO THE #PEOPLE OF #GREENLAND / #DENMARK / #UE
Ce #harcèlement, #menaces, #attaques et #tentatives de #déstabilisation #européennes sont #intolérables, & ne peuvent #pas rester #impunies
Des décisions courageuses doivent suivre, comme par exemple un dépôt de plainte -
La défense du #Groenland par Mette #Frederiksen : « quoi qu’il arrive, nous resterons fermes »
GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE / #UE
GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #VENEZUELA#GREENLAND ( #OIL , #RARE #EARTHS, ETC.. ) TO THE #PEOPLE OF #GREENLAND AND #DENMARK AND THE #UE
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/03/discours-mette-frederiksen-groenland/
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Oh no, China’s playing #hardball with #rare earths! 😱 Quick, someone tell the #US #defense industry to start hoarding magnets like they're Pokémon cards. 📉🔋 But really, who needs critical supply chains when you have endless #PowerPoint presentations, right? 🤷♂️📊
https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-new-rare-earth-and-magnet-restrictions-threaten-us-defense-supply-chains #China #Earths #SupplyChains #HackerNews #ngated -
J’ai regardé le film Coyote, et je l’ai trouvé bon et original https://tozounoir.zouluvo.com/jai-regarde-le-film-coyote-et-je-lai-trouve-bon-et-original/
#film #coyote #attaque #humain #chiot #maison #mur #anglais #histoire #original #rare #scène #exagérée #feu #voisin #calme #blessure #effet #spécial #ia #animation #réalisme #suspense #horreur #tension #animal #nature #attaque #recommandation #emotion
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Hackaday Links: July 13, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/hackaday-links-july-13-2025/ #HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #factyorytour #hydrocarbons #quick-turn #rare-earth #heathkit #linesman #adapter #cubesat #utility #Wyoming #mining #record #45rpm #vinyl #coal #pole #REEs #stem #kit #pcb #lp
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Hackaday Links: July 13, 2025 - There’s interesting news out of Wyoming, where a coal mine was opened this week. B... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/hackaday-links-july-13-2025/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #factyorytour #hydrocarbons #quick-turn #rare-earth #heathkit #linesman #adapter #cubesat #utility #wyoming #mining #record #45rpm #vinyl #coal #pole #rees #stem #kit #pcb #lp
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Filmmaker Leaves $100K in Cameras in the Wild to Capture Rare Footage of Wolves https://petapixel.com/2025/06/09/filmmaker-leaves-100k-in-cameras-in-the-wild-to-capture-rare-footage-of-wolves/ #rarefootage #yellowstone #cameratrap #Equipment #Spotlight #jakedavis #spotlight #wolves #rare #wolf
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Do not surrender to the most pittyful "leader" 🤮 in the world.
@realDonaldTrump and @JDVance : you have behaved like #infra- #men
You are the worst of humanity
I vomit on the cowards that throw themselves on the weak , at war, country
Like leetches and scavengers begging for #Ukraine #rare #earths
Shame on you
https://x.com/AlertesInfos/status/1895555807565267270?t=mTpxquJhdKTZZhn9MXMBiQ&s=09
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@realDonaldTrump
@JDVanceYou have behaved like #infra - #men
#Zelensky : "suka blyat "
Son of à b_tchThe most pittyful reception of a foreign leader, ever , in #American #history
I call to a #Boycott of #any visit of a #european leader to the #USA
This is not to be pardonned
Like leetches and scarevengers begging for #Ukrainian #rare #earths
I vomit on the #cowards that throw themselves on the #weak, at war, country.
https://x.com/AlertesInfos/status/1895555807565267270?t=FYQWmon3uHwOnBndK9sb4Q&s=09
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@realDonaldTrump @JDVance #Zelensky : "suka blyat " Son of à b_tch The most pityful reception of a foreign leader, ever. I call to a #Boycott of #any #european leader to the #USA This is not to be pardonned Like leetches begging for #Ukrainian #rare #earths x.com/AlertesInfos...
AlertesInfos on X: "🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 FLAS... -
#Trudeau advierte que #Trump quiere #anexionar #Canadá para hacerse con sus #minerales #críticos
Did you #expect it was #love 🤷🏼♂️ ? Nope
+ #Ukrainian #rare #earths
+ #Greenland #rare #earths / #minerals
+ etc..Did you expect it was for " #national #security " ?
https://efe.com/mundo/2025-02-07/trump-anexion-canada-minerales-criticos/
