#thrillingtalesofoldvideogames — Public Fediverse posts

Drew Mackie’s 101 Facts About Mario
Mackie's Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games often covers Nintendo-related topics, and this one is much more so than usual: a barrel-full of trivia related to Mario, his games, and his friends, enemies, rivals and hangers-on, spread out across seven long pages, all glorious text with some images and other med
https://setsideb.com/drew-mackies-101-facts-about-mario/
#niche #DrewMackey #list #mario #niche #nintendo #thrillingtalesofoldvideogames #trivia

TToOVG: Mario’s Death Animation
TToOVG is the initialism I'm trying out for Drew Mackey's blog Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games, and they have an excellent post up about Mario's death animation, in fact the death animation of lots of platformer characters, where the fall off the screen.

They turn to face the player, as if acknowledging for the
https://setsideb.com/ttoovg-marios-death-animation/
#retro #2D #death #DrewMackey #mario #platformer #retro #thrillingtalesofoldvideogames

Thrilling Tales of Old Videogames: FF vs D&D
Thrilling Tales of Old Videogames is one of the better game-related blogs out there, and their new post on how freely the first Final Fantasy cribbed from Dungeons & Dragons, and how that's affected later games that have had to reckon with the changing legal landscape, is pret
https://setsideb.com/thrilling-tales-of-old-videogames-ff-vs-dd/
#niche #retro #beholder #dd #EvilEye #finalfantasy #monster #niche #retro #thrillingtalesofoldvideogames

Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games, on Princess Peach Showtime
The article notes how few games in Nintendo's many series star Peach. There's really only been one headline game for her before, 2006's Super Princess Peach, which was really easy. Showtime isn't bad, but the article notes it's
https://setsideb.com/thrilling-tales-of-old-video-games-on-princess-peach-showtime/
#niche #lisasimpson #niche #nintendo #peach #princesspeachshowtime #superprincesspeach #thrillingtalesofoldvideogames