Chain Chump

Music player and music listener.

[Chain Chump @human7134]

Put the toenails in the cum jar and nobody gets hurt

[J I Y U N A @jiyunaJP]

Type Lumina can't stop winning.

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

No one has considered the possibility of an extremely serious Bowling game.

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Happy Piccolo Day.

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

I think it was around the third or fourth year after the show that used to be called CES became known as E3.

Back then, someone from the event staff asked me something like, “Some American celebrities are here ! do you want to meet them?” But I was just a hardcore game developer and self-built PC nerd who had absolutely no understanding of the value of meeting celebrities. So instead of paying attention to famous people visiting our booth, I only remember running straight to the Half-Life booth and the pre-release Baldur’s Gate booth.
(Actually… I still wonder what celebrities were even there.)

At that E3, NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT graphics card was an absolutely massive topic of discussion ..at least among people like me ,,and I remember standing there staring at the demo endlessly.
I think my body temperature was probably three degrees higher than normal at the time.

And younger people today may not know this, but back then there was a video card called the Voodoo2 that every PC gamer in the world knew about. I was completely obsessed with the idea of buying a second Voodoo2 card at a Fry’s Electronics store in the US.
I needed that second card. The meaning was a bit different from what people today think of as SLI, though.
but at the time almost every PC gamer belonged to the “Church of Voodoo.”
Eventually I converted to NVIDIA later on, though.

Honestly, my head was so full of “I need to get to Fry’s” that I barely even remember the reaction to our own game titles. In those days, unlike now, our schedules weren’t packed from morning to night with interviews.

Every year back then, I’d run around to other companies’ booths, play demos, stare closely at the technology, and then head to Fry’s the next day. I remember once going there to buy a Santa Cruz sound card, and seeing an employee casually put what appeared to be a returned product right back onto the shelf. I was genuinely shocked by how different that was from Japanese retail culture.

Also, in the 1990s, arcades still barely survived in the United States, and there was still a real arcade versus culture there, so I used to go watch it. This was something I did from the very beginning. What always surprised me was that, unlike Japan, players in American arcades often played sitting directly side-by-side on linked cabinets. I would always think, “These guys are sitting this close to each other… how are they not constantly getting into fights?”

In Japan, the players usually sit facing each other with two arcade cabinets physically separating them, so if someone gets angry, the most they can really do is throw an ashtray or kick the cabinet to indirectly express their frustration.

I also used to visit stores and tournament organizers who were running major events, bringing posters, small printed character CG posters, and Japanese prize goods, telling them, “Please use these as tournament prizes.” It was a very grassroots kind of support activity.

And speaking of memories from those days …I remember seeing Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco and the company president at the time, bringing Japanese instant udon with him on business trips to Los Angeles. After seeing that, I started copying him and did the same thing for years.

I guess those are the kinds of memories I have from that era.
AH!! I just realized something ….apparently even at this age, I’m still the same hopeless game nerd at heart.
The moment someone asks me even a small question, I immediately start rambling on forever about tiny details nobody even asked for.

[Moonsault Slayer @VolSkimmer]

T-Pain hitting the dance floor as Leroy

[PhiDX @PhiDXGames]

If Tifa ends up in SF6 instead of Tekken I will be soooooo legitimately angry

[Sajam @Sajam]

$30 is a deal and a half.

Also adding avatar State characters like DBFZ adds Gokus. One of my favorite IPs on the planet getting a fighting game is just too cool.

[SoloMan98 🔜 SQXL @SoloMan1298]

Does that say $30

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@ZeyonDevilX I actually started playing mk1 because of s2 lol I don't think it's "better" but it certainly has been more fun overall, fahk and miary did make me come back for some though, but I'm still playing more mk1 than t8 rn until s3 personally

[Team NINJA @TeamNINJAStudio]

The next chapter in the DEAD OR ALIVE franchise is officially in development!

DEAD OR ALIVE first launched in 1996 and this year marks it's 30th anniversary.

Thank you for supporting us all these years. #DOA30th
https://t.co/yCTCD9YvBi

[John Crofts (jmcrofts) @crofts]

FGC Mount Rushmore ragebait edition

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@indianloonie hl2/portal1+2 with the Dev commentary on is almost like a documentary

[🜏 Edmund McMillen 🜏 @edmundmcmillen]

@spaceashes Uh oh

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@RyanHeapski And if you truly have 0 interest in playing a tag team you have juggernaut and sidekick options that are perfectly viable for entry level play.

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@RyanHeapski Maybe it's because I played a decent amount of marvel 3, but yeah this is a wild take. The entry level of 2xko feels so simple and straight forward, lmh launch mh special into super, tons of room for optimizing, waaaay less defenseive interactions to learn.

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@TheSSK_ I agree with this, I mean the 20 dollar price point is bonkers already, but then to make it tied to FOMO style limited availability feels extra bad. Love the game and hope they can continue making it better from here, but these are things that def need to be addressed.

[Chain Chump @human7134]

@northsideidiot @geoffkeighley I mean I played the game casually since 1.0 launch and am just a few points away from unlocking the last character without spending a dime, the character unlock method for a f2p model is actually very fair imo.

[Chain Chump @human7134]

can't wait to have a REAL boxing character in t8

[Rooflemonger 🦍🦧🐵 @Rooflemonger]

now these are some PROPER DLC characters

[Rooflemonger 🦍🦧🐵 @Rooflemonger]

now these are some PROPER DLC characters

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

@prometheus42069 I SAID “DON’T ASK ME FOR SHIT” ALREADY.