Category: Video Game Musings

Source : https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/02/be-warned-two-nes-titles-from-limited-run-games-may-damage-your-console

Apparently, a couple NES games from Limited Run can potentially damage your consoles if played enough times. See above article for further information.

You know, this reminds me of the time when another reproduction cart was being sold and it came with a fire hazard warning. Do people not test these shitty carts before they release them?

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/02/nintendo-shuts-down-live-action-zelda-fan-film-lost-in-hyrule

So stop me if you’ve heard this one before… but a few friends get together and decide that they want to make a Zelda fan film. Okay, cool… we’ll see if Nintendo is cool with that. But then they decide, “Hey, we need money. Why don’t we start a kickstarter?” Um… yeah, okay. Good luck with that, son. I give it about two weeks before Nintendo shuts you down.

Sure enough, two weeks later… Nintendo laid down the hammer and those fans can no longer make their Zelda fan film.

Forgive me for coming across as a prude here and part of me feel sorry for these folks who had their hearts in making this thing. Hopefully, they can pivot towards something else and pursue that instead.

But how stupid do you have to be to announce that you’re making a fan film based on a property owned by a company who is known to be quite protective of its intellectual property, for better or worse, and then to ask people to SEND YOU MONEY to help make this film? As soon as I heard that they were making this thing and then started a Kickstarter, I gave it a couple weeks before it got the axe and sure enough…

I remember a time ages ago when Star Trek fan films were a dime a dozen, almost getting to the point where the actual actors were even taking part in these. And then something happened involving one particular fan film punching above its weight class (I don’t recall the name) and Paramount/CBS (or whoever owned the property at the time) laid down the hammer and that golden age of fan film came to a halt.

Look, I’ve got nothing against fan films. I’ve seen a few fan films, I’ve enjoyed a few fan films. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of kids getting together, making a silly movie pretending they’re their favorite characters from that thing or whatever, and having a bunch of fun in the process. We’ve seen some quality stuff out there and not so quality stuff. But there comes a point in making your fan works where you reach a certain line that you probably shouldn’t cross if you don’t want to risk the ire of the people who own the IP. Asking people to send you money to make a movie based on a property that you don’t own the rights to is probably not a smart idea and I’m not just saying that because it’s Nintendo.

You wanna make a film? Come up with something original. You wanna make a fan film. Do it out of pocket and on your own free time… and don’t show it to anybody or sell it or put it on Youtube or anything like that. That way, nobody will sue you unless they go over to your house and raid your tape library or something like that.

Hold on, what was I talking about, again?

Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/01/the-angry-video-game-nerd-is-getting-his-very-own-8-bit-mega-man-esque-adventure

Good news for you AVGN fans out there – the Angry Video Game Nerd is getting his own genuine, honest-to-fuck Nintendo Entertainment System gamepak that isn’t a glorified ROM Hack or anything like that, but a brand-fucking-new game!

Even better news – there’s even a genuine NES cart that’s being put out if you want to play it on your actual NES (though it’ll also be available for modern platforms as well via digital release.)

The bad news – the NES version is sold through Limited Run… so you can pre-order your NES version, wait two years before it finally ships, and by the time you get it, you’ll have forgotten all about it until you open up the package and go “Oh yeah, I forgot. I bought this.”

Speaking of things we forgot, what’s the news on that new SNES version of DooM that was announced months ago? We haven’t heard so much as a arch-vile’s limp dick’s worth of updates since that time. When is that going up for pre-order?

If these chuckleheads are supposed to be the paragons of physical media going forward, then I’d rather embrace DRM-laced digital rentals for the future.

 

Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/01/after-what-feels-like-a-lifetime-amazon-is-cancelling-mighty-no-9-3ds-and-vita-pre-orders

Apparently, Amazon – the seller of reputable items like NES multicart and dodgy emulator boxes – have cancelled pre-orders for the non-existent 3DS and PS Vita versions of Mighty No. 9.

You remember Mighty No. 9, no? The brainchild of Inafking that YOU thought was going to be the spiritual successor to Mega Man and ended up being… better than nothing?

I honestly don’t know why Amazon took this long to get the hint that these things weren’t coming, considering Mighty No. 9 is no longer a thing and Inafking’s Comcept company was absorbed by another company not long after the game’s release and not so much as a fart was mentioned afterwards. I’d understand if there was still any chance of this being a thing, but the 3DS and PSP (or is it Vita? I don’t even care anymore) are but distant memories now. Would anyone even care at this point?