Jack Black is back in the news. The Israel-loving actor who portrays Bowser, an evil dictator, in the Mario Bros movies has a long history with video games. Do you know what his first game was?

If you said Brutal Legend, you'd be wrong! He's in a TV commercial for Pitfall on Atari 2600

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It seems that Bluesky woke up and chose to fuck me, as the video now stops loading and/or stopped having sound. That's cool 😐

Here it is again in a different format. Hop in the thread for more info ig 🤷

That demo disc is cool, if only for the fact that they made an entire production out of it. They put someone in an Ape Escape costume and traveled around the USA. I would love to know who these people are and how they were approached to participate in this nonsense.

Now that I've seen the entire campaign, maybe the vague angle was better. In this commercial, the PlayStation characters crawl out of the kids' TV like Sadako from The Ring 😭

Here's a bunch more info about the McDonald's Happy Set promo: dengekionline.com/data/news/20...

#gaming #retro #Japan 🎮

Intro of a Data East arcade game from 1996, Janken Game Acchi Muite Hoi!

Yeeaah, this would've gotten me to spend money on a rock-paper-scissors game for sure. The advantage of having a static game like that is your graphics can look clean as heck. The special joystick is cool too! ✨

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It's low-key impressive they were able to fit this much digitized bullshit on a cartridge. Even if it ended up looking like this.

Today in Balatro: I'm trying to just find the last two cards I never bought, which is proving harder than I expected.

In the meantime: I read that people don't like the Hiker card and I'm at odds with that. Sure, the joker is on a timer, but why wouldn't you want all your cards to be 100+ chips?