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TMNT Tournament Fighters

Posted on April 29th, 2015 by Hitstun

Remember when Konami made video games? Their best fighting game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters on the SNES. Last night, we played a tournament in this at our local fight night, and I did my best to explain it during the first few matchups. Source: Ragnorok64 via Columbus Fighting Games

Stan Freberg – St. George And The Dragonet

Posted on April 9th, 2015 by Hitstun

From 1951, this is St. George and the Dragonet. It’s a parody of the then-new TV show Dragnet…with a dragon. We salute you, Stan Freberg! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3QYb7AN6k via Anime Hell via MisterKleenhead

The Twitch Streaming Experience

Posted on April 2nd, 2015 by Hitstun

For April Fools’ Day, I brought my weekly stream back to Twitch and did annoying things popular Twitch streamers do a lot. I played a mainstream game online, I had a webcam which covered up my money and ammo counts, I had a lot of useless crap taking up space on the screen, and I […]

Lovely Planet

Posted on March 13th, 2015 by Hitstun

Quicktequila’s Lovely Planet is the anti-modern FPS. Instead of being multiplayer, gritty, and easy, Lovely Planet is single player, cutesy, and incredibly difficult. Calum Bowen’s happy, catchy soundtrack only really fits the first couple worlds. After that, the game introduces cruel new mechanics that demand precision trick shots on the run. I couldn’t beat a […]

Super Mario Bros. 3Mix

Posted on February 12th, 2015 by Hitstun

For Super Mario Bros. 3‘s 25th anniversary, I present Captain Southbird’s romhack Super Mario Bros. 3Mix. Similar to Rockman 4 Minus Infinity, it implements great ideas from several later Mario games, but this one stays true to the level design lessons of the original. The Rev 1 release from two days ago fixes bugs Mike […]