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This might be a good time to inform or remind people that all forms of adblocking will stop working in Chrome in less than two months, so you might want to switch to Firefox anyway instead of wasting time trying to get Chrome to download .bin files. (Yeah, ironic that Chrome blocks claims the things you want to download are spam and malware and forces you to go around it, but will soon refuse to let you block spam and malware as long as they're served in the form of ads)

They are by the same developers, Audacity Games: https://adgm.us/portal/index.html Other than that, all that's really known is that it was supposed to be released a couple of years ago.

Probably, but not for another half-century or so.

Apollo wasn't exactly a tiny fly-by-night company, but they also weren't very successful. I remember enjoying Lost Luggage as the joystick-based Kaboom/Avalanche clone that it was, but the company went out of business two months after Lost Luggage was released.

Makes me wonder whether Curt Vendel would have been on Atari's shortlist of people to hire. (Makes me wonder, and makes me sad)

https://tenor.com/view/mr-incredible-incredibles-i-cant-i-cant-lose-you-im-not-strong-gif-16437924

Not just Great Tiger, that's the "match start" theme from the original arcade Punch-Out!!, so it predates the NES as a whole, let alone Defender II for NES. https://youtu.be/1T8hoeVpdV0?t=41 Defender II's version segues into a riff on the Star Wars theme. But Defender II's "Stage Clear" theme is also the Punch-Out!! losing theme. Finally, the explosion noise when you destroy an enemy in Defender II is the same sound effect as a character hitting the canvas in Punch-Out!! (arcade and NES). I'm not sure which came first, but my hunch is that the arcade game from 1984 probably came before the game with a 1988 copyright on the 1985 console.

I think it could incorporate some ideas from Raiders of the Lost Ark (also one of my favorite "Adventure Territory" games for the 2600, and the only other one where you could attack enemies): multiple weapons, a small but limited inventory, multiple secret paths that only open if you have the right item, etc.

I think Bentley Bear would make a good mascot, both because he's a classic character, and because the character is gameplay-agnostic. You could transport Bentley and the other characters into different scenarios and different situations without too much difficulty: Berthilda The Witch and her magically-animated minions stir up trouble somewhere, and here comes Bentley Bear and his magic hat to save the day. (Like Mr. Do, if Universal still existed and needed a mascot) And even if he's not that well-known right now, that's no problem that a really good and popular game couldn't solve. (The trick is not to half-ass it, it has to be a genuinely good game)

Brutus was created because King Features Syndicate mistakenly thought that Bluto was created and owned by Famous Studios/Paramount Studios, when it turns out that Bluto had been created for the comic strip. They didn't figure it out for decades, but when they did, the name reverted back to Bluto. (And, later, Bluto and Brutus were established as separate characters, twin brothers)

More than that, for Fireworld, the only way to have won the contest is to have scoured the comic without playing the game, because they never put the clues into the game, only placeholders 00 through 09.

... Meh. Raising an unemployed person's hopes isn't fun. 😠

Dang, that was not there when I checked it yesterday. I've had quite a bit of forum moderator experience (Dofus!) ... hold on, it's *still* not there right now. I just see the first two, not the moderator position. What's going on?

Yeah, I was mostly kidding (mainly because I'd already checked that page). I am a programmer, not a sales or e-commerce manager.