I don’t have Twitter so I can’t confirm, but it looks like the mob had determined this was an AI fake. The one time I was considering using xcancel, it’s already gone lol
https://x.com/i/trending/2051174215206805601
As a Japanese guy, I can attest that the Japanese is unnatural and a quick search does show that the pricing is wrong. Also Saikachi would be an incredibly rare last name (all different ways of writing the kanji ads up to about 1’000 individuals in all of Japan), so it shouldn’t be difficult to find her in a quick online search but you can’t find anything about her.
That does not look like AI to me… maybe
It’s really well made, but I can point out a few weird things.
- Weird black thing under 圧倒的
Yeah I can see some more AI signs now
fucking hell! its getting harder and harder to find some legit shit!
Right? Why do they even make fake ones like these? It messes with history. I mean, this particular example might not be a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but if there were thousands of these made and a history in the future wanted to make a documentation about 90s gaming advertisements, they’d have to sift through a bunch of fakes.
Thank you
What an amazing gif. I remember watching this as a kid (the cartoon, not the gif) and thinking it was funny. Even better now.
My first experience with it was through the recreation in The Mask movie with Jim Carrey. I only saw the cartoon later in life and then understood the reference.
This is my favorite gif to send to my gf when she sends me a spicy pic. Unsurprisingly, it shows up if you search for “wolf whistle” :)
I like that I can hear it every time I see it
No wonder it had decent sales…
… IN JAPAN
It sold well in Japan?
Yes. It didn’t set the country on fire but they were decent.
Decent smooth to have a plethora of games that north America wouldn’t see since localization costs weren’t worth it
It’s got huge… CPUs!
Japan low-key understands how to sell shit
Hey now, let’s not forget my boy Segata Sanshiro.
This would go hard as a poster in a gaming room
Hell as a silkscreened t-shirt
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Idk who Momoko Saikachi is but I’d like to be her friend. Maybe I can help her with an Arch install, I bet she loves Linux too
she’s into Graphene
Only because she hasn’t been introduced to lineage os.
I wonder what her favorite editor is. I bet it’s Vim.
There’s nothing on Google about her.
She’s done JAV
But there’s nothing coming up on the number 1 company that steals all data from everyone about her at all.
That’s because their algorithms are designed to promote whatever content they think you should see, not whatever’s most relevant.
Wait, wait, is the model actually holding the product in her real hands?
That’s so random. They should have just photoshopped it in there, like now
Dark Universe cast photo, eh?
90s were wild for gaming ads. I remember Battlecruiser 3000 AD and Daikatana ads the most.
Daikatana was gloriously stupid but in retrospect - gotta respect our man Romero - fan patch Daikatana goes hard as fuck.
As a teenager I loved that game. I’d absolutely hate it now. Great vision with a wet fart of an execution. I should give the fan patch version a chance.
it was a haphazard mess on release but fan patch made it playable and quite enjoyable (if you’re into oldschool fps). they fucking fixed AI! and the bugs are gone! and it doesn’t crash every 10 minutes! it’s still filled with stupid shit to the brim but i kinda respect its maximalist game design even if it is quite overwhelming at times.
Thank you! I was at high school when it came out, and somehow it fascinated me, I played the shit out of it despite its shortcomings as a game, it captivated me in some way.
Daikatana is a bit outside my wheelhouse, but is it worth playing if I like Postal 2 or is more along the lines of Duke Nukem which I find uninteresting?
Daikatana is an oldschool FPS that also tries some rudimentary RPG mechanics and is technically four games mashed with its own sets of weapons and enemies. It is as rough as it gets but Romero had the right ideas and much of what he envisioned in Daikatana ended up being the future of FPS
It has interesting ideas for its time, like NPC companions with voice lines, a leveling up system, and some creative weapons. Out of the 2 you mentioned, I guess it’s still closer to Duke Nukem, but you can watch some gameplay videos or give it a try for $1 and see if you like it.
funnily enough - Daikatana ended up being way better than Duke Nukem Forever.
LOADING
[ I I I I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]The loading noises fire all at once now that hardware is so much more powerful
Does it finally make one his bitch, though?
depends on your expectations. overall very fun experience if you’re into oldschool fps stuff.
Apparently the symbols on the left are translated to
“absolutely stunning”
Yes you didn’t need to point her features out even more Sega
My Japanese isn’t very good, but doesn’t it translate better to “overwhelming: the (shock?) of 32-bit CG”? But in that case I’m not sure its talking about the model at all but the features on the Sega Saturn
overwhelming: the (shock?) of 32-bit CG
圧倒的。ビット32CG衝撃。
Yeah this is it. “Overwhelming” and then it could also be something like “the 32-bit CG impact” or maybe “32-bit CG is a shocker”, so definitely talking about the console. Although writing “bit 32CG” would be an odd way to phrase it these days, but I guess there are a lot of tech phrases from 30 years ago in English too that sound pretty strange now.
The main tagline is on the top right that’s basically “Games are changing. The future is changing.”
ゲームが変わる。未来が変わる。
I’m not sure where you’re getting ビット32、it’s clearly 32ビット
Oh yeah. Apparently a bit too much Kirin last night when I was reading that.
'Fresh my memory lads. What games were on Sega Saturn?
Burning Rangers. Panzer Dragoon. Dragon Force. Die Hard Arcade. A couple of Shining Force and Cotton games.
NiGHTS into Dreams Mech Warrior 4 Virtua Fighter 2
and the definitive version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
No way! I didn’t know MW4 was on Saturn. I only played that on PC. Mercenaries was the SHIT.
okay had to check myself. it was MW2.
sorry, it’s been 20 years since i played it.
No worries! MW 2 was also a banger!
apparently i enjoyed it enough to recall (incorrectly) that it was a title i used to play on there haha
I had Earthworm Jim, some platformer where you’re a clockwork knight toy, a 3-player smash-em-up called something like Three Dirty Dwarves, and the dinosaur fighting game Primal Rage. It’s probably ass but I have a lot of nostalgia for Primal Rage, ha. I’ve gone back to listen to the soundtrack on occasion.
Wasn’t there one where you had to jump and catch stuff?
My family had a Saturn way back in the 90s. I remember my favorite games being Panzer Dragoon, Knights into Dreams, and Dragon Force.
I played Crazy Taxi on one at a friend’s place
That was the Dreamcast.
Oh right. I don’t think anyone I knew had the Saturn.
So you weren’t rich?
Was it a lot more than the rest of the stuff going around then? I have no idea what 40,000 yen was worth in 1994.
A few years before that I had one friend with a Turbografx 16. Earlier still someone else had a Commodore 64 and there was even one guy with a ColecoVision.
7 on the top 10 most expensive consoles. Of that Era only the Neo Geo, CDi, and 3DO were more expensive. And those are notoriously expensive consoles.
I did know one kid with the CDi. Too bad it was expensive, that thing was pretty jank in general
She’s got that look that says “I’m only doing this for the money so I can actually afford to buy some clothes”.
probably.
I only remember 2 games for the Saturn:
Myst, which I later got on PC after renting the Saturn version (the Saturn was also rented), and Dragoon something… It was basically a SHMUP but you rode the back of a dragon and was 3D.
I know I played more than those two, but I don’t remember any of 'em.
Panzer Dragoon
Man, so many great games.
Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, Daytona USA, Nights, Shining Force 3, Fighting Vipers, Last Bronx, House of the dead, Enemy Zero, Virtual On, Panzer Dragoon Saga…
Fuck I had a good childhood
Virtua Fighter was my jam back in the day. Loved that game and all 12 of its polygons!
You take that back… there was at least 12 polygons for Akiras hair… that might have been most of the polygonal budget but still
There was one which stands above them all and I think would still hold up well today…Guardian Heroes. It was a fantastic multiplayer side-scroller beat-em-up with fighting game style moves, magic, choose your path, and even an arena mode. I loved that game and always hoped it would be ported to something more modern (besides Gameboy).
MYST!!! Ah, man! That game rocks!
Iv been waiting for a steam sale. I cant bring myself to pay 35 for such a old game, even if its worth it. But man i havent played it since the pc release back when, me and my dad both had a save file. Good times.
The version in Steam is remastered from the original and is and also available on GOG for $20 right now.
high seas are over there and it is much more fun to play the OG editions instead of modern ones.
Yes, I want to console her- I mean that console of hers
yup, that’s exactly what it means.
Why is it a black Saturn? I thought Japan’s were white.
For Japan, the original is grey, and the model 2 with the round buttons is white.
Yeah okay that’s the grey model with blue buttons. Wasn’t paying attention to those… for some reason. It looks darker here due to photography, printing, and/or scanning.
yup
You can have too much of a good thing or too many good things at once
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