Unimplemented Trap, Episode 40: Don't Cross the Streams
Added 2025-08-07 14:00:10 +0000 UTCWhy does Sonic the Hedgehog games on Nintendo hardware still feel just so...wrong? Oh, and excuse me for a moment, I need to go arm-wrestle my refrigerator.
Intro music by Eric Skiff (https://ericskiff.com/music). End music by Lakey Inspired (https://soundcloud.com/LAKEYINSPIRED).
Comments
Your last sentence is very poignant: The social interaction/popularity angle was very much a factor in video games, and I think that's something parents didn't understand back then. Yeah you could play games on an Apple IIc or Atari 2600, but they weren't Super Mario or Excitebike or any of the other games your friends had.
This Does Not Compute
2025-08-14 22:19:12 +0000 UTCThe comment about wanting a Super Nintendo, but not getting one because you’ve got Sega at home reminded me of my childhood. But for me it was more I couldn’t get an NES because I already had games at home. But my games were an Atari 2600. To be fair, I also had an Apple IIc, but that wasn’t quite the same as having Nintendo.
Greg Anderson
2025-08-10 17:55:39 +0000 UTCCollin, that reference you make about chucking coins in to your fuseboxthing to get power: in the UK they used to have this, you can see it in action in the closing scene of an Inspector George Gently (BBC) episode called 'Goodbye China'. The entire series is set in the sixties.
Eelco
2025-08-08 04:41:24 +0000 UTC51:00 In Soviet Russia, piggy bank smash you
Daniel Aufmann
2025-08-07 15:32:00 +0000 UTC
