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It's fair to assume the list is heavily conditioned by who owns the rights of what more than some sort of curation.

copypasta from Nintendo via Kotaku. Balloon FightT BUBBLE BOBBLE CastlevaniaT Castlevania II: Simon's QuestT Donkey KongT Donkey Kong Jr. T DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE Dr. MarioT ExcitebikeT FINAL FANTASY? GalagaT GHOSTS'N GOBLINS? GRADIUST Ice ClimberT Kid IcarusT Kirby's...

Apparently, it has save states too. I am not 100% sure who the target is though... 30 or 40 something nostalgic parents who want to replay the games of their youth with their children?

To really assess the format, one would need to check all the matches that have been played and rate how entertaining they were. My gut feeling is that the smaller teams did not necessarily make for less entertaining matches. If there is a problem currently, it may be more with the game itself...

I saw it at a film festival, but it's out on BluRay/DVD/VoD if Amazon is to be believed. I could not compare it to his XXth century film as I have seen none of them. I have a friend withthis ginormous box setso I might borrow it from him and binge through Chow's work.

Unsurprisingly, there is no small dose of hypocrisy in the application of this criteria when you consider one of the recent chinese blockbuster, Mojin, is about raiding for treasures in haunted tombs! Also are mermaids supernatural beings? Because the latest super hit in China is Stephen Chow's...

I find it a bit perplexing that when people question and analyze the content of video games and the impact it might have on the people who play them, people around the board are like "These are just games, just mindless fun, how can it have any impact on anyone?", but when we have an all female...

While I am at it with these very joyous late '60s collaborations between Jane Bikin and Serge Gainsbourg: Lyrics:

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It was in competition at theNIFFF(Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival) last week and it won the public prize, the international critics prize and a production design prize. Almost a sweep! It could not win the best european film category (obviously) and the international jury...

It's important to understand that the RT score is a strange beast. In your example, it just means there is 73% of reviewers that find Batman vs Superman below average, but it says nothing about how far below. The Room ends up with a higher RT score probably because it falls into the "so bad it's...

When you see the impact Eder had on the match with his ability to impose himself physically and act as an anchor point when not facing the goal you have to wonder why he only played a whopping 13 minutes before the final! That was incomprehensible even before he scored for the win! Anyway...

Pretty fun 2nd half, but still 0-0 (somehow!).

Oddly, Ronaldo's injury seems to have hurt the french team the most. They just shut down after he left, moving back, leaving the ball possession to their oponent and consequently turning the match into a pace-less odd thing. The kind of shitty match the portuguese team has been winning (or at...

After checking, this is indeed a pretty rare occurrence. At the Australian Open and the US Open, it happened for the last time in 2006 when Federer won (and the Big Four was not really a thing). At Wimbledon, it happened for Federer in 2009 (just after he won the French in the same fashion!)...

As expected, Murray was not troubled by Berdych. The other semi between Federer and Raonic was a less straight forward affair. Federer could not recover from an early break in the first set that he nicely gifted to Raonic with a double fault. Still, the swiss had half-chances in several return...

By nature a world record is highly unlikely in a marathon since they don't reset when they make mistakes and even opt for safer strategies to not have the run end prematurely. Except, as previously mentioned, for wacky categories or super odd games that have been created/picked up just for the...

I commiserate with Poochy.EXE who spent god knows how many hours learning a blindfolded run of that Sakura mode in TGM3 only to fail less than a minute away from the end without having another shot at it

I only got to see the fifth set of the Federer vs Cilic match. I am not too sure what happened before, but I was surprised to see how passive Federer was on the return games, happy to just stay in the rally and counter-punch or pass Cilic. Thanks to a good bit of help from Cilic, that was...

The czech guy will be Berdych. He broke early in the fifth, but Vesely managed to get the break back, but just when we thought the underdog had all the momentum (Berdych failed to convert 5 match points in the 4th set the day before and now let his advantage slip in the fifth?) he crapped the...

Doesn't that make the whole championship irrelevant until the inevitable Cavaliers vs Warriors final?

Just saw the two first sets of Federer vs Johnson and the aftershock I feared after the opening of the draw did not happen. Oddly, the elimination of Djokovic is a bit the tree that hides the forest, because there is only 3 of the top 8 seeds in the quarter finals! QUERREYwon in straight sets...

So... the safe bet sounds like a Germany vs Portugal final with a german victory or what? For some reason, my gut feeling is Portugal able to produce another two crap game they somehow win to lift the trophy.

I saw just about nothing and will maybe only catch an hour or two here and there during the weekGlad for Querrey who always sounded like a nice bloke to me and who often found himself in close matches against top players that he lost in the end. Not this time! That blows the draw wide open...

I guess tonight the belgian fans wish their team could play a brand of football as boring as the one played by Portugal!

One one hand it feels like everything Portugal could have done wrong, they did: You have Ronaldo as a center forward, ensuring he has minimal impact on the game and then you run 98% of the offense with long aerial crosses that pose almost no threat to the polish defense (partly because the...

You are joking but....

It does, considering the massive cultural impact China had on Japan. Where do you think buddhism, confucianism, black ink painting or their writing system comes from? Where do you think the literary references come from in a country that only had a writing system since the 8th century...

It should also be noted that transvestism is a classic device in chinese literature (Mulan anyone?).

While not without flaws, I found this movie to be pretty good. It's about a guy who lived his life on auto-pilot and is suddenly lost when all goes off track with the death of his wife. He no longer knows how to act, who he is, if his life before was an absurd mascarade or not, if he loved his...

Two thoughts: 1) The people are conveniently absent from the power transition in King's Landing. It's not too clear what is preventing a revolt from happening. 2) Why would you have a contraption with many lenses exposed to sun light in the middle of a gigantic library? It looks like an...

It should be mentioned though that this Iceland team is not like, say, the Faroe Islands team where half the players are amateurs competing in the Faroe league and the other half navigate between the first and second division of the danish league. Iceland is obviously at a demographic...

It felt like the italians would run out of gas before the end and regret being only one goal ahead, but nope. A couple good saves by Buffon, a brilliant counter-attack in stoppage time and voil?. They will be tough to beat.

Italy is playing very very well. Spain is lucky De Gea made a couple great saves (maybe unlucky he did one not so great, but where were the defenders to help him?).

This is a slight variation onValie Export's Tapp und Tast Kino from 1968! It does not feel that subversive to do it again 50 years later.

That game felt like passing a kidney stone... damn. 115 minutes without a single shot on target must be some kind of (sad) record too.

I am not sure really. Actual extreme right wing parties are close to non existant in Switzerland, mostly because there is a big populist right wing party that got the nationalists/xenophobes covered and since they are terrible but also not total idiots, they know better than to badmouth the...

Consolation prize for Switzerland: Shaqiri scored the best goal of the Euro so far and it will be tough to top. Losing a penalty shoot-out 4-5 is a bit lame, but the lamest thing really is to not have won before it came down to the penalty lottery. They pay an expensive price for a poor first...

Time for some good old fashioned witchcraft.

It is indeed? I am not sure what you mean.