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Tonight on Twitch at 6:00PM (PST): Damned if you do, damned if you don't: It's another episode in our playthrough of 2009's 'Damnation!' Will this steampunk third-person shooter manage to turn things around in its back half, or is it already out of steam? www.twitch.tv/badgamehallo...

Our playthrough of 'Silver Surfer' on the NES is up now on YouTube! Come surf the interstellar swells with us, but be careful to not so much as stub your toe out there. youtu.be/LTRa6DPiobo

The cartoon angel rising out of my dead body getting shot by a nearby duck hunter:

In which the Silver Surfer's "Rogues Gallery" leaves much to be desired: www.twitch.tv/badgamehallo...

Not every developer / company from your childhood deserves to mount a comeback. You don't need to buy every tchotchke product they dish out in the pitiful hope that it'll lead to them making "something new" (or re-releasing your personal favorite). Sometimes, dead is better.

What I'm REALLY trying to say is that all these tech guys who see your nostalgia as a profit opportunity are soulless fucking culture vultures who are banking on blind brand loyalty established in the 80s and 90s to keep their dumbass grifts going. It'd be pathetic if it didn't work on so many folk.

What I'm trying to say is, it's all just cynical pandering from a dude who's simply way past the point of caring about consumer feedback. Our guy Jez San is a straight-up crypto dweeb and AI evangelist, and I guarantee you he probably personally thinks what Palmer gets up to is aspirational.

What I will say is that Argonaut Games here (and their social media accounts here and on X) have been on a year-long nostalgia tour since re-releasing Croc -- pretending like becoming a boutique label for remasters is tantamount to them having never shut down(?), and making promises they won't keep.

You probably don't need us to tell you that ModRetro is a company very forwardly run by war criminal Palmer Lucky, and that knowingly doing business with them in the year 2026 is a clear sign that parties involved in any deal with them are too cynical / money-minded to give a shit about that fact.

Our playthrough of 'Silver Surfer' on the NES is up now on YouTube! Come surf the interstellar swells with us, but be careful to not so much as stub your toe out there. youtu.be/LTRa6DPiobo

Our episode centered around "Blockbuster Exclusive" games is up now on YouTube! Catch it now before you start racking up late fees. youtu.be/o5bbcDVWKpA

You can conjure up our full playthrough of the game's years-late PC port here. (We do plan on revisiting the game in future to play the original console version and comment with the benefit of better microphones lol): www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUid...

'Bullet Witch' released on this day in 2006. A post-apocalyptic third-person shooter from the creators of 'Drakengard' / 'Nier'; with a heavy reliance on utterly busted physics and unreliable magic attacks, plus cumbersome combat and pointless progression hooks.

Obsessed with YouTube's automatic, AI-generated suggested thumbnails for our Bad Game Hall of Fame videos, like lying that our one-off Lester the Unlikely episode is part 42 of a series, or making my witchsona into Todd In The Shadows.

A relevant snippet from our history of the Hydlide franchise: www.badgamehalloffame.com/virtual-hydl...

Our episode centered around "Blockbuster Exclusive" games is up now on YouTube! Catch it now before you start racking up late fees. youtu.be/o5bbcDVWKpA

You can watch our full playthrough of the game (as translated by @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games) here, if you have the stomach for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njg6...

'Kowai Shashin: Shinrei Shashin Kitan' released on this day in 2002. A PlayStation horror title centered around exorcising evil entities from spirit photographs by means of repeated QTEs. Marketed on the premise that the game's development had been "cursed" by the use of ""real"" spirit photos.

For our article's timecoded appearance. Shouts @iwriteok.bsky.social: youtu.be/xUg4w44xw4A?...