/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6973276
>he does his own research and speaks/reads Japanese.
He’s not even in games press anymore. He doesn’t read or speak Japanese. He doesn’t have any more access to information than you or I (basic wikipedia information). For example, he frequently sites shmuplations because he doesn’t have the skill to translate or research content himself. Just because someone positions themself as an authority on something, doesn’t mean they are. Stop shilling for this faggot.

>>6973286
Yes he does, he's spoken to shit tons of devs for one thing, you done that? His research is his own, if anyone can do it then why aren't they? And why does he make you seethe so hard that you just make shit up? Is that you, GnG sperg?

>>6973276
The Gaming Historian. DId an entire hour on Tetris and Mario 3; amongst many videos. All top notch.

>>6973286
He's never positioned himself as an authority, other people have, because ya'know, he's the best going at this.

Granted, it's a very small pool, so that's not saying a lot.

>>6973276
As I said earlier, Chasing the Beam by Ian Bogost, technical, historical and philosophical analysis of the Atari 2600. Probably the foremost academic study of a single gaming system.

>>6973309
>Yes he does, he's spoken to shit tons of devs for one thing, you done that?
No, but he doesn’t anymore either. Even during his time at 1up he had maybe a handful of interviews with Japanese developers, and they hardly went into depth about their past works. If he was interviewing anyone of note, the main topic would be about their current projects, which is the point of the interview. To promote current projects. And people are constantly doing what he does, have you been on youtube? There are countless “gaming historian” channels. You’re the one making shit up. Go try to have a conversation with him and Japanese and tell me how far you get.

>>6973276
>nooooooooo you can’t treat video games as a significant social phenomenon or a legitimate form of artistic expression nooooooooo it’s not fair they’re only children’s toys nooooooo my nostalgia is the only locus of discussion allowed nooooooooooo

>>6973276
he's in the game journalist circlejerk with kurt kalata and anita and therefore his opinions are invalid

>>6973350
This but unironically

>>6973276
Based Parish

>>6973276
>If you're unfamiliar, this kind of stuff is what I mean:
>https://www.fangamer.com/products/nes-works-volume-i-1985
It's just a book with synopses of videogames.

>and speaks/reads Japanese
....that's not a good thing.

>>6973438
Because you’re a smooth brained anti-intellectual chud with zero conception of the world beyond your own nose. By the way, your boy Trump is gonna lose next month.

>>6973469
He’s just ripping off Chrontendo with more trivia thrown in.

>>6973328
This

Nick and Ian are doing research, Stanford is doing research, the MADE is doing research, the Videogame History Foundation is doing research, the STRONG museum of play is doing research, the Computer Spiel museum is doing reserach, the ViGaMus in Italy is doing research....

Just because they don't put this stuff into podcasts doesn't mean the work isn't being done.

>>6973276
>research
>youtuber
Pick one, and only one.
There is plenty of real research being done, see >>6973328 and >>6973490.
Obviously, being real researchers and academics, they publish their findings instead of making shitty videos. There are probably al least a couple dozens game studies journals out there.

>>6973490
>Videogame History Foundation
I don’t know about the others, but what faggot Frank Cifaldi is doing hardly qualifies as research. He’s just preserving old documents at best. Scanning old art assets and magazing isn’t the same thing as getting hard research done on a topic. He doesn’t form any kind of narrative through interviewing people involved with development. Kind of useless really. Unless you want to know the exact date a game was published or something.

>>6973520
Gaming Historian has already been cited, and he makes well made informative videos.

>muh research
Research what? Lmao. Everything is already documented. These tranny faggots just read Wikipedia.

>can't beat the first three levels of Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts on the easiest setting with 9 lives
>gets several facts about the game wrong (claims the game has no slowdown, that double jump was from the previous game and that the chest contents are randomized)
The only reason he uploaded that video was for some fast pesos. Fuck this grifting loser.

>>6973310
>Gaming historian's tetris video
He literally just regurgitated information that was all laid out in the 2004 BBC documentary Tetris: From Russia with Love. He straight up quotes that documentary several times verbatim and even uses screencaps from it. But people still heap praise on him for it.

>>6973314
>he's the best going at this.
Just how bad are the others if this faggot who reports false information because a game was too hard for him to play for more than five minutes is the best?

Ahoy makes the best gaming documentaries on youtube and anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.

The problem isn't that videogames aren't as worthy as movies or literature. The problem is that movies and literature are not worthy of academic enquiry in the first place.

>>6973708
and this isn't to say there is something wrong with them, it's just like... why? What purpose? They're an art. People already deconstruct them. Putting them into an academic journal and inventing a bunch of nonsense terminology and concepts is just pretentious idiocy. You have lots of people writing about sport but you don't have academic journals talking about football.

>>6973276
It's definitely a thing, just in actual academia, not Youtube. There's a whole field of human science devoted to it called game studies that you could get a degree in. One of the most famous people in the field is Ian Bogost. Check out this book series he was involved in: http://bogost.com/projects/platform_studies/ I read "I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer" on NES and it was very insightful.

>>6973276
I remember this dude from IGN. He turned into a massive faggot and I just can't take him seriously.

>>6973727
I can personally recommend Racing the Beam and The Future Was Here.

>>6973276
>REEEEE MUH E-CELEBS
>HE ISNT AN ACADEMIC, HE CANT EVEN BEAT GHOSTS N GOBLINS
>HE JUST READS MUH WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES

>>6973276
I used to have gamespite.net in my rss feed back when people still used rss. Too bad it's so difficult to navigate or search the site for older articles now.

I think Leonard Herman may have been one of the earliest attempting to record history of video games. I had a copy of his Phoenix book (first published in '94) which was very thorough (and dry) and talked about a lot of the for me unknown consoles before the Atari video game burial. But I don't remember how academic he was or if he cited sources or anything like that and I don't have it here to check now.

>>6973626
Are you zoomers for real? Do you go on youtube to research stuff? And believe to learn something?

>>6973276
You are extremely out of the loop and/or gay and retardedly egotistical like Jeremy. John Szecpenik or whatever and Larry Bundy Jr. are two examples of this "academic" research into games that you want. Also, quit posting off-topic eceleb threads like this.

>>6974046
His videos are good and well made. Much better than Jeremy Parish at any rate. And
>>6974048
Guru Larry is better at everything than Parish is.

>>6973469
>....that's not a good thing.
I know this is the big meme around here lately, but, if we're talking about games history/information it absolutely is. If you could actually give a reason to the contrary that'd be nice but I'm willing to bet you don't have one either.

>>6974083
It doesn't matter how much Japanese he knows, his videos are colored by his politics and him saying that vidya is racist and sexist. Which makes me think... dude, if it's so racist and sexist, why do you even care about this?

>>6974083
I should add, I don't know who the fuck the guy in the OP is and I'm not really talking about him here anyway, I just think on principle, that's an important skill to have when covering this topic.

>>6974087
Because postmodern sóy guzzlers aren't known for ignoring things they don't like.

>>6974087
I mean in that case fuck him, although as mentioned here >>6974092
I just meant in general, thanks for clarifying though

>>6973334
Pretty sure he's a writer and senior editor at USGamer unless he quit to do Retronauts and his books/videos full-time

>>6973520
He's not a YouTuber, he is a gaming journalist and historian, he does Retronauts podcast, writes books and only does YouTube on the side as supplements to his books. Dude has like 50k subscribers and averages a few thousand views per video. Is that what is a "YouTuber" to you? Because they host videos there?

Why is Ian Bogosts work more legitimate? You HAVE read Jeremy's books haven't you? You wouldn't just be disregarding them out of hans as illegitimate because he uploads videos on a site you don't like? Because Jeremy provides citations and does his research just like Bogost.

>>6974342
>game journalist and historian
What a pathetic title lol. He's a dude on the internet with opinions.

lol, you guys falling for the "but he's an intellectual, he's doing important academic research!" meme guys crack me up.

>NOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST DO WELL RESEARCHED BOOKS AND VIDEOS ON RETRO GAMES IF YOU COULDN'T BEAT ONE SPECIFIC ONE! YOU COULDNT BEAT KNOBS N NONCES, THAT MEANS ALL YOUR WORK IS INVALID EVEN THOUGH YOURE COVERING EVERY GAME RELEASED FOR A SYSTEM THAT WAS RELEASED CHRONOLOGICALLY AND THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT CAN BEAT AN ENTIRE GAMES LIBRARY STOPPPP YOUR NOT ALLOWED TO BE A HISTORIAN TILL YOU BEAT KNOBS N NONCES

>>6974397
>well researched
>videos full of inaccuracies
Pick one. If he wasn't a grifting fraud he wouldn't've uploaded the video until he completed it.

>>6974342
>he does Retronauts podcast
At this point I don't know if you are trolling but I'll bait.
>>6974342
>Why is Ian Bogosts work more legitimate?
Because he's a fucking university professor. A real university, not the youtube university.
I won't argue that plenty of academics spout bullshit, but at least it will always be a bit more in check than just rambling on a random website.

>>6974406
Cite the inaccuracies or you're full of shit. Besides the gay Knobs N Nonces shit

>>6973276
I have recommended this channel before and will continue to do so. The production quality is like a television program and though there isn't a single narrator or personality(varies from episode to episode) each one is very professional and not your usual annoying Youtube personality. Each episode is like a mini documentary about the development history of various classic games. The amount of likes and subscribers this channel gets is criminal and I hope they get more support in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdvtssb10Q8&t=31s

>>6973727
Those academia books suck dick lol
Bunch of phonies who barely understand games
It’s like all those normie women who write books analyzing pol and the alt-right

>>6974768
This dude really tried to claim that Halo got its regenerating shield idea from Mega Man Legends. A claim with absolutely zero citations whatsoever and something this cuck pulled completely out of his ass.

>>6974802
Dude you're fucking gay he didn't say that was fact it was theorizing.

>>6974839
https://youtu.be/c38Bq9m9crI?t=989
He straight up said it was "borrowed" along with the most vague description of a character's role possible. Both with zero citations of course.

>>6974749
What exactly is wrong with Retronauts? Its a topic they research and talk about in a nonformal setting. They have almost 3,000 people donating over $12,000 a month for it so I would say they must be doing something right.
https://www.patreon.com/retronauts

>>6974852
Yes, Jeremy is fucking gay. Bloombug personally funded the 2018 campaigns of people who would enact his basedcialist dream policies. I thought he was supposed to be smart. He wears glasses!

willyvania

>>6974987

>>6973276
>more
>implying
>pic of retarded blogger
Your zoom level is >9000. I get that you're a retarded NEET who likes to read drivel shat out by another retarded NEET but this isn't "serious academic research". Not my a long shot.

>>6975023
Not a blogger, you're fucking retarded. Most of you don't even know who he is or what he does before you talk shit, this thread proves that.

Holy fucking shit. I want to bang the Gran Turismo Sport Peugeot Vision Gran Turismo so goddamn bad. I can't stand it anymore. Every time I go to the garage/brand central I get a massive erection. I've seen literally every rule 34 post there is of it online. My dreams are nothing but constant fucking sex with Peugeot Vision Gran Turismo. I'm sick of waking up every morning with six nuts in my boxers and knowing that those are nuts that should've been busted inside of Peugeot VGT's tight racing exhaust. I want it to have my mutant human/car babies.

Fuck, my fucking mom caught me with the neighbors car. I'd dressed it in a carbon fiber skirt and went to fucking town. She hasn't said a word to me in 10 hours and I'm worried she's gonna take away my PS4. I might not ever get to see Peugeot VGT again.

>>6973538
WTF are you even talking about? Were you always retarded or did you have to work at it:

https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/
https://gamehistory.org/where-in-north-dakota-is-carmen-sandiego/
https://gamehistory.org/magnavox-odyssey-advertisement-history/

Dood literally went to the Game Informer offices to preserve stuff but yer like "He's not forming a narrative!"

Do you know what research in this field is even about?

Also, why is Jeremy Parish on this board so much now? Who's the one with the big ass boner for him? I mean, hit podcasts are good, but geez, get a room you two.

Also if you want more fucking documentaries, watch Noclip. Danny's been doing exactly what yer asking for for years now.

>>6974862
SPend five minutes reading Racing the Beam you fucktard. It explains why Atari 2600 games look and behave the way they do as a function of the platform's technological constraints.

Interviewing people about their experiences is journalism. That's all fine and dandy and has a place. Just read Racing the Beam, idiot.

Also, Ian is amazing and yer like "Why is he someone, who is he?"

The fact that you don't know who Ian Bogost is shows that you've no idea what yer talking about. Next yer gonna say "I don't know or care who Henry Lowood is!"

>>6974263
Formerly. He works at Limited Run Games now.

>>6974992
You can keep posting the same images of him and making the same threads about him, and brining up the ZX spectrum at every opportunity, but it will be just as ignored by the world as Jetset radio Willy was

>>6973276
>OK, GnG sperg. Skill at one game doesn't invalidate ones works on retro gaming.
No, but shit taste should. He dunked on Metroid II once and I have never forgiven him.

>>6973472
What the fuck does politics have to do with this, asswipe? I agree with you that that anon is a smoothbrain. I also am voting for Trump. Try to reconcile those facts, you unironic Redditor.

>>6975039
Why are you gay for this retarded blogger? Are you him or his fuck buddy?

Honestly he sometimes has bad taste and he can veer into SJW territory but overall I like the dude and his content. I'm subscribed to his Patreon.

>>6973276
This guy is a massive faggot and he always has been. All he does is cry about gun violence in Twitter and screech about BLUMPF

He has zero talent and does zero work all the sure is done for him already. Go shill this spineless insect elsewhere you faggot mongoloid

We get it OP, you have a hate boner for JP.
>>6975471
Metroid 2 is garbage. It's so fundamentally flawed that not even the two remakes could salvage what made it unique.

>>6975921
>Metroid 2 is garbage. It's so fundamentally flawed that not even the two remakes could salvage what made it unique.
You might actually be dumber than Jeremy.

>>6974083
>If you could actually give a reason to the contrary that'd be nice but I'm willing to bet you don't have one either.
Because he wasted years of his life learning Japanese.

>>6973276
>>6973309
>>6973460
How can one man be so based?

>>6973276
Who this gay boy

>>6974862
>They make money so what they say is correct.
If that's your line of reasoning I guess it's fine then.

>>6974852
Flint water crisis had to do with the terminally corrupt Flint city council being kept in check by a Negro Democrat, and in consultation with them, decided to use the Flint River as a water supply. Then as it turned out Flint is a shithole which led to the whole lead pipe thing.
Last I checked the Mayor of Flint was encouraging people to donate to her "private charity" (about as legit as the Trump Foundation, kek) which will totally solve all the problems.
>>6974992
The one article I can find of Parish talking about JSW is him saying that it wasn't that good but acknowledging that it was highly influential on the British microcomputer scene.

>>6973276
>>6973309
>>6973460
>>6974342
>>6976169


Fuck Jeremy Parish and fuck your idea that we need more midwit "research" on retro gaming. He is a narcissistic piece of shit who once called a game made by Yuji Naka for the S1000 "evil". Yeah, like we need some faggot like that. The type who uses his false politics as the basis of his morality for his intellectual midwit analysis. He is WORSE then your average youtube eceleb for this reason.

Your behavior makes me wonder if this is indeed JP. And that appearance is proof that physiognomy is real.

>>6975801
>Yeah, this burger is covered in shit, but bey its still a burger so II still eat it and I still routinely buy from the restaurant that made it.

Truly, I don't understand how or why you do it. There are hundreds of faggot video game ecelebs who do the same trash but aren't narcissistic and I don't have to spend money. His views are enough to de-legitimize everything he says because anyone only cultists demonize video games because of his "perception" of the sin they cause.

>>6975921
This is a pro Jeremy Parish thread. OP wants there to be more Jeremy Parishes. No one is arguing with you about your love for mediocre egotist Jeremy Parish, faggot.

>>6973276

>>6978159

>>6978159
>>6978163

What the fuck is this pozzed shit?

Anyways I actually bought that other guy's pdfs with in depth explanations of game systems, only read the Chrono Trigger and FF7 ones tho, but there's Diablo and Super Mario World.
I kinda wanted one for Xenogears but I understand that these take a ton of time to make and Xeno is not that popular.

>>6978159
>>6978163
Why do you keep posting these clips as if they mean anything?

>>6978358
because it shows how much of a faggot parish is

>>6978364
Says more about you than him, I'd say.

>>6973276
>Why aren't more people doing serious academic research and documentaries on retro gaming like Jeremt Parish
First off, because "academics" are pretentious fuckwads. Second, Parish is a retarded cuckold who sucks at video games.

>>6978368
what I'm pointing out here is his politics and his need to insert SJW shit into everything

Gay thread, fuck Parcuck.

>>6978375
Yep, triggered snowflake gonna cry. What thin skin you have. Those aren't even politics.

Did anyone here donate to the Retrocucks kickstarter in 2013? Did anyone like getting ripped off of back rewards?

>>6978381
Bithing about how video games are racist, sexist AND classist are all totally SJW talking points. It's shitty politics.

>>6973276
>speaks/reads Japanese.
lol no he doesn't you fucking faggot

>>6978383
That's how the market was then, kid.

>>6978387
Bitching about it the way these """game journalists""" do is pure unmitigated faggotry. If games are so goddamn racist AND sexist, why bother playing them? Also shades of the colonialist, since these games he talks about were (mostly) made in Japan.

>>6975071
>hit podcasts are good,
Retronauts fucking sucks dick.
>>6974862
>What exactly is wrong with Retronauts? Its a topic they research and talk about in a nonformal setting
Because they've talked out of their asses before, and on to that you have Parish's lapdog Bob Mackey cucking out at every opportunity he gets.
>They have almost 3,000 people donating over $12,000 a month for it so I would say they must be doing something right
Stockholm syndrome fans of when Retronauts was listenable in the 1up days and simp for them now whenever people leave a negative review on itunes about them.

>>6978394
He never said the games were, you didn't even watch the clips you're so desperately reposting.

>>6978398
I did; he was. If he wasn't, why was he just randomly talking about it then?

>>6978403
Where did he say Mr Driller was racist and sexist?

>>6974342
>He's not a YouTuber, he is a gaming journalist
In other words, he's bottom-tier, worse than youtubers.

>>6978407
In the Mr Driller webm you can very clearly see him call gamers misogynists and full of "angry masculinity" and blaming it for people not playing the game.
In the Double Dragon one he's going on some weird rant about gang violence in the USA and how much America sucks.
There's also the above mention where he called a game developed by Yuji Naka evil. Since I don't listen to Retronauts I can't give you a direct citation, but I'm sure some other anon can.

>He is covering every game released in NA for NES and other systems in his Works whenever he gets bored of playing some early shovelware game in an effort to escape the fact that playing every fucking NES game is stupid waste of time no one cares about
ftfy
>>6978416
Don't forget he thinks Halo borrowed the regenerating shield from MM Legends.

>>6975039
>Most of you don't even know who he is
If we didn't know who he is then we wouldn't be calling out his inaccurate horseshit or his stupid effeminate political behavior.

>>6978419
A lot of games borrow from previous games.

>>6978428
Shields were used in the game Marathon which was a series of Mac FPS games developed by Bungie. It wouldn't have been new to the developer at all, and the Marathon games came out BEFORE MML.

>>6978430
It's still an element that Halo borrows from Megaman Legends

>>6978431
No, it's an element that it borrows from Marathon, which was a game developed from the same studio. It has nothing at all to do with MML.

>>6978428
Doesn't invalidate Parcuck being wrong about Halo specifically taking influence from Legends. Unless he can cite where that's been said, in likelihood Bungie got the idea themselves after playtesting and trying adjust an FPS for playing on console.

Parish has, and always will be, a faggot.
>>6978431
Jeremy, learn to read or get better b8

>muh politics

Why do Americans feel the need to make everything about extremes or "SJW" propaganda or whatever? Fuck off and stop shitting up the board with uneducated political stances that are formed purely by memes.

>>6978432
Even dumber is that Parish is a lifelong macfag and somehow he can't even put that together.

>>6978441
>>6978434
You skipped a page

>>6978435
I dunno, it worked well enough to get Donald Trump elected and will get long-term gamer Kanye elected

>>6978446
oops

>>6978432
>>6978434
Sounds like you guys need to learn to read. You sound like the same sort of posters who post up those images and go "UM ACKTUALLY NINTENDO DIDN'T INVENT ANYTHING OTHER THING EXISTED FIRST".

>>6978450
Unless we're living in some weird universe where MML came out before Marathon it's far more likely any elements in Halo were borrowed from a previously developed game.

>>6978450
>Sounds like you guys need to learn to read. So instead challenging your claims about some dude's assertion about game, I'll strawman
Alright, it's obvious this is Bob.

>>6978451
Megaman Legends was a previously developed game.

>>6978457
>Megaman Legends was a previously developed game.
Not by Bungie, and after Marathon came out, which was made Bungie, the makers of Halo, and before that Marathon in 1994. Legends came out in 1997, and was made by Capcom. Legends was not made by Bungie.

Try again Bob.

>>6978457
It wasn't a game developed by Bungie, which had developed the Marathon games and would go on to develop Halo. Now, if the elements common to both Halo AND Marathon could be derived from another game (aside from the popularizers of the genre that would have been DOOM, Wolf3D and Duke Nukem) that would be interesting, but it sure as shit wouldn't have been MML.

>>6978460
>>6978463
The people who made Halo didn't live in a bubble where only Marathon existed.

So is this thread the last means of Parish and his gaggle of faggots trying to shill their shit here now that Retrocucks in behind a paywall?
>>6978471
No, they were in a rapidly expanding industry where people were influenced by things that other people weren't aware of. Bungie were primarily a mac and PC developer before Halo, and were more entrenched in that sector of the industry than whatever came out on consoles. And MML wasn't the first game with regenerating shields.

Bob, please stay on Twitter.

>>6978471
It's true, they didn't, but it's far more likely that they would have carried forth elements from the previous games that they had developed instead of some other game from another developer. Now, as I have said, if you can identify elements in Halo that were directly from MML (and OTHER games, especially in the FPS genre, came out between Marathon and Halo), that would be interesting, but the same shield stuff was in Marathon, which had been developed by the same studio in the mid 90s; if we're taking this tack of argument, then naturally, it would be more likely that MML took the ability from Marathon, and not the other way around since, after all, it was developed and released later.
(I consider this to be highly unlikely and more likely Capcom took it from other games that had been developed by Capcom, but whatever; regenerating shields aren't exactly a rare trope in vidya.)

I feel like none of you people know what a metaphor is and are being stupid about someone using "borrow" in the same sense as "is also like".

Seeing as how Marathon predates MML by like 3 years, it's obvious Capcom stole it from Bungie.

>>6978485
No, borrow means borrow. To say something is like something is to say something is like something.

>>6978485
>are being stupid about someone using "borrow" in the same sense as "is also like".
No, being stupid is not knowing how to talk like Parish. Borrow != is like.

>>6978491
>>6978498
>American education in action

>>6978519
>borrow and is like are synonyms
American education in action.

>>6978521
but how does it end?

>Jeremy Parish
this motherfucker just can't stop talking about politics in his videogame podcasts, he always finds a way to shove them in there

>>6978562
Or maybe you just think everything is politics.

>>6978571
>cope
yikes

>Complaining about politics
I mean that's how one should look at medium and the time it was made when you are going to look back on media. Every book, movie, tv show, radio drama, ect. when you go into a deeper dive into those medium you talk about the medium surrounding it and culture of it's creation.

>>6974773

The episode on the making of the 16 bit Castlevanas was legit amazing.

>>6978364
He's right about the gun use though. In a Japanese game, a villain using a gun in a fist fight is seen as dirty and underhanded, but to an American audience? He's well within his rights to defend himself with a gun if he chooses. No politics, just different social mores.
Dumbass.

>>6974773
I had avoided Splash Wave all this time because the one episode I saw had an insufferable host. Glad to know it's not all that one guy, I'll check out more!

This old boomer needs to fuck off.

Most retro research is bullshit. The real hard pill to swallow is the majority of atari games were, in fact, not made by the programmers credited. Most were farmed out to japan by the "creators" where they could ultimately take all the credit stateside. That and pacman and dk clones had nothing to do with the videogame crash but more to do with paying celebrity directors/producers to create bullshit games that no one wanted to play.

>>6980013

Some examples of this?

>>6980068
Talk to old employees of Orca, Sun Electronics and TOSE. Be sure to get them nice and drunk and they’ll spill their guts.

>>6980013
This is a pretty major allegation, if I'm remembering my early retro history correctly. Do you actually have any proof? If so, now would be a good time to post it.

>>6978519
Diverting a topic into an argument of definitions isn't an example of education, it's shameless academic trolling.

Publicly stating one game derived it's mechanics from an unrelated game based solely on their similarities is useless conjecture and a waste of everybody's time.
Backpeddling from that statement by trying to change the definition of the word Borrowing is pathetic and desperate.
And constantly spamming This Youtube podcaster from the Nursery country isn't going to merit him any sliver of credibility.

>>6978416
why are you seething so hard about this? are you going to cry, tripfag?

>>6973276
Fuck this numale

>>6981284
Go back to guzzling nigger cum. Degenerates ruining modern games is enough.

Aside from the politics, Retronauts anti-Sega bias is inexcusable.

>>6981284
"seething"
pointing out how much his politics infects everything else he talks about isn't "seething" it's pointing out how full of bullshit he is

Shane and Ray were the reason to listen to Retronauts back in the 1up days, these days it is a shadow of its former self, however profitable.

>>6973276
What you listed is not "academic research". It's "research" only in the sense that it fits the literal definition, which research is, by its very definition, doing a investigation or experiment of materials and sources in order to draw new facts or conclusions and that is already a high bar that in my mind, nothing other than historical study of retro gaming out of what retro gaming is warrants having this definition apply.
Academic research has a proper definition, which involved educational institutions like universities most of the time. You can not string the fact that the research in retro gaming is academic in some sense where it is scholarly or done in a similar manner as a university to say it's academic research. The key differentiator between regular old research and academic research is the fact that peer review is a key factor and differentiator which academia has built one of its foundations for how research is done. Whatever is done here technically is creation of sources of information at best, usually secondary, which can later be used as research.

Even if you want to call it academic research, it has to meet criteria. First off, what institution that has any credibility or interest want to partner up with the people mentioned or people involved in this field? Universities don't have anything for retro gaming in their history departments, But let's assume an institution is interested. Then the question becomes how does the research get funding for practical and credibility purposes? Academia in general these days as it pertains to research only care about things that will net the institutions and individuals grants and funding from mostly governments and industry. And there, these sources want research in cutting edge topics and history let alone retro gaming is not that. So there's no way to really get funding practically for this at all. And the question of peer review... Very easy to see why it's not academic research per definition.