Chris Kohler

@wes.readonlymemo.com at the Game History panel yesterday:

- Okay, now, show of hands, who out there owns or has used a laserdisc player before?

[show of hands]

- Ha ha, okay, definitely that kind of crowd, wow. Now, who out there owns a Pioneer LaserActive?

[show of hands]

- Chris Kohler. ok

"Whoops, sorry — although I told you that I was holding RESET when I turned the power off, I actually didn't do that. My apologies."

> LOOK IN WELL
"There's an amazing cave at the bottom of the well. There's some guy in a hut, a few treasure chests, and what looks like an herb or two!"
> ENTER WELL
"Sorry, I was mistaken. There is no cave at the bottom of the well."

Watching a demo of how you can turn every NPC in your RPG town into somebody who says "That's right — you *are* the four LIGHT WARRIORS. You make a great point! The bridge to the main continent *does* need to be repaired, and you're just the person to do it."

Tons of Boss Fight Books at the GDC bookstore this year!

Microsoft brought out some Xbox prototypes for their 25th anniversary GDC booth:

Some personal news: Proud to announce that I have spent five dollars to acquire the Nintendo Fun Club membership card of someone named Larry J. Love

Some personal news: Proud to announce that I have spent five dollars to acquire the Nintendo Fun Club membership card of someone named Larry J. Love

Not going to heart this post and mess up the beautiful number

Ding ding ding

Easy - best curry in the entire country is Nippon Curry in the Marina, which is an offshoot of the Grand Prix-winning Hinoya Curry!

Curry Hyuga is also extremely good.

Haven't been in a while but Max's was always great for a Big Slice Of Cake www.maxsoperasf.com

Got ending E last night. Just capping off this thread officially. What an absolute masterpiece! This is why I love videogaming

PlaySFMOMA: The MIX Indie Games Gallery Play games and hang out with some of the best creative minds in the industry at this indie games pop-up arcade.

GDC attendees (and others in the Bay!)

@digitaleclipse.bsky.social will be showing some of our interactive documentary games at SFMOMA on Thursday and Friday, the 12th and 13th! Requires museum admission, which I believe is discounted if you have a GDC badge.

www.sfmoma.org/event/playsf...

when you knew the book was gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

PlaySFMOMA: Developer Dialogues James Lewis, director of ID@Xbox's Developer Acceleration Program, presents a program of one-on-one conversations that explores the innovation, artistry, and craftsmanship of games industry experts.

Also, I'll be part of this theater presentation with many other developers on Thursday night, which is free to attend!

www.sfmoma.org/event/playsf...

PlaySFMOMA: The MIX Indie Games Gallery Play games and hang out with some of the best creative minds in the industry at this indie games pop-up arcade.

GDC attendees (and others in the Bay!)

@digitaleclipse.bsky.social will be showing some of our interactive documentary games at SFMOMA on Thursday and Friday, the 12th and 13th! Requires museum admission, which I believe is discounted if you have a GDC badge.

www.sfmoma.org/event/playsf...

ebay listing for the book "WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU HIT RETURN/ P.C.C.'s 1st Book of Computer Games - Vintage" but it's clearly just a stack of bad photocopies

"This is the original oversized newsprint/folio edition. It is currently unbound (loose sheets) as is common for this 50-year-old fragile publication"

it's a stack of photocopies lol recycle it

you should hear her definition of habeas corpus!

I'll be in the Q&A session!

one of us

best MAR10 Day ever

Nintendo Insider: Uncle Scrooge, Chip, Dale, Baloo, Darkwing Duck, Goofy, and Bonkers. Which of these heroes do you think could best handle a Level 10 Spicy curry at Coco Ichiban Curry? Who’s settling for sweet? Chris Kohler: I’ve been to Coco Ichibanya a lot but I’ve only ever seen someone legitimately eat a Level 10 one time, and when they brought the plate out it looked like staring into the caldera of an active volcano. I would not wish it on anyone, but since the Hot Sauce item in Bonkers causes him to comically blow steam out of his ears and gives him temporary invincibility, I feel he could handle it the best.

I appreciate when a reporter does their homework beforehand.

www.nintendo-insider.com/goof-troop-n...

1994 advertisement indicating the the company formerly known as "STD" has changed its name to Interact Game Products, for some reason

Cool, why did you change it

This is a fascinating, unguarded conversation between a young Miyamoto and Itoi, just poised on the edge of the future in 1989 and excited about what was to come.

Yes.

Title: "Unprepared for a Regrettable Luncheon! (With apologies to Kelly)" In the visual style of famed The Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, Superintendent Chalmers is having lunch with Principal Skinner, who is menacingly placing a tray of hamburgers and fries upon the table, which greatly upsets Chalmers. Beneath one of the hamburgers is a wrapper bearing the text "Obviously grilled fast food". Chalmers [labelled as "Disappointed guests"]: "B-but... I thought we were having steamed CLAMS!!" Skinner [labelled as "Isometric exercising* odd fellows" - the asterisk refers to a footnote reading "Latest fad"]: "Oh, no, I made STEAMED HAMS™®! ©1996 Skinner family All rights reserved" From within the clouds of smoke billowing from Skinner's kitchen (wherein an American flag can be seen burning) three heavenly beings gaze upon the scene disapprovingly: A pig labelled "Actual hams", Krusty the clown, labelled "Hard-working patent-holders", and a teenaged fry-cook labelled "Ignored sandwich artists". Lady Liberty peeks in the door and sheds a sad tear at this woeful scene. Kelly's obligatory artist cameo has him disgruntledly commenting "Seymour-a bore-e-malice."

Steamed Hams but it's a Kelly comic

(Yup that's right I still make "Steamed Hams but..." memes)
#simpsons #kelly #steamedhams

Certainly it helped, during that interview, that I had actually played the first game and had a lot of thoughts about it that informed my questions, which in turn elicited thoughtful responses, but I had no idea until now how impactful that exchange had been.

Almost 11 years have passed since this interview, but of course it all sticks out in my mind.

Yoko's description during our interview of other games being a "steak" but Nier being a "teishoku" will never leave my brain. I thought about this all through my playthrough.

With a game as rule-breaking as Nier, ideas might come at any moment. When Saito mentions that Platinum Games wants the new title to run at 60 frames per second, Yoko picks up his phone and starts typing out a note. "It would be great to have the game function at 60 frames per second, but that's not an absolute must," Yoko says a minute later. "But through that conversation we were having a moment ago, I thought it might be interesting to have a boss battle where a certain attack he does might drop the framerate ridiculously low." Or maybe, he said, the boss would cause the game's display resolution to drop unexpectedly. Yoko noted this on his phone, too.

So now that I'm (almost) done I went back today to read the interview

-- which, again, was two years prior to the game coming out, so nobody knew ANYTHING about what this game would entail --

and my eyes went wide when I saw Yoko working out a major game feature IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR INTERVIEW: