Sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve been busy with other things. A preview of my next video is available on Patreon, though. The full video will be out on Sunday!
My next video is about a topic literally no one else but me would ever want to cover, but when you see what it is, you’ll wonder why no one else ever made a video about it. It’s about something I’m sure a lot of you are partially aware of from maybe hearing it offhandedly mentioned before, but no one has ever bothered to look more into. This picture may or may not be related.
Just a few days after I uploaded this video, a new interview with some of the developers behind Fantasy Zone came out to commemorate its 40th anniversary confirming that Yoko Kobayashi, character designer of Alex Kidd and Teddy Boy, also designed the character of Opa-Opa, meaning she designed two of Sega’s pre-Sonic the Hedgehog mascots.
Also, it’s confirmed what became of Masa Ikegami. According to Seiichi Satou, a fellow Namco designer who worked with him, during the development of a military themed shooting game called Cheyenne, Ikegami left to pursue his dream of crossing Africa by motorcycle, and when he came back to Japan, he quit Namco and disappeared, and Cheyenne was in the hands of Masanobu Endou, who turned it into Xevious.
Also, some corrections, Hiroshi Ono did not do art for Dig Dug by himself. The Dig Dug promotional art was drawn by Mayumi Akayama, and the enemies were designed by Atsuko Sugisaki.
Thanks to @mightm2 and @23Scadu for bringing this information to my attention in the comments!
My next video is actually taking me a little longer to write and I won’t be able to record on the day I usually record, so It’ll likely come out around the 2nd or the 3rd, which is perfect considering the subject matter…
It has 4 segments, and these pictures relate to each of them.
Can you figure out what the topic of the video is? It’s sort of a sequel to a video I did last year.
My next video will be about mysterious video game creators, including:
- The co-creator of one of the most popular Golden Age arcade games, who seemingly only ever made this one game, and potentially worked on another well known game by the same company. - Probably one of the most infamous examples of a mysterious video game creator. - The extremely elusive creator of an unpopular mascot character who was dealt a bad hand. - A director of a few games in a popular franchise who seemingly, outside of one game, only worked on this one franchise and disappeared.
This is the most passionate I’ve ever been about one of my videos. I went through so much trouble trying to get it made. I have been wanting to make this video for almost a year at this point and I went through a lot of trouble making it from accidentally deleting it while trying to save it and trying to save space on my hard drive. Regardless of anything, I’m very dead set on spreading the word about these games, and have gone through a lot of trouble to try to do so. Thank you all for watching! See you Monday!
My next video is one I teased in one of my earliest videos this year. It’s about a trilogy of games, the first of which was the developer’s first, the second of which had one home port with a shocking amount of bonus content including a fan art gallery, and the third one was made by a different company who bought the rights and isn’t very good.
After that, I’m hoping to go right ahead and release the video I wanted to release today later in June, but we’ll see.
In the meantime, I’d love to hear any suggestions you may have!
I accidentally deleted the video I was working on.
I’m pretty devastated considering it was an 80 minute recording for a video that was probably going to wind up being around 45 minutes long and I was over halfway through editing it, but I’m willing to move past this. Basically, those who’ve been following my Patreon, know I’ve been having hard drive troubles with my laptop I’ve been using to edit videos on for years no matter what I do to try to fix it and despite getting a new computer this year, I’ve been stubbornly sticking to editing on this laptop because I don’t want to take the time to switch to another editing software and relearn it, especially since I know that would risk causing my video quality to go downhill, but this situation has convinced me that at some point I’ll need to do that. Because this video contained over an hour of footage from 2 separate games, it took a toll on my hard drive and I was running out of space to keep editing the video and while I was clearing out space, trying to get rid of any old garbage files, I somehow managed to delete the entire video and all of its contents.
That’s right: I deleted the video in my attempt to salvage it.
I’m fairly good at preserving my stuff AFTER I’m done with it, but this was a case where I got unlucky. It is COMPLETELY gone and I didn’t even realize I did this until after I did it. This has never happened to me in my 2 1/2 years of doing this and I never thought it could.
Thankfully, I’ve managed to save the first 14 minutes, which can be viewed on Patreon, the game footage, and most of the script, so it wouldn’t be that hard to reconstruct it, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth and I’d rather just move on to something else. This is absolutely a video I still want to make at some point and have been wanting to do for almost a year with it always being pretty high up there on my passion project priority list, but I’m putting it off for now. I’ll do a few more less ambitious (read: not including nearly 3 hours worth of game footage) videos throughout the summer, and then I’ll probably take most of August and September off to learn a new editing software.
I’ll be taking a short break and come back with something different sometime in June. This isn’t even an attempt to shill my Patreon, as I don’t really care too much for doing that and already had it up there before all of this happened, but if you really want to see what the first 14 minutes of the video would’ve been like, I posted it there.
TLDR: I accidentally permanently deleted the video in an attempt to save it, and will have to redo over 2/3 of it and don’t feel like doing that now, so I’m going to move on to something different and less ambitious.
The Sunshine Feeler
Sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve been busy with other things. A preview of my next video is available on Patreon, though. The full video will be out on Sunday!
www.patreon.com/posts/163711338
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Thank you all for watching the new video!
https://youtu.be/ITpA_dBfp1A?is=S7Pd5...
My next video is about a topic literally no one else but me would ever want to cover, but when you see what it is, you’ll wonder why no one else ever made a video about it. It’s about something I’m sure a lot of you are partially aware of from maybe hearing it offhandedly mentioned before, but no one has ever bothered to look more into. This picture may or may not be related.
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UPDATE TO THE MYSTERIOUS CREATORS VIDEO:
Just a few days after I uploaded this video, a new interview with some of the developers behind Fantasy Zone came out to commemorate its 40th anniversary confirming that Yoko Kobayashi, character designer of Alex Kidd and Teddy Boy, also designed the character of Opa-Opa, meaning she designed two of Sega’s pre-Sonic the Hedgehog mascots.
Also, it’s confirmed what became of Masa Ikegami. According to Seiichi Satou, a fellow Namco designer who worked with him, during the development of a military themed shooting game called Cheyenne, Ikegami left to pursue his dream of crossing Africa by motorcycle, and when he came back to Japan, he quit Namco and disappeared, and Cheyenne was in the hands of Masanobu Endou, who turned it into Xevious.
Also, some corrections, Hiroshi Ono did not do art for Dig Dug by himself. The Dig Dug promotional art was drawn by Mayumi Akayama, and the enemies were designed by Atsuko Sugisaki.
Thanks to @mightm2 and @23Scadu for bringing this information to my attention in the comments!
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NEW VIDEO in case you missed it:
https://youtu.be/cSB40q_xitQ?si=8pgNW...
My next video is actually taking me a little longer to write and I won’t be able to record on the day I usually record, so It’ll likely come out around the 2nd or the 3rd, which is perfect considering the subject matter…
It has 4 segments, and these pictures relate to each of them.
Can you figure out what the topic of the video is? It’s sort of a sequel to a video I did last year.
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Thank you to everyone who watched the GunHed+Nac video! https://youtu.be/Jz32tBI9u6A?is=JgvI4...
My next video will be about mysterious video game creators, including:
- The co-creator of one of the most popular Golden Age arcade games, who seemingly only ever made this one game, and potentially worked on another well known game by the same company.
- Probably one of the most infamous examples of a mysterious video game creator.
- The extremely elusive creator of an unpopular mascot character who was dealt a bad hand.
- A director of a few games in a popular franchise who seemingly, outside of one game, only worked on this one franchise and disappeared.
Can you guess what I’ll be talking about?
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NEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Jz32tBI9u6A?si=byLJ4...
Which half of the video did you prefer?
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This is the most passionate I’ve ever been about one of my videos. I went through so much trouble trying to get it made. I have been wanting to make this video for almost a year at this point and I went through a lot of trouble making it from accidentally deleting it while trying to save it and trying to save space on my hard drive. Regardless of anything, I’m very dead set on spreading the word about these games, and have gone through a lot of trouble to try to do so. Thank you all for watching! See you Monday!
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My next video is one I teased in one of my earliest videos this year. It’s about a trilogy of games, the first of which was the developer’s first, the second of which had one home port with a shocking amount of bonus content including a fan art gallery, and the third one was made by a different company who bought the rights and isn’t very good.
After that, I’m hoping to go right ahead and release the video I wanted to release today later in June, but we’ll see.
In the meantime, I’d love to hear any suggestions you may have!
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I never wanted to make a post like this but:
I accidentally deleted the video I was working on.
I’m pretty devastated considering it was an 80 minute recording for a video that was probably going to wind up being around 45 minutes long and I was over halfway through editing it, but I’m willing to move past this. Basically, those who’ve been following my Patreon, know I’ve been having hard drive troubles with my laptop I’ve been using to edit videos on for years no matter what I do to try to fix it and despite getting a new computer this year, I’ve been stubbornly sticking to editing on this laptop because I don’t want to take the time to switch to another editing software and relearn it, especially since I know that would risk causing my video quality to go downhill, but this situation has convinced me that at some point I’ll need to do that. Because this video contained over an hour of footage from 2 separate games, it took a toll on my hard drive and I was running out of space to keep editing the video and while I was clearing out space, trying to get rid of any old garbage files, I somehow managed to delete the entire video and all of its contents.
That’s right: I deleted the video in my attempt to salvage it.
I’m fairly good at preserving my stuff AFTER I’m done with it, but this was a case where I got unlucky. It is COMPLETELY gone and I didn’t even realize I did this until after I did it. This has never happened to me in my 2 1/2 years of doing this and I never thought it could.
Thankfully, I’ve managed to save the first 14 minutes, which can be viewed on Patreon, the game footage, and most of the script, so it wouldn’t be that hard to reconstruct it, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth and I’d rather just move on to something else. This is absolutely a video I still want to make at some point and have been wanting to do for almost a year with it always being pretty high up there on my passion project priority list, but I’m putting it off for now. I’ll do a few more less ambitious (read: not including nearly 3 hours worth of game footage) videos throughout the summer, and then I’ll probably take most of August and September off to learn a new editing software.
I’ll be taking a short break and come back with something different sometime in June. This isn’t even an attempt to shill my Patreon, as I don’t really care too much for doing that and already had it up there before all of this happened, but if you really want to see what the first 14 minutes of the video would’ve been like, I posted it there.
TLDR: I accidentally permanently deleted the video in an attempt to save it, and will have to redo over 2/3 of it and don’t feel like doing that now, so I’m going to move on to something different and less ambitious.
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