In Donkey Kong Bananza™, you'll be shocked by a surprise team-up between DK and the most unlikely of characters… none other than Muddy Mole from Mole Mania for the Game Boy! The two brown beasts combine their digging skills to mine the Golden Bananas and the Crystal Cabbages!
The degree to which this really is just "ElecHead 2" musically and mechanically is kind of cute, although the central mechanic is pretty distinct and (insofar as the demo) emphasies a lot more slow planning and tense execution.
https://namatakahashi.itch.io/oo – Playing the öoo demo. It took 35 years, but humanity has one-upped the Yoshi bongos in Super Mario World.
Just started up a clean new file of Betterified VI: Bestified and within about 3 minutes I'd already found a new area I'd never seen before in my entire previous playthrough
Also thinking about how you essentially need a downloader like yt-dlp, and an MP4 video player that can zoom to "100%" to even watch it in this resolution at all.
Was watching "Can't Beat Airman (Team Neko-kan version)" from 2007 (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm542936), and thinking about how good the pixel art looks when it isn't being stretched from 360p into a goopy artifact mess by uncaring video hosts.
I was worried reading through Blue Prince forum threads would make me want to play the game, but all of them are like "Finally got the Atrium", "Can't figure out the Scullery", "Spoilers for the Boudoir", "the Inglenook is blowing my mind", "Anyone else got the Vomitorium"
About as funny as when hard mode of Kirby's Dream Land causes the gentle falling foreground stars in level 4 to inexplicably do damage as well.
"What if the purely visual glowy sparks in this joke boss fight in the first level actually did damage though" in Dynamite Headdy is such a funny US localisation difficulty increase decision.
I JUST HAD TO DIG UP ONE SPECIFIC FILE FROM A HARD DRIVE FROM 2019 NOOOOOOOOOOO
People playing on emulator years after the release won't understand what it was really like at the time, but those of us who played it as children know the truth: Super Mario Land 1 really is Mario's blurriest adventure ever.