Frank Cifaldi (haunted).nes’s Tweets

Desert Bus was part of an unreleased Sega CD game, Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. A copy of it was anonymously mailed to me way back in 2005 and I put up a torrent because I do that kinda thing. I never would have predicted

@DesertBus

in a million years.

It's so cool to see "Desert Bus" inspiring a political game, after it had already helped raised millions for charity. I played a tiny part in that game's story in that I leaked it online, I love to point at it as an example of how you never know when a game will matter to people.

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joel fowler

@freemagic

Hey! @lanewinfield built a game to simulate the 23 hour drive South Texans will have to endure for healthcare to raise money for @FundTexasChoice and it kicks off tomorrow! abortionbus.org

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Lol I guess it is huh

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Princescyther

@Princescyther06

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Is it not the kid from Coco?

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Oh yeah my glasses actually fitting was a big part of the decision

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SR388

@Krynis

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your glasses make it imo.

I bought this $5 mask for a Halloween party because I thought it was cute and funny but now I'm getting more of a Gotham City serial killer vibe

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Oct 28

Why does "Mary Shelly" get a Frankenstein I want a Frankenstein

Oct 24

Here's the one I handled in the past, you can literally see the chunks of data that are physically missing. I managed to get what was still on there digitized but it was very crashy.

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Oct 26, 2015

Here's the only known copy of Prize Fighter for the Saturn! And here's the gaping hole that makes it a coaster.

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This is a huge relief. I've encountered a handful of pre-production games that were damaged beyond repair, but Saturn Prize Fighter is the only one that might have been one-of-a-kind. Thrilled that another source was found and that the data is preserved and playable.

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Todd Dammit

@ToddDangit

Oct 23

Went through some backup assets a friend has and we found the unreleased full retail version of Prize Fighter for Sega Saturn that matches the mythical damaged 3/25/96 gold master that @frankcifaldi has. Took a little work but it's 100% playable. youtube.com/watch?v=Foen3x

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Boomerang stick is my favorite. The animation of him throwing it is really wild and if you're really good you can jump over it as it returns to you and it'll hit the guys behind you. Hard to master but well worth it.

When you upgrade your stick it's like the Arkham games, the camera pans in front of his face as he stares at the stick in his mouth, tilting it gently back and forth to study it, doing this forever until you press a button

IMO he curls up and rotates while he jumps like Sonic but with the stick poking out. The attack animation for swinging has way too many frames and a long cooldown because he's not in control of his body, he swings wildly and sometimes is facing the other way when it's done.

How many indie devs are prototyping a game about this dog right now

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Heckin Good Dogs

@HeckinGoodDogs

What a good boi!

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Frank Cifaldi (haunted).nes Retweeted

I would watch a two-hour documentary about this

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No-Intro

@nointro_org

Revised versions of these games are likely the last unpreserved SNES carts: Mortal Kombat (EU) Derby Stallion II (JP) Igo Club (JP) Please retweet, and if you own any of these, send a photo of the back-of-cart stamp and (if possible) the circuit board!

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I knew this already, because I found reference to it in...this giant 3" binder that Nintendo sent to U.S. Customs to prevent bootlegs from coming in at the border. I dig, man, I'm a lost games bloodhound.

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Oh and there's a lot in there that's not generally known outside of, uh, me. Did you know Data East had a Karnov 2?? It was never formally announced but the fact that it has a product ID tells me it was a serious product that they started submission on.

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These are kind of inconsequential details at the end of the day but when you've been studying something for literally twenty years, telling yourself you'll get it all in a book someday, anything new is revitalizing. IDK, humor me ok

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Something that was absolutely brand new to me is that HAL was bringing over Eggerland, complete with the original title. The series history is complicated but our first Lolo is sort of a combination of this and another Eggerland game (plus, you know, he's Lolo now).

I knew of the existence of Capcom's "Play Isle," but didn't know what it was. Now that I have the product ID, I can confirm it was a localization of Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru - aka Yo Noid, before they added the Noid. We didn't know they'd planned this here before now!

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What's really interesting about this order form is that it appears to be every third party game ever submitted to Nintendo to that point, released or not. And, on top of that, it provides Nintendo's internal product codes, which we didn't have before for many of these lost games.

So this was an order form for those little cards you used to see at toy stores, where you'd see the game boxes without actually handling the games. Personally I remember them being at Toys R Us. (art:

@mudron

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It's getting pretty rare for me to find new primary source material as I research unreleased games from the NES era, so when I found a couple tiny new things on this ancient Vidpro order form, I got a l'il unreasonably excited. I'll explain! scribd.com/document/60188

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If you pledged, wait until you hear from me before you send anything...we might not need any help on this one! We had an offer from someone to buy it at-cost, which is really exciting. Free ROM!

Thanks to your pledges, we got one of them! Still working on this, give me a minute, I'll have the ROM and its story online soon. Napoleon is TBD, we didn't win it but I haven't spoken to the winner yet to know what their plans are.

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I played all the Arkham games to death and the current book I am reading is, I'm not making this up, an academic critical analysis of a particular run of the Batman comics, and I have zero interest in this game, so I'm really curious to hear if it ends up doing anything!

I am failing to imagine someone at Target impulse buying a $60 Batman game that doesn't have Batman in it, like I barely know who these characters are, I think one of them is Deadpool?

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If you told 12-year-old me that I'd live to see all these things combined together one day I'd sip my juice box and call you a liar

Our librarian Phil has an ongoing thread today answer your questions about our jobs at

@GameHistoryOrg

! Go ask him something super hard, make him sweat!

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Phil Salvador

@itstheshadsy

Hello! I'm the library director/archivist at @GameHistoryOrg, where we're changing the future of video gaming's past. I'm working from home today but happy to answer questions about what I do here!

#AskAnArchivistDay

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I woke up to so many DMs, it's like Twitter Christmas on my phone! I promise I'll get back to you all today. The support we've seen for these has been surprising, I'm so glad that so many of you understand the importance of items like these

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Ok we have a system that's going well so I'll give explicit instructions: If you'd like to throw down, DM me the amount you're able to give and I'll add you to the list. If I win one or both I'll hit you up after the fact. We're over $4k already!

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Let me be clear since there's some confusion: I'm looking for PLEDGES as I'm privately fundraising toward these. I've already gotten pledges from people and I'm trying to get it as high as I can. I'd hit you up if I ended up winning one or both, basically.

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I don't know what price to expect on these but in my experience we are in the thousands here. If you've got the cash to spare and want to see these, my DMs are open. We can also discuss tax-deductible options if you're in the U.S. and want to donate to VGHF for this purpose.

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The other is less complete, but maybe more interesting. It's a demo game specifically for the Power Glove, and it was developed by Rare! Everyone loves the Power Glove, but did you know there's only one released game that actually takes advantage of it? Well, here's a second!

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Both of these are really cool. The first one, Battlefields of Napoleon, is a completed game. And when I say "completed," I mean the packaging is done! It comes with the actual files that would be mailed to Nintendo for printing! Using these we can make perfect digital versions.

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Normally

@GameHistoryOrg

would be in a "preserve them and figure it out later" situation money-wise but it's been kind of a rough year. We're healthy and happy but not at a "continue throwing thousands at prototypes when they show up" level.

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🚨Attention video game preservation fans with money to spare🚨 There are currently TWO unreleased, one-of-a-kind, never-digitized games for the original NES on eBay right now. This has literally never happened before. Our resources are stretched thin, and we could use help.

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anyway gene is being taken out of context here, he's not the weird old person I'm joking about fyi so uh, don't think that about him specifically

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(I own three RGB monitors and a hideous amount of modded consoles fyi, I like that stuff, I just don't think my expensive hobby is inherently better than playing a ROM on a laptop)

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