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@kobunheat

Editorial Director preserving video game history. co-host, former editor. Books: 日本語オッケー 🍛

San Francisco, CA
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Joined January 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Jul 2020

    Beyond thrilled to say that today is my first day as Editorial Director at Digital Eclipse.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Oh nice, Nina made a plush of me

    I got to design a Servbot plush!!! It's POSEABLE and comes with a little plush CURRY, you're gonna LOVE it
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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 20

    That means the meme I made at Nintendo Gamer is finally relevant again

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  4. Sep 20

    we've noticed you like wasting money on extremely dumb expensive shit

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  5. Sep 20

    eBay's algorithm is almost too good

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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 19

    丁度4年前、レトロゲーム資料展示会を開催したのだけど、その際展示してたお色直しドリキャス。。。暗所保管で4年後の姿です。😅

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 19

    Get in the Famiclone, Shinji

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 19

    The 8-bit cartridge yokai blows on _you_, folks.

    Thank you for commission!
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  9. Sep 19

    I once sat in a demo of a new Sonic game where the presenter started out by assuring us all that they had learned their lesson and this game would feature the classic Sonic action that everybody wanted. Three minutes later we were being introduced to something called a "werehog"

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  10. Sep 19

    ah yes, the complete trilogy

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  11. Sep 19

    Got VERY excited at the flea market for one second. (They're fakes.)

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  12. Sep 18

    (BTW, I highly recommend being photographed for GQ Japan at some point if you can because then you can occasionally mention to your wife that she married a GQ model)

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  13. Sep 18

    Being at the start of the actual Japanese curry boom in the US: it's exciting!

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  14. Sep 18

    I'm especially happy to see the narrative changing from "what's Japanese curry?" to "oh, you think you know Japanese curry? Well, check THIS out"

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  15. Sep 18

    Back when I was in GQ Japan (see photographic evidence below), I expressed my hope that a "Japanese curry boom" would happen in the US at some point. A couple of days ago, that phrase appeared in the SF Chronicle:

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  16. Sep 17

    This is another "sharing because I want it to be true" moment. Obviously I'd immediately bump up our NSO family plan to whatever the top tier is if that meant N64 games too! Especially if they have the Mario 64 style enhancements.

    Here's why folks think Nintendo might be bringing N64 to Switch:
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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 17

    Heads up: We're trying to digitally preserve SEVENTY prototype cartridges for the Neo Geo Pocket, including at least two unreleased games, but I don't think our very generous sniper bid is going to cut it. Tweeting to see if any big NGP fans with deep pockets want to throw down.

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  18. Sep 17

    My teacher used Pac-Man which in retrospect may explain a great deal

    I'm writing my PhD thesis in theoretical physics and every time I have to decide between using > and < I think to myself "the crocodile wants to eat the bigger number"
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  19. Sep 16

    Looks like this tweet inspired some news coverage!

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  20. Sep 16

    The VOICES, yes. But the FACES, extraordinary.

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    diff celebs meeting ur dog 🐶
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    Sep 16

    Due to the plot of WarioWare: Get It Together involving multiple nested games within games, it is possible at one point during its story mode to play a game within a game within a game within a game within a game. Details in image.

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