Notices by "Critical Kate" Willaert (katewillaert@mastodon.social)

Also, was anyone excited to see this glimpse of freshy digitized Wild Gunman footage? Maybe I was too subtle about this stuff.
https://www.acriticalhit.com/hidden-influences-mario-how-popeye-game-became-donkey-kong

Random related thought, for you tabletop folks out there:

Has anyone ever done a dive into which D&D modules most likely inspired specific early CRPGs? Cuz I'd find that fascinating. I think the only one we know for sure is a custom one called Mirkwood Tales inspiring Adventure.

I vaguely remember when I was a kid once being shown some computer game that was a simple top-down dungeon crawl where the goal was to find the stairs to the next floor (up or down, I can't recall). But I couldn't tell you what year, what kind of computer, or what it looked like.