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Sean Baby
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Sean Baby writes Seanbaby.com, a personal blog at seanbaby.com about games, culture and writing. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Sean Baby's pages on classic video games, mainly Atari 2600 games and NES games, including a list of NES titles that carried Nintendo's seal of approval. Comments cite them as examples only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Seanbaby.com - Still The Rad-To-The-Maxest Site on the Internet.
What Hacker News says?
Re-making old games used to be more common I think: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm
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on “The evolution of gravity in Mario games”Submitted Seanbaby.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA lot of titles that are now considered classics were initially released without that seal of approval because the publishers didn't want to pay Nintendo's licensing fees. Check out the Nintendo v. Tengen case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29#NES_games And a lot of awful games did have the Seal: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/w20-01.htm
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on “Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks”SMB 3 had to have been the easiest game in the world to beat. How could he not beat it? Why is he talking as if he's an expert? At any rate, it's pretty clear that games have approached reality through time, simply because they can , and since reality is uniform, games have become uniform. Look at the old Atari games, and it's like a gallery of bad LSD trips. http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm
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on “ When did video games become so boring? About 1998”I think "Grand Theft Auto" is a horrible game. It's as close to pornography for the game business as you can get Wrong: (At bottom) http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm09.htm
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on “Interview with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell”