This is where the research into tough or bad games like Sega Master System's Ys, get combined as inspiration with systems lifted from Zelda II. From there, it was about extending the play of Jaws to chapters exploring all the Jaws movies, leveling up and gaining power ups, etc #PRGEtalks

Or just remake it yourself like @jparish.bsky.social did with Jaws (NES) and @limitedrungames.com this led to Jeremy's team consulting with the original devs and the license itself. But there are restrictions of course #PRGEtalks

Konami snagged the original devs to reimagine what the arcade Castlevania, Haunted Castle, was supposed to be. #PRGEtalks

Jaleco is doing collections where they don't change their original games but give QoL options instead. #PRGEtalks

Seanbaby made a website and told people the canonical Worst 20 NES games. Deadly Towers isn't even that bad, but it is high in the alphabet. Beating on games to be funny became a popular subgenre and generally helpful for surfacing rare gems. Thus AVGN creating stigmas for consensus #PRGEtalks

Emulation became a massive sampler plate for folks to go through. Which hangs people up immediately due to alphabetical order surfacing games with numbers in the title or Bokosuka Wars. #PRGEtalks

How does a game become 'bad'? Word of mouth originally, if you bought ass you had to tell the workplace or playground. Magazines show every game that reviews positively and that set the expectation that games that go in magazines Must be good. #PRGEtalks

Takeshi Kitano mentioned! Japan's Penn & Teller of game design. True artisan pain #PRGEtalks

Bad craftsmanship, bad programming, or bad visuals all come with stories where they were aiming for something and missed. #PRGEtalks

So what do we do? Legwork! Research, Interviews, and DOCUMENTATION FOR TOOLS, especially providing translations for works. But those need community backing and stewardship. So find a niche, community, or local org, and dig-dig-dig. Put it on Archive for access and share it out. #PRGEtalks

We still don't have formalized programs at universities, and instead games get nestled into various fields and practices which enrich those fields and feed back into the ecosystem in exciting ways but need to be searched for and found. #PRGEtalks

"We [Digital Eclipse] are privileged because we're working with official licenses, but we take on the responsibility because we want to meet people where they are to play history in enriching ways." Big Encarta energy tbh #PRGEtalks

The work at MobyGames offers avenues for folks to find people who worked on games and develop contacts to build oral histories from those contacts, and with how many folks are on these teams it makes it important for historians to plant somewhere specific and dig deep into an org chart - #PRGEtalks

If it weren't for the YTers, we wouldn't know about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ~ "the communities are rebuilding people's passions" from Something Awful managing and re-imagining let's plays all the way to archipelago reimagining new formats to play 20c games. #PRGEtalks

Non-profits like the Interactive Art Museum doing other pop-ups are building heritage communities. NPOs solve these gaps throughout the heritage sector. For large physical buildings "we need more Kodak widows" - FC #PRGEtalks

Game History in 45min. The whole party is here going through EVERYTHING... #PRGEtalks

Monster/Character name translations would require sending three versions with legal clearance, translation explanation, and colloquialism descriptions for evolution lines. #PRGEtalks #Taxonomy

"August, for GBC game launch, we airdropped 10 Pikachu sky fliers into Topeka, KS for Topekachu. They got into 10 Pikachu cars, had TVs in the trunk with the show, and game boys that the drivers would wear on belts to be walking demos." - Gail Tilden #PRGEtalks

"Catch them if you can" was the Pokemon tagline for a minute there before Gotta Catch Em All but it was too "exortative" via family rights groups. And so it got changed

"But this is the opposite!" - FC #PRGEtalks

But Pokemon was at a crisis point because RPGs and the GB are flagging and 600 kids has epileptic seizures in JP! "They can't blame Pikachu so they blame it on Porygon" - GT #PRGEtalks #Justice4Porygon