“How much did you pay for this game?” one of my roommates asks. All three of them have gathered behind the spine-mangling futon where I’m sitting, pulled into my shared bedroom by the cacophony of obscenities and jangly slot-machine sound effects emanating from my tiny, second-hand TV.
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Please Do Not Use The Word “Punk”
“From the start, we had an idea and a gimmick,” says Andrew. “I think maybe part of it was we were trying to create these NES punk jackets. It totally was like, 'How do we make a studded jacket, but with Mario on the back?'”
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The base model PC Engine was simply better suited to these kinds of visuals than contemporary home computers. So what, then, did this version offer that couldn’t be found elsewhere? CD-quality audio. Not even a dedicated arcade cabinet could come close to producing sounds like this…
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