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Why we may never get a good I. Robot adaptation :(

This one's kind of special. From the Retronauts news piece:

What's this? A horizontally-scrolling sci-fi shooting game, originally developed by Compile for Sega's SG-1000/3000 console in 1985 and ported to MSX the following year; the basic shoo-and-dodge gameplay is augmented by a weapon power-up system that sees the player collecting numbered chips to advance a lengthy power gauge and gain access to the various shot upgrades (or downgrades) that correspond to each unmarked square on the gauge.

Why should I care? Very rarely did Compile attempt the horizontally-scrolling format, but all signatures are here: best-case-scenario technical performance, a risk-reward about exploiting the invincibility gained from grabbing chips, and stage/weapon/enemy volume that verges into overkill territory.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27093201

Summary

US immigration officers denied entry to a French scientist traveling to Houston after finding phone messages criticizing the Trump administration.

French research minister Philippe Baptiste condemned the decision, stressing the importance of academic freedom.

US authorities reportedly accused the scientist of "hateful and conspiratorial messages" but later dropped charges.

Baptiste has been vocal against Trump and Elon Musk for cutting research funding and invited American scientists to relocate to France.

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Hi folks! So, Lemmy doesn't seem to have a specific polling function, so we're going to have to improvise. Here are the rules:

1. We'll be using this sticky thread to nominate games for April.

2. To nominate a game, post a message to this thread with it's name (and any other info you want to include).

3. To vote for a game, upvote the message that names your game.

4. At 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time on 28 of March, the game with the most upvotes will be the winner!

On April 1st we'll post another sticky thread for the Game of the Month! Depending on what gets picked, we can decide whether we'll be doing a score attack, 1-credit-completion contest or etc. Never done this before, kind of winging it, here!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31266735

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