I don’t normally post this sort of story here, but I thought a man who contributed so much to the game industry and served his final days with a company that I adore and respect as much as Capcom deserved a little tribute, if even only on my measly blog.

Robotube Games sends its thoughts and condolences to his friends and family. Thanks, Mark, for the work you did in this industry, and for the happiness you helped bring to hundreds of thousands of adoring fans.

Gaijin Games’ own Chris Osborn visited the Bit Museum semi-recently, and licked our Nintendo Block Kuzushi console. He was apparently unsatisfied with the bounty of Saltines that ALL guests of Bit Museum are served.

Nonetheless, H.R. Lickinstuff is welcome back anytime.

Chris play's the Nintendo Block Kuzushi. The urge to lick has not yet taken over.

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Here are a couple of photos I dug up for your extreme pleasures. These are rare photos snapped of us filming Bit Museum during Episode 1: Old Nintendo Crap (which isn’t really crap at all…it’s super awesome.)

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Dennis looking on as I loosen up with some fine apertifiitifis.

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Did you ever wonder how Nintendo got the wacky idea to slap two displays together and call it a DSi? This will shed some light on it! Jason Cirillo takes you through a super thrilling, action-packed joy ride through the history of the Nintendo Game & Watch. Next time you’re playing with an LCD calculator to give yourself maximum entertainment, remember the humble beginnings of Game & Watch!

What up playaz? It has been a dreadfully long time, but the latest episode of Bit Museum is finally finished. In fact, episode #5 was delayed for some pretty good reasons. We moved our office out of the location you saw in the previous Bit Museum episodes, so #5 will be the last episode that was filmed in our old New Haven location. New episodes will be filmed in a brand new, totally swanky new place. Stay tuned for details on that!

Must fire out hot, steamy propers where hot, steamy propers are due. This first video of Bit.Trip Runner over at IGN looks fine indeed. I must say, Commander Video is more svelte and atheltic than I judged him for. He must do very well with the ladies.

30 some odd years later, and this stuff still looks like tasty candy to me.

On another one of my commute-in gaming sessions, I played one of my favorite obscure and very weird arcade games, “I’m Sorry” by Sega. Chuckling to myself as much as ever as I played, I realized I needed to share this with you guys. It’s such a brilliantly ridiculous game, and it needs to be given some spotlight.

Been a while since I’ve updated….the holidays and some big changes in the everyday routine grabbed me and shook me all up and made me all disoriented, and just now I’m starting to get my bearings again. It was like a giant hand of the Universe came out of the sky and slapped me around.