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The Nintendo Gigaleak
2020-Jul-28, Tuesday 13:57
So over the weekend, a ton of Nintendo's historical prototypes were liberated. Luigi in Mario 64, the original more dinosaur-like Yoshi design from Super Mario World, early maps from Ocarina of Time, a Pokemon MMO, a possible sequel for Zelda 2 (😮), and even more.
I've already read a bunch of people rush to the defense of a billion-dollar corporation like it was their cousin, and while whoever leaked the info should have sanitized it--there's apparently some person diary entries mixed in among the sprite sheets and game dev tools--all I can think about is how quite possibly the most important video game company has an extensive catalog of its own history, preserved through the years even when projects are cancelled while other companies fail like how Blizzard lost the source code of Diablo II or Konami lost the source code to Silent Hill 2 and 3, and I think:
It's all related to how so much of popular culture, the people and stories that we all know and reference every day of our lives, are owned by specific corporations and it's illegal to make new stories with them in a way that's totally unprecedented for most of human history. So I won't weep for Nintendo losing control of the history of some of the most important video games of all time. They belong in a museum.
And I really hope someone takes that Link sprite sheet and makes a new side-scroller Zelda game so I can play it.
I've already read a bunch of people rush to the defense of a billion-dollar corporation like it was their cousin, and while whoever leaked the info should have sanitized it--there's apparently some person diary entries mixed in among the sprite sheets and game dev tools--all I can think about is how quite possibly the most important video game company has an extensive catalog of its own history, preserved through the years even when projects are cancelled while other companies fail like how Blizzard lost the source code of Diablo II or Konami lost the source code to Silent Hill 2 and 3, and I think:
It's all related to how so much of popular culture, the people and stories that we all know and reference every day of our lives, are owned by specific corporations and it's illegal to make new stories with them in a way that's totally unprecedented for most of human history. So I won't weep for Nintendo losing control of the history of some of the most important video games of all time. They belong in a museum.
And I really hope someone takes that Link sprite sheet and makes a new side-scroller Zelda game so I can play it.
