Stephanie Brownback

Stephanie Brownback

@osu16bit.bsky.social

Lead QA Analyst at Netherrealm Studios. All in on Sonic the Hedgehog.

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It’s my 45th birthday! Sitting on a donut pillow, exhausted and hurting, watching Crystal Lake with Molly laying next to me is definitely not on my Mount Rushmore of birthdays but hey 🤷‍♀️😊

I’m doing pretty well recovering. I don’t have pain, I can get up and move(like I’m 90 years old, but still!) and I’m hoping to get home Monday or Tuesday. It’s boring though. I’m so bored earlier I was just reading the wiki about that show Silk Stalkings that was always on USA after Raw.

Modern TV is so bad I’m pumped that Halloween 5 is playing on AMC. I’m scrolling through the channels and in a sea of sports, cable news, and cop shows I saw Jamie yelling about the cookie woman and got super excited.

Friendly reminder the original Beyond Good & Evil ended in a cliffhanger and BG&E 2 is a prequel. So if it ever ships it probably won’t even tie up the 20+ year story thread of that pig guy being possessed.

I love chit chatting about my stuff. In the span of 30 minutes I was just talking to a physical therapist about Tekken and MK and then showing a nurse a picture of my cat. I can’t help it lol

I like Belmont’s Curse a whole lot but it’s pretty hard to see when playing on Switch handheld. It’s so dark and enemies blend in to the background. I’m putting up with the poor readability because I’m in a hospital bed with nothing else to do but it’s a challenge lol

Logically I know this isn’t the best port of the best KOF but for me it’s easily the most nostalgic! My arcade never had KOF, so I’d just read about 94 in magazines. It seemed insane! Then this got a PS1 release and I was way into it.

Hourly Videogame Box Art@vgboxart.bsky.social

THE KING OF FIGHTERS '95

Obviously today is better but I do have nostalgia for how random our experiences were when access was tied to the whims of your local arcade, holiday presents, and friends. There’s something neat about the idea that my arcade had Sam Sho IV instead of say, KOF 98, so to me that’s bigger deal

Hey gang…I got bottom surgery today! They told me it went well. I’ll be in the hospital for the next few days. Right now I’m tired, weak, and can’t get out of bed, but the pain meds are doing their thing and I’ve got all the Apple juice I can drink so it’s not too bad.

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'ClayFighter 63⅓' released on this day in 1997. When clay sculptures of funny animals and racist caricatures collide, there's hell to pay for players on N64. The game is clearly unfinished, and a late pivot from 2D to 3D arenas leads to issues with stage geometry getting in the way of fights.

Terrible news. BioWare’s games were such an important avenue for me to explore my gender identity. I’m sure I’m not alone there. Bummer.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kronos Interactive released 3 fighting games. Criticom was horrendous. Unbelievably bad. However dark Rift and cardinal syn are better. It stands to reason given enough chances they’d have made a good one. Instead they pivoted to lesbians and made Fear Effect. The “what if” makes u think though 🤔

Have to fast to prep for surgery tomorrow so I treated myself to insomnia cookies. Delicious! Perfect ratio of crispy edges and soft, chewy middle. Now I’m about to have my favorite dinner, orange chicken. Then I’ll play some Bloody Roar. Tomorrow sucks but tonight life is pretty rad. 😺

Stephanie Brownback reposted

I tried making a title screen for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 look like the one from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Adding this to the previous existing elements to further 3rd Strikeify Mortal Kombat. Thanks again to my bro @blondetanamobay.bsky.social for helping me animate this together.

“Long live super nes” I love how every ad in 94-96 for a Nintendo product has desperate energy trying to downplay next gen cd rom consoles. This one is mild, many would yell at you demanding to be impressed at SNES graphics and basically calling you a loser if you played a game with load times 🤣

Old Game Mags@oldgamemags.bsky.social

Crime still doesn't pay 'Final Fight 3' Super Nintendo

There’s a shady looking bird hanging out on the tree outside her window so she’s hiding behind this post to sneakily keep an eye on it if it tries any funny business. 🐈‍⬛🐱

I love seeing canceled games and cut content in these magazines. This Clayfighter 2 preview has a picture of Lucy the gorilla, who didn’t make the final roster. Also…a Clayfighter tv show??