Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 7

@damianogerli That's because it's only 2.1 gigs of total data due to the all the overlap. GK2 is a gigabyte larger despite being on less discs.

@damianogerli @SpindleyQ I've seen many objectively terrible Italian horror movies from the 80s that were still better in every way than Phantasmagoria.

@Bogusmeatfactory @SpindleyQ Oh, I can tell you *exactly* what makes me angry about it. I've been thinking of making a video about it forever, but I can't even manage to write a script for it because I get so angry so quickly just thinking about it.

@SpindleyQ We can certainly discuss that when you finish the game.

@SpindleyQ This game is my nemesis for some reason. I'm normally not a person to get worked up about a videogame of all things, but something about Phantasmagoria makes me legitimately angry. 🤷♂️

@ok_devalias Meanwhile

Winamp source code got released... but the license prohibits distribution of modified versions *in any form*, and completely forbids even *creating* a fork. 😱
https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp?tab=readme-ov-file

@13pt8plus Yeah, shovelware discs were rarely a goldmine.

In one week I'll be technically homeless. 👍👍
(I've got a place to live though, so it's all good. For now.)

Oh yeah, I used to know Quentin. He's a real... he's a real jerk.

@UKFilmNerd Media Rack was actually made by Willow Pond, and licensed by various sound card manufacturers including Creative.

@gbraad That's called cornering the market, I guess. It took Myst almost a year and a half to crack a million sales. The same took Riven just a few months.

@gbraad Overrated or not, but a FOUR year old game coming in #2 best selling in the mid 90s is quite an achievement.

@anji It's called cornering the market. It's absolutely insane that a 4 year old game is in the #2 spot.

Sierra put out like a dozen titles in 1997, and their fishing game from 2 years prior outsold every single one of them. 🤷♂️

I thought Deer Hunter was the most profitable 1997 release, as far as investment vs return went, but it's very clearly this:

("The Total Number of Units Sold" is the total *for the year* only, not all time.)

PC Data's best selling computer games of 1997 (in the United States).
Source: PC Gamer, April 98.

@eviltrout I'm almost certain that training their own dataset would place it outside of Steam's AI requirements.

This is very much the case of some "AI" tools being involved in making this. I know some of this was talked about while the game was in production, relating to generating character animations. It would be nice to know what exactly it was used for.