Kurt Smith

What video game pushed your limit like this?

@Theopolis74 @Saffron_Sniper1 Moving the goal post yet again?

Most chilling footage ever in History😳 Saddam Hussein reads out the names of traitors in 1979 Just days after taking power, he publicly called them out Those named were forced to leave the hall Many were later executed or arrested The rest sat there… in silence and fear

In 2014, a programmer in Vietnam deleted the most downloaded game on earth because he said it was ruining his life. He was making $50,000 a day when he did it. Dong Nguyen grew up in a village near Hanoi. He discovered video games through Super Mario Bros as a kid and started coding his own at 16. He built Flappy Bird in two to three days using a bird character from a game he’d already cancelled. The gameplay was inspired by bouncing a ping pong ball on a paddle for as long as you can. He thought existing mobile games were too complicated and wanted something anyone could play on the move. He released it quietly in May 2013. Nobody noticed. For five months, nothing happened. Then a well-known YouTuber reviewed it. Downloads surged. By the end of January 2014, Flappy Bird was the most downloaded free app on the planet with over 50 million downloads. Nguyen, who had been working alone from Hanoi, was suddenly earning $50,000 a day from in-app adverts. Then it turned. Parents complained the game was ruining their children’s lives. Players sent him messages blaming him for their broken phones and lost jobs. Paparazzi camped outside his house. He stopped sleeping. On 8 February 2014, he tweeted: “I can call Flappy Bird a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.” Twenty-two hours later, he deleted it from every app store. Phones with the game still installed were listed online for thousands of dollars. The internet assumed it was a publicity stunt. It wasn’t. In an interview shortly after, he sat chain-smoking and said the game was designed to be played for a few relaxed minutes. “But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever.” He still lives in Hanoi. He still makes games through his small studio, dotGears, which has six employees. He stays out of public life. In 2024, a company acquired the Flappy Bird trademark and announced a reboot. Nguyen said he has no connection to it.

@AriHoops84 Clearly lacking a frontal lobe, so not a big deal for her to have her forehead removed.

レゲットLv.5無事終了。 イベントに関わられたスタッフの皆様、そしてアーシオン大会に参加された皆様、物販でご購入いただいた皆様も本当にありがとうございました。 第二部でアーシオンMD版について少しお話しした際、たくさんの温かい拍手をいただき、とても嬉しかったです。 11月にも同会場でレゲット @rgsummit が開催されるそうなので、ぜひ遊びに来てください。 #レゲット

@TheRealZophar @_zomg @yuzokoshiro Zophar, remember Node 99?

@_zomg @yuzokoshiro I'd die for an interview, but I'm but a mere mortal - Yuzo's a freaking legend of game music.

Time for Beyond Oasis, an incredibly underrated Sega Genesis action RPG that I've never beaten. 👇

@yuzokoshiro @wowami Mission Accomplished! What are your FAVORITE tracks from The Super Shinobi 2? | youtube.com/watch?v=lfOlO3… |

@wowami Thanks! I composed Chinatown caring mostly about the oriental feeling and melody. I guess that most of the tracks on ROS were relatively cutting-edge music at the time, and it was less understandable to the listeners by that, so I wanted to make it more friendly.

I found a proposal of the Revenge of Shinobi II faxed to me from SEGA in Feb 1993. Was I supposed to compose for it? I don't remember why I didn't, but maybe I was busy composing SOR3 by looking at the date. Anyway the music of ROS2 is so cool. I really love it.😄

@yuzokoshiro Itry to download, but only picture downloads! Who's the wiseguy? 🤣😂🤣❤️

These are Kontakt files with samples that were sourced from a PC-8801MH. They were actually used when composing the EO trilogy for the DS back then. You can instantly load the .nki files into your DAW, and you'll be ready to create music in the style of EO, Shinobi, and SOR!😄

You’re right. A complete studio remake of the entire Super Shinobi soundtrack would be amazing. I’ll definitely consider releasing it. Whether it’s a studio remake or not, I’m interested in creating a ‘21st-century revival’ version of the Revenge of Shinobi. That’s something I’ll explore, especially if the new soundtrack for The Scheme successfully sells!

I got @yuzokoshiro to sign my pc-98 keyboard Lol

私が関わったゲーム以外のものにサインすることもたまにあるのですが、ウマ娘は初です。

今年発売予定の、MD実機版『アーシオン』のダイジェスト映像です。Stage 6までを、各曲が一周する長さで繋いでいます。 ブラウン管ならではの映像と、実機ならではの迫力あるサウンドをぜひご覧ください。 2026年も『アーシオン』をどうぞよろしくお願いいたします🙇 #アーシオン #Earthion

@yuzokoshiro what's on your music playlist?

Just arrived in Melbourne! 🇦🇺

@yuzokoshiro @MrmattAustralia are you also showing the new Earthion game?

@MrmattAustralia I’m attending the TGX pre-party as a DJ tonight.

@yuzokoshiro "After many hours composing music, I like to relax and take a drink of Premium YEBISU" 😂🤣

呑むしかない

@drogier Please have a talk with @yuzokoshiro Anyone that knows video game music, knows about His Masterful music. let's get a @MasterClass for Video Game music! how can you ignore this genre?! #Sega #vgmusic #chiptunes #streetsofrage #SuperShinobi #Earthion

BREAKING 🚨 This video of Nancy Pelosi is going viral of her insisting Presidents don’t need approval from Congress to carry out strikes "[Obama] did not need authorization, and still does not need it on Libya?" NANCY PELOSI: "Yes” There you have it

Hillary Clinton in 2008: "I want the Iranians to know that if I am president, we will attack Iran."

@yuzokoshiro This is the best way to spend a Saturday!

@yuzokoshiro Imagine if you had $50,000 vinyl record player and Stereophile speakers 😳

The vinyl sounds so good 🥰