Honeywell Ad - “What The Heck Is Electronic Mail?” (Oct 1981)
“Electronic Mail is a term that’s been bandied about data processing circles for years.” Honeywell takes out an ad to explain the concept of Electronic Mail. But it wasn’t running the ad in mainstream consumer magazines; this ad was targeted at computer enthusiasts and run in computer news magazines like Computerworld and Datamation! The general public wouldn’t become aware of e-mail until the ‘90s.
For the release of Baraduke’s sequel, NG Namco Community Magazine did a four-page comic reintroducing the series. Here’s my relettering of the pages, translated by Metroid Database contributor CapCom (with additional input from a friend of mine). Original scan by Hubz.
Remember to read it right-to-left! (And if you encounter stacked panels or balloons in a Japanese comic, always read down and then left.)
Revised/updated this image for the text version of my video about Metroid’s influences beyond the film Alien. I changed “1986” to the eerie official Switch Online palette instead of the usual super-bright emulator palette.
For the text version of my new video about the many influences of Metroid (among other things, I discovered an earlier character in a Japanese publication named “Samus”!), I modified a screenshot from the game to look super dramatic. Kind of looks like a textless album cover?
Samus Aran Origins: Metroid’s Influences Beyond Alien | Hardboiled History
My new video is about the origins of one of my favorite video game characters. Everyone knows Metroid was inspired by the movie Alien, but what about its other influences?
Other questions explored include: Who did “Samus Is A Girl” before Samus? Why does Adam call Samus “Lady” in Metroid Dread? Were Metroid and Zelda inspired by Rareware games? Why does Samus fight a Mother Brain? Where does Samus’ first name come from? What does “Metroid” mean? What is a “bailey”? Who was the first character with an arm canon? And why can’t Metroid crawl?
In this video I tell you how you can make the “Comic Sans Trick” work for any font of your choosing. This was written for NaNoWriMo, but this trick will work no matter what kind of writing you do, whether video scripts, articles, or even every day emails!
