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― Alex in Novosibirsk (ex machina), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

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― Alex in Novosibirsk (ex machina), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

from joystiq:

Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy, recently told the BBC that he plans to leave the gaming industry to pursue a career in playground design: “In 10 years time, I am not going to be making games any more… I would like to create a playground for children… an undulating one, with bumps.” Takahashi holds a degree in sculpture design and believes that children should spend more time playing in the physical (read: outside) world. His presence in the “virtual” world will be sorely missed.

― allen riley (allenriley), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

And also, in that article, he says of the sequel that "There are fun things are in the game, though I am not happy with all of it." Aparently he was happier with the original, and didn't even want to make a follow up.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I just played Katamari for the first time yesterday. Fun.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I want to play this game! Do I have to have a PS2?

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes. It's worth it.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Thanks jeffrey! I just found PS2 Essentials too.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Jaq on ILG! This board has everything now.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh GP, I am lame at games, though there are some I truly love. I think I would love a giant sticky ball rolling around picking things up.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Katamari Damacy will change your life.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

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― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

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I thought the first one was the most amazing thing ever, and for that reason have delayed playing the second game. Not really sure why - maybe I'll play it over Christmas holiday?

― Matt Sephton (emsef), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Sephton (emsef), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I thought the first one was the most amazing thing ever, and for that reason have delayed playing the second game. Not really sure why - maybe I'll play it over Christmas holiday?

I thought the same thing... why would I want to play the same thing again, I already have the first one! But then I bought it, and predictably, I loved it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

When i was out my back door getting teh st0ned i planned the exact sequence of items i'd need to roll up so i cld eventually roll up my house. I think it may have taken over my life.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I mentally roll up restaurants bit by bit while I wait for the waiter to bring my food.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Once I got really high and imagined a Katamari level where you were embedded on your own sphere. So like little objects you rolled up would be dumped down from the sky as enormous shit. Imagine! Rolling a doll house drops an entire house filled with stuff into the map.

I guess the king could explain it away with some mumbo jumbo about the power of imagination.....

― Occam's Reznor (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

is that like... recursive... katamari? [brain melts]

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I have thought about that a lot since you mentioned it. Would you eventually roll up the huge mirrored items that are dropped?

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

of course... I'm not sure how that would progress except that it would effectively keep you the same size as even enormous objects are scaled up....

― Occam's Reznor (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Katamari Damacy PSP features one big change from previous titles: dynamic levels. The levels change based on the time and season. Levels also feature changing paths which make the game different each time you play.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH NA NA NA, NA, NA NA NA! (ex machina), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

http://namco-ch.net/katamari_mi_psp/campaign/img/poster_l.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH LASER BEAM EYE SPANKINGS (ex machina), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

WHY CAN'T I BUY THAT POSTER

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Why can't I buy that Cozen's Katamari t-shirt?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I... bought it

why can't you?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't find it anywhere. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

http://preshrunk.info/2005/10/hang-tags-101805.php

It Must Have Rolled Away: We wanted to link to that Katamari tee ZeStuff was trying to gauge presale interest in, but it looks like it's gone from the store. *shrug* Oh well.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

: /

I got an e-mail saying they weren't going to sell it because interest was so low

then a few weeks later it turned up on my doorstep

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

How come you lot have been playing this game for months yet it's only available next February ?

Waaaaa!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Ste/Fuzzy, that is the PSP game. There were 2 PS2 games.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

oh, is amazon.co.uk just being wrong then? it only brings up one result for katamari, and thats for a We love Katamari for the PS2 - release date Feb 2006

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Ohhh, I see. Poor UK'ers.

(it came out here July '05, looks like)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

PAL TV is for faggots.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

OTM

I am a faggot

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

pal is better than ntsc

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

NTSC has 30 frames a second. Pal has 25. NTSC has 480 lines, Pal is HUGE.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/compare.html#ntsc

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i know

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Of course, we all should be using high def...

― LOL PAL IS HUEG (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

we will soon enough i'm sure

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

http://rodent.tee-total.net/products/images/36/roller_big.jpg

http://rodent.tee-total.net/uk/products/detail/?id=140

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Sure, PAL is better quality, but it's fucked us over for games for years. I've only recently fitted my megadrive with a 60hz NTSC switch so that Sonic doesn't seem like he's running through toffee. Some PAL megadrive games are near unplayable!

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Or some Megadrive games are unplayable in 50hz PAL, I should say.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Is there any way to figure out what levels you have to do next to get more new levels? Like what parts you've missed that are holding you back from getting new levels? I thought it was based on who was yelling at you ("HOWDY! HOWDY!") but now everyone is yelling at me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/code/921111.html

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

(Btw, I know I mentioned that Maddie was having some control issues when she started the first game, but she's since totally pwned both of them.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I really feel that I have rolled up all the cousins (I even made a checklist and went through it one by one) and yet I have found no yellow-shirted boy in the meadow. I resent being locked out of the rose level but I'm not sure how else to determine who I've missed. Maybe one got knocked out of my katamari during the level... :(

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I didn't mean at the end of the game, I think I'm still somewhere in the middle. I don't know how to explain this correctly.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

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