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The Walking Tim

@daddymulk.bsky.social

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Father, translator, Sega Genesis collector, G1 fan, Taito aficionado. Currently Playing: Skies of Arcadia. “I’m taking this pretty seriously!”

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · Apr 7

When the wrong kinds of randos start commenting on your threads thanks to the Discovery tab.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1h

Holy lord, how does one screw up Genesis sound emulation on a non-ATGames commercial release in the year 2025!?

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 2h

…you could order online right now.

I’d probably engage more in collectors circles today if I could find more people interested in discussing the truly “out there” stuff. I appreciate the weird stuff.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 2h

And then the next post was from a Bitcoin Guy showing off his brand-new mass-produced TMNT Pinball Table, which garnered like 10 times the amount of interaction.

And it’s whatever. It’s not a competition of course. Just kind of felt weird to see retro game “collectors” geeking out over something…

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 2h

Thinking tonight about how I haven’t really been active in a game collecting community I used to frequent in over a year.

One time, I posted about what’s basically a one-of-a-kind prototype hardware thing from the 16-bit era I’d found and acquired locally. Got a tiny bit of discussion going…

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 4h

…I can fix her!

Devil Crash (Sega Mega Drive, Tecnosoft, 1991)

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 5h

Mr. Bones + The Ooze = Mr. Booze send tweet

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 9h

Minor spoilers for an 8-year-old game: I like how Hornet yells out, “Git Gooood!!” in this scene, in reference to what you’re going to have to do to beat The Goddamn Radiance.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 11h

The Ooze should team up with Mr. Bones to make A Guy.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 16h

Reminded myself this morning that I’ve played all the way through worse games than this, some even more recently. How soon we forget.

Me flipping the bird at my 300-yen copy of Cosmic Fantasy Stories (Mega-CD). (The PC Engine versions are fine; this one is not)

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe Xbox will be rebooted a decade from now as a Jared Leto passion project.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Grease Howard: Rising Tackle of the Pink Ladies

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, amazing track record over the past few years.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Cutthroat Island is one for sure. I played all the way through it just to prove that I could…and then again on a different platform (Genesis, followed by SNES). Miserable, evil little game.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it’s fine animation-wise if Scooby Doo or Top Cat is your barometer for judging that sort of thing. :)

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes, Mountain King!

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

I’d definitely recommend giving Frontier a try, especially if you want animation that’s nearly on par with Plus (only over 24 episodes rather than just 4!).

Zero (short and self-contained) is minorly-recommended viewing beforehand. You can skip 7 and not feel guilty about it in the slightest.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I weirdly just had a friend echo the same sentiment about S2. I guess I should revisit the earlier ones to compare.

There might also be some recency bias at work since I went from Macross 7 to Frontier this year, and that’s some whiplash right there (in the right direction!).

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

J.C. Staff, who did S2 as well. No idea if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s seemed fine to me quality-wise.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

The new season of One-Punch Man just started.

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe S-E is giving us *that* while spending years ignoring my very reasonable request for a game set in real-life Shinjuku that lets you go around as Bob and Jim decking randoms with an oversized mallet.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 2d

A brief scene in this just triggered a very specific office memory for me.

We were having a welcome party for a new hire. There were 10 of us.

The person in charge of the food ordered 5 pizzas: 1 Cheese, 1 Pepperoni, 3 The Works.

Absolute psycho behavior. This show gets it.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 3d

JFC, E1 of The Chair Company just went out there and nailed it.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 2d

He’s a TAD gauche for sure.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 3d

JFC, E1 of The Chair Company just went out there and nailed it.

The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a palette cleanser in case you need one. No collectors, no eBay, and most of all, no dentists.

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The Lost Arcade (2015)

YouTube video by Historical Truther

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 3d

The Grey Prince Zote fights in Hollow Knight.