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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 12h

In today's marginally spooky pre-Halloween fact:

did you know that the Woody Pigs from Ghosts n Goblins / Makaimura are the angry spirits of pigs that have been cooked? They hate garlic & their weapon is not a spear, it's a leek / green onion

The board game with various character info

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Jason Dyer @jdyer.bsky.social · 13h

1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available...

...until today.

Includes some unexpected history!

bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...

Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)

The last time I wrote about a Japanese game was with The Palms, where I mentioned skipping over two games from 1982 because there were no copies available. This was one of them. Brief history recap…

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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Marc Max @marcrobledo.com · 1d

The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise - English translation is now available!

Enjoy this KOF board game with lots of references to the series, in English for the first time in 25 years!

Download: www.marcrobledo.com/neo-geo-pock...

#KingOfFighters #NeoGeoPocket #KingOfFighters

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Brian Hargrove @turfmasta.bsky.social · 1d

King of Fighters Battle de Paradise Neo Geo Pocket small poster.

Notice tiny Brian Battler floating above Krizalid 😅

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Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating read from @jackgyarwood.bsky.social here on role one designer played in shaping Nintendo's North American visual identity in the 80s and 90s.

"This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art

How a Seattle-based designer levelled up Nintendo's packaging in the '80s & '90s

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Gamesmaster5555 @gamesmaster5555.bsky.social · 1d

Source: Dev on early games discusses his conversations with Castlevania's creator Hitoshi Akamatsu on the series

shmuplations.com/castlevania/

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Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 1d

My hope is to beat Hollow Knight by or on Halloween

To make it a Happy Hollow-ween

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 1d

Huff is out for another week or so. You may be thinking of Nick Bosa.

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Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 5d

Secret Character Unlocked: Nub-Zero

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VGMuseum (ReyVGM) @vgmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

The Bomberman character is pretty well known, but did you know the very first Bomberman game for Japanese computers just featured a generic dude?
The sequel, 3D Bomberman, was a 1st person maze crawler also featured a generic man.
It wasn't until... (continued)

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psicochurroz @psicochurroz.bsky.social · 6d

Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score

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Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 7d

Akihabara’s HEY should have it, but yeah Zarigani’s void in Osaka is felt with games like thatz

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ミルキージェームズ (Remastered) @milkman.bsky.social · 8d

This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

Time Extension @timeextension.com · 8d

"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki.

"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki

James Mielke reflect on the Team Ninja creator who treated him as a brother

www.timeextension.com

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 22d

Namco & SuperSweep announced Ridge Racer Night 2025, a live DJ even scheduled for February 21 featuring, among many other guests, Reiko Nagase as a pre-show performer🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wq... 🇯🇵 they're specifically focusing on Rave Racer & Hamster's a sponsor, so read into that what you will

「「RIDGE RACER NIGHT2025」開催決定！【2026年2月15日(土)】

YouTube video by Bandai Namco Game Music

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 16d

Bub's going to get shitfaced with Poop-Kun🍸

Poop-kun only appears after you've input the initials STR into the high score table. Play again & the round 1 item will be a flamingo & if you collect it, all remaining bubbles become Poop-Kuns when you clear the stage

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SAM Retro @retroman.bsky.social · 8d

Fast Lane (1987)
#Arcade
#RetroGaming

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 11d

Taking things to the next level by insisting everyone refer to cornfield mazes as "metroidgrainias"

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SAM Retro @retroman.bsky.social · 10d

Snoopy Tennis (1982)
#Game&Watch
#Nintendo

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 10d

attn @devilrei.bsky.social et al: Fighting Vipers 30th Anniv. Album, out Nov.27 wave-master.com/ent/fv/ 🇯🇵 arcade & Saturn tunes across two discs, plus two new arranges by Koichi Namiki (a medley in the style of the AC OP & a full-length arrange of the Saturn OP), liner notes from Hiroshi Kataoka etc

Fighting Vipers - 30th Anniv. Album -

2025.11.27 Release

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Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 10d

I’m still very into my 1st playthrough of Hollow Knight, and I have not had this sense of frustration and determination in a long time.

This game gives you the awareness that they did as much as they could to make the game much more difficult on purpose, yet you still feel like you have a chance.

Game Agent ET @gameagentet.bsky.social · 10d

y cant metroid be 4 babies?

i think metroid should crawl

its not fair

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Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social · 12d

Kinokuniya in Shinjuku is hosting a Phantasy Star Online pop up shop to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary! PSO1 is one of my most wanted remasters, please Sega I know you have the money from Football Manager to make it happen.

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 12d

"Dave Rosen came to me and said, ‘We haven’t had much luck launching Sega in the US against Nintendo, we want to set up a US division, do you want to run it? And do you want to take on Nintendo with our new 16-bit system?’"

www.timeextension.com/features/int...

Interview: Ex-Sega President Michael Katz On ColecoVision, Atari, And The Early Years Of The Genesis

"I liked being the small guy like Avis vs Hertz in the old days"

www.timeextension.com

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