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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 10h

I like how the ending of Metal Slug 3 has the characters tossing their handguns into the water...and the sinking firearm in the credits changes depending on who throws it away.

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 11h

In the Metal Slug series, did you know that the male and female characters use different handguns?

Marco and Tarma use the Murder-50AE whilst Eri and Fio use the 1915 Revolver because of its slender design. From an SNK Supporters Club newsletter I posted on the other site years ago

The 1915 Revolver ladies gun, with slender design

double page spread showing various Metal Slug equipment

A screenshot of Metal Slug 3 which shows, in a shock to nobody who has read my post, male & female characters holding different handguns in the game. There is also a fish on the beach. It has no gun, possibly due to a lack of arms & hands

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 12h

I got a bad case of fungal jungle xabungle!

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 12h

This quote reads like a desperate attempt to say something interesting about Xabungle.

I guess "It's the biggest 1980s mecha anime where the hero looks like a hobbit" was too long.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 13h

Just as long as I don't botch the Boobeam fight and end up grinding for weapon meter refills.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 15h

I love seeing Fish Police stuff, because it's my favorite early Simpsons imitator. It's such an odd misfire: based on a comic it barely resembles, celebrity voices, routine Saturday-morning style awkwardly mixed with adult humor, a brief merchandising push, and canceled after three episodes.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 16h

Day #139: Fish Police (1992)

A teal lunchbox with a white handle, with an undersea tableau of a city skyline and taxi, with sea creatures dressed in 1940's/50's film noir outfits, including a fish in a trench coat, and devious-looking squid. Next to it is a white thermos with a teal lid, and image of a smirking fish in a fedora and trenchcoat next to the words "Fish Police"

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Admirably big Satomi no Nazo energy, which is an infamous early PS1 kusoge RPG whose developer had the idea to put similar stickers saying "recommended RPG" on the cases by hand after manufacturing, tricking players into thinking the stores had placed them, a stunt Sony was none too pleased with.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 1d

Marisa from Street Fighter 6 talks about making jewelry.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Neros Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam.

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arabiafats🇵🇸 @arabiafats.bsky.social · 1d

v orson welles

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 2d

The cutscenes from the Ghost in the Shell Playstation game were extra cool for how closely they stuck to the look of Shirow's original manga, compared to the movies and anime series. This might be the youngest Aramaki ever looked!

And next year's new GitS series apparently goes for the same style.

Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 2d

End the weekend in style with an upload of this Laserdisc detailing the making of Ghost in the Shell for PS1:

Making of Game: Ghost in the Shell - All of Digital Animation 4K LaserDisc rip
youtu.be/8SLUjJrQa_g

Making of Game: Ghost in the Shell - All of Digital Animation 4K LaserDisc rip

YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works

youtu.be

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 5d

A peek at GAME FREAK (Yep, *that* Game Freak!) tips 'zine issue 22 from 1985 where the solution to arcade Time Gal is lovingly and painstakingly illustrated and written out scene-by scene. 💜

A scan of the photocopied zine with an illustration of protag Reikas sat coly with legs crossed and a marker pen held in one hand, with cheeky doodles drawn over the game's villain's face and a piece of paper. "Time Stop!"

A snap of one of the pages, with painstakingly drawn recreations of hte various scenes of the QTE based animated footage gameplay with directional inputs for each of them.

Another snap of inked illustrations of Reika in one scene and line artworks in the other. Directional inputs can be seen below.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 5d

and it did

they tried to warn us — we refused to listen

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 5d

So this guy was pretty much wrong about everything.

Argath aka Algus yells "Animals have no God!!" like a jerk. The original translation of Final Fantasy Tactics is notoriously rough, but I always liked how blunt this line was.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 5d

Simone is really cool but I always got the impression that Capcom came up with her just because Cannon Spike couldn't use Linn Kurosawa from Alien vs. Predator.

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Weasel Hills C.C. (Hole 19) @wildweasel486.bsky.social · 7d

Some inappropriately creepy golf content - Sente Mini Golf (1986) has DIP switches that add photos of missing children to the attract mode (and to enable a "LOCATED" message per kid). These profiles were replaced with new ones in updated ROMs.

Modern operators seem to leave them on, a lot. 😨

A Reddit post from r/creepygaming by user SuperCamouflageShark - I saw these missing child reports on the attract mode of a Sente Mini-Golf arcade machine recently.

The photo is of a Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying black-and-white photographs of missing children: Tahj Allen Merriman, and Steven Phillip Curtis. Their profiles are filled out in red text.

Another photograph of a different Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying the same photos of missing children.

Sente Mini Golf running under MAME, with the DIP Switches menu showing. DIP switches 3, 4, and 5 configure whether the missing children are displayed in the attract mode, with switches 4 and 5 showing or hiding a "LOCATED" stamp over the respective kid's photo.

Screenshot of Sente Mini Golf running under MAME; this screen shows two different missing children: Malinda Marie Smith and April Rose Yates. For the sake of demonstration I have enabled the "LOCATED" flag on the kid on the right. (DISCLAIMER: I do not have any information on whether April was located or not. This is strictly a demonstration and is not intended as documentation of a real event.)

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 6d

Have your people call my people, Time Gal says.

Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder if any of Taito's Time Gal advertisements still exist. She was pretty big for a few years.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 7d

I am looking at noodle stopper toys on Suruga-ya despite the tariffs killing any desire to buy stuff there, and I can do without them casting aspersions like this.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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BadComputer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 7d

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber will be released and available for free on 20th October. #homebrew #mastersystem

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John Andersen @johnandersen.bsky.social · 8d

The current office of CAProduction in Nagasaki, Japan. <A small thread>. Established in July 1993 by a few former Tecno Soft employees from Nagasaki, they've developed everything from Hagane (SNES), Bulk Slash (Saturn), DECA Sports (Wii) to assisting with Clubhouse Sports and the Mario Party series.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 8d

That is a really good deal for a really neat book about a really good game.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 8d

The Art of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together hardcover book is $16.15 on Amazon after listed coupon (59% off, 236 pages) buff.ly/gFNGCqd

Target $24.22 (B2G1 Circle eligible) buff.ly/seftYXb #ad

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Todd Ciolek @kidfenris.bsky.social · 8d

Ruled by steel.
Steeped in darkness.
All hail Ravness.

Yeah, this is one of my all-timers. If you like Final Fantasy Tactics, definitely play Tactics Ogre. And hey, the Steam version is just twenty bucks right now!

RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 8d

Tactics Ogre was first out 30 years ago in Japan (1995) for the #SNES. ⚔️ A masterclass in game story and writing (just look at these quotes!) and multiple endings to determine your fate. This is a time-honored classic, and a must-play for SRPG fans.

Review: www.rpgfan.com/review/tacti...

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vi @v-i.dev · 8d

Speaking of Urban Vision, does anybody know the story behind the “American Anime” badge on some of their releases? Was it a separate company? Just a label? I can’t find any info on it.

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