Author | Lightnews

Reposted by tain

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

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 22h

drowning in games all of a sudden, really looking forward to playing this one. I haven't seen many impressions of it so far, hoping it's a bit more arcade tuned than Salamander 3 but it'll at least look sick regardless

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 23h

...and here's a Night Striker Gear trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxol... in short, think Salamander III, Haunted Castle Revisited, Contra/Castlevania/Gradius Rebirth, etc but for Night Striker

it's also worth noting that M2's self-publishing, making this their first independent Steam STG release

NIGHT STRIKER GEAR - Release Announcement PV

YouTube video by 有限会社エムツー（M2 Co., Ltd.）

www.youtube.com

2

Reposted by tain

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 1d

it's also worth mentioning that Night Striker Gear was directed Ikaruga/Radiant Silvergun/Gradius V director Hiroshi Iuchi—M2 recently admitted they kept quiet on Iuchi's involvement with Gear bc they knew it'd raise questions about the status of Iuchi's forever-WIP (11+yrs!) original STG, Ubusuna

1 5 19

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

I only saw this with Black Label, extra bad if it's multiple modes 😬

1 1

Reposted by tain

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2d

huh, Live Wire actually got around to adding online leaderboards to their Cave ports on Switch: not just Dodonpachi Saidaioujou, but also Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu/Resurrection, Mushihimesama & Espgaluda 2, which have all been delisted for a minute

4 13 39

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

i really like Clock Tower and the optional "Rewind" alterations are cool but this release has some baffling menu stuff. weird out-of-game saving that makes it easy to trip up on game progress and very obnoxious "gallery unlocked" messages that fully cover the still-running game screen at key moments

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Clock Tower: Rewind is $9.99 on US eShop buff.ly/zfHepqH

PS5/PS4/Switch/XSX physical $46 at VGP buff.ly/LU6Bzwk

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

there are like 200 people playing classic PSO right now, good for them

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

i really love DOSBox Pure, this rules

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

First release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a standalone version of the DOSBox Pure RetroArch core, is here.
It offers loading from archives, configuration menus, mouse & keyboard mapping for controllers, save states, screen filters, and other convenient features.
schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure

DOSBox Pure by Schelling

DOSBox reimagined, with a friendly interface, ZIP loading and save states

schelling.itch.io

1

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ys... think about this video once every couple years

3D Scrotum & Balls tutorial Cinema 4D

YouTube video by Nick DenBoer

www.youtube.com

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

it's jaggy as hell since it's a field-rendered ps2 game, but it has a lot of colorful environments and boss designs and kinda unsurprisingly reminds me of ninja gaiden 2004 visually

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

beat Rygar PS2 the other day, pretty cool game and an interesting one for 2002 for sure

1 1

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

played some late night credits of ketsui and wound up playing out of my mind. hit the second score extend for the first time and hit stage 5 for the first time

1

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

eternally unreasonably hopeful for ubusuna

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3d

M2's teasing something...

my guess is a date for standalone Night Striker Gear, but lord knows they have a massive backlog of things they ought to be talking about: Zaleste (still on for this yr, as of right now) Aleste Branch (years overdue), Ubusuna (announced 11yrs ago...)

2 4

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

nosferatu really has to be a top 3 snes game

1 1 1

Reposted by tain

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 6d

4 480 1.7K

Reposted by tain

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 8d

City Connection's Psikyo ports will be leaving Steam on October 31 psikyo-portal.com/notice_25101... the console versions will remain available (for now, at least)

it wasn't heavily advertised by either party but CC sold Psikyo successor studio Zerodiv to Edia earlier this year

PSIKYO PORTAL

[Notice] End of Sales for Psikyo Titles on Steam

psikyo-portal.com

4 20 25

Reposted by tain

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 7d

I have so many feelings about Itagaki’s passing, a flawed person that helped make one of my all time favorite games, but I do think the timing of it happening right before a Ninja Gaiden game was finally released, much of it seemingly outsourced to Platinum, makes the feelings more bittersweet.

2 2 100

Reposted by tain

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

Tomonobu Itagaki - the legendary, iconic creator of Dead or Alive, the Ninja Gaiden reboot, and Devil's Third - has passed away, aged 58.

A statement from him to be shared in the event of his death has been shared.

(Read more: GamesIndustry)

2 72 170

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 12d

finished Consume Me today and it's good

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 12d

some loose thoughts on Battle Garegga
davidwilliams.xyz/gamelog/late...

Battle Garegga - Game Log - David

_Raizing, Arcade, 1996_ Shinobu Yagawa’s star game. A vertical shooter that takes an awful lot of influence from Taito’s Gun Frontier, but with a theme that leans into an overcast future full of scra...

davidwilliams.xyz

2

Reposted by tain

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 13d

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.

5 110 320

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 13d

seeing a lot of thoughts about this flying around today so i just wanna be clear on my thoughts from skimming the review and playing the demo: the full review suggests to me that this is not my kind of game, and separately i disagree with suggestions that it reflects an arcade style of design

Reposted by tain

ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 13d

Likewise. Join up & join in. No teams, no stress, play w/e you want as much as you want. Everything provided

「ＹＡＳＥ」MasterWho @masterwho.yase.world · 13d

youtu.be/7llhqYNLQMU

I will be playing in Calice Cup 11! 😤
#shmup focused high score tournament throughout Nov.!

Free to join for all skill levels, if you're shmup-curious and looking to get some broad experience, or if you're a seasoned shooter- come play STG!

calice.snowcrash.fun/tournaments/25

La Calice Cup 11 Trailer

YouTube video by dent4f

youtu.be

1 5 9

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 13d

i obviously don't think two loops are necessarily a bad thing, but what the review describes isn't even particularly analogous to makaimura doing that

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 14d

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

1 2

Reposted by tain

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 14d

I think I’m gonna do arcade guys and I am really glad I don’t have the money to get hooked on buying arcade cabinets because seeing some of these guys setup makes me jealous

36 1 320