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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3d

"This is a truly pioneering survival game, one that still stands out as a unique and almost painfully tense experience almost three decades later."

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Septentrion: Found at sea

Septentrion is so unashamedly eager to ape ’70s disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure it doesn’t just broadly copy the setting and flow of its memorable inspiration, the game even makes…

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 2d

SIDE POCKET 3

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Robin Charm Password @rondoofblood.bsky.social · 2d

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Videogame Beaches 🏳️‍⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social · 4d

Manic Game Girl is one of the few Korean exclusive games for PS1. The story follows Amber, who has just started college and ends up joining an anime club. At the same time, she receives a console that allows her to transform into a superhero and use the powers of the video games she buys.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 9d

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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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 12d

gameplay, website, excerpt (2000) web.archive.org/web/20000815...

displayed down the right hand side of an online shop screen is this poll. it has a circle with a photo of bill gate's smiling head in there and polling question below:
would you buy a console from this man?
mo
yes
dunno
buttons: vote, results

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 13d

illustration, login, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/logi...

a boy or young man with black hair using a computer with a hand device above attached to a circle that has hanging floppy disk covers with floppy disks in them. it can be spun around, as demonstrated by the illustration.

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Ollie @minusworld.bsky.social · 10d

Never knew it got released outside Japan! I have the PS2 game and a few of the figures knocking about somewhere, but I've never come across them in the wild over here.

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Ollie @minusworld.bsky.social · 10d

This is the best sticker that they have ever put on a game box. Even better than ‘Featuring Dante…’

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Ollie @minusworld.bsky.social · 10d

Buzzing for english Popeye, no more google lense-ing the descriptions of cool hot dog restaurants etcetera

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 12d

I've spent almost half a decade researching every car ever made & can confirm that the bright yellow Husdon van with multiple TVs & a cowboy hat wearing bee remains the ultimate mode of transport

The bee in a cowboy hat improves all things. He's like a Pooka, only more bee shaped

an old tweet from '21 with a pic of Hudson's promotional van from the 80s-90s. It's bright yellow, has 8 TVs on one side & their bee mascot in his cowboy hat printed on the back door

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It's Fantastic! - Arcade scans and translations @itsfantasticac.bsky.social · 11d

Marvel vs. Capcom comic by Kazuya Tani, from a 1998 Comic Gamest compilation.

Game Parody 4Koma Grand Prix 11 (Jun. 25, '98), pg. 21

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Cool Box Art @coolboxart.bsky.social · 13d

Downhill Snow / PlayStation / Pack-In-Video / 1998

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Tiny Cartridge @tinycartridge.com · 16d

two screenshots from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, during the snowball fight battle tutorial when the hero picks a name. someone tells the hero, "You can't be the 'new kid' forever!" the player is typing "New kid" for their name.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 17d

Somewhere in the back of my mind I'm always thinking about the vs screen theme from makeruna makendo 2 for sfc

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Scarena @gbaspgamer.bsky.social · 16d

Strongly believe that this is the best alternate costume ever added to a video game

Travis Touchdown wearing a black hoodie that says "Fuck Racism" in bold red letters.

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武政諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social · 25d

The Beginning of Autumn (2023)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

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Paul Darbyshire 🇪🇺 @pablo0151.bsky.social · 20d

Stellar SFC artwork! 🥲

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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 21d

Your reminder that Takenobu 'Daytona USA' Mitsuyoshi, the greatest voice in video games, once sang Ryu's theme from Street Fighter II and it's mental www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODWe...

Street Fighter Tribute Album - Ryu Stage - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

YouTube video by Garidan2000

www.youtube.com

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PirateGameThing @pirategamething.com · Mar 28

"Sudoku Game with GUN" is so funny to me

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 24d

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Games From The Black Hole @gamesblackhole.bsky.social · 29d

I love this game! And it has way more depth and skill than you might expect.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · May 27

The stark, monochrome beauty of an Apple Mac Paris in an alternate 1995. Be sure to visit the arcology on your next visit!

📺: Sim City 2000, Maxis, 1993

A screenie of Sim City 2000 running on a virtual machine Apple IIfx and OS 7. It's got a stark, sharp, monochrome quality to the isometric rendition of Paris.

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Weasel Hills C.C. (Hole 19) @wildweasel486.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Clashpads, a set of PlayStation 2-compatible controllers built to allow players to interfere with each other's inputs during a game.

Even if I would never have anybody to test it with, I'm still kicking myself for not picking these weird gamepads up at PRGE in 2017. I've never seen them again.

A package of "Clashpads" from Gamester (The Unfair Advantage) - "Mess with each other's controller - Head-2-Head gameplay revenge". They resemble PlayStation DualShock 2 controllers, hard-wired to a control box between them to switch on or off certain effects, which the plastic blister-packaging describes as "Switch, Knockout, Overturn, Possess."

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · Sep 16

Who the hell would use shit like ChatGPT when Dear Daria on the 2002 Sony Clié PEG-NX80V exists

A 2002 Sony PDA displaying a Daria themed application. You can ask it questions, a bit like a magic 8 ball.

Infinitely better than any AI shite.

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