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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 22h

Star Trek Voyager scene. Here we see Tuvok (Mr Vulcan) in gold uniform. He's in the cafatorium as evidenced by some bowls of produce in the background and pictured looking forward from a sit. He has a flat, blank expression despite the fact that an anonymous hand attached to an off screen person has their finger actually in his mouth lifting up his lip. Closed caption reads, "Just let the mouth curl a little there."

Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a selection of my 2025 gaming highlights and clears!

Knuckles' Chaotix
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Ninja Gaiden (2004)
Ninja Gaiden II: Black
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Blood
Destiny/Destiny 2

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 1d

I like this gaming highlights and clears of 2025, so here's some of mine:

Slayers (PC-98)
Halo 2
Phantasy Star II Adventure
Conflict: Freespace
Ace Combat 2
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Kingsley's Adventure
Team Innocent (PC-FX)
Companions of Xanth
DeathGate
Salt & Sanctuary
Vandal Hearts

Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 1d

Stealing this, but I haven't played a new game in 2025. Some of my fave first time clears, though:

Final Fantasy Tactics
Soldier Blade
Astro's Playroom
Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan
The Tower of Druaga PCE
Tatsujin
Beltlogger 9
Bulk Slash
Nights Into Dreams
Alisia Dragoon
Jet Set Radio Future
Xeno Crisis

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zoviazzg @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 1d

Dead or Alive 3
Xbox, 2001
Team Ninja

When Itagaki died I looked at his list of credits and the only game I had played was Tecmo Super Bowl.

So for today's #scanlinesunday I invoked the kindred spirit of @sickcombos.bsky.social (and the xemu emulator) to make things right.

#crt #retrogaming #doa

Karate master Hitomi, clad in battle denim, invigorated with the hot blood of combat, winds up for a charging punch. Her opponent Kasumi recoils, stunned by the fierce barrage of blows.

Having weathered the battering, Kasumi turns the tables on Hitomi, throwing her to the dirt. Fall leaves float on the wind and crunch underneath the awesome lady violence.

The crisp Fall air is disturbed by Hitomi lifting opponent Kasumi clean off the ground with a thunderous uppercut.

The two deadly women square off, eyeing each-other with the intensity of hunting lionesses. Autumn paints the encounter with a master's hand.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3d

"Scheduled for release on Wednesday, December 1, 1999."

The urge to bite down on these is strong. The most delicious looking N64s - Clear Red and Clear Blue.

A Japanese ad for the two-tone white and either cherry red or aqua blue N64s, one above the other. They look like they're made of gummy.

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zoviazzg @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 3d

Vampire Savior 2
Arcade, 1997
Capcom

Happy Fighting Game Friday and Happy Halloween.

The spooky season concludes once again. The convergence of the mundane and the spiritual has ended and all manner of accursed devils have been vanquished.

So here's more Darkstalkers.

#crt #retrogaming #fgc

Succubus Lilith cuts Undead Samurai Bishamon right in half with her blade-like bat wings. She is serene in that moment, as if cutting men in half is where she was meant to be.

Devilish vampire hunter B.B. Hood grabs Victor (a classical Frankenstein) and whirls him around, grinning maniacally, until he practically comes apart at the seams. He's not enjoying it, no sir.

Vampire Lord Dmitri vigorously defends his lair from Bee Woman Q. Bee, performing a break-dancing kick that she vaults over, stinger slashing. Their elegant battle resembles an elaborate dance.

Cat Woman Felicia gracefully launches backwards off of Vampire Hunter Donovan after mounting and slashing him repeatedly with her murder mittens. He reels in pain, limbs twisted.

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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween!

Still plugging away at Call of Cthulhu and enjoying it, although the AI is pretty janky.

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 4d

Game: Chakan: The Forever Man
Developer: Extended Play
Platform: Sega Genesis
📺: Sanyo DS24425

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 5d

#crt #photography #retrogaming

Rick sends one ghoul flying over another, who is spilled onto the floor in a bloody mess // Splatterhouse 3 for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

the bloody corpse is beaten further into submission by our super natural super human protagonist

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 4d

Game: Keio Flying Squadron
Developer: Victor Entertainment
Platform: Sega CD
📺: Sanyo DS2442

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 6d

Game: Alien 3
Developer: Probe Software
Platform: Sega Master System
📺: Sanyo DS24425

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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight I've begun Call of #Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth as my final game for this spooky season, enjoying it so far!
Love the atmosphere and sound design, definitely a more polished experience compared to the PC port.

#OriginalXbox #CRT

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 8d

METROID: ZERO MISSION
NINTENDO R&D1 2004
(Captured on Gameboy Advance SP)

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 8d

#crt #photography #horror

James looks forlorn into the mirror. his eyes are recessed on shadow as if to hide away from his own perception. He takes a long look at himself before receding into the inky black darkness // Silent Hill 2 for Playstation 2, photography on CRT TV

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 8d

Played Sweet Home for #ScanlineSunday

I enjoyed that it has very little dialogue

The experience of piecing together its story through diary entries and notes was really rewarding!

Its art direction is fantastic. Enemy sprites are detailed and grotesque

Highly recommend this spooky game!

Game: Sweet Home
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Famicom
📺: Sanyo DS2442

"Grave!!"
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Game: Sweet Home
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Famicom
📺: Sanyo DS2442

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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 9d

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

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Fighting Game Anniversaries @fganniversaries.bsky.social · 9d

25 years ago today, Street Fighter EX3 was released on the PlayStation 2 in NA as one of the system's launch titles in the region. It was developed by Arika and published by Capcom.

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zoviazzg @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 9d

This section of Silent Hill may be the most effective horror-craft I've yet experienced.

I'm over 40 and I still occasionally have a recurring nightmare where I'm lost and/or trapped in a school. The developers successfully turned my nightmare into a video game level.

#crt #retrogaming #silenthill

Silent Hill protagonist Harry Mason investigates a blood-stained grand piano in the music room of Midwich Elemental school. A lengthy yet cryptic note hints at some sort of bullshit puzzle. Harry spontaneously blacks out, and when he wakes, the puzzle has been auto-magically solved. Hallelujah.

In the nightmare world (??), Harry investigates a small, emptied locker gruesomely stained with blood. The camera angle is tilted to queasy effect.

Harry discovers a horribly mutilated corpse chained to the wall. Flayed and lacerated, its face has been beaten to a dark mush.

A muscular beast more mouth than body stalks Harry in a black oubliette, the roar of a burning corpse illuminating its tumor-like mucus-covered skin in the inky darkness. Harry clutches the most impotent shotgun in any video game.

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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, I guess they reckon people who've never played the original game won't want to play it because it's old?
I'd honestly rather them just port the Master Chief Collection and call it a day.

Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think Halo: CE needed to be "evolved for a new generation", I think it's pretty timeless.
Regardless, this is decent from a visual standpoint, but whether it'll play like a Halo game remains to be seen.

PlayStation @playstation.com · 10d

Master Chief comes to PlayStation.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5 next year, rebuilt and modernized with 2-player local co-op and 4-player online co-op: play.st/4oAYnr5

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zoviazzg @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 12d

Silent Hill
Sony Playstation, 1999
Konami

Cheryl. Where could you be?

It's strange...

It's quiet. Too quiet.

This place is like a ghost town.

Cheryl.

#crt #retrogaming #silenthill

Hapless protagonist Harry Mason has entered The Silent Hill. Thick snowflakes fall around him as he is enveloped by rainbow-glazed grey fog.

Stumbling through the fog, Harry bumbles upon a grisly scene in an alleyway. Unidentifiable gore and viscera are sprayed and pasted across the concrete as if cast by an angry child.

After a frightful episode, Harry awakens in a diner, having seemingly been rescued by a tough lady cop. Ketchup and mustard bottles stare at him, horrifying in their implacable mundanity.

Harry's rescuer introduces herself as Cybil Bennett and, after providing exposition, immediately gifts him, a suspicious stranger, her service weapon, establishing herself as a solid, nay, extraordinary homie.

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 13d

who invited chucky to the function

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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 14d

Acquired my final game for the Halloween season, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth!
Surreal finally owning this, I was under the impression the game was super-duper unattainably expensive, like in the hundreds. I got it for £47 (still a fair bit of cash) and that's the average price.

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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 14d

#SonictheHedgehog #OriginalXbox #CRT

Game: Sonic Heroes (2003)
Developers: Sonic Team USA
Platform: Microsoft Xbox
TV: Philips 14PT6107/05
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Roan @roanhair.bsky.social · 15d

#DeadorAlive #HelenaDouglas #OriginalXbox #CRT

Game: Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate (2004)
Developers: Team Ninja
Platform: Microsoft Xbox
TV: Philips 14PT6107/05
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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 15d

Played Haunting Ground

Discovered a beautiful game about surviving in a cruel, oppressive world
#ScanlineSunday

Game: Haunting Ground
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Playstation 2
📺: Sanyo DS24425

"The desk is locked."
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Game: Haunting Ground
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Playstation 2
📺: Sanyo DS24425

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